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I guarantee Game of Thrones would be cancelled today.
Everyone was trying to figure out what the hell went so wrong with the last few seasons of thrones, but it’s really damn obvious in hindsight: the show turned blatantly feminist. The writers assassinated all of the male characters and elevated all of the female characters. The final council of surviving characters was a bunch of sassy girl bosses. Tyrion, Littlefinger, Varys, Jon, the Night King - all were figuratively castrated in service of the female characters.
To be fair, they assassinated their Girlboss Danny too at the end and just said "she went crazy at the last moment!" to end her entire show long character arc.
I think there were equal parts Feminism and literal incompetence at play for the last seasons.
Really it's more about the idea that starting a show with the premise of subverting (genre-name-here) means you can't tell a compelling (genre-name-here) story.
GOT/ASOIAF sets up this grand threat, which is kind of the core staple of heroic fantasy, but there's no way to finish the story in a compelling way except to actually have heroic characters rise to the challenge.
It would be nothing but dicks. Endless degenerate scenes of clothed women dominating naked guys. I haven't had HBO in years but you could already see it going that way long ago.
We don’t need a hypothetical. We have House of the Dragon, and it is indeed full of dicks.
I wonder if there are any current TV series which shows rape scenes and other garbage today. I don't know since I don't consume goyslop.
Wasen't there an explicitly-intended-as-humiliation-and-lulz rape of a male character in The Boys? I didn't watch it.
House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms are current series, well KOTSK comes out this year, inspired by GRRM's work. So I don't think so.
HOTD scaled back the main cast nudity. Emilia Clarke et al got big enough to say no to HBO around 2015 or so, and after that the bad press was enough to dissuade them apparently. I'm not sure if Rhaenyra showed boobs and I can't remember any swinging dicks either. The whorehouse scenes, on the other hand, are full of random extras banging. As usual in GOT, peasants are abused.
The nudity was scaled back but it was scaled back during the later seasons of GOT.