SansaRamsey p2 How does marrying Ramsey get Sansa revenge? Ignoring his qualities, she’s still giving legitimacy to their theft of her family’s position, she’s supporting the reign of her family’s killers & continuing their name & bloodline. How does taking control of Ramsey & ruling thru him as her puppet (as I think LF implies) help her more thsn just bringing the knights of the Vale to conquer it for her own? Is there some aspect about dynastic marriages or the politics I don’t understand?

Can you explain the Watsonian rationale behind Sansa marrying Ramsey? Giving Jeyne/Arya worked because the Lannisters weren’t REALLY giving the Boltons a useful marital asset; they couldn’t gain anything by offering Jeyne elsewhere, but LF COULD have used Sansa’s hand for all sorts of other deals. The Boltons bring nothing but the North, to which Sansa has a better claim. Also, this marriage could COST the Boltons their southern support. Is the legitimacy from a Stark bride worth that? Continued

I don’t think there is a good one; LF’s idea of rallying the Vale behind rescuing Sansa is pretty implausible IMO. Honestly, this was an area where the show’s writing didn’t so much decline as start at the bottom and dig itself deeper. 

But yes, it is in the Boltons’ interests, because Roose pretty much discounts the southern support as being worth anything once he’s past the Neck.