Before you read on there are spoilers in here that might ruin it. She mocks sansas sister, arya stark, as arya horseface, smirking and neighing when the younger girl is near. Game of thrones showrunners explain why they changed sansas. May 31, 2015 so who does sansa lose her virginity to in the game of. In fact, their marriage never being consummated is why littlefinger is able to bring sansa to ramsay in the first place. Helen sloanhbo their hopes were dashed on sunday the moment ramsay uttered those awful words take off. In the television adaptation game of thrones, she is played by sophie turner. Instead, his bride is a different stark, or someone masquerading as a stark. However, others argue that subject to what westeros family and marriage law say about the matter, the mere fact that her marriage to. But in sunday nights episode, it is revealed that littlefinger has set up sansa to marry ramsay instead. In the books, ramsay is not married to sansa, but jeyne poole.
Sansa stark was not supposed to marry ramsay bolton heres why. Game of thrones sansa stark chronology totally timelines. In the books, sansa is spared this trauma because ramsay marries someone else entirelya girl posing as arya stark. He gained nothing from his brief alliance with the boltons. Its never a nice day for a game of thrones wedding, especially one that involves the boltons. Ramsay rips sansa s wedding gown apart, bends her over, then forces his way into her as she cries out in pain. Queen sansa stark is the eldest daughter of lord eddard stark and his wife, lady catelyn, sister of robb, arya, bran, and rickon stark, and halfsister of jon snow. Ramsay is as brutal and heinous in the books as he is on screen. They knew what happened to ramsay s book bride, and hoped the same fate wouldnt befall the stark daughter. Jon snow meets ramsay bolton to discuss terms of surrender duration.
And dont even get me started on the weak logic behind sending sansa to winterfell to marry ramsay. She is a prominent character in martins awardwinning a song of ice and fire series introduced in a game of thrones 1996, sansa is the elder daughter and second child of lord eddard stark and his wife lady catelyn stark. Game of thrones tv, a song of ice and fire george r. But revenge under any circumstance even one as justly deserved as sansas over ramsays is a sword without a hilt, in the parlance of game of thrones times. Sansa stark is a member of house stark and is the elder daughter of lady catelyn and lord eddard stark. So now we all know sansa is being left with ramsay bolton, continuing her absolutely horrible track record when it comes to dudes. Even though he managed to get cerseis approval to attack the boltons and become warden of the north by marrying sansa to ramsay, then using it as proof of the boltons betraying the crown, that doesnt count for anything when he immediately declares for sansa anyways. Why game of thrones sansa twist is freaking out fans of. The overall storyline of having sansa marry ramsay is definitely a huge difference from the books, but it makes sense in the context of a tv show.
The boltons are claiming that jeyne is actually arya. The reason behind that major sansa twist on game of thrones. May 31, 2015 none of this really explains why sansa needed to be married to ramsay though, so i suspect that was motivated by a desire of the show creators to give her jeyne pooles storyline so they had to make up some flimsy excuse as to why littlefinger sent her there. The young woman who was actually forced to marry ramsay in the book was sansa s best friend, jeyne poole. Hbos game of thrones has been gradually edging away from its source material. Tbh i have no idea how old tyrion is supposed to be in the show. Sounds like the sansa ramsay wedding rumors are true. May 29, 2016 at the urging of her supposed protector, petyr littlefinger baelish, she married ramsay bolton, only to discover on her wedding night what a sadistic sociopath he is. About that sansaramsay game of thrones scene cryptic. We game of thrones fans dreaded it was coming ever since littlefinger brought sansa stark back to winterfell to marry the new heir in the north, ramsay bolton. And previously, ew exclusively revealed the showrunners reasons for departing from the books by marrying sansa and ramsay. Sansa was appropriately horrified when littlefinger told her his plan to marry ramsay.
Sansa stark is one of the major pov characters in the books. He convinced roose bolton that the marriage would help to solidify the boltons hold on the north and would legitimize him as warden of the north, as far as the. In the books, though, the stark sister who married ramsay isnt a stark at all, but sansa s childhood friend jeyne poole, who accompanied the starks south when ned became hand. Sansa and tyrion do form a somewhat friendly relationship, as he is kind to. She subsequently appeared in the following three novels.
Jul 12, 2017 ramsay rips sansas wedding gown apart, bends her over, then forces his way into her as she cries out in pain. The sansa ramsay wedding a couple of outstanding questions. A bolton bastard married the last stark of the north. Her age on the show, currently, is probably around 21 or 22 though its unclear. This makes the claim on winterfell all the more fragile. Game of thrones fans need to understand sansas rape. It was the scene book readers have feared since it was revealed that sansa would be replacing jeyne poole as ramsay s bridetobe. Game of thrones producer explains sansas wedding night.
