Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24467536-20140316233542

This coming Tuesday will mark a week Lorelei showed up on Earth and recruiting males minions include sex while the guy is under mind control. The debate is still raging that the hotel hook-up was seduction or rape, with roughly 80 - 90% on commentors on blogs voting rape. The majority of critics writing articles about this episode is flat out calling this plot point rape. (Sidenote - critics and commentors are calling Ward things like "idiot" and "incompetent" for letting Lorelei get so close, knowing full well what she's capable of.)  I know the showrunners were counting on buzz about the show with Sif being on, but I don't think they were counting on significant blowback when they touched on such a hot topic. If the producers and writers of AoS don't deal with this on the show - and intelligently, they stand to lose viewers they were trying to win back. Just counting on the Marvel movies to keep people interested may not be enough. 