Littlefinger got everything he wanted out of it. The Vale took the North. Just as he planned in the books. It wasn’t remotely out of character. He takes big gambles. And he doesn’t actually give a shit about Sansa.

No, in both the books and show having one of the Stark girls at Winterfell is the reason Jon Snow agrees to take Winterfell.

I’ve never understood this complaint. She was just turned 18 and the director knew her since she was 12. Of course they didn’t want to film her being brutally raped.

It wasn’t gratuitous. It was directly from the book. Except the book disgustingly made it a non-POV character and it was all about Theon’s redemption saving a girl everyone forgot about from the first book. All of those chapters are how tortured poor Reek is having to watch a girl being raped by dogs.

Of course, it’s a sensitive subject. And there is still such a taboo surrounding subjects like that and you don’t really see it portrayed onscreen that much.

I think he might've been joking?