Yes, GING, I have been reading comments and I am quite appalled by it. One person literally said "she was asking for it"
I don't think the showrunners care about character arc at this point.
Another thing that pissed me off was the "Sansa has endured YEARS of Joffrey's torment." In the books it was more weeks/months. That line completely messes with the timeline of the show. Let's not even speak about how badly they messed up Brienne/Sansa.
I really want to see how the showrunners handle the post-ASOS material. They've been fortunate in that the strength of the first 3 books lends itself well to a TV adaptation. Now the show becomes a slow moving political drama with little to no release in the way of action scenes. It'll be be
even slower in the show than in the books due to them merging AFFC and ADWD. I'm apprehensive about how the next few seasons are going to work.
It's weird that the rape scene is only out of place for those that have read the books. Having not read the books, it was just another day in Westeros to me. Just another day in the life of the Lannisters.
It's odd isn't it. Jamie threw a child out a tower with intent to kill because he saw him banging his sister, the Queen which makes it an act of treason, which indirectly resulted in a war killing thousands. Yet, this is no longer the worst thing he's done.
Jaime's character arc post-release is supposed to be one of redemption and you really begin to sympathise with his character, with him becoming one of the more popular characters. Raping his sister really doesn't help and sets back his character development.