It’s worth noting that after that controversial fifth season - which contained other scenes that were even more borderline in terms of tawdry sexual assault - Game of Thrones tamped down its depiction of rape. But was it merely trying to depict that world as it was, or was it reveling in it tastelessly?
Yes, the show’s depiction of the medieval world’s brutality toward women was realistic on some level. Theon was made to watch.īut the reason the sequence became so upsetting to some viewers and was defended so loudly by others was that it became a stand-in for Game of Thrones’ treatment of sexual assault as a whole. (The source of Game of Thrones’ greatest controversy - a season four scene between Jaime and Cersei that many viewers interpreted as rape and people involved with the show said was not intended as a rape - does not fit this profile.) Ramsay raped Sansa. The whole sequence was unusual as far as Game of Thrones controversies are concerned, because nobody involved would dare claim that something other than what seemed to be happening on screen had happened. But Ramsay was, as mentioned, a vicious psychopath - and as he raped Sansa on their wedding night, the camera panned away from the assault to focus on the trembling face of Theon Greyjoy, a tear trickling down his face.
Ramsay’s marriage to Sansa, the one child of Ned and Catelyn Stark anyone could find at the time, solidified his hold on the North. The season five episode “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken” featured the wedding of young Sansa Stark, a teenager, to the vicious, psychopathic Ramsay Bolton, who had swept in and taken command of Winterfell. On May 17, 2015, Game of Thrones aired one of its two or three most controversial moments and crystallized an entire conversation around the show’s depiction of sexual assault.
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