Sansa s childhood friend jeyne poole, who has been presented as if she. In the books, sansa is currently still at the eyrie with her cousin, robert arryn robin arryn on the show, and ramsay is married to jeyne poole, a friend of sansas from winterfell who is being. Game of thrones sansa stark and ramsay bolton hot scene. He convinced sansa that marrying ramsay would put her in a position to not only get revenge on the boltons for the red wedding, but also put her in a position to reclaim the north. Sansa stark is a fictional character created by american author george r. Sansa, meanwhile, remains safe at her aunts home in. May 19, 2015 it was the scene book readers have feared since it was revealed that sansa would be replacing jeyne poole as ramsays bridetobe. The servants talk ramsay and not just inside these walls by now half the north will know what you did to her. Game of thrones team explains changing sansas story. Game of thrones littlefinger is a genius in the books. The may 17 episode of game of thrones was downright shocking. If they did not give good sport, he would rape them and then flay them alive. If you think ramsays bad on game of thrones, here are all the ways hes even worse in the books. Littlefinger never sent sansa to marry ramsay in the books.
Sansas marriage to ramsay was, unfortunately, nonconsensually consummated, meaning that sansa is now legally a widow. Who does sansa lose her virginity to in the game of thrones. Key to the north chapter 1, a game of thrones fanfic. Game of thrones s05e06 sansa and ramsay boltons wedding. Also ramsay would have been married to a insignificant person, as you stated. In the books, ramsay marries a different character, a girl posing as arya named jeyne poole, who ends up being brutalized by her new husband. In the a song of ice and fire books, ramsay bolton formerly known as ramsay snow marries a. The reason behind that major sansa twist on game of. May 18, 2015 sansa stark may not go to winterfell at all in the novels, but jeyne poolramsays poor bride in the books whose place sansa has takendoes get sexually assaulted. Ramsay married her childhood friend jeyne poole with help of petyr baelish and lannisters. But in martins books, sansa is still at the eyrie when her storyline.
Sansaramsay marriage did not make sense general got a. He seems here to be trying to build sansa up into more than a shrinking violet, and angling that into gaining her trust. Did game of thrones really need to rape sansa stark. Sansa is indeed engaged to be married, but not to ramsay rather to harrold hardyng. Last night in game of thrones season 5, episode 3, high sparrow, the illfated elder stark daughter was pushed into an engagement with ramsay snow bolton. So who does sansa lose her virginity to in the game of.
If we were going to stay absolutely faithful to the book, it was going to be very hard to do that. Martin, and its television adaptation game of thrones introduced in 1998s a clash of kings, ramsay. Although she was reluctant to make the marriage baelish convinced her to go ahead with the marriage by telling her that she would be lady of winterfell. Martins books, which saw ramsay marry a girl impersonating arya maisie williams, so no one knows how bad things could get for sansa. Game of thrones showrunners explain why they changed sansa. But meanwhile, in the published books, theres a character introduced named jeyne poole, sansa s best friend, who ends up impersonating arya.
Game of thrones star dismisses that sansa stark pregnancy theory granted, there are some gaps in this theory. Littlefinger played everyone with the sansaramsay wedding. May 18, 2015 ramsay and sansa s relationship game of thrones, sansa and ramsay duration. Apr 27, 2015 but meanwhile, in the published books, theres a character introduced named jeyne poole, sansa s best friend, who ends up impersonating arya. Dany going mad, full fix reedit to the best of my ability game of thrones duration. In the books, ramsay is led by the lannisters to believe he is.
Yet sundays episode introduced what is perhaps the boldest. Sansa is still safe relatively under protection of petyr and very much in vale. Apr 12, 2015 the prospect of a ramsay and sansa marriage is a game of thrones theory popular amongst fans right now. The show took two discrete plots sansa littlefinger and jontheonboltonsjeyne poole and combined them. How did marrying sansa to ramsay help littlefinger achieve.
May 23, 2015 in the books, ramsay marries a different character, a girl posing as arya named jeyne poole, who ends up being brutalized by her new husband. Jeyne was a war trophy, her father was killed when eddards household was wiped out in kings landing and jeyne was held captive by the lannisters until she was shipped off north, forced to pose as arya stark and marry ramsay. Jul 18, 2017 sansa s marriage to ramsay was, unfortunately, nonconsensually consummated, meaning that sansa is now legally a widow. She is a prominent character in martins awardwinning a song of ice and fire series.
Fans complained the directors should be ashamed because the rape was too harsh but, actually, they toned it. They paired sansa tyrion and no one blinked an eye in universe about what i think is a bigger age difference in the show than in the books. May 17, 2015 and previously, ew exclusively revealed the showrunners reasons for departing from the books by marrying sansa and ramsay. While sansa isnt raped in the books, ramsay does rape jayne on their wedding night. Lord ramsay bolton, born ramsay snow, was the legitimized bastard son of roose bolton, lord of the dreadfort, and the unidentified wife of a miller during the war of the five kings, ramsay is initially loyal to king in the north robb stark, retaking winterfell from theon greyjoy on his orders but at the same time sacking the castle as part of his fathers scheme to betray house stark. The prospect of a ramsay and sansa marriage is a game of thrones theory popular amongst fans right now. In the a song of ice and fire books, ramsay bolton formerly known as ramsay snow marries a girl who is posing as arya stark, but is actually jeyne poole, a childhood friend of sansas from winterfell. Sansa stark was married to tyrion lannister and wanted for regicide. The lannisters send jeyne also nicknamed fake arya by fans to marry ramsay bolton. In season 3, episode 8, the second sons, sansa marries tyrion before being unceremoniously taken to marry ramsay bolton instead. This is one case where the two are vastly different. Ramsay forces theon to join in with his sexual tortureabuse of his bride in the show, the sadistic ramsay bolton marries sansa stark but in the books, another poor girl, jeyne poole, is married. At the urging of her supposed protector, petyr littlefinger baelish, she married ramsay bolton, only to discover on her wedding night what a sadistic sociopath he is.
