So what's up with all of the faux outrage over Sansa getting raped? Can someone explain it to me? Was someone expecting the Bastard of fucking Bolton to be a model husband?
Conversely, what is added to the character by making him a rapist?
You know, it's almost as if you've never read the books or seen the show at all.
Him being a rapist is not out of his character. This is the same guy that tortures and mutilates human beings for fun. And your question is "what is added to the character by making him a rapist?" Are you kidding me? That IS his character. He's a sadist, a rapist, a brute, a monster. That's what's added to the character.
And 90% of people in Westeros are rapists. Can you answer my question instead of posing an inane one yourself?
I watch the show.
Ramsay being subhuman is about as hammered home as the Starkes being scrubs. Nothing is added to a characterization by hammering a hammered nail. I'd say the same thing about Stannis bin Laden ordering another soul burned alive or Tyrion's hobbyist lifestyle. We get it bad book / show writers, let's move this train forward.
Rape (shockingly I know) ruffles a lot of feathers and despite your unsubstantiated claims about Westerosians (#notallmen) the show has never made it a core subject to depict (unlike violence). It was lazy shock value with something that scars a lot of people personally, hence what you so charmingly and originally referred to as "faux outrage."
You watch the show, huh? Okay. I hope you were as outraged when Khal Drogo consummated his marriage. Which surprises me you ever made it past the first episode. If what you call lazy shock value offends you (or anyone) that much, maybe the show just isn't for you.
In the book, Dany consents. It's another change for the sake of change. What you're saying actually lends a point in his favor.
No, it doesn't. This is not a book vs. show discussion, nothing to do with the book at all. The differences from the book are neither here nor there, the Ramsay marriage is a WHOLE lot milder in the show than in the book. And Vularai does not appear to be a book reader, your comment is not relevant here.
It's exactly my point though. GoT has shown itself to use the female characters for the purpose of rape even if the story doesn't call for from episode 1, and this is the third female character on the show raped in a major way. How do you know people didn't have an issue with Dany getting raped on episode 1? I know someone who couldn't finish it the episode because of that very thing. People had an issue with Jaime raping Cersei just last year. How are you going to ignore this when there's a precedence? Maybe people thought they could ignore the forced shock scenes because the rest of the shows quality was up there? This season, from most reports, sucks - even from tv only watchers - so it only makes sense that a tepid, boring season combined with forced shock would only outrage people even more. Your whole argument makes no sense.
You can't say "that is exactly my point," and then proceed to type up a paragraph that only has a weak tangential relation to what you quoted. Who made you the arbiter of what the story calls for and what it doesn't? The show writers thought the story called for whatever scenes they put in. You can say that about any aspect of the show.
You could say that about Ramsay chopping off Theon's dick and then suggestively eating and waving a sausage around. Were you outraged? Where was the outrage on GAF? Oh right, there wasn't any. Only countless reaction GIFs. When a man is tortured and mutilated, it's funny.
Where was the outrage during the red wedding? During the multiple beheadings throughout the show? How about outrage over the completely gratuitous, hamfisted and superfluous scene of the Mountain butchering random peasants ("me bad guy, me kill for fun")? Because we really needed to establish what a brute Sir Gregor was with a scene like that.
Viserys getting liquid metal poured over his head in season one? A pregnant lady being stabbed in her stomach? A little kid getting thrown out of a window? But no, Jamie is a beloved character, the only thing that turned viewers against him was a dubious rape scene that the producers may or may not have intended to be a rape scene. Throwing kids out the window is a-OK.
Now lastly, you are bringinng up an anecdotes of your friends not being ok with Dany's treatment in season one and whatnot, but I use social media and I've read GAF throughout the show's duration. There has never been an uproar of this caliber about any particular scene in the show other than Jaime raping Cersei. Now that scene really was unfortunate, because whether they intended it or not, it came off as rape and thus
changed Jaime's character. Ramsay's behavior is completely and unequivocally par for the course, and the story does call for that, because side-stepping it would be silly and unusual for the show.
Make no mistake: this season sucks, but Ramsay being Ramsay has little to do with it.
