The nativity scene in the first episode of House of the Dragon, ‘accustomed to violence in the World of Westeros’ even to the audience ‘too much’. Attention, this article can squeeze lemon for the pleasure of those who have not watched the series yet, in other words ‘spoilers’ contains’
The Games of Thrones audience has a high tolerance for violent scenes. In fact, it is so high that it does not move a hair while watching people whose heads are cut off and burned alive.
However, the nativity scene in the first episode of the series’ spin-off House of the Dragon disturbed the audience, especially the female audience. Disturbing may be mild, ‘terrorized’.
Let’s remember the scene: Queen Aemma (Sian Brooke) gives birth to a baby who could become the heir to the Targaryen throne. Things go wrong, complications occur (baby stays in breech position). King Viserys (Paddy Considine), who loves his wife but has a weak character, gives the order to save the baby and leave the queen to die.
With this scene in Online Slate magazine ‘triggered‘ a compilation of audience reactions. writing published.
According to the article, female viewers are especially targeting mothers and expectant mothers on platforms such as Reddit. ‘This scene can cause trauma’ issued warning messages.
Someone else “I gave birth three months ago, this scene triggered me so much, it was too much. My eyes turned bloodshot from crying” he wrote.
Women affected by the scene found that some of their male partners understood them, while others found their reaction exaggerated.you laugh told.
‘There should be a warning in television broadcasts that there are scenes that trigger birth trauma’ stating and “It doesn’t get talked about much, but birth trauma is actually quite common and birth scenes trigger it a lot.“There were women who said.
Fear of childbirth: Tokophobia
Graphic nativity scenes aren’t just about past traumas’tokophobia In other words, it can also trigger birth phobia.
Tokophobia usually appears in the first pregnancy because the person is afraid of the unknown. As a result, childbirth, which is a painful and bloody phenomenon, occurs in a woman who has never given birth. ‘What will I experience, what kind of pain will I face, will everything be alright’ raises worrying questions.
In women’s subconscious ‘what will I give birth to’ there is also fear.
Horror movies reflect our collective unconscious
Yeditepe University Hospitals Psychiatry Assoc. Dr. We read from an interview Naz Berfu Akbaş gave to Vogue Turkey in 2013: “Women in earlier years ‘Will it be a boy or a girl’was experiencing stress. Because, according to the environment, maybe if there is a girl, her husband will bring sand on her or the baby girl will be killed! ‘I wonder if he will be born disabled’ out of concern, in psychotic forms ‘what if a creature comes out of me’There is a spectrum that can go as far as Indeed, giving birth to something unnatural is a theme in many horror movies (Rosemary’s Baby, Fly, Alien). This situation also reflects our social subconscious.”
It is forbidden to tell birth stories in primitive tribes.
Akbaş wrote in the same article, ‘my body will fall apart’, ‘no one will be able to help me’, ‘my baby will be trapped inside and die’ states that such fears are also included in tokophobia.
A generation grew up with women screaming and sweating in the movies trying to give birth, ‘My mother died giving birth to me’ He says his line is ingrained in our subconscious: “Laurence Pernoud’s ‘I’m Expecting a Child’ We know from the book that in some primitive African tribes, women were forbidden to tell their birth stories to those who were going to give birth. And in these tribes women give birth very easily and easily.”