Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20161218050632/@comment-5014364-20161219183351

Godzillavkk wrote: You never know what you're going to get by starting threads. And besides, me and plenty of others loved Season 6. And yet you're thread is telling us we shouldn't because of the books. You may not have intended it for that purpose but that's what it is. I can accept you're views if you can can accept mine. Can you do the same? Agree to disagree?

No. I do not accept your specific view that "Sansa was a political player in Season 6". Maybe you can think she was still a "strong resilient character" like Gilly.

No, this is not "due to knowledge of the books".

The TV writers kept promising "okay, Sansa's being raped in Season 5, but we promise this is setting her on the road to be a major character in Season 6".

...then it didn't.

So purely based on the TV show, the TV show is acting as if Sansa did something "significant" politically by sending a letter to Littlefinger to accept an offer he already made.

You're in denial about this by trying to wave it off as a "books vs TV show" complaint. It doesn't even work within the TV show on its own.

And what, specifically, about TV-Sansa did you enjoy in Seasons 5 to 6? I do not enjoy that they're reducing the political role and agency of female characters. This has nothing to do with "well, it's a patriarchal society" -- yeah it is, but even within the source material there are more female rulers than they present in the TV show.

If your position is "I still like other parts of the TV show" then yes, that's fine. I enjoyed the ironborn subplot in Season 6.

But I asked "what made Sansa a political player in Season 6? The TV show acted like they made her a major political player but didn't due to bad writing"...

...and your response was do dodge the political question entirely.