Game of Thrones (season 5) (episodes 9 and 10). Nutter is the only returning director with the rest being first-time "Game of Thrones" directors. This season features more original material than previous seasons. The deviations from Martin's novels are in part attributable to the way the television series has covered most of the novel series' published material and in part to the directors' opinions of the actors' abilities. For example, Sansa Stark arrives at Winterfell to marry Ramsay Bolton in "High Sparrow," a plotline that had been given to a minor character in the novels. In an interview, show writer David Benioff explains that Sophie
Game of Thrones revenge fantasy about what happens when women who have been brutalized and raped gain power"—namely, that their past leaves them too broken to do anything but commit brutal acts in their own turn, and that their personal liberation does not affect the social change needed to protect others from suffering. "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Game of Thrones" have a broad, active international fan base. In 2012 "Vulture.com" ranked the series' fans as the most devoted in popular culture, more so than Lady Gaga's, Justin Bieber's, "Harry Potter"s or "Star Wars". Fans include political leaders such as former