Instead, his bride is a different stark, or someone masquerading as a stark. In praise of sansa marrying ramsay on game of thrones. The scene ends before we can see what damage ramsay inflicts. Sansa stark may not go to winterfell at all in the novels, but jeyne pool ramsay s. 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. Martin, and its television adaptation game of thrones. Game of thrones writer, sansa and ramsay speak out about horrifying rape scene. In the television adaptation game of thrones, she is played by sophie turner. The impending marriage is a wholesale plot invention by producers david benioff and d.
A bard by the name of abel arrives uninvited, with six women followers, to perform for the wedding. Sansa stark is one of the major pov characters in the books. Game of thrones s05e06 sansa and ramsay boltons wedding night davos seaworth. When he got to know that sansa was still a virgin as she had never consummated her marriage with tyrion lannister, he tore off her wedding robe and mercilessly raped her on their wedding night. In the books, ramsay is not married to sansa, but jeyne poole. So both book fans and television fans could not have seen that one coming. The best thing about this change is that even book readers dont know for sure. Sophie turner opens up about game of thrones sansa rape scene.
The sansa ramsay wedding a couple of outstanding questions. But with sansa stark and her new invented storyline, that ramsay would brutalise her after they were married was fairly obvious and no one should really have been surprised. An archive of our own, a project of the organization for transformative works. Twitter erupted with game of thrones fandom angst sunday night as sansa stark was brutally attacked and humiliated on her wedding night by her sadistic new husband ramsay bolton.
Sep 07, 2017 game of thrones moments in the books too intense for tv. May 18, 2015 game of thrones, season 5 episode 6 ending. Sansas childhood friend jeyne poole, who has been presented as if she. The young woman who was actually forced to marry ramsay in the book was sansas best friend, jeyne poole. Why game of thrones sansa twist is freaking out fans of. Sansaramsay marriage did not make sense general got. Since jon is in the nights watch arya with that the lady of winterfell and heir. The wedding takes place in the godswood, where reektheon gives her away in the godswood. Ramsay suggests that reek be the one to give sansa away at the wedding since he is the closest thing sansa has to kin.
All the ways game of thrones ramsay bolton is way worse. This was a big divergence from the book canon, and fans of the written series were. May 18, 2015 game of thrones had to really push to top how upsetting the red wedding was, but sundays episode, unbowed, unbent, unbroken, presented the most horrifying scene to date. She is saved from death, but littlefinger later pressures her to marry ramsay bolton, who beats and violently rapes her from their wedding night on. How the books fleshed out walder freys pies as satisfying as aryas revenge was, fans of the books might have preferred george r. Ramsay rips sansas wedding gown apart, bends her over, then forces his way into her as she cries. About that sansaramsay game of thrones scene cryptic. Well, its long story dear, but in short if i tell you, ramsay received sansa stark from lord petyr and he wants to rule winterfell by using sansa, for this purpose, he married sansa. Sansa stark was brutally attacked on sunday nights game of thrones by her sadistic new husband, ramsay bolton, who finally showed her his true colors in the bedroom on their wedding. Sansa stark was raped by her husband ramsay bolton on their wedding night on game of thrones. Ramsay forces theon to join in with his sexual tortureabuse of his bride. Four years later, in 2005, game of thrones would finally catch up with a dance with dragons and with ramsay s wedding night in the sixth episode of season five, unbowed, unbent, unbroken.
After hearing that stannis baratheon has taken deepwood motte, roose decides to move the wedding to winterfell to strengthen ramsays claim and to goad stannis into fighting. 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. Sansa starks wedding night is almost too dark to watch. 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. The biggest scene on sundays game of thrones was toned.
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. Game of thrones s05e06 sansa and ramsay boltons wedding. May 17, 2015 game of thrones producer explains sansas wedding night horror. What happened to jeyne poole in the game of thrones books. Why sansas wedding night was the most traumatizing game. Why jeyne pooles story is among the most tragic in westeros. 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. In sundays episode, ramsay and sansa said, i do, and conflicts heated up in dorne and kings landing.
