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You are here: Home / Entertainment / TV & Video / Game of Thrones Writer Defends Sansa’s Controversial Rape Scene

Game of Thrones Writer Defends Sansa’s Controversial Rape Scene

By James St. James on February 19, 2016 4:11 pm

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In a world where penises are routinely severed, children are pushed from windows, siblings fuck over the dead body of their child, eyeballs are popped out, and daughters are sacrificed at the stake – Sansa‘s rape on her wedding night by Ramsay Bolton while Theon Greyjoy watched was the straw that broke the camel’s back for many viewers. Yes, it was violent and seemingly gratuitous, and because it didn’t happen in the books it seemed like it was done for pure shock value. As one commenter succinctly put “Yes, realistically Ramsay would have raped her, duh. The thing is it put Sansa’s story in the back and made her just a second thought in Theon’s. I think it weakened her story and that annoyed me from a storytelling perspective.”

In the soon-to-be-released DVD commentary, GoT writer Bryan Cogman, who wrote the episode, set the record straight about the scene, why it was shot from Theon’s PoV and why Sansa didn’t try and defend herself.

“Basically when we decided to combine Sansa’s storyline with another character in the books it was done with the idea it would be hugely dramatically satisfying to have Sansa back in her occupied childhood home and navigate this Gothic horror story she’s found herself in and, of course, to be reunited with Theon – setting her on her path to reclaiming her family home and becoming a major player in the big overall story. That said, when we decided when we were going to do that we were faced with the question: If she’s marrying Ramsay, what would happen on her wedding night? And we made the decision to not shy away from what would realistically would happen on that wedding night with these two characters, and the reality of the situation, and the reality of this particular world.”

As for focusing the camera on Theon’s face, Cogman said he gets “why this criticism was leveled at us…that we took Sansa’s story away from her and made it all about Theon.” But, he counters, “I personally don’t believe that’s the case… If you really watch this scene, it’s played from Sansa’s viewpoint, for the most part. The main reason we cut away at the end, frankly, is that this was [Sophie Turner’s] first scene of this nature, and we didn’t want to show the attack. And so we cut to Theon to hear the attack.”

Cogman added that while it would have been “satisfying [for Sansa] to have a shiv up her sleeve and gut Ramsay,” that’s not who she is. “We can’t all be Arya,” he said. “Most people in that situation, they have to play a longer game.”

(via Uproxx)

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