i kinda miss the sex and nudity TBH
I can't believe i'm saying this, but i think GoT has been VERY conservative about this after season 3.
shareI'm so glad I'm not the only one....
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MovieChat Forums > Game of Thrones (2011) Discussion > i kinda miss the sex and nudity TBH
So do I, and I'm not even a fan of naked women! The early seasons were incredibly real and visceral and unlike anything we'd seen on TV, even the sex reeked with the primitive hairy un-surgically-modified hormones that have been digitally removed from most modern entertainment.
Of course everything's still brutal and real and unlike anything we've ever seen on TV, but now everyone's wearing sixteen layers of heavy winter clothing.
Well, we did get to see Khaleesi encore in full frontal glory again.
shareUmm I think you're misremembering because all I recall is the carefully choreographed love scene with Jon Snow with "side nudity" covering all the naughty bits.
shareNah, I was responding to the claim of lack of nudity post season 3.
We got to see Khaleesi's encore full frontal nudity around the midpoint of season 6.
You mean her little conference with the Khals?
Rumor has it that Clarke no longer wants to do as much nudity as in the early seasons, and I can't blame her for that, but that was one scene where nudity was not optional. It was one of the best sequences of the whole season, and couldn't end any other way. But now she's a queen and she's going to the north where there's ten feet of snow on the ground, and if she doesn't want to show everything while getting with Jon then we're probably not going to see a lot else.
Actually that rumor was bogus, at least that's what she said in an interview I read during season 6 after that episode aired. I tend to believe her since the entire show seemed to scale back on scenes of gratuitous nudity after season 3, not just scenes with her.
shareI also noticed that the gore is somewhat toned down too, or a lot of things happen mostly off screen now.
share/I also noticed that the gore is somewhat toned down too, or a lot of things happen mostly off screen now./
this as well, it seems tat HBO wanted to be "cleaner" after the brutal earlier seasons.
Yeah, I've noticed this as well unfortunately. I think the fact that now many of them are stars by the show's standards and so it's always harder to pull that off like they did before, but newcomers still have to pay their dues.
shareAnd as the older cast "dies" off, the younger actors step to the fore... And we've known them since they were little kids. Having them strip down would feel so WRONG.
Me too. For two reasons. One, consistency. A show shouldn't change too much. When it's R-level content in season 1 and PG-level content by season 7, it's a little jarring; it means the show has changed too much. A show should be true to itself. People can judge it for what it is, but it should be what it is and not give in to pressure to change.
And two, the gritty realism of the show. GRRM's aim was to make a realistic (minus the fantasy elements) depiction of a medieval-style world. The show has really lost that in the last few seasons. Not just in terms of the sex and nudity, though that's one aspect; like it or not, people have sex and are naked frequently, and in the Middle Ages there wasn't quite as much shame about it, in large part because there wasn't as much privacy as there is now. This goes for the nobility as well as the peasantry. But also in terms of the violence, the political power struggles, the fact that no one is a saint. That's really gotten lost.
It's not the same show as it was since GRRM's role in it declined. It's neither as intelligent nor as gritty as it was before. It's bowed to public opinion too much and given in to prudish conservatism. And I think that's a shame.