She later got her revenge by feeding ramsay to his. Sounds like the sansa ramsay wedding rumors are true. Game of thrones invites you to another terrible wedding the new york times sections home search skip to content. The betrothal and consequential nightmaremarriage between sansa and ramsay doesnt exactly exist in asoiaf. From the beginning, the marriage between sansa, the rightful heir to winterfell, and ramsay bolton iwan rheon was always meant to be political, and therefore we. Last weeks episode included sansa and ramsay s weeding, and therefore sansa and ramsay s wedding night. In the books, ramsay is wed to jeyne poole, a former winterfell friend of sansa s, now. Whatever gets action and conflict happening in a quicker way with the least number of new characters works for the show. In the books robb, the last king in the north, took sansa out of his will and stripped her from her titles and made jon the heir, if not arya as the supposedly last of the starks. Four years later, in 2005, game of thrones would finally catch up with a dance with dragons and with ramsays wedding night in the sixth episode of season five, unbowed, unbent, unbroken. A dance with dragonschapter 37 a wiki of ice and fire.
On sunday nights episode, ramsay forced a hysterical theon greyjoy, exward of the stark family, to watch the sexual assault against sansa but in martins book. In the books, ramsay is wed to jeyne poole, a former winterfell friend of sansa s, now forced by the boltons to pose as arya stark. Sansa moves to the center of the story rather than being shunted aside doing this and that in the vale, where nothing much but politicking and the manipulation of grain prices is going on. Game of thrones invites you to another terrible wedding. But here one interesting i wanna told you is that ramsay sent theon greyjoy to sansa and order him to take her arm in his are for the wedding ceremony. Martins a song of ice and fire, jeyne is the daughter of winterfells steward, vayon poole, and sansas closest childhood friend. Roose and walda announce waldas pregnancy, upsetting ramsay, which in turn delights sansa. She puts myranda, ramsays conniving lover, in her place and declares, im sansa stark of winterfell. What game of thrones gets wrong about sansa stark and abuse. In the books, ramsay is led by the lannisters to believe he is marrying arya stark, but she is in fact sansas childhood friend jeyne. 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. In the television adaptation game of thrones he is portrayed by iwan rheon. Fans complained the directors should be ashamed because the rape was too harsh but, actually, they toned it.
And indeed, sansa is all selfassured sass and agency in the moments before the wedding. Sansas childhood friend jeyne poole, who has been presented as if she were. Game of thrones writer, sansa and ramsay speak out about. Well, if youre a book snob, which i am, you might treat only books as the canonical story,which i do. Weddings continue to be bad news on game of thrones. I kinda loved it actors sophie turner and iwan rheon and. So i havent been able to watch the pirated episodes, but ive read the summaries and am actively participating on this sub now. In chapter 51 of a game of thrones, sansa is summoned to the small council, and inquires about vayon for her friend. From the beginning, the marriage between sansa, the rightful heir to winterfell, and ramsay bolton iwan rheon was always meant to be political, and therefore we never had any romantic notions.
Game of thrones showrunners explain why they changed sansa. Game of thrones fans need to understand sansas rape. The sansaramsay wedding a couple of outstanding questions. Game of thrones 3x08 tyrion and sansa s wedding night. She is a prominent character in martins awardwinning a song of ice and fire series. Last sundays episode ended with sansas wedding to ramsay, after which sansa. Sansas scenes in winterfell last night crackled with.
May 20, 2015 the scene in question as was discussed in our game of thrones book to screen breakdown this week is an altered version of a similar scene in george r. As the head of eddards household, vayon and his daughter made the trek to kings landing with the. May 18, 2015 after the show cleaned him up, had him use his actual name, theon, in the wedding and then forced him to witness ramsay attack sansa, it seems pretty clear that he will shed the shackles of reekhood at some point. Game of thrones goes offbook and enrages its female fans. May 24, 2015 what happened to jeyne poole in the game of thrones books. Helen sloancourtesy of hbo click to share on facebook opens in new window. Game of thrones tv, a song of ice and fire george r. 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.
