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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
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).
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Finally got to see it last night and I don't think it was near as graphic as they probably could have made it. Shit...I was expecting to have to turn my head or something.
I think, like you said, this is what snaps Theon out of being Reek and what gives Sansa the motivation to take down the Boltons and Littlefinger.