Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25926288-20170618042330/@comment-1916997-20170908141158

Aine1989 wrote: I have never seen HTGAWM (tho it does look quite good).

The issue with this show is that by glossing over the abuse and having the abuser face no consequences, you are promoting the message that abuse is ok. That raping men is ok if you're female. That victims deserved it. And those are not appropriate messages for anything. In HTGAWM is the murder romanticised and the victims blamed, or are the people who killed them faced consequences. Are the victims deemed "brats" who deserved to be killed?

I would not have an issue if the abuse on this show was portrayed as such, but it is romanticised and that is dangerous.

I think this is an issue for this show because it deals with (or attempts to deal with) topics like these on a fantasy fairytale adventure show. This is not the platform to be discussing these issues. Maybe on a more serious drama for an older audience but not a fairytale show. Regarding HTGAWM, like I said, many of the kills are done by the main characters, so to an extent, you are supposted to sympathse with them. The characters that are killed are kind of all over the place, in terms of if you are supposted to like them or not, and also the reasoning behind the kills are similarly all over the place. I definiltly found some kills more "justified" than others, which plays into both the victim's likability and the reason they were killed. The killers don't face legal consequences, although some of the drama of the show does revolve around "what if someone figures out what we did" and even "what if one of us turns the others in to the police for immunity". But yeah, so far, the characters have not faced consequences in the traditional sense.