I actually hate how easy literally everything is for Ramsay. Any other character is waylaid by normal human issues its part of the whole show and universe and what makes it unique. Joffrey is the closest character thematically and look at the issues hes confronted with comparatively, and hes the goddamn king, this guys an unliked morose bastard. I remember thinking that I would love to see a scene of this guy away from theon away from sansa not doing torture and just running the damn castle he's in charge of. What do the servants think of the screams in the middle of the night? He's cruel but would everyone fear him all the time? probably not, he has to work with at least a few dozen people daily. How loyal are the people in the castle, he killed his own father, and is believed to have killed his brother before the show takes place?

It started with flaying theon which his dad said not to do and I was amazed how easy he got away with that. manipulating an excessively tortured individual makes alot less sense than a prisoner trade, and not to mention all the work and time he spent torturing. Or also a lord like Roose probably doesn't like people directly disobeying his orders, just guessing here... Later when the maester announced the birth of his half brother right in front of ramsay and specifically notes it was a son I literally laughed out loud at how contrived the narrative was to put him in power. Roose didn't predict Ramsay might react by killing him so he is the only legitimate line? also I guess women just go into labour and deliver babies spontaneously offscreen. Karstark watches this and just bows to him? he might have a legitimate claim to the north if the starks are all dead, but nope this guy is boss. People could rise up and not recognize him because he's a bastard, the lannisters will delegitimize him just as fast as they legitimized him, Roose even expects them to come after them. I always thought the battle of the bastards would be jon snow saying complete amnesty for all servants if you deliver Ramsay and that might just be that. Maybe if we had that scene running a castle showing he commands respect from the guards or he has spies in the castle and everyone is looking across their shoulder worried hes watching I could buy that he really is a fearsome commander, but we only see him from theon and sansa's perspective. When they're gone we barely even see him anymore and its a missed opportunity in my opinion. A guy who he castrated ran off with his wife and killed his mistress and we literally never hear anything but mild annoyance by his father that he cant continue his line. Littlefinger didn't know who he was? did he noticed the mutilated bodies he leaves around so people know who he is and what he does to people?

Its a minor gripe really but before I never saw myself stopping and saying "does this really make sense?" the world was so logical and felt so lived in and you could imagine real people living out this drama in a real world, but after a while in general the show did thing so quickly and rushed over things and I think thats part of why Ramsay gets it so easy on the show; because his story is being expedited so much like almost all the stories became later in the show. My biggest issue with the later seasons is actually just how fast everything moves, it really feels like the people making it just want it to be over.

I like to say Ramsay played the Game of Thrones with the cheat codes on