Game of Thrones and what they did with Sansa's storyline
Saw the episode yesterday.
Can't say, I am too happy with the developments. I think the Dorne plot is not really going very well, with the Sandsnakes being mostly just silly, but maybe it will pick up.
And then of course there is Sansa being raped by Ramsey Bolton. The scene is receiving immense backlash online and in comparison to the book. Hm, the scene was way more brutal and explicit in the book, but there it wasn't Sansa but instead her childhood friend Jeyne Pool, who never got a POV.
I'm still on the fence about it. I think, that GoT is full of rape and GRRM keeps it at bay by mostly sparing the protagonists. I don't think that the show becomes any worse than the books because it happened to a main character.
The only POV voices all the victims of rape and sexual abuse get in the book are Cersei, a pretty much totally hateful character and Theon, also a hateful character. People like Jeyne Pool remain in the background.
There is another aspect though and that is agency and protagonist priviledge. Jeyne Pool's suffering motivates Theon into action, triggers his redemption in the book. I'd absolutely hate if this is how Sansa's plot develops. If she is degraded to being raped as motivation for Theon to do something.
That's the exact same thing I hated so much about the AR on Buffy. I loathe the plot device of rape as a motivational tool for men.
I can't tell, how they will move this plot forward on the show, but I do dearly hope that Sansa will get some agency instead of just being victimized and eventually rescued by Theon or/and Brienne.
Can't say, I am too happy with the developments. I think the Dorne plot is not really going very well, with the Sandsnakes being mostly just silly, but maybe it will pick up.
And then of course there is Sansa being raped by Ramsey Bolton. The scene is receiving immense backlash online and in comparison to the book. Hm, the scene was way more brutal and explicit in the book, but there it wasn't Sansa but instead her childhood friend Jeyne Pool, who never got a POV.
I'm still on the fence about it. I think, that GoT is full of rape and GRRM keeps it at bay by mostly sparing the protagonists. I don't think that the show becomes any worse than the books because it happened to a main character.
The only POV voices all the victims of rape and sexual abuse get in the book are Cersei, a pretty much totally hateful character and Theon, also a hateful character. People like Jeyne Pool remain in the background.
There is another aspect though and that is agency and protagonist priviledge. Jeyne Pool's suffering motivates Theon into action, triggers his redemption in the book. I'd absolutely hate if this is how Sansa's plot develops. If she is degraded to being raped as motivation for Theon to do something.
That's the exact same thing I hated so much about the AR on Buffy. I loathe the plot device of rape as a motivational tool for men.
I can't tell, how they will move this plot forward on the show, but I do dearly hope that Sansa will get some agency instead of just being victimized and eventually rescued by Theon or/and Brienne.