[All Show Spoilers] People are so annoying

I don't think Cersei considered it rape either. Yes, at the beginning she wanted to stop Jaime, but she was specifically saying about how it was too dangerous/risky to do it there, in the sept, where someone could see them. And later she was actively engaging and expressing desire for him. So if it was rape, then it was only rape for ~50% of the scene. And if Cersei really considered it rape, she would have hated Jaime afterwards and broken up with him right there on the spot, but we saw their relationship continue like nothing happened. She's the kind of person who absolutely hates feeling powerless and wants to have power and control at all times. If she really considered herself raped, she'd have hated Jaime with all her soul. I think /r/carpe-jvgvlvm was right - they have a sort of fucked up relationship and the scene reflected that (though more accurately in the books than in the show. Their whole relationship is forbidden, they want it but they know they shouldn't. Cersei basically wants to be Jaime, it's like their relationship is a way for her to live vicariously through him, to enjoy the power she'd have had if she'd been born a man. Maybe Cersei usually hates feeling overpowered but can only like it when Jaime does this to her because she considers Jaime sort of an extension of herself, so him doing this to her didn't feel like stripping away her agency. Or maybe she saw the whole scene from his point of view, not her own, and saw him "dominating" her as something that they were doing together, rather than something done to her without her consent. Whatever it is, I feel that it's a lot more complex and ambiguous than we currently imagine. The book scene did a good job portaying how "grey" and ambiguous it was, but the show didn't - it simplified the whole thing into downright rape and nothing more.

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