'House of the Dragon' Viewers Upset About Brutal Death of Female Character
08/23/2022 10:28 am EDT
Some viewers 'not sticking around' for the rest of the show
"If you haven't seen [House of the Dragon] yet, you might want to give it a pass," one viewer warned. "The director's idea of entertainment is to drag us through dramatizing an emergency C-section (without anesthesia) on screen. I'm not sticking around for more like that."
'Extremely awful'
"Yeah, no. It's a lazy way to exploit women and add horror to television," added another viewer. "Psychological horror is always more effective than visual in storytelling."
Scene needed a 'trigger warning'
"Aemma's death might have been one of the things that has hit me the hardest in this whole franschise just because i was totally uprepared (as it does NOT happen in the book) and it was so unessecary to add even more violence against women than there already is," tweeted one viewer.
Many 'unsettled' by the violence against women
"The last thing I need from my *fantasy* shows is to continue to show women not having choices over their own body," added somebody else. "That was bloody disgusting, hard to watch and too close to home. This show is obviously well done, but yuck."
'GoT' franchise has a history of violence against women
"The [Vulture] review of House of the Dragon says it includes scenes of 'increasingly gruesome childbirth,'" noted another. "So I guess when the showrunners promised us less sexual violence, this was the horror against women they chose instead. Just sharing in case anyone else needs a CW."
'Exhausting and unnecessary'
"I'm not going to not watch it because I have no principles, apparently, but I'm so sick of the violence against women in the GoT universe," wrote one person. "It's exhausting and unnecessary."
Reflected the real world a bit too closely
"I keep thinking about the gruesome childbirth scene in House of the Dragon last night. I couldn't watch it. I'm tired of seeing women in pain-there is too much of it in this post-Roe reality for me to stomach it in fiction," wrote another person. "More dragons, less forced birth please."
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