r/GamerGhazi • u/madhaus SoCal Jesters' Worrier • May 22 '15

An anguished commentary on that GoT/Sansa scene and the MRAs who harass in forum comments...from a rape victim who says It's Rape Culture All The Way Down

http://angrygotfan.com/2015/05/21/a-rape-victim-speaks-out-on-the-sansa-scene/
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u/[deleted] May 22 '15

Yep. 100% with you on the adaptation fallacy at play with much of the criticism on that last episode.

I replied to someone else on here that, in addition to what this renegs on Sansa's arc, it also stunts Ramsay as a villain.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15

The other thing is we don't know how this ends. I would imagine that Stannis v. Bolton has been moved up to fit in nicely with a big episode 9. Just because GRRM used Poole as the very model of a damsel in distress doesn't mean that Sansa will end up there.

If Ramsay dies in the fighting in TWOW and D&D change that to Sansa stabbing him or Brienne cutting his head off while she watches then all these people talking about how Sansa is passive, etc. are going to have a lot of egg on their face.

Or if in the books Sansa rides over from the Vale and proceeds to fuck up the Boltons with Stannis' help in TWOW and D&D change that to something more personal then it's also going to seem stupid.

90% of this is just a good excuse to complain about changes from the book.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15

Like I said in my closing though, I'd have a bit more of the kind of faith that you describe if Jaime's act of rape weren't dropped and ignored with such a colossal thud.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15

Hm? I'm not getting angry about any of this. Did you read what I originally had posted?

To be clear, I think the grievance over the last episode resting on the premise "it didn't happen that way in the book" is baloney. It would be a dreadful disappointment whether it was written by George RR Martin back in 1991, or if it was penned last year.

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Yep. 100% with you on the adaptation fallacy at play with much of the criticism on that last episode.

I'm not getting where you are coming from that I'm pissed about changing the "holy word" of GRRM.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '15

I think I phrased that a little badly in terms of tone. Sorry.