"Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones

v3rgEz writes: As a cable channel, the FCC has little to no jurisdiction over HBO's content. That doesn't stop people from complaining to them about them, however, and after a FOIA request, the FCC released numerous complaints regarding the network's Game of Thrones. While there were the usual and expected lamentations about 'open homosexual sex acts,' other users saw Game of Thrones as a flashpoint in the war of Net Neutrality.

Comments

I just got bored of the bloody thing

[Malc]

The explicit violence just doesn't seem necessary. It detracts from the story more than anything - what's the point of it? Are the producer simply just trying to shock people? They could just cut the content by 75% and focus on the character development and the plots (i.e. The story), and they would have a way better show.

Re:I just got bored of the bloody thing

[Anonymous Coward]

as one who has thoroughly enjoyed reading the books, and generally enjoys the show, i'm hardly unbiased. i'm also not going to argue for historical accuracy or realism, since, obviously, it's a work of fiction. but in the sense of depicting a time/place where people were generally assholes, and sometimes did terrible things to each other, i find the sometimes-very-graphic depictions of those things perfectly acceptable.

i also acknowledge that it's HBO, and there's a fair bit of pandering to people's baser demands for entertainment (T&A, blood&guts). that point means some of it is gratuitous, sure, but it's not in strict conflict with the artistic desire to "accurately" depict a very brutal world.

YMMV

Re:I just got bored of the bloody thing

[Culture20]

Hitchcock knew that implied violence is more effective long term than overt gore. You can't become desensitized to your own imagination. GRRM's books are stories first, not gore & boob fests. He made you imagine the boobs and gore while showing you the story. Why do the GoT TV writers show you all the boobs and gore while making you imagine the story? I'll tell you why. It's because ...

*Sunglasses*

... it's titillating.
YEAAHH!!!

Re:Too much like the real world?

[Anonymous Coward]

The difference is game of thrones shows people doing those things. Nobody cares when the dark competition does it.

It is depraved, that's true

[davide marney]

GOT celebrates all the ugly things people can do to each other. I watched it for a little less than a season, until I understood that the point was to just be as horrible as possible.

I don't need to seek out ugliness in my life, the real world is full enough of it as it is.