Viewers Are Quitting 'Game Of Thrones' After That Controversial Scene

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31. I watched the first 2 episodes of GoT and that was enough for me

I got the tone and message right quickly that there would be lots of gratuitous sex (and violence) and women (and men) being treated as nothing more than meat puppets. You can argue that there are strong female (and male) characters in the show but one shouldn't have to wade through scenes of a brothel (I'm not inherently against sexual gratification but I'm against non-plot related scenes that don't further a story) to see these women (or men) make an appearance.

For me the question is this: if this scene weren't here, would the story still be tellable and would you understand the rest of the show and from what I saw in those 2 episodes (I have revisited later episodes--same opinion) you didn't need some dude spying through a peephole at the women having sex in the brothel to further the story.

I also, being a big reader, tried to read the books but could not get into them. So, I think the show was doomed for me from the start.