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OH GOOD GOD DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE SAND SNAKES. and my personal favourite

We already know what a monster he is. What he did to Sansa is NOTHING compared to what he's done to Theon and all the other girls he's killed and mutilated over the seasons. Remember the hunting trip? He also hasn't hurt Sansa. As Victor said, he did nothing he wasn't legally allowed to do. The only way he could have not hurt Sansa was to not consummate the marriage, and he's not Tyrion. The problem to me is that they're NOT showing that she's growing stronger as a character. She's done literally nothing strong that she hasn't done in past seasons. Some could argue that when she got snarky with Myranda it was her showing her strength- but she did the same thing with her Septa all the way back in season 1. She's had little to no legitimate character growth, and sticking her in a scene like that just to "show what a monster Ramsay truly is" is ridiculous, because it's already been FIRMLY established. It was a cheap attempt to get us to sympathize more with her because it's her. This is the guy who's raped women and then let his girlfriend shoot them in the face cuz they're too pretty. But nobody felt as bad for that girl as they do now for Sansa, so it worked. And yeah, I've heard that joke entirely too many times since the episode, poor dear.

Well, there's 2 reasons that I've seen so far. One, is all the SJWs who are getting pissed about rape ever being portrayed in TV shows or movies, because they accuse "Hollywood" of just using rape as a cheap tactic to create drama unnecessarily. In some situations, not completely wrong, but I don't fully agree with it in GoT. That said, I did think the scene where Sansa was ALMOST raped during the riots in King's Landing was unnecessary. I think part of the problem with the show is that D&D have inserted rape into scenes where it wasn't in the books and where it was a bit unnecessary or just flat out missed the mark (Cersei/Jaime in the sept, meant to be consensual but ended up looking pretty rapey). GRRM does a great job of only using rape where it's necessary, and not to further the plotline in some dumb way. As of right now, D&D seem to just kind of casually toss it in anywhere they feel someone would probably be getting raped. The second and FAR more common reason though, is that it's because it was Sansa. Sansa is one of the few characters in the series who is still more or less innocent. She's never hurt anyone that I can remember (purposely), and while she has a bit of a rude streak in her (she seems to enjoy talking down to people) that's not enough to make her not a relatively sweet and innocent character. She's also a girl we saw grow up on this show. We've shared her hopes and dreams of becoming Queen and marrying some gallant prince and having his babies and all that. We even see her marry Tyrion (who she initially despises completely) and yet he refuses to force her to consummate their marriage out of respect for her- only to see her forcefully taken on her (second) wedding night by a complete psychopath. Honestly I don't even like Sansa much, but the entire scene just left me feeling really uneasy. It was very well shot, because it definitely affected me more than Dany being raped by Drogo in the beginning of the series (more bullshit considering it was consensual in the books). More than anything, I'm also concerned that they're simply using Sansa's rape/marriage to Ramsay to set up Theon's redemption arc. Sansa is supposed to be learning to play the game. She's learned a bit about being a woman from Cersei: "Tears aren't a woman's only weapon. The best one's between your legs.", and even more about playing the game from Littlefinger, who currently seems to be the reigning champ at it. They could easily have written her at least ATTEMPTING to play the game- taking hold of her own insecurities and fears and showing her attempting to seduce Ramsay instead of meekly and frightfully accepting what was going to happen anyway. It even seemed to me like they were setting up something like that with the scene with Myranda. Instead, D&D go their typical route of "Nah let's just have Sansa do absolutely nothing when in the face of ACTUAL adversity, despite the fact that she's been learning how to manipulate and be strong for about 2 seasons now". And Victor, it's still rape. Just because they're married doesn't mean that by definition it wasn't rape. There was just nothing anyone could or would do about it, because "back then" (time period since it's fictional) the wife was the husband's property to do with as he pleased. But rape by definition is penetration/intercourse in which someone is an unwilling participant. Sansa was definitely unwilling.

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That picture of Mackinnon is amazing, fantastic job buddy

OMG ITS BEAUTIFUL <3

Greyjoya not important, manderlys nor important, the list just goes on.

READ THE FCKIN BOOKS NOOB

smh flyersfan the name of something isnt a spoiler

that was weird, had to sign out twice for it to fix itself.

My computer bluescreened, and when I came back I had to relog into all the websites I visit and now my chat's gone. Anyone know how I can get it back?

I've been reading that some people think Greyscale is going to replace that other sickness in the books. I can see it.

Yeah, shit's brutal. I really need to re-read ADWD because I don't remember a lot of it. Also is it just me or is chat gone

As far as I know there's not really mention in the books of whether Greyscale goes into the blood (in which case cutting off the appendage/limb would do nothing to stop the spread) or if it's just topical (in which case it would), so it's pretty up in the air. A lot of people have been asking this since last night, but we just don't know.

That stuff that's on Stannis' daughter (Shireen)'s face is called Greyscale. In one of the last couple episodes, Stannis was talking to her about how most people with Greyscale get sent to the Ruins of Valyria because there's no known cure (he said himself IIRC that he doesn't even know what stopped it, only that he sent for every maester and healer he could find until she was cured/the spread stopped). Then Gilly was talking to Shireen about Greyscale when she was mentioning how some of her sisters had it and they went crazy and eventually Craster took them into the woods and killed them. The stonemen are what both those stories were referring to. If not cured, the person with Greyscale will eventually become covered in it and become pretty much insane, so once someone's diagnosed with it, they're usually exiled to the Ruins of Valyria to live out whatever remains of their lives and let the disease take its course. It's not as big a deal in the books just yet, but with the way the show's focusing on it I'd say it's not too far fetched to think that it will be a pretty big deal.

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hot damn, can't wait til goody gets to calgary

Well yes but that is a point of pride for me. Unlike my sigs.

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Great article buddy, welcome to the league! You got picked up by a great team

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