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Halftime Score: Nudity in Game of Thrones
The Score
Women: 12
Men: 3
Female Nudity
HBO invents all reasons to have naked women. Even when a female prostitute is naked as can be the camera angles find excuse to never show anything of the male clients. Instead the men walk about either clothed, or with a strategically exposed women covering up his naughty bits. Perish the thought of a naked man in a brothel!
Even when female nudity makes no sense, they throw it in.
If Margaery knew that Renly was gay and unseduceable, why did she her top off? Asking if he wants her brother to help, awsome. Excuse for more female nudity, not so awsome.
With Joffrey’s of prostitute beating, the nudity cheapened the scene. It would have been more powerful if she had kept her clothes on, and shown no sign of anything at all sexual in that scene and that he gets his kicks from pure violence, instead of the mix.
That Stannis/Mel scene… what’s with him being fully clothed, not even slipping out his pecker for a moment, and her being totally naked? Lopsided-much HBO? Besides. Melisandre should have been on top. Stannis is too rigid to take charge with his mechanical thrusts and make a mess of the Painted Table.
Male Nudity
Notice how nothing is censor-worthy on the men. And as lovely as Episode 5 was without a boob in sight, and instead Gendry’s fine, fine smithing, the scales are rather a little unbalanced. Dear HBO: those of us who appreciate the male body like a little ass too, maybe even a tentacle.
Source: fantastiquecollective
asoiaf and the high middle ages
- margaery tyrell as (the young) isabella of france
- renly baratheon & loras tyrell as king edward ii & piers gaveston, 1st earl of cornwall
Born in 1295 in the cultural centre of Europe, the youngest child and only daughter of the King of France was married Edward II of England in 1308, at the age of twelve. The newlyweds proved a good pair: Isabella was known as “the beauty of beauties…in the kingdom if not in all Europe,” bringing with her to England a fortune’s worth of French fashions. Edward was handsome, athletic and popular; the heir to the Plantagenet dynasty. He was, however, completely uninterested in his new queen. Upon the couples’ return to England from their wedding on the French coast, he promptly re-gifted all of Isabella’s fine wedding to the favourite he had made regent in his absence—a Gascon knight named Piers Gaveston—rushing off the boat to meet him at Dover, and “giving him kisses and repeated embraces, which fuelled his barons’ jealousy”.
Edward II was arguably bisexual (he fathered five children with two women), if not homosexual. That his relationship with Gaveston was a romantic one is something only suggested by contemporary chronicles; what is clear, however, is that the king doted on the other man, “uniquely” and “beyond measure”. Prior to his ascension, Edward’s father had even exiled Gaveston for a short time in order to forcibly separate the two. Piers, who was said to be handsome, headstrong and ambitious, was brought back to England and made earl of Cornwall in 1307: it was one of Edward’s first commands as newly crowned king.
After Isabella’s father and brothers grew displeased at Edward’s misplaced affections, Gaveston was forced back into exile for a few months in 1308, affording the queen time to cultivate respect and friendships in court and foster cooperation with her husband. She became an extremely popular in this time, earning admiration from her king and her people. Upon Gaveston’s return, the three of them, king, queen, and knight, appeared to co-exist in relative harmony, Isabella and Piers united by Edward’s attentions and in sharing common enemies.
When Gaveston was brutally murdered at the hands of Edward’s jealous barons, that delicate balance of power was irreparably shattered. England stood to be ravaged by civil war and Edward found a new favourite in Hugh Despenser, a man hated by the queen. In this political theatre, Isabella, now seventeen and a mother to Edward’s heir, had more power to wield and opportunity to become a different sort of queen altogether.
(via mance-rayder)
Source: plantagenet
➺aSoIaF characters: Renly Baratheon
The king enjoyed his food and drink, that was plain to see, yet he seemed neither glutton nor drunkard. He laughed often, and well, and spoke amiably to highborn lords and lowly serving wenches alike.
(via sweetliesandbittertruths)
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10 Video Extras Playlist from “The Ghost of Harrenhal.” The first video deals with the staging of Renly’s murder.
Renly’s Map
