Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is not surprised over people's reaction to the latest episode of the highly popular television series called "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken."
The last scene showed Sansa Stark being raped by her new husband Ramsay Bolton while Theon Greyjoy, who now goes by the name of Reeks was forced to look on. A lot of viewers were offended by the scene, which is actually more violent in the book "A Song of Ice and Fire."
In his blog, Martin wrote, "I am getting a flood of emails and off-topic comments on this blog about tonight's episode of GAME OF THRONES. It's not unanticipated."
He said that all of the comments posted on his blog, regardless of the tone, have already been deleted. "I have been saying since season one that this is not the place to debate or discuss the TV series. Please respect that."
The author once again reminded fans that the characters are all fictional, and rarely does a television series remain loyal to its original source. In the books, it was Jeyne Poole believed to be Arya Stark who was married off to Ramsay. During their wedding night, Ramsay orders Theon not only to watch but to also take part in the disturbing act, which he reluctantly does out of fear.
Before she even marries Ramsay, Jeyne pleads Theon to help her escape, but he refuses to do so. In the end, Jeyne suffers from physical abuse at the hands of Ramsay and she and Theon eventually come up with a plan to escape.
"There have been differences between the novels and the television show since the first episode of season one, and for just as long, I have been talking about the butterfly effect. Small changes lead to larger changes lead to huge changes," said Martin.
For its part, entertainment website The Mary Sue said that they will no longer be supporting Game of Thrones because of that episode, adding that the rape scene is completely unnecessary to build up the story.
They argued that Sansa has already overcome abusive violence at the hands of different men, and Ramsay's character has already been established as a pretty rotten guy, so he does not need to rape Sansa in order for people to hate him more.
"The show has creators. They make the choices. They chose to use rape as a plot device. Again," they lamented.
