'Game of Thrones' star Sophie Turner drops hints about Sansa's Season 6 storyline

Warning: Potential Thrones spoilers from this point onward.

LONDON -- Fans of Sansa, rejoice -- things might finally be looking up for the eldest Stark daughter.

Actress Sophie Turner spoke to the Wall Street Journal about her character's role in Game of Thrones Season 6 in an interview on Thursday, and from the sounds of it her almost non-stop run of misery and oppression -- the one that's been going ever since she witnessed her own father getting his head lopped off in Season 1 -- may at last be coming to an end.

"This season is about her [Sansa] taking charge and being a leader, rather than just like a pawn in someone else's game," Turner said.

"This is a big season for her. She's really going to thrive this season."

Turner also dropped some wider hints about Season 6.

"The past five seasons have kind of been everyone spreading out and going their separate ways and it's very sparse, and Season 6 feels like everything's kind of coming together," she said. People are forming alliances with other characters, and everyone's kind of coming towards the same goal."

"There are huge shocks this season," Turner continued. "This, in my opinion -- and I say it every season but I actually mean it this time -- this is the best season yet.

"It's really going to blow people's minds and fans are going to be very happy."

Fingers crossed that means the Boltons are finally going to get the hammering they deserve.

'It's definitely a feminist show.'

Later in the interview Turner shared her thoughts on the much-discussed depiction of women in Game of Thrones, and the infamous rape scene from Season 5.

"In those times, in that situation, those things did happen," Turner said. "And we're not a show, obviously, to kind of distract from the brutality of those times.

"It would almost feel like an injustice if we saw it through rose-tinted glasses and we, you know, made it a fairytale version of what it would have been."

And as for the wider depiction of women in Thrones?

"This isn't popular opinion, but I think it's definitely a feminist show," Turner said.

"In this show, the strongest characters are the female characters -- but obviously we have to cater to the times that they're in." 

"There are those social boundaries put upon them, but they break out of them in this show." 

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