Hello everyone. This is my first time here, and I really wish that it was under less, angry circumstances. Anyway I've never been a guy who believes that any and all changes are toe source material are automatically bad, and I've supported some of the changes on this show even. But this, this was a mistake imo.
"Rape as plot device/character motivation" is already one of the most overused, lazy, cheap, and problematic clichés in all of fictions, and this show has gone to that well too often as it is. That the writers deliberately changed Sansa's storyline for the sake of "she gets raped," made me want to bang my head against a wall. You seriously couldn't think of ANYTHING else to do with her. NO other way to develop her character, without resorting to this tired trope, seriously writers? Show some creativity. And it's just pointless. We didn't learn anything new here and EVERYTHING that could possibly come of it could have been done without playing the rape card.
-Ramsay is a sadistic monster-We already knew that.
-Life for women in Westeros sucks-We already knew that.
-Theon needs to "snap out of it"-Well if it takes Sansa being raped in order for that to happen, then that's another huge can of worms right there.
-Sansa needs to "develop" as a character-And all of the other traumas that she's endured weren't enough to do that (seriously, her entire story has been about abuse/degradation). You needed to through a rape in there to, seriously?
It's pointless and makes no sense to boot. You know they COULD have made this less squicky if Sansa would have used her sexuality to lure Ramsay into a false sense of security/complacency. It's still kind of messed-up, but at least she has some agency of her own and it'd fit in with her character arc. But that would require some thoughtful writing so of course it didn't happen.
