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  • ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7: Sophie Turner Teases Sansa’s ‘Power Trip’

    It’s about dang time Sansa Stark took charge on “Game of Thrones,” but maybe we should worry that she’s riding down Mad Queen Cersei Road.

    “Game of Thrones” Season 7 is now filming, and HBO just shared three brief shots from the new season, including one of Sansa. Actress Sophie Turner talked to Entertainment Weekly about her character’s future, and it sounds slightly worrisome. Sansa finally took down Ramsay Bolton in Season 6, but apparently her newfound power is going to her head:

    “She’s seemingly in control for the first time – and it really suits her. She’s kind of having a bit of a power trip. But she’s also becoming more insecure, because there are threats to the power that she holds.”

    Power trip? Insecure? Ugh. Not what we wanted to hear. By the way, what power? Jon was declared King in the North at the end of Season 6, even though he doesn’t even seem to want any power. Does he give Sansa control of Winterfell? Does she fight Jon for a larger slice of the Northern pie? Can we officially start calling her Queen in the North, or just stick with Beyoncé in the North?

    Turner said what excites her about Season 7 is that “main characters are coming together and it feels like things are ramping up. It’s really exciting and all feels like it’s coming to a big conclusion.”

    Sadly, that big conclusion will be here before we know it. Seasons are traditionally 10 episodes, but Season 7 will only have seven, and the final Season 8 is expected to have even fewer. But it is exciting to think of the characters all coming together in Westeros and building to some kind of massive end game. Let’s just hope Sansa’s power trip doesn’t get in her own way before the series finale.

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  • ‘Game of Thrones’: 6 Characters Most Likely to Die In Season 6

    ‘Game of Thrones’: 6 Characters Most Likely to Die In Season 6

  • Sophie Turner Doesn’t Want Sansa to Survive ‘Game of Thrones’

    “Game of Thrones” fans still have another month to go before the show returns for its sixth season, and while the epic first trailer has gotten viewers excited about the new episodes, the show’s cast is pretty pumped, too. Emilia Clarke (a.k.a. Daenerys Targaryen) has already promised that season six will be the biggest spectacle in television history, and now, Sophie Turner has also teased some big things ahead — and has made a rather interesting demand for the fate of her character, Sansa Stark.

    In an interview with the WSJ Cafe, Turner said that season six would set itself apart from previous seasons because before, characters were spreading out, and now, “everything is kind of coming together, and storylines are intertwining, and people are forming alliances with other characters, and everyone’s kind of coming towards the same goal.”


    For Sansa — who, yes, did survive that jump at the end of season five — that means a more assertive role than we’ve seen her play before.

    “This season is about her taking charge and being a leader, rather than just being a pawn in someone else’s game,” Turner told WSJ. “So this is a big season for her. She’s really gonna thrive this season.”

    As for Sansa’s ultimate fate, Turner admitted that showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss won’t tell her anything, despite the fact that she “constantly pester[s]” them. But she has one very specific request.

    “I don’t want to survive,” the actress told WSJ. “I think if you’re on ‘Game of Thrones’ and you don’t have a cool death scene, then what’s the point? I think it would be really disappointing if I got to the end and I was just okay.”

    Turner may just get her wish, since she teased that there would be some big shocks in the episodes ahead, on par with season three’s infamous Red Wedding episode.

    “‘Game of Thrones’ never disappoints,” she said. ” … This is the best season yet, and it’s really gonna blow people’s minds. Fans are going to be very happy with this season.”

    Season six of “Game of Thrones” premieres on HBO on April 24.

    [via: WSJ Cafe]

    Photo credit: Helen Sloane, HBO

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  • The ‘Game of Thrones’ Backlash Continues Following Rape Scene

    WARNING: This post contains SPOILERS about Sunday’s episode of “Game of Thrones.”

    Fans and critics alike were none too pleased with Sunday’s “Game of Thrones” episode, which found Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) being raped by her new husband, Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon), while her stepbrother Theon (Alfie Allen) is forced to watch. The scene in question was brutal and horrifying, and Turner and producer-writer Bryan Cogman’s comments about it didn’t exactly help make things better, either.

    Backlash against the plot point has only mounted since Sunday’s episode wrapped, with social media exploding in protest over the decision to depict such a brutal act. The Mary Sue announced it would no longer post anything about the show, noting, “There’s only so many times you can be disgusted with something you love before you literally can’t bring yourself to look at it anymore.”

    U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill was one of the more high-profile “Thrones” defectors, announcing on Twitter on Tuesday that she was “done” with the show. McCaskill called the scene “Gratuitous … disgusting and unacceptable,” and alluded to the fact that her affection for the series had been waning for some time.

    Many more critics have chimed in with their disapproval (HitFix compiled some of the more pointed critiques), with the resounding majority chastising the show for choosing to exploit a story from the books that initially had nothing to do with Sansa (her character was merged with the character of Jeyne Poole from George R.R. Martin’s novels), unnecessarily traumatizing both her character and viewers in the process.

    We’re not sure how “Thrones” showrunners can win back every viewer’s trust — Turner and Cogman alluded to some big moments for Sansa down the road following her humiliation — but it seems they’re going to have to try. Stay tuned.

    [via: The Mary Sue, Claire McCaskill, HitFix]

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