10 Problems With Game Of Thrones Nobody Wants To Admit
4. Sexposition Is Stupid
Game Of Thrones is an equal opportunities offender, however. Along with being kinda crazy racist much of the time, it finds time for a healthy amount of subjugation of women, too. Much of the hype surrounding the series when it started was its willingness to make the most of HBO's being on cable, meaning they could show as much nudity as they fancied (within reason). Ad by nudity that exclusively means tits. And sometimes vaginas! There's been plenty of full-frontal female nudity in Game Of Thrones, to the point that the phrase sexposition was coined for the amount of plot-advancing info that's delivered during scenes where the viewer is distracted by a bunch of jiggling bare flesh. Some don't stand for it. Stephen Dillane, who plays Stannis Baratheon, compared the show to "German porn from the 1970s", and Emilia Clarke has made it clear she's not doing any more nude scenes. Which is good, because they're stupid, and sexist, but would be possibly more acceptable if there were equally as many swinging dicks. Literal ones.
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