2015-05-29, 02:17 AM
I think you've made a great point there Polantaris. As a damsel in distress, I couldn't care less about Sansa. One of the few significant changes made in GoT that I liked was her relationship with LittleFinger. I'm really hoping that her impotence is temporary and merely and that she will be left without Brianne's help. She really ought to just be able to stab the bastard or better yet manipulate someone else into doing it for her. It seems like she's already begun playing him off against his father. That will certainly come to a bloody conclusion.
If she just ends up getting rescued I'll be severely disappointed and she'd be no more interesting than her ASOIAF counterpart.
Daenerys' scene is much more ambiguous. I think the show actually portrayed it as much closer to rape than ASOIAF did. Drogo had a longer introduction in the novel and Martin very deliberately added some details to show Drogo wasn't intending to hurt her and had some empathy. It emphasized the language and customs difference along with Daenerys' youth rather than violence or impotence. Their eventual love also undermines the rape narritive in both media.
If she just ends up getting rescued I'll be severely disappointed and she'd be no more interesting than her ASOIAF counterpart.
Daenerys' scene is much more ambiguous. I think the show actually portrayed it as much closer to rape than ASOIAF did. Drogo had a longer introduction in the novel and Martin very deliberately added some details to show Drogo wasn't intending to hurt her and had some empathy. It emphasized the language and customs difference along with Daenerys' youth rather than violence or impotence. Their eventual love also undermines the rape narritive in both media.