If Jonsa doesn’t happen...
Then why did they do all of this?
Why make Sansa so jealous of Jon’s relationship with Dany, when her issue with Dany could have easily been strictly about politics, war, and family?
You’re telling me Sansa sassy pants Stark couldn’t have asked this question in a more scolding, sisterly, stop thinking with you dick way? She was heartbroken.
Not to mention the most obvious, confirmed by director interview, jealousy shot.
Next we see Sansa in this feast is her looking on at couples, hookups, etc. She looks sad. Sad in the way you do when you can’t even consider looking for love because your heart is already occupied by someone you can’t have.
There is also the systematic reintroducing of potential partners for Sansa, at least ones that have been theorized about by the fandom. Tyrion, Theon, Sandor, even Podrick got a hookup right in front of Sansa just to make it clear to the audience that this isn’t happening either. And for the fools who suggested Gendry, well, just ask Arya about that.
As for Jon, we don’t get much of his perspective this season, but we get an unusual amount of times that he asks Sam about Gilly, considering he’s never mentioned her since he yelled at her back in season 2. Sam brings her up to Jon before the Castle Black battle, and when he wants to go to Old Town. But even then, the conversation is more about sex in general and not about Gilly as a person. Now, all of a sudden Jon is so interested in how Gilly and little Sam are? He hugs her, like that’s just a thing Jon does, and feels her pregnant belly through all their thick furs, responding to it rather dramatically?
Look at his big dumb face. Jon wants babies, bad.
He talks about future generations in his eulogy, with Sansa behind him, looking down just as he says it.
There is also the glaringly obvious way that Arya and Sansa both don’t like Dany, but communicate it very differently, just in case the audience still needed more evidence of the difference between a sisterly disapproval and a jealous love interest. But the most interesting thing about the difference between Arya and Sansa is their response to Jon saying he’s not a Stark.
Sansa: You’re just as much Ned Stark’s child as any of us.
Arya: You’re my fucking brother, got it? Brother. B-R-O-T-H-E-R
It’s clear that Dany senses Sansa’s jealousy in the way all women can sniff out if another woman wants her man. Conveniently, Sansa’s name comes up while Jon was literally moments ago trying to get his dick inside Dany. She calls him out on it, and starts with the argument of Sansa wanting power. However, she quickly goes to a more ruthless tactic of trying to badmouth Sansa, disgustingly using her trauma as a evidence that she is damaged goods. If you can stomach a rewatch of that scene though, I find it conveniently sneaky of the writers to put this bit in there.
Almost like, she’s not your sister anymore. Reminding Jon and the audience that they barely had a relationship as “siblings” and when they met again they were both so different that it was like meeting for the first time. The relationship they built together, where they really start to know each other, is as adult partners.
Then there is this glaringly obvious clue.
Jon and Dany are not going to work out. Period. Sansa has no other love interests, and neither does Jon. Arya rejected marriage. The only options that make any narrative sense at this point are either everyone ends up alone and the Starks die out, or Jonsa.
It also makes a ton of sense for the realm, considering Jon and Sansa are both good leaders with shortcomings that are conveniently filled in by each other. Jon brings people together, inspires people, and is a proven hero. Sansa can play the game, thinks of the details, and plans ahead. Military and politics. Honor and justice. One just happens to be the rightful heir to the throne, the other is the key to the North with positive political relationship all over Westeros.
Plenty of people talk about the possibility of no Iron Throne at the end. I’m fine with that. It is a symbol of cruel and corrupt power. But at the end of the day, chair or no chair, there are still millions of people who need leadership. The realm still needs protectors. A decentralized government sounds great, but that doesn’t happen overnight. The people need Jon and Sansa both. Even if it is only the North they rule, I just don’t see how this ends any differently.
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