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  • Lena Headey Pleased with Game of Thrones Rape Scene

    The HBO epic fantasy drama Game of Thrones recently aired a rape scene involving stars Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, which has caused some controversy, and now Headey has commented that “it felt great.”

    For those uninitiated in the lore and dealings of the Game of Thrones fantasy realms of Westeros and Essos, Headey and Coster-Waldau portray the aristocratic and incestuous twins Cersei and Jaime Lannister. The oldest of their inbred children grows to become an evil king named Joffrey, who is poisoned during his wedding reception, an event casually referred to by fans as “The Purple Wedding.”

    Cersei later displays a softer side to her trademark vitriol by while excessively mourning over her dead son, but then twin Jamie enters the chamber and rapes her in front of Joffrey’s corpse. George R. R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels, A Song of Fire and Ice, depicts the event differently, but show producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss decided to adjust the tone of the scene in their adaptation.

    Fan reaction has been a mix of sympathy for the Cersei character, confusion over the Jamie character, who had been reforming himself a bit after losing his right hand, and a bit of outrage over the scene in general, which is significant for a show known for pushing the envelope of bad taste.

    Cersei, Jaime and brother Tyrion:

    In a move likely to court further controversy, Headey explains her take on the rape scene. “She’s staring at the body of her dead son… she’s joined by her brother who’s also her lover, so, you know we’ve got bigger problems than the one everyone is talking about.”

    There’s lust and desperation… there was this need,” Headey says, describing Cersei’s motivations. “It wasn’t right and yet it felt great and it played out the way it did. And I was really happy with it.”

    Here is some fan commentary via Twitter:

    In related news, Headey reportedly purchased a new fixer-upper house in Sherman Oaks, California.

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  • “Game Of Thrones” Purple Wedding Killer Unveiled?

    Game Of Thrones served up another shocking episode on Sunday night with what fans are now calling “The Purple Wedding”; by now, most people are aware that a major character was killed off, but there’s an air of “whodunit” that has fans who haven’t read the books taking to social media.

    “By the time you get to the ninth episode, the end of the season, it’s expected that something momentous is going to happen. Doing something this world-changing in the second episode seemed fun to us,” said showrunner Dan Weiss.

    If you’re one of those who caught some seemingly random details in Sunday’s episode, you may not be surprised at who the killer is reported to be. (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD) Although Joffrey pointed at his uncle as he lay dying from the poison he’d ingested–and although Tyrion had many reasons to kill the spoiled king–it’s the loving gesture of a grandmother that points to the actual killer.

    As Kotaku points out, Olenna Tyrell–grandmother to Queen Margaery–slyly garnered several pieces of jewelry for the wedding and proclaimed them not special enough for the big day. She even threw one over the balcony. In one perplexing scene in the season opener, Sansa Stark is approached by Ser Dontos and given a necklace with seven purple crystals dangling from it. That necklace is worn by Sansa at the wedding, and when Olenna approaches Sansa at the table to give her condolences regarding the horrible deaths of her mother and brother, she touches the crystals around her neck. It’s presumed that Olenna had the necklace made, got it into Sansa’s hands, then took the crystal from it–a poisonous sparkler called “The Strangler”–and dropped it into Joffrey’s cup.

    As someone who’s late to reading the books, I’m thrilled by the idea of a murder mystery, especially when Joffrey gave so many people so many reasons to off him.

    Game Of Thrones airs Sunday nights on HBO.

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