Having an extremely violent rape scene on my silly show about dresses was bad enough they could at least invest enough time in the scene to find an original means of executing it.Įven in an episode about rape, the idea of a person intentionally feeding an unwilling sexual target liquor until that target becomes unable to fight her off didn't appear to strike the Downton Abbey writers as rape, per se.īut, as so often with this sort of thing, the success or failure of the plot line about Anna’s rape scene depends largely on its aftermath.
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And the clichéd treatment of the scene - cutting between fancy classical music and terrible violence, just like Silence of the Lambs and The Godfather and The Avengers and pretty much any movie that wants to make the “this violence is very shocking and out of place” point without actually finding a new and interesting way to make us feel shocked by violence - made it even worse.
Bates of the Possible Wife-Murdering - was particularly upsetting, given that it seemed like a cheap ploy designed to spice up the now-smooth course of the Bates marriage with some new drama. Watching it happen to Anna - one of the most faultless and sweet characters on the show, a woman who’s been all-but-exclusively defined by her devotion to her husband, St. I stand by my statement that watching any character on that show be subjected to a scene like that would have been beyond upsetting. Well, here we are: In the aftermath of Downton’s now-notorious rape scene.
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