Game of Thrones is filled with brutal murders and events that you wished never happened, but fans were completely shocked when a particular Sansa scene occurred in the latest season of the hit HBO show.
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Perhaps because it was a deviation from the book, fans weren't expecting the rape scene that Sansa Stark had to go through. Ramsay Snow, her Husband, raped her in front of her good friend which made many fans feel uneasy about the future of the show. Bryan Cogman, writer-producer for that episode, recently made a statement saying that he stands by what happened.
"I think it’s important to talk about because of the response this storyline got,” Cogman says. “It’s sort of ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t.’ If you don’t talk about it, people think you’re ashamed of it; if you do talk about it, everything you say is taken out of context… when we decided 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 happen on that wedding night with these two characters, and the reality of the situation, and the reality of this particular world.”
“It’s an upsetting scene," he adds, "it’s a horrifying scene, it’s meant to be … [But] the accusation that our motives were [that we] just threw in a rape for shock value, I personally don’t think the scene as shot, or as written, or as acted by our wonderful actors, supports that argument. Nor do I think the aftermath of the scene supports that argument. Not only in these episodes, but also in future episodes. This story is not over. This is a long ongoing story. Sansa has a journey ahead of her, and what happens to her in that room is a huge part of that journey, and one that we’ve thought through.”
Game of Thrones continues to frustrate fans be releasing teasers filled with ominous themes of death and dispair. It's as if the showrunners enjoy rubbing it in our face that that character might have died. The latest set of images teased the fates of characters we love, like Arya, Daenerys, Tyrion and more — but the most recent teaser for the HBO series has taken a more cryptic turn.
Game of Thrones season 6 is set to debut this April on HBO.
