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Originally Posted by NewChief
Yeah. **** the rape scene. Sometimes it just feels like this series wants to wallow in the darker aspects of humanity. I know that Sansa will likely get some redemption and Ramsey will get his... but ****. The rape scene was just so ridiculously melodramatic to the point that it just feels like pure sadism on the part of the writers.
They just want to put the audience through misery for the sake of putting them through misery.
The Tyrion/Jorah subplot was great this week.
The Arya subplot was okay. Not really anything special. As VP said, if you've read the books then it feels like we're getting the Reader's Digest version of her story.
The Sandsnake thing pretty much went down as it did in the books with the addition of Jaime and Bron. The Sand snakes end up coming off like the petulant, petty clueless girls that they are who have no idea how the Game of Thrones is actually played.
The King's Landing is only bearable to watch because I know that Cersei is about to get hers. Otherwise... geezus. Tommen. You ****ing pussy. And Cersei is such a ****ing dumbass made all the more dumb by her cluelessness to the fact of how dumb she is. What's the syndrome people talk about on here where dumbasses' dumbassery is made even more dumbass by the fact that they not only don't realize they're a dumbass but think they're smart? Yeah. Cersei has that.
Edit: Dunning-Kruger effect. Cersei has a full blown case.
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I think they handled the rape scene as well as possible.
Once they made the decision to marry Sansa to Bolton's bastard, that scene was coming. It's critical because:
1) It is going to be a device that's used to snap Reek out of his current state
2) Once Sansa is married to him, there's no way around it. They can't have the Bastard reform and be kind to her or anything. If the show is setting her up to do ruthless and terrible things to the Boltons, it builds additional motivation.
3) If Sansa ends up deciding to run, as teased in the preview for next week, this is a reason for her to abandon her plan (and perhaps lose faith in Littlefinger, who put her in that situation).
Don't get sucked in by the bullshit from places like THEMARYSUE, which are trying to act like the scene was gratuitously violent or graphic (it was neither, and easily could have been) or took all of Sansa's growing power and placed it in the hands of Theon (it didn't).