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This. Brothers had better motivation for stabbing Jon in the books but it was at expense of Jon behaving as an idiot and out of character.

why is dorne in chaos? they still got their price and his heir.

The IronBorn stuff in season 6 will be from book 6. The casting call suggest that they'll skip straight to Euron attacking Reach & Oldtown. No Kingsmoot, no Victarion etc.

The Wall needs a new maester, who's better candidate than Sam? And of course Gilly and her baby go with him.

Because Jon may need that kind of assistance soon?
Or because they only got detailed synopsis from GRRM in late 2013 and only then knew that LSH won't be in their version?

The removal of Cersei wasn't that premeditated. He just collected info on her misconduct and waited till the right moment to reveal it.

That sure would fly with all his soldiers and torture companions surrounding her. There's also a technical aspect. Sansa's not a fighter, surely Ramsey won't just stand there and wait for her to stab him to death with … with what btw is she supposed to stab him?

He was OK with Arya being wed to Bolton actually. Well, not OK but he didn't do anything. That's why his sudden turnaround after he found out she actually run away from Winterfell was so baffling to many (myself included).

She also made him uneasy and at the same time sort of showed that she's smart enough to see how things stand and that she can be useful companion to him because of that. And because she's a real trueborn Stark. And her not pretending to like him personally is a right move as that wouldn't work on Ramsey anyway.

well, there's your character development and Sansa's getting stronger and trying to play Ramsey even in distress.

why not? He's her husband, basically he owns her in that world.
And he needs a heir with Stark blood. He can't risk her running away before he gets it our of her.

Nobody gets burned at the stakes these days but somebody gets raped every single day. Is it really surprising that people react stronger to something they did encounter in real life as opposed to imaginary horrors?

And he'd have just accepted her refusal like a nice kindly uncle he is? She's a hostage, she doesn't really have a say in anything.

she couldn't say no to LF either. He's the only thing that keeps her from being taken to KL and executed. She's his hostage and she saw him murdering Lisa and boast about murdering Joffrey. She would do anything he tells her because she has no other choice. That's not consent.

This rape scene is in the book too and it's much much worse.

The problem is at no point I this whole debacle starting with the moment LF told her she's to be married could she really say NO. She is a Hostage, she has nowhere to run, nobody to trust. It's not consent when the alternative is to die or be forced anyway.

Chou can't consent to sex in general. It's not like if you came to the bedroom and undressed you have to fulfill any sick fantasies I may have.

Neither of those women is a virgin. Both Olenna and Maergery put a lot of effort into marrying the right guy in the position of power whom they can dominate through any means available including sex. Unlike Sansa they have significantly more options so didn't have to suffer as many unpleasantness. But it's as much due

Well, she's a novice, of course it will take time and practice to get used to the brutal rules of the game and master them.

Name me female player in ASOIAF whose power comes from something else. Maybe Dany but even in her case it came after she birthed dragons and it's not the option available to Sansa.