#got s7 commentary

[jonsa101]

5 Important Points to Take Away From the GOT Season 7 Commentaries.

I feel like it’s been a minute since I’ve written one of these but since I’ve finally graduated university, I have so much free time to write and read as much Jonsa Metas as I want! 😊 I’ve finally had the chance to listen to some of these commentaries and these are the 5 most important points I took away.

1. The blatant comparison between Sansa and Dany when it comes to execution. I don’t think there was ever a time where Sansa and Dany were compared by D&D. Not only that but for them to go further and say that Sansa is struggling with the execution and pushes through but Dany lacks compassion and mercy when she executes people is a HUGE DEAL!! This confirms two things for me. First, that D&D see Sansa and Dany in the same league and in everything but name Sansa was a Queen in season 7 (potential to be endgame Queen in season 8) and second that Sansa is just like Ned and Jon. They all value and hate taking a life even if it’s justified, making a clear contrast with Dany and again confirming how incompatible Jon and Dany are.

2. Kit Harington genuinely not knowing when Jon Snow’s “feelings”for Dany started in season 7. If this is supposed to be the biggest romance in Game of Thrones and Jon and Dany are “Fire and Ice,” then how come Kit is clueless about when this “grand romance” started. Y’all he said that Jon and Dany started liking each other in the Dragonpit scene! The Dragonpit scene! Literally minutes before the boat bang! 💀 And when D&D said that they started liking each other in the cave scene Kit barely responded. Mind you none of them talked about love or falling deeply in love once!

3. Jon Snow’s monologue to Tyrion. In the 7x7 commentary D&D specifically said that the scene with Kit Harrington and Peter Dinklage was important even down to the day that they shot the scene but that they couldn’t expand on the importance of it because it’s supposed to be a “mystery.” If Jon Snow is seemingly acting normal and is being typically honest/foolish, why is this scene so mysterious that D&D and Kit couldn’t expand on it. 🤔

4. The Cut Jon and Ghost scene. I mean this is self explanatory but can you imagine having this scene and then having those others scenes at Dragonstone where we see how Jon reacts when Sansa is mentioned? It would have been an overkill and too obvious to see where Jon’s affections truly lie. Not only that but to have BC overly state how Jon and Sansa were never close and basically started their relationship from scratch was the cherry on top.

5. The Tension between Jon and Sansa isn’t about Power. One thing I loved about the recent commentaries is that I love how they have established that Jon and Sansa love each other and that the tension between them isn’t a power struggle. In the GOT fandom people often mischaracterize Sansa’s character all the time! They assume she is either really stupid or she is power hungry when she’s neither of those things. These comments solidify that Sansa’s intentions are pure and that she only wants to be acknowledged and heard.

To summarize season 7 commentary was a blessing and I believe it left a lot of clues for what’s to come in season 8.

[thelegendofclarke]

Bryan Cogman: “And of course it was meant to have a lot of visual echoes to the Littlefinger/Ned relationship of season 1;”

Me: 

Bryan Cogman: “Right down to the chokehold that he’s about to do.”

Me: 

Bryan Cogman: “Which is directly inspired by a similar moment in episode 3, season 1.”

Me:

Bryan Cogman: “Where Ned throws Littlefinger up against a wall – BAM.”

Me: 

[kittensjonsa]

For Me

Prompt: “Take care of her. Watch over her. For me.” - Jon by Brian Cogman (thanks bruh). 

Canon compliant/divergent. G

The leather straps that bound across his chest seemed to grasp a little too tight than usual. His breathing seemed a little more laborious and his boots a little too heavy in taking their steps.

I don’t want to leave.

Jon looked around him tentatively, letting his eyes linger about the grounds of Winterfell, committing all to memory. Crumbling or not, this was still home. It was a part of him and he had declared it true for all of the North to hear. If those were his last words as the King in the North, then so be it. There was nowhere he’d rather be. It was a certain truth that sang with his every heartbeat.

