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Episode 10 is titled, "The Children."

As in, "Children of the Forest"

O HAI book 5!

Here's the thing with a lot of men who commit date rape: they don't necessarily think it's rape.  Many men associate rape with something akin to physical violence and beating.  But if you were to ask those same men that if a woman who has sex with them repeatedly suddenly says no, but you kind of talk her into it, was considered rape, they wouldn't think so.  Most rape doesn't resemble The Accused.  Most rape resembles what Jaime did to Cersei or that scene from Mad Men. 

Again, the age/world they are living in does not have the benefit we have of identifying sexual agency.  You cannot hold a fictional period world up to our standards.

In the book, Dany consents the first time.  But GRRM makes it very clear in the book that for a while after her deflowering, the sex life in the Drogo household was most assuredly rapey.  SO rapey that Dany is about to kill herself until she has a dream about the dragon eggs.   She wakes from this dream with a new perspective, and their relationship from that point on becomes more about love and mutual respect. 

In the show, they compress those events.  In the scene where Jason Momoa is absolutely mauling poor Emilla Clarke , you see the look of pain on Dany's face, until she focuses on her Dragon Eggs.  Then you see a change in her.  It's subtle, but the point is made clear.

Again, I fail to see the controversy around this sentence:

A character who shoved a child from a window, murdered his own cousin with his bare hands, fathered three children with his twin sister, also committed rape.

I have no problem if all that stuff is too much for you.  Everyone has a line.  But the character has a subteranean level of morality (in both book and film) and to be outraged by one aspect of it, is insane.

Settle down, folks.

Jaime, in both book and tv show, SHOVED A KID FROM A WINDOW.  That's how we met him.  Getting his hand chopped off, and taking a road trip with Brianne does not redeem that.  In fact, even in the book he has yet to be anywhere near redeemed.  He's complex, yes, and when we leave off with him he's trying to make better choices, but the needle is still far, far, FAR bent towards being a shitbag.

In fact, by inserting Jaime at the Purple wedding, D&D allow him to show concern for Joffrey that he frankly never does in the books.  He has one sorta nice conversation with Tommen, and that's it.  He talks about never feeling any real connection to the kids he fathered with Cersei.

Jaime has depth, and he's fascinating.  He is also an immoral creep.  To call Jaime "morally ambiguous," is an insult to the concepts of morality and ambiguity.

If you look at a clip from any Morris Documentary from about the late 80's onward, that's been his style.  He and his editors are very precise when they cut to a half jump or to black.  It's not random at all.