Comments by "Kantrel 7" (@blumiu2426) on "Instant Regret For DISGUSTING House Of The Dragon Article!" video.

@vortex_1336 Just because he justified it once, then had it in GoT, he clearly has it in there for a reason. Writers tend to be pretty messed up people. Back in the 80s the scifi community was hit hard when many of it's authors were caught in a pedo ring and why it quite hasn't recovered since.
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@vulcanvulcan2963 There is a difference between showing history and then the times we have, which could subtly promote things. Martin is a questionable person that has been rumored to have had a strange relationship with his sister. Incest starts with grooming from whoever is older, coercion. It's not romantic until the younger has been groomed to find it normal. Neither incest relationship Martin has written about show the real reality of it, so it is promoting and romanticizing it best it can. Incest happens more than we think and this is pushing for the next thing society accepts.
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@neoclassic09 Incest in royal families was between cousins, not siblings. That guaranteed issues.
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@housewilma4904 They do blood-related too
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@housewilma4904 That's not true. By majority anime with incest is fetishized. not demonized. It's been that way since...I think it was called Angel Eyes? Angel Sanctuary, 90s anime. It's been a criticism of how anime is a free medium, but they push the envelope as much as possible. Even anime which are pretty much hentai, but avoid the label because they don't show genitals.
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@dys1525 then they should show what actually happened, not try and romanticize it. Show it for what it is, but two shows now they've romanticized incest.
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@TheAkinoise Why would I comment if not? I know nothing about House of the Dragon however, so it compounds on the fact of those rumors with his sister. You realize if one is a writer, you can give any justification for something in your fictional world. It's not uncommon that writers put some controversial things upfront in their work only to later find out it was for a reason. Or they belong to "book clubs" or "intellectual groups" and stuff gets out about their conversations. That's how that pedo ring thing happened decades back with scifi writers.
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What used to happen is they would show just how bad incest was, for what it was. Not make it a "lite" version that has illusions of romanticization. Of course they can't come out and make it seem perfectly fine. Using subtlety is how things got to where they are in society in the first place, media the prime place to do it. I'd rethink you only believing they are doing it just because it's in the books, think as to why those books are being promoted. What we watch, read and enjoy is a reflection of the society itself and eludes to what it is willing to accept.
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I don't think the show is showing it to be what it is. Romanticizing as far as it can, but far from showing the realities of it. That's the issue two shows in now.
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Martin had to have banged his sister. The second time he puts incest in his work?
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