The world of "Game of Thrones" has never been great about consent. HBO's "House of the Dragon" seems poised to have inherited (or technically, passed on, as the show is a prequel) that queasy legacy. The first of George R. R. Martin's television adaptions was marked by sexual violence and exploitation.
The creators of "House of the Dragon" swore a fresh slate. But we don't forget so easily. And it must be hard for the story to learn new tricks, as Episode 4 puts the evil in medieval, the dark in Dark Ages, and the bored in bordello. If you've been paying attention, you know incest is coming in the story but it's still nauseating in the episode, titled "King of the Narrow Sea," when Uncle Daemon (Matt Smith) takes his young niece Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock) to a brothel and starts to seduce her.
