I Am Very Glad GRRM Decided To Give Theon PTSD Pre Ramsay. The Fact That Theon Gets PTSD In The Middle

I am very glad GRRM decided to give Theon PTSD pre Ramsay. The fact that Theon gets PTSD in the middle of the war, because he has a break is showing that GRRM has an understanding of both PTSD and that torture doesn’t make you a better person or whatever D&D were going for. Theon developed PTSD during a break in war for him, he started his nightmares about dead people which is something that can totally happen to any person that is coming out of the adrenalin rush of survival (of any sort, but in this case war). The other thing is, Theon subcotiously started to regret his actions, deciding against Robb, letting bad come to the smallfolk of Winterfell, that were in no way at fault for his hostage status and the killing of the miller’s boys, as much as he tries to tell himself that they were JUST the miller’s boys and therefore for war purposes not important. But something in him knows that this is bs, that is is wrong to kill these innocent children and all of that triggers his PTSD way before Ramsay starts torturing him. The way it’s done in GoT shows Theon showing regret and remorse after he gets tortured, wich implys that his change in character comes from said torture whereas book!Theon has this point way before. And that is way better. Being a victim does not make you stronger or a better character. Reflecting on your actions and knowing they were bad does. Torture will just screw your brain up, it will not make you a better person, it will just fuck you up. But apperrently D&D think differently- The same thing happend to Jamie aswell, just saying.

Just come back from 9gag and the amount of people who don’t know that they/them is a singular pronoun aswell is insane. I mean it’s only been around since the 14th century. I guess it’s easier because “Sie” in Germany is already singular and plural, because it is the neutral form of singular formal. sie is also the plural equivalent of them and it also means she. Makes it a lot easier to get the double meaning of words. Sie means -she -her -you, formal form -they -them Also “Mutter” means both mother and screw nut. “Flügel” are wings and pianos. “Schloss” is castle and lock “Kiefer” is pine and jaw.

Let’s be real here Balon (no matter which one) doesn’t even care enough about Theon to order that, but Theon doesn’t know that so I’ll give the character the benefit of the doubt.

I think we all Stockholm Syndrom Game of Thrones. We know it is not nearly as good as it could have been and it got worse after season 5 until the worst came so hard even casual watchers hated it by season 8.

But at core it brought a lot of us into this wonderful story that is based on an incredible book series, which a lot better worldbuilding, dialog and characters, but at least me, but I am sure others too got into it because of the series.

it took us captive and we can’t shake the good things it brought us, so we’re stuck in knowing how much more the characters and the world are in the books, but still have some love for the show that brought us into the washed up version of this world with it’s interesting story, that in the beginning was at core still the same that it was in the books.

Your post about Theon's Position in Winterfell was absolutely brilliant and I couldn't agree more. But what do you think is the reason for this misconception by so many fans. The books make it very clear. And if I remember correctly there where 3 dialogs just in season one about Theon position as an hostage. And credit where credit is due, I think those where quite good. So it really confuses me why so many fans (especially show fans) seem to misunderstand Theon's situation.

Well there is a scene with Ramsay in season 3 episode 4 where Theon literally sais "My real father lost his head at king's landing.", which tells us 2 things.

1. The showrunners have no idea about Theon Greyjoy and Ned Stark.

2. The showrunners also have no idea that being a hostage for 10 years does psychological damage to you.

I could make a really long list of characters they screwed up by just leaving so much out that the only thing left about them is the shell of their plot without having their core character traits even being there anymore, but in this case it shows so well.

Why would someone say that the man who held them prisoner for a decade is their “real father”? I get it, Ned is a great and interesting character but that doesn’t make him the best person in the world but as the seasons went on, the showrunners decided that whenever someone talked about him he became better person by modern standarts, instead of a decent person by Westeros standarts.

They  changed pretty much everything about the conversation he had with Arya in season 1, when Arya talked about it in season 8 (aka Ned is now pro Arya taking on “masculin traits” for some reason).

And that season 3 scene just shows that really well. There’s a lot more where they screwed Theon up, but at least we had the fantastic Alfie Allen playing him to make up for that.

#And they made all the morally grey characters super nice and sympathetic.

Just noticed it now. ijustdontknowwhatimdoing hid the truest part about all of it in the tags. Or like most characters are morally grey, but in GoT they are suddently not anymore?

Your post about Theon's Position in Winterfell was absolutely brilliant and I couldn't agree more. But what do you think is the reason for this misconception by so many fans. The books make it very clear. And if I remember correctly there where 3 dialogs just in season one about Theon position as an hostage. And credit where credit is due, I think those where quite good. So it really confuses me why so many fans (especially show fans) seem to misunderstand Theon's situation.

Well there is a scene with Ramsay in season 3 episode 4 where Theon literally sais "My real father lost his head at king's landing.", which tells us 2 things.

1. The showrunners have no idea about Theon Greyjoy and Ned Stark.

2. The showrunners also have no idea that being a hostage for 10 years does psychological damage to you.

I could make a really long list of characters they screwed up by just leaving so much out that the only thing left about them is the shell of their plot without having their core character traits even being there anymore, but in this case it shows so well.

Why would someone say that the man who held them prisoner for a decade is their “real father”? I get it, Ned is a great and interesting character but that doesn’t make him the best person in the world but as the seasons went on, the showrunners decided that whenever someone talked about him he became better person by modern standarts, instead of a decent person by Westeros standarts.

They  changed pretty much everything about the conversation he had with Arya in season 1, when Arya talked about it in season 8 (aka Ned is now pro Arya taking on “masculin traits” for some reason).

And that season 3 scene just shows that really well. There’s a lot more where they screwed Theon up, but at least we had the fantastic Alfie Allen playing him to make up for that.

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So I haven’t watched Supernatural since like season 11 and I never paid attention to what the actors were doing in their private life (because I have better things to do, I got my own problems I don’t need to see actors making comments the internet will interpret in 500 different ways).

But since the whole Destiel thing came up and I watched the scene and came up with the comments I became curious.

Are people saving

-Dean is homophobic because of the general scenes he had -Dean is homophobis because of the love reveal scene -Jensen Ackles homophobic because of his acting in the scene -Jensen Ackles homophobic because of something he said/did before this -are the showwriters generally homophobic because Destiel is only now canon -are the showwriter homophobic because they made the sense the way it was -are the showwriter generally homophobic because they said somthing before this (other than queerbaiting) ? Does somebody has answers for me?