Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20161218050632/@comment-5014364-20161218231843

Godzillavkk wrote: The last people who told me similar things ended up treating real people the same way. How do I know you won't do the same thing? Also, I don't care what interviews say, and I don't care how the books go about the story. This is Game of Thrones, not A Song of Ice and Fire. And like all adaptations, changes are innevitable. Let the fans enjoy the seasons.

Now you're just in denial.

This wasn't simply a matter of books vs TV series.

They threw out Sansa's original storyline, derailing her original storyarc, and put her in a rape subplot instead, promising that this was the beginning of "her rise to being a player".....and in Season 6, that isn't the result we got. She played no integral role in defeating Ramsay, just acting out Littlefinger's plans.

...."treating real people the same way"...wait, what are you talking about?

Purely relying on the TV show and ignoring their interviews, Sansa didn't "do" anything. And from interviews, they present it as if they feel she was this "strong player" - that was their intention, but they failed.

....changes are inevitable.

Merging Sansa's storyline with an unrelated one which involved her being raped and a prisoner in Winterfell was not an "inevitable" change but a conscious choice the writers made.

They could have cut out Dorne entirely for the Vale arc. Heck, they admitted there was time for the Vale arc, they thought it was too short and boring, so they "gave Sansa more to do" by putting her in a rape subplot.

And the promise through all of that was, "okay she's being raped now, but trust us, this leads to her being a player later in Season 6".

That didn't happen.

So your "defense" of Benioff and Weiss is "ignore everything they say about their own work in interviews, and re-interpret the episodes according to our own head canon?"