CaptainCanada
Shield of the True North
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There's plenty. Sansa is one of the original eight main characters; she is not a prop for Tyrion and the Tyrells, which is what she became in season 3.
They could, for instance, have properly adapted the wedding story, instead of gutting it in order to make Tyrion look squeaky clean (as well as much of the drama), in the process stripping away all her agency. When she refused to kneel, she was defying House Lannister in the only way she could. In the show, she meekly goes along with everything. In the books, she never forgets that the Lannisters are her enemies. The show panders to Tyrion fanboys who think he isn't her enemy just because he's nicer to her personally than her other captors, having them pal around, even after the Red Wedding, when she's supposed to be aloof (which is, as the books repeatedly show, her only way to defend herself). And again here, crying and confiding in Tyrion, instead of refusing to cry in front of a Lannister and maintaining her perfect icy wall as a line of defense.
They could also refrain from turning her story into a long series of jokes at her expense. Last season like a third of her scenes were built around punchlines about how dumb she is. Sansa doesn't know the word "****"! Sansa thinks her family will be coming to her wedding! Sansa completely misses Margaery's adult conversation and thinks her mom told her all this (and doesn't see how awesome being forced to marry Tyrion so that his family can absorb the Stark family lands will be, because he's great in bed)! Sansa is engaged to Gay Loras and doesn't notice that Gay Loras is gay! Notice how none of that was in the book.
The show also pretty much completely strips her storyline of her own perspective. Instead of being told with her as the protagonist, the show at length shows everybody else acting on her, reducing her to an object, rather than the audience's focal point. The wedding story, case in point. We see Varys, Olenna, Margaery, and Littlefinger all talking about Sansa at length, well before we ever see her; by the time she's onscreen, there's nothing the audience is remotely wondering about, and they approach the scenes from the perspective of the people manipulating her, rather than from Sansa's shoes.
Sophie Turner is wonderful. The writing for the character in season 3 was abysmal.
I would love for Sophie to have gotten the chance to act so many of the character's best scenes that got the axe, like her wedding reaction.
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They seem to be speeding up Bran's side of things anyhow, probably because of all the boring walking around he did in the books. I can't see this being anyone else.
