Wendy31
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I started watching GoT last year & got all caught up w/ the seasons, &, now, I'm waiting for July 16th.
And I would agree w/ the above. The story is fascinating, & the characters are very multi-layered & complex. Much of the dialogue is also quite good & very notable.
However, I think HBO does like to put in some scenes for "shock value" - and, because of some backlash they received over the sexual violence portrayed toward women, I think the later seasons are somewhat tamer than the first seasons.
And, I also agree w/ this -
Our 2 older children are 17 & almost 16, & they don't watch GoT. Personally, I don't think most (I won't say all) teenagers have the maturity & wisdom needed to correctly comprehend/understand the violence & sex within the context & framework of the show/story. It's not that teenagers can't be mature & wise - it's just that they don't have the type of knowledge & insight that can only be gained through age & experience as one learns to "filter" different things into the right context, if that makes sense. Many of the scenes are disturbing to me, and I would imagine that those scenes would be incredibly disturbing (& even, in a way, incomprehensible) to our kids.
And I realize that every person matures differently & at different rates, & parents have different & varying levels of comfort when it comes to what their children watch or read. However, DH & I don't feel that GoT is right for our teens.
Someone once loaned my daughter a book & warned me about a scene where a little girl comes very close to being sexually abused. I laughingly (but in all seriousness) told the person I'd rather my daughter first read a really good sex scene between 2 consenting adults where love & respect was involved than her first book experience w/ sex be an abuse scene. And that's the way I feel about GoT, I suppose, too.
