Removed:
- Lighter and Softer: A Downplayed Trope example. One of the goals of the producers is to make sure the sexualized violence of Game of Thrones is absent or changed to something that focuses on the victims as opposed to the sensationalism after the controversies of its predecessor series. This doesn't prevent a man being castrated in the first episode.
- Tamer and Chaster: More attention is made to keeping the modesty of actors who don't do nudity intact with strategic camera angles as well as placement of hair as well as props. This doesn't keep Fanservice Extra from displaying toplessness, however, or prop genitalia being removed.
I think it's too early to tell for both of these, and there's definitely no evidence of it the first episode. There's a lot of nudity, and Matt Smith comes an inch from full frontal. And the presence of castration, mayhem, and a stomach-churning death by childbirth all speak pretty loudly against this series being any lighter or softer than GOT.
What's the extent of material from Fire & Blood and A Song of Ice and Fire that can be easily included in the tropes at the moment (especially if they were already included in the History and Lore sections of the last show)? For ex., There's indication of Viserys I and Alicent's wedding, but not of that of Rhaenyra and Daemon. Is this division because the former's explicitly shown in the trailer and the latter is not?
Plugging the cleanup thread
in Short-Term as a location for discussing disputed examples.