Anglerphobe wrote:People getting upset about the "GOT style violence" in a period drama about a part of British history known for exactly the kind of historical brutality that gets GRR Martin's pen moving. The irony is real.
I don't know. While the violence in the show was supposedly historically accurate, the claims I read about it were that the violence was improperly focused on women, falling into a trope in media that women are killed or harmed in order to generate sympathy, when mostly it was men who suffered violent deaths for the crime of being Catholic. It is ironic that they claim that it's "GOT inspired" but it's kind of pertinent given the show stars Kit Harington and GoT popularised a kind of violence that wasn't really heard of on TV much before the massive success of GoT. If you look at it from a television production sense, it makes sense, just not from a chronological historical sense.