Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-3035448-20170119043310/@comment-30888250-20170124171131

The Dragon Demands wrote: No. That wasn't a scene of Sansa being "badass" or "powerful". That was just "a moment" -- how does Sansa yelling at the villain after he is already defeated by Jon and Littlefinger and tied to a chair....count as her having anything to do with "defeating" Ramsay?

The TV writers are idiots and only thought in terms of..."facetime for the actress" rather than "Sansa actually doing something substantive in the narrative".

They kept saying Season 6 would make up for the Sansa rape subplot they invented by saying she would eventually become a "political player" as a result, a big "player in the game of thrones".

None of that happened.

Because they're just trying to find ways to put Sophie Turner, the actress, into positions in which she can give a big speech or emote a lot.....while neglecting to have "Sansa, the fictional character" perform actions within the narrative which "affect the plot".

Prove me wrong: tell me what did Sansa do to defeat Ramsay? Other than writing a letter to Littlefinger to accept an offer he already made? Sansa wasn't even particularly "Tywin" in accepting help Littlefinger already offered; because his plan the whole time was to invade the Boltons using the Vale army. Look, I don't hate the producers the way you do and I truly hope you can respect that. We all have our differences in how we relate or don't relate to any fictional characters, but we are in this fandom for one reason.

So while Sansa hasn't done anything to affect the plot, her speech still worked for me. And it worked for many others. Besides, I don't devalue "reaction" in favor of "action."

I'll leave it at that. Hating on the producers isn't interesting or engaging to me personally. I don't think the OP cared about that either, although I may be wrong.