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I'm not really interested in talking about Ramsay, but the issue starts well before Season 4. Season 3's Theon was just a really unfortunate byproduct of the showrunners having to pay Alfie Allen to retain him as a regular. The books' path of eliminating him from any POV is far superior. Ramsay is more indicative of the showrunners' obsession with spectacle and creating rooting interests rather than slow-burn, bubbling, scheming trainwrecks like the book is prepared to show in the North.

Johnbobb posted...

Huh, didn't even really think much of that. I do think Theon is a pretty compelling character, and he's in the weird position where you don't know whether you should root for or against him.

As far as rooting interest goes, I think we're very clearly supposed to root against Theon. He can be really f***ing sympathetic, but if in the end you are what your record says you are, then Theon is an evil motherf***er. His acts of redemption shouldn't wash out that he passed multiple points of no return and, when presented the option to surrender/take the black or die as a murderer, fully attempts to go the non-repentant route.
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