Warning: This story features spoilers from the season 5 finale ofOutlander.
In all three violent instances, the perpetrators were killed for their dastardly deeds.
We certainly want to be sensitive to the character who is going through this situation."
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“But in that time, that wasn’t even a thought.
When a modern audience viewsOutlanderthrough a modern lens, then yes, you could have problems with it.
We’re not showing it how we view it, and that makes a difference.”
Art should push boundaries, challenge authority and morality, or just be edgy at times.
But sexual assault story lines need to serve a larger purposeboth for the narrative and the characters involved.
“However, it doesn’t need to be visually constructed, thus glorifying violence and oppression.
We don’t need to re-edit content created in the past.
(In that book the assault is committed by a nameless, faceless man, not Lionel Brown.)
The episode featured a PSA from theRape, Abuse & Incest National connection(RAINN).
Was another rape necessary?
I think that is terrible and wrong.
But specifically, why?
We have a choice.
you’re able to still be very historically accurate but not be horribly degrading to your characters.
To include rape is a choice.”
