The blogoficeandfire guy didn't like Sansa and didn't care what happened to her because she was too stupid to live, but I feel sorry for her. Especially after this chapter where she has a really bad day.
Robb has been doing some of the fighting alluded to in previous chapters and beat up some Lannisters, so naturally Joffrey must punish Sansa for it. There is some medieval logic to it, I suppose: terrorise the sister to terrorise the brother and maybe he'll ease up on his peace demands to free her. But we all know Joff gets off on a bit of cruelty and this is just an excuse.
So he has his men beat poor Sansa up and they go at it with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Dontos tries to make a joke of it (supposedly he's trying to help her); the Hound tries to keep out of it and even tries to stop it; but Boros just loves beating up girls. In a bizarre twist it starts to turn in to some sort of bizarre niche humiliation porn, when thankfully Tyrion turns up and puts a stop to it. Interestingly the threat of telling his mum scares Joff.
Tyrion takes Sansa back to his place and looks after her. When she asks him about the story Joff spun about Robb using demon wargs to beat Stafford Lannister, Tyrion wins the chapter with his wisdom: "Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their incompetence." It's quite obvious Tyrion should be king.
Sansa decides to return to her own quarters so she can escape to the godswood and meet Dontos. What could possibly go wrong?
