I know you said that you're invested in the show, but there's a certain point, for me at least, where no matter how invested I am in a piece of entertainment, it's time to put it down/turn it off/walk out of the theater and refuse to go back.
There's a few mysteries that I've read (and mysteries and the like are usually where I encounter questions like this since I don't tend to watch a lot of TV) where after a certain point of violence--sexualized or otherwise--where I simply put the book down and don't finish it, no matter how curious I am about the ending, or how good the writing style is, or how much I've grown to love a character/characters. All of that good doesn't explain away the rotten core of the work.
I'm kind of hesitant to dive into what I'm going to say next, because there's a whole host of issues associated with it (and I'm not trying in any way to say that You Are Doing It Wrong), but I kind of feel like if we keep going back to a piece of entertainment that's problematic in any fashion-- a sort of "Yes, here's a book where the main plot point is the explicit rape/murder of a female character...but I'm cool with that because it's 'so artistically done'. ( :P )"--that the real problems start. Somewhere in there, I wonder if there's a sort of implicit approval of that act-- that in reading/viewing, buying, and recommending a piece of entertainment revolving around violence against women, I am in effect saying that violence against women is, if not okay, at least entertaining.
One of the things that I noticed this past year as I was shelving books at the library I worked at was that "rape as a plot point" had spread endemically through the paranormal genre-- to me, seeing that a significant portion of the audience for those books are female, that's kind of horrifying.
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There's a few mysteries that I've read (and mysteries and the like are usually where I encounter questions like this since I don't tend to watch a lot of TV) where after a certain point of violence--sexualized or otherwise--where I simply put the book down and don't finish it, no matter how curious I am about the ending, or how good the writing style is, or how much I've grown to love a character/characters. All of that good doesn't explain away the rotten core of the work.
I'm kind of hesitant to dive into what I'm going to say next, because there's a whole host of issues associated with it (and I'm not trying in any way to say that You Are Doing It Wrong), but I kind of feel like if we keep going back to a piece of entertainment that's problematic in any fashion-- a sort of "Yes, here's a book where the main plot point is the explicit rape/murder of a female character...but I'm cool with that because it's 'so artistically done'. ( :P )"--that the real problems start. Somewhere in there, I wonder if there's a sort of implicit approval of that act-- that in reading/viewing, buying, and recommending a piece of entertainment revolving around violence against women, I am in effect saying that violence against women is, if not okay, at least entertaining.
One of the things that I noticed this past year as I was shelving books at the library I worked at was that "rape as a plot point" had spread endemically through the paranormal genre-- to me, seeing that a significant portion of the audience for those books are female, that's kind of horrifying.