Rapecest. That was a butchering of Jamie's character. He hates rape in the books.
it completely messes up Jaime's character arc, too. Which is a shame, since he's one of my favourite characters in the books.
I thought I'd resurrect this since I've come across the appropriate passages in my reread of the series. The way I heard it told, Jaime never raped Cersei, but it was portrayed as forced in the show.
Two points: firstly, it's from Jaime's viewpoint, so he may not have considered it 'rapey'. Secondly, around 2½ paragraphs make it clear that Cersei does not want to take things further than kisses. She says 'No' unequivocally, but Jaime both 'kissed her silent' and 'never heard her' when she protests five times, while beating at him with her fists.
He feels her up, realises she is having her period, but 'it made no difference'.
Now, I suspect people probably focus on the paragraph after that, where Cersei tells him to 'Hurry... do me now", but that comes after all her objections both verbal and physical.
It seems to be one of those things where a woman who says 'No' secretly wants sex, or else can be forced into 'liking it' if you go far enough.
I really don't see why the people watching the show claimed that D&D depicted it incorrectly!
Rapecest. That was a butchering of Jamie's character. He hates rape in the books.
Nothing states that he hates rape. He doesn't do it himself, and he finds himself inexplicable liking Brienne, therefore stops her getting raped - but the book points out that he doesn't know why he keeps helping Brienne. That's nothing to do with his own character with regards to rape.