Game of Thrones begins....

[Zanza]

Let's see how that Sansa scene continues. Theon looked like he might snap.

[Josquius]

I was suspecting he would snap and attack Ramsay (boy it must suck to be from Bolton these days. Well. More than usual) but.... He didn't. It seems to have been setup to make us think he would only for him to just stand there, a way to underline his messed up state, albeit a bit late in the day.
I wonder where they will go with him since it seems the book direction is off the table

I have seen one reviewer say that what happened to Sansa in that scene is the worst ordeal that has happened to any character on the show so far. What the fuck?

and with clear evidence to the contrary standing in the same room
Feminazis wouldn't be so bad if they weren't infecting others.

[Martinus]

Yeah. I mean, compared to what happened to Theon, Ros, Tansy (I think was the name of the girl torn apart by hounds), a bunch of unnamed slaves in Astapor, Viserys, Oberyn, Talyssa, Robb, Catelyn, Mycah the Miller's Boy, guy eaten alive by dragons and a bunch of other people referred to offscreen or historically (Ellaria Martell anyone?), I'd much rather get raped.

[Martinus]

Another favourite: apparently, "the worst thing imaginable happened to Sansa" in that scene. No it didn't. In fact, much worse things imaginable could happen to her from the same guy in the room.

[The Larch]

Something that really puzzled me was the text mentioning the trigger warning for sexual assault and the links to a support organization for victims before the spoiler warning. Is this something done seriously in many places nowadays? It's been literally the first time I've seen it in an article. I guess that these kind of websites are not in my internet neighbourhood, so to speak.

[Martinus]

Something that really puzzled me was the text mentioning the trigger warning for sexual assault and the links to a support organization for victims before the spoiler warning. Is this something done seriously in many places nowadays? It's been literally the first time I've seen it in an article. I guess that these kind of websites are not in my internet neighbourhood, so to speak.

Yeah, that's the THERE BE DRAGONS of crazy neighbourhood of Internet, I reckon.

[Neil]

I have seen one reviewer say that what happened to Sansa in that scene is the worst ordeal that has happened to any character on the show so far. What the fuck?

That's bizarre.  She wasn't even really raped.

[Valmy]

Yeah ok if anybody who was thinking about raping me ever decides to have a bit of mercy and simply murder, torture, or mutilate me let me just assure you I can take the rape. Don't go soft on me.

[frunk]

Another favourite: apparently, "the worst thing imaginable happened to Sansa" in that scene. No it didn't. In fact, much worse things imaginable could happen to her from the same guy in the room.

The problem isn't a lack of perspective, it's a lack of imagination.

[crazy canuck]

I think the problem with the Sansa scene is the show's need to simplify the storyline by collapsing characters into a limited cast.  This doesn't happen to the Sansa of the books and for good reason.  There is instead a fake female stark who has to endure the Boltons.  It is perhaps the most jolting of the many ways in which the show diverges from the books. 

[Habbaku]

I think the problem with the Sansa scene is the show's need to simplify the storyline by collapsing characters into a limited cast.  This doesn't happen to the Sansa of the books and for good reason.

I think something similar is almost certainly in the cards for the next book.

[frunk]

How is it better (presuming it is the worst possible crime ever) if it happens to someone else?

[crazy canuck]

How is it better (presuming it is the worst possible crime ever) if it happens to someone else?

If that was directed at me, it isn't better.  Lots of terrible things happen.  But it is jarring when the show is in conflict with what happens in the books. 

[Martinus]

How is it better (presuming it is the worst possible crime ever) if it happens to someone else?

If that was directed at me, it isn't better.  Lots of terrible things happen.  But it is jarring when the show is in conflict with what happens in the books.

That doesn't compute as a lot of backlash is from people who did not read the books.

[Liep]

Game of Thrones - The Musical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7xO5P3Az4

Amusing. I think my favourite was Emilia Clarke's "Rastafarian Targaryen".