Sen. Claire McCaskill is done with Game of Thrones, and the Missouri politician is not alone.
Sunday night’s episode of the HBO hit depicted the rape of Sansa Stark, one of the show’s central female characters.
The backlash has been visceral and passionate.
By Monday morning the controversy had grown so quickly, author George R. R. Martin of the novels and co exec-producer of the series weighed in on the controversy through a post online..
Though he did not write the particular scene in the show, Martin also seemed dismissive that most viewers were upset by the act of rape and not the plot-deviation from the novels.
In fact, the events of the novel are worse than those depicted in the show.
