Thanks, Hell Rell. I need to explain something here because I'm getting the impression that you believe I am familiar with discussions on Sansa as well as the outcry regarding her marriage to Ramsay. I'm not. I've never frequented any of the Game of Thrones forums so I had no idea there were deep discussions going on about the character.
I tune into the MSN website daily and there happened to be an episode about Sansa's rape. There were tons of outraged comments about it. I hadn't even seen the episode yet so I had no clue.
Now if I'm wrong about this assumption, I apologize, but I thought it important that I give you a little background on where I'm coming from on this.
This. I have to admit, because I didn't see the rape as a big deal, I never gave it (or subsequent nightly rapes) any credit for Sansa's sudden ability to project herself as an intuitive and critical thinking adult. However, her sudden intelligence and adult bearing caught my attention and I was wondering just where that came from. In my opinion, she didn't seem any different to me even after the subsequent rapes. Sansa has always been a rather simple, childlike character to me. As I said before, I found her character to be treated the worst of any because it seems to me the childlike demeanor was deliberately glued to her character to make it easy to see her as the designated victim in GOT. I will go further if I'm on the right track here because I wanted to talk about her during her time at King's Landing that I feel should have contributed to growth in the character, but instead were deliberately ignored.
I tune into the MSN website daily and there happened to be an episode about Sansa's rape. There were tons of outraged comments about it. I hadn't even seen the episode yet so I had no clue.
Now if I'm wrong about this assumption, I apologize, but I thought it important that I give you a little background on where I'm coming from on this.
Quote:It's not really an arc. Her development and her ability to take down Littlefinger will come out of nowhere. She has observed the major players in King's Landing but she was barely an entry-level player. I didn't see her get trained sufficiently in the art of politics on the show. She was dropped off with Ramsay before that could happen properly. She was locked in a room and raped nightly until she was saved by Theon and went on the run. There hasn't been any time for development.
Sansa needed to have a training arc last season like Arya and Bran(albeit off-screen) to lead into this season. I've seen people say(not saying you're one of them) that she wasn't ready and in over her head last season. What's changed between now and then to prepare her to enter the game? It makes even less sense now than it did before last season. There was no timeskip so how is she more ready now?
Sansa was essentially rebooted last year and most of her prior development became irrelevant. It's now being raped by Ramsay that's going to catapult her character progression(instantly I might add). The writers made her a complete idiot to let LF drag her up Westeros without demanding to know where they were going and marrying Ramsay for "revenge". She made herself a hostage for family killers after she had just escaped that exact situation. They said things like "a hardened woman making a choice" and "she sees the logic in what he's saying" to defend it. That's more naive than season one Sansa who wanted to marry Joffrey before he had Ned killed.
Now, they're going to turn her into a clever schemer at the drop of a dime. It's not believable. She's been turned into a "rape-as-empowerment" walking cliche. They had Ramsay tell Theon "now watch her become a woman" and it seems like his treatment of her is responsible for her development and not the years spent in KL and her time in the Vale.
This. I have to admit, because I didn't see the rape as a big deal, I never gave it (or subsequent nightly rapes) any credit for Sansa's sudden ability to project herself as an intuitive and critical thinking adult. However, her sudden intelligence and adult bearing caught my attention and I was wondering just where that came from. In my opinion, she didn't seem any different to me even after the subsequent rapes. Sansa has always been a rather simple, childlike character to me. As I said before, I found her character to be treated the worst of any because it seems to me the childlike demeanor was deliberately glued to her character to make it easy to see her as the designated victim in GOT. I will go further if I'm on the right track here because I wanted to talk about her during her time at King's Landing that I feel should have contributed to growth in the character, but instead were deliberately ignored.
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