Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151019010334/@comment-26159109-20151019061624

Just because it's fiction, doesn't mean it is okay to do those things and then shrug it off. Buffy had the exact same thing in 613, and they weren't affraid using the Rape word, because that is exactly what it is. Just because it is fantasy, doesn't mean it should take these matters so lightly. And that is my biggest problem with the show, it doesn't deal with the problematic messages it puts on screen and people don't realize that what Arthur did is rape (or sexual assult whatever, doesn't make it less problematic) or they they just say "well it's fantasy, we don't care". When other fantasy series do that, what comes to my mind is Buffy espacially, they don't shrug it off. They acknowledge x happened (x = rape, murder, suicide) and they did deal with it.