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"George R.R. Martin had heard enough chatter about the Game of Thrones sex scene between Jaime and Cersei Lannister \u2014 the showrunners changed what he had written as a consensual tryst into a rape. So he decided to address it in writing, suggesting that his version of the dynamic between brother and sister was significantly different from the dynamic on HBO.\nIn the comments section of an unrelated blog post, Martin wrote at length about the scene from Sunday night's show, in which Jaime Lannister, fed up with his sister's rejection of their long sexual history, forces himself on her in the chamber where their dead son \u2014 the murdered King Joffrey \u2014 is lying in state.\nSEE ALSO:\u00A0'Game of Thrones' Episode 3 Recap: 6 Big Clues in the Westeros Whodunit\nAs though incest in the presence of a corpse wasn't twisted enough, the showrunners decided to add sexual assault, a creative choice that outraged many of the fans who both read the books and watch the show.\n\"The scene was always intended to be disturbing,\" Martin wrote. \"But I do regret if it has disturbed people for the wrong reasons.\"\n\nJamie confronts Cersei in Episode 3 of 'Game of Thrones.'Image:  HBOMartin first acknowledges that his entry is off-topic \u2014 the original blog post is for a book-signing event in New Mexico.\nSince a lot of people have been emailing me about this, however, I will reply ... but please, take any further discussion of the show to one of the myriad on-line forums devoted to that. I do not want long detailed dissections and debates about the TV series here on my blog.\nThen he launches into the topic at hand:\n\nAs for your question ... I think the \"butterfly effect\" that I have spoken of so often was at work here. In the novels, Jaime is not present at Joffrey's death, and indeed, Cersei has been fearful that he is dead himself, that she has lost both the son and the father/ lover/ brother. And then suddenly Jaime is there before her. Maimed and changed, but Jaime nonetheless. Though the time and place is wildly inappropriate and Cersei is fearful of discovery, she is as hungry for him as he is for her.\nThe whole dynamic is different in the show, where Jaime has been back for weeks at the least, maybe longer, and he and Cersei have been in each other's company on numerous occasions, often quarreling. The setting is the same, but neither character is in the same place as in the books, which may be why Dan &amp; David played the sept out differently. But that's just my surmise; we never discussed this scene, to the best of my recollection.\nAlso, I was writing the scene from Jaime's POV, so the reader is inside his head, hearing his thoughts. On the TV show, the camera is necessarily external. You don't know what anyone is thinking or feeling, just what they are saying and doing.\nIf the show had retained some of Cersei's dialogue from the books, it might have left a somewhat different impression \u2014 but that dialogue was very much shaped by the circumstances of the books, delivered by a woman who is seeing her lover again for the first time after a long while apart during which she feared he was dead. I am not sure it would have worked with the new timeline.\nThat's really all I can say on this issue. The scene was always intended to be disturbing ... but I do regret if it has disturbed people for the wrong reasons.\nNow, if you please, I'd appreciate it if we could get back to Junot Diaz and Anne Perry and the subjects of the original post.\n\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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