We all know that ramsay is one of the only irredeemably evil characters in a story that excels at showing us the complexity of even the most seemingly diabolical figures. Sansa stark gets married with the bastard of bolton game. In the show, the sadistic ramsay bolton marries sansa stark but in the books, another poor girl, jeyne poole, is. Twitter erupted with game of thrones fandom angst sunday night as sansa stark was brutally attacked and humiliated on her wedding night by. Sansa is spared this trauma because ramsay marries someone else entirelya girl posing as arya stark. Martin, and its television adaptation game of thrones introduced in 1998s a clash of kings, ramsay. 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. What happened to jeyne poole in the game of thrones. You can see why book fans were so worried for sansa, and why they breathed a small sigh of relief at the conclusion of the shows.
If sansa has replaced her, it means more suffering. Martins a song of ice and fire novels, in which a minor character named jeyne poole is raped by ramsay bolton iwan rheon, on the show on their wedding night and theonreek alfie allen. This makes the claim on winterfell all the more fragile. Littlefinger played everyone with the sansa ramsay wedding.
Sansa was brutally raped on her wedding night, with ramsay ripping her wedding gown apart. Ramsay snow is the bastard son of roose bolton, lord of the dreadfort and head of house bolton, and is known as the bastard of bolton and the bastard of the dreadfort. Its curious that this is the rape scene that has broken the camels back. Weiss in the original novels, ramsay seals the boltons hold on winterfell by marrying sansas friend. She puts myranda, ramsays conniving lover, in her place and declares, im sansa stark of. As if it was not enough, ramsay made reek theon stay in their room the whole night, and watch as sansa becomes a woman. Martins books, which saw ramsay marry a girl impersonating arya maisie williams, so no one knows how bad things could get for sansa. Sansa suffers a degrading sexual assault on her wedding night.
Game of thrones s05e06 sansa and ramsay boltons wedding night. Did game of thrones really need to rape sansa stark. After the red wedding ramsay bolton marries arya in order to lay claim to winterfell. While sansa isnt raped in the books, ramsay does rape jayne on their wedding night.
Tyrions constant drinking at their wedding, sansa was no doubt. In the books, sansa is spared this trauma because ramsay marries someone else entirelya girl posing as arya stark. We were disgusted by ramsay boltons and the shows wedding night treatment of sansa stark in season 5, episode 6, but encouraged by the equally frustrated and disgusted reaction of most fans. The boltons are claiming that jeyne is actually arya. Why sansa wont be queen in the books, but arya might be. Jun 07, 2015 the betrothal and consequential nightmaremarriage between sansa and ramsay doesnt exactly exist in asoiaf. Game of thrones producer explains sansas wedding night. May 19, 2015 last nights episode saw one of the most disturbing scenes of the entire series so far, with ramsay bolton forcing theon greyjoy to watch as he raped sansa stark on their wedding night.
Introduced in 1998s a clash of kings, ramsay is the bastard son of roose bolton, the lord of the dreadfort, an ancient fortress. Game of thrones 3x08 tyrion and sansas wedding night duration. Ramsay iwan rheon wed sansa sophie turner in sundays episode, humiliating her by forcing theonreek alfie allen to walk her down the. Being that, ramsay didnt get to lay his hands on sansa. Why sansas wedding night was the most traumatizing game of. Sansa doesnt receive an answer instead, cersei demands that jeyne be separated from sansa, and that petyr baelish should find new accommodations for jeyne. 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 stark is a member of house stark and is the elder daughter of lady catelyn and lord eddard stark. In the books, ramsay is wed to jeyne poole, a former winterfell friend of sansas, now forced by the boltons to pose as arya stark. Any book reader or even show watcher understood the danger for sansa and knew full well where her relationship with ramsay logically would go. May 19, 2015 the scene ends before we can see what damage ramsay inflicts. In the book it is an arya stark impersonator that marries ramsay, jane, her friend from childhood. The wedding takes place in the godswood, where reektheon gives her away in. All the ways game of thrones ramsay bolton is way worse in.
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