That is something that confuses me. Allister has seen this . He was the one with the Wight hand - or was that cut from the show?

Yeah, because they got locked up right after they made their entrance. We weren't so lucky this time.

The Ramsay-Sansa marriage. Not the Ramsay-Sansa rape.

Actually, just as you claim the showrunners/artists don't owe him anything, it is within his right to criticize their use of rape as a trope that has meant nil. He can criticize and analyze the use of heavy themes and subject matter in his popular entertainment.

You put it better than I could, Sean.

To be fair, Qarth Storyline had the continuation from Season 1 built in. As much as they try to convince us otherwise wit this Ellarian/ Jaime and Bronn "Buy in"….there's so little time spent on it, and so few details sketched out (and so poorly), Dorne has so far been a disaster.

Hopefully rehearsing their lines and practicing their fight choreography.

Yeah, that's what I thought. It made much more sense than a certain encounter in Dorne. That the presence of the Night's Watch spurred them to action.

I feel like if I wanted to, if I really wanted to, I could make a point about how they felt it necessary to strip away one of her defining characteristics (empathy and compassion) for the sake of her growing "harder" by telling Theon how much she would have enjoyed torturing him, but I feel that's drawing a lot from…

I got the impression that the wife and child that had been mentioned had come to the House of Black White and made a deal. Was I projecting?

Sigh. They have the right to do what they want, and we also have the right to criticize what they're doing.

Targaryens have sometimes taken two or more wives legally.

There was mention somewhere in lore that the King of of the North slew his brother, the Night's King, or some such.

A certain place called Dragonstone has obsidian….

Hindsight is 20/20, I suppose.

Yeah. The more I think about it, even through using that perspective to convey the vulnerability through a gendered lenses comes across as exploitative, to me, anyways. Titillation may be too specific a term..

I miss that place.

Because this is Sansa Stark. not fake Arya, not fake Sansa, but Sansa freaking Stark. Isn't this called Game of Thrones for a reason?

Honestly? I have a feeling it's the creative team that can't.

About that, yeah, but Hardhome!