I don’t want to leave.

Repeating the words won’t matter now. What he wanted and what was good for mankind sat heavily in his heart. Saving all of Westeros from death’s cruel enslavement far outweighed whatever his heart desired. He did after all had taken an oath, and one not too lightly - the shield that guards the realm of men. Not even death can hold him back. He would be fighting against death itself whilst staring straight into his dead and icy blue eyes. He’d rather be staring into another’s, if he could have his way.

Blue eyes. Her looking at me with her beautiful blue eyes. I will miss that. Jon admitted with a tinge of regret.

Jon took a deep breath and sighed. It wasn’t wise at all now, thinking back how he held Littlefinger by the neck at the mere mention of her name. He had wished to do far worse and having his fingers already pressing down on the fine skinned neck of Lord Baelish had made it too easy - only if the Vale wasn’t marching along side him, an army he needed for the Great War. Jon had given himself away too much now, it would be best to stop and perhaps take a step away from it all and focus on the task at hand.

Out of sight, out of mind. He could try.

“Do you have to?”

Jon glanced up from the map he had been studying the past hour.

“Aye. It’s what we need. The South can’t help us, we can’t do this alone,” he sighed and put down the direwolf figure he had been holding onto.

“But we just got back our home. And now you want to go?” Sansa asked quietly, the quiver in her voice nearly sending tears to his eyes.

“Sansa, the North will look after you as I’m sure you will look after it. And you will look after it well, while I’m gone. And when I return, it will be as it once was. I promise.”

“It will never be to what it once was, Jon. Not now. Not ever.” Jon watched helplessly as Sansa sighed and make her way to the door. His gaze did not leave her even as she stood still, pausing at the doorway, seemingly hesitant. As she turned to face him, Jon’s breath hitched in his chest as teary ocean blue eyes greeted his. A small upturned corner of her lips belied her grief beneath her courtesies. But still the vision before him very nearly took his breath away.

Gods, that is… beautiful.

“But come back home, Jon Snow. I will be here, waiting for your return. Your Grace,” Sansa finally spoke with a smile, albeit a small tear rolling down her right cheek. Without missing a beat, always a lady, curtseyed and took her leave.

Sensing a familiar presence jolted him out of his reverie, as footsteps and a huff pattered over to him.

“Ghost, there’s a good boy,” Jon greeted his long time companion and gave a little scratch behind the ears. The majestic hound sniffed around him and whined softly, as if he knew. “Now, now, not you too old friend. You know I must go.”

To keep you and everyone I love safe and sound, that’s why.

Ghost looked up at Jon, his red eyes gleaming as if in response, waving his large paws at Jon in seeking Jon’s gloved hands. Jon chuckled, amused at Ghost’s antics, knowing how the direwolf would speak if he could. Jon held the paws in his hand and gave it a gentle squeeze, in acknowledgement. “Yes, boy, I will return and we’ll go hunting, you and I.”

It was another promise he intended to keep. But another lingered on his mind and there was no one else he would trust well enough to keep. But Ghost.

Jon searched the grounds around him for Sansa and smiled as he caught sight of her standing at the balcony, next to Brienne both quietly observing the rest of the entourage readying themselves to leave for Dragonstone. Jon inhaled deeply and watched her for as long as whatever the little time he had would allow. It would be a memory that he would cherish. Of home, and perhaps a little something more.

Jon turned back to Ghost, his paws still in his hands. I trust you, old friend.

“Take care of her. Watch over her. For me.”

[bethnoel]

The only things that are keeping me going during finals week are the Bryan Cogman and D&D commentaries. Those things are just beautiful and a Jonsa goldmine.

[myrish-lace-love]

I also think the GOT S7 commentary that's been released so far lends more weight to Dark!Dany, especially with the contrast between Sansa and Daenerys and the mention that Sansa felt conflicted about killing Littlefinger.

[thelegendofclarke]

Take care of her. Watch over her for me.

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