User blog comment:Godisme/People and people, dragons and dragons, people and dragons/@comment-3290324-20130531154940/@comment-7418318-20130601082658

Being short and quick kinda defeats the purpose of torture, unless the victim starts to spill the information immediately (if the torture is for getting information in the first place).

I don't have much of a problem with such violent actions in series, books or movies, but the existance of such scenes should really result in a 18+ rating.

For example I'm a big fan of Terry Goodkinds "Sword of Truth" series and Elfenlied. Both of them contain some pretty brutal scenes, but since they have a 18+ rating those scenes are not out of place there. In FT they would be out of place, unless the age rating is raised, which is something I don't think will ever happen (unfortunately I guess).