Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-3035448-20170119043310/@comment-5014364-20170125174211

They used a "badass Sansa speech yelling at Ramsay" to hide the fact that she doesn't actually do anything in the plot.

Well, rather....the writers actually consider "Sansa yelling at Ramsay" to be "narrative agency".

The speech "working for you" means you're letting yourself being manipulated. They're paying token lip-service to "look, we have Strong Female Characters! Sansa yelled at Ramsay!"

I'm not trying to antagonize you but you're in denial about this. They incomprehensibly changed Sansa's character - basically just to show off the actress - promised that it would "end up with her being a big player", then ended up leaving her just as marginalized.

They promised us a Sansa who had active "action" agency.

It's the old Trope of "Men Act, Women Are"; http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MenActWomenAre