Apr 26, 2015 but in martins books, sansa is still at the eyrie when her storyline ends in a feast for crows, while ramsay marries a minor character who hasnt appeared in the tv version. Sansa is indeed engaged to be married, but not to ramsay rather to. In the show, the sadistic ramsay bolton marries sansa stark but in the books, another poor girl, jeyne poole, is married off to westeross leastdesirable bachelor. Hes not even 30 in the books, but the tyrion sansa age difference in the books is uncomfortable because sansa s young teens. Sansa stark may not go to winterfell at all in the novels, but jeyne poolramsays poor bride in the books whose place sansa has takendoes get sexually assaulted. There was a wedding, a major arrest and a fan favorite character was raped in the shows final moments. Being that, ramsay didnt get to lay his hands on sansa. Instead of being stuck in the vale like she is in the books, sansa. Well, if youre a booksnob, which i am, you might treat only books as the canonical story,which i do. There was no way she, or littlefinger, could get her marriage annulled without cerseis knowledge. Game of thrones sansa stark and ramsay hot scene anyone who has read the books and followed game of thrones interviews closely was bracing for this moment. We really wanted sansa to play a major part this season, benioff said. The biggest change from the books, of course, is that sansa, not jeyne fake arya, is going to marry ramsay, and therefore be positioned to get revenge for the red wedding. None of this really explains why sansa needed to be married to ramsay though, so i suspect that was motivated by a desire of the show creators to give her jeyne pooles storyline so they had to make up some flimsy excuse as to why littlefinger sent her there.
It is not long before many in kings landing come to know that the marriage was never consummated. Nov 08, 2017 he convinced sansa that marrying ramsay would put her in a position to not only get revenge on the boltons for the red wedding, but also put her in a position to reclaim the north. In the show, littlefinger marries sansa off to the monstrous ramsay bolton, who likes to feed women to his dogs for fun. As for littlefingers motives, well, its hard to say why he does anything. Initially betrothed to prince joffrey baratheon, the heir to the iron throne, sansa travels to kings landing in preparation for her nuptials, but essentially becomes a hostage of house lannister following the execution of her. In the books, sansa is currently still at the eyrie with her cousin, robert arryn robin arryn on the show, and ramsay is married to jeyne poole, a friend of sansa s from winterfell who is being. So i havent been able to watch the pirated episodes, but ive read the summaries and am actively participating on this sub now. It was ultimately sansas choice to marry ramsay, with littlefinger. While at the same time, this plays the north against kings landing yet again, adding to the chaos that he loves to work with. Shes still holed up in the vale of arryn with littlefinger and lord robert the spoiled young lord is named robin on the show from his nickname sweetrobin, presumably to avoid confusion with king robert. Apr 27, 2015 sansa stark is marrying another psycho. Sansas childhood friend jeyne poole, who has been presented as if she. Old lords will be falling over themselves to ride to our gates and defend sansa fucking starks honour.
Sansas childhood friend jeyne poole, who has been presented as if she were arya. It is not long after sansa s marriage that joffrey and margaery are wed and afterwards there is a grand feast. Though sansa is reluctant to marry ramsay, as his father roose had. Ramsay bolton, previously known as ramsay snow, is a fictional character in the a song of ice and fire series of fantasy novels by american author george r. I doubt the battle of winterfell plays out in the books the same way it did on the show, es. She is still married to a very much alive tyrion and shes a fugitive from the law.
All the ways game of thrones ramsay bolton is way worse. All the ways game of thrones ramsay bolton is way worse in. This episode is preciously titled unbowed, unbent, unbroken. He tortured jeyne badly and presumably even pressurized her to mate with his dogs and subjected her to touches of his servants like reek. It was sansa s friend jeyne poole, disguised and passed off as arya stark, upon whom this horrible arrangement was bestowed. Introduced in a game of thrones 1996, sansa is the elder daughter and second child of lord eddard stark and his wife lady catelyn stark. Apparently, game of thrones creators were so impressed with natalie dormers portrayal they decided to up her age in order to cast the actress, who should be just 18 on the show. As you say, the books do not perfectly align with the show.
I have no idea what youre taking about ramsay held his jaw strong. Sansa became widowed when she fed ramsay to his savage dogs. Sansa and petyr baelish continued their journey and sansa realised that she was to be married to ramsay bolton. On game of thrones, sansas revenge is nothing to smile about. While joffrey and sansa are walking through the woods, joffrey notices arya. With ramsay now dead, does sansa s marital status technically. Actually, booksansa is still very much a virgin as of the end of.
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