8 Thoughts on GOT 8x02
BOY. Another week, another Game of Thrones. Here we go bitches.
1. SANSA MOTHERFUCKING STARK
I've said it before and I'll say it again, my girl is an ace and she's gonna defy all expectations with a smirk on her face. I'll never get over Sansa luring Daenerys into a false sense of security and would be friendship, only to hit her with the North issue. AMAZING. We love a smart babe.
Also,,, that Sansa and Theon reunion??? Bitch I cried. Nevermind that Daenerys finally showed some interest in where the Fuck™ an epic Pirate Queen Yara was, Theon barely acknowledged her.
He's here to fight for his fucking home, if Sansa will have him. AND YOU BET YOUR ASS SHE WILL.
Sansa's been a rock, but sometimes even the strongest people have to crack.
2. Daenerys Targaryen, oh Daenerys.
I don't love Daenerys, I haven't loved and rooted for her in a very long time, but I understand why she went from "I love you Jon, let's have babies" to "I'm going to burn you alive if you don't bend the knee" in 0.2secs flat. She's grown so used to the people loving her by virtue of her granting them freedom, that when people question her rule and her decisions on their own grounds, she doesn't know what way is up. Sansa letting Jaime stay, Jorah defending Tyrion, Theon wanting to fight for Sansa and not her, she doesn't know it yet but Missandei and Grey Worm planning to leave once it's all over, all of these things are blows to her own view of her legitimacy.
And here comes the only man whose word she trusts, whom she's likely given up everything for, and tells her that this thing she's worked so hard for isn't even hers. She raised an army and built a following because Viserys dying gave her the right to the throne, and Jon snatched it away without meaning to. She rightfully questions the source of the information, because it's a whole kingdom at stake. And she probably doesn't care that Jon doesn't even want the throne, by virtue of having a claim he's a threat and she has to be weary—that's the Game of Thrones.
Sam did call it though: Jon gave up a crown for her, would she do the same? I'm going to say no.
3. BRIENNE OF TARTH!!!!!
This girl, ridiculed for things she couldn't control decided to say fuck your rules and learnt how to fight, better than most men too. She's upheld the vows of knighthood and protected the people she's promised to serve, and done it so well that Lady Sansa I-trust-no-one Stark herself trusts her enough to vouch for the Kingslayer.
And Jaime Lannister freaking knighting her, in the face of tradition and anything anyone has to say, he gave her the only thing he could give her on what they think might be their last night. And she's so fucking happy? If you didn't at least tear up, you're a monster and that's the tea.
4. GENDRYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Granted and I'm not the world's biggest shipper (of anything in GOT because I've learned to be weary of this fucking show). But SHIT son, this has been fucking years in the making and I'm here for it.
Also "I'm not the Red Woman, take your own bloody pants off" ARYA STARK SAID FEMINISM.
5. Missandei and Grey Worm.
I don't have a lot to say about their scenes, few as they were, but I like that it takes them two being in Westeros for us to realize that have Black People not been invented in Westeros outside of Dorne?
That aside, I love Grey Worm being the one to tell Missandei that they don't belong here. When the war is won and someone sits on the Throne, their place is not in Westeros because Westeros is full of pig headed traditionalists. Im also here for Grey Worm thinking beyond the war, about taking Missandei to Naath, just ugh my son.
6. I'M GONNA MAKE THIS A TORMUND APPRECIATION POST UNTIL TORMUND IS NO MORE.
In the face of death and all of this, he finds the time to flirt with Brienne, tell the story of his name, AND SAY FEMINISM. Also, his friendship with Jon? We love Tormund and my man deserves the world.
7. We have to admire the Little Bear Lyanna Mormont every time she shows up. I don't love her idea of fighting anyways, because she might be a liability to the men trying to protect her, but dammit she's asking people to fight and die and she's gonna fight and die too. I love her.
8. And now our watch begins
These boys have made it through hell and back. And here they are, fighting for Winterfell, shielding the realms of men. We love these three (and Grenn and Pip who deserved better but died like freaking heroes).
AND BONUS REACTION, WHICH I'M GONNA START CALLING THE GHOST REACTION™
LOOK AT THIS GOOD BOY, I LOVE HIM
I'm gonna end up making a Sansa appreciation post before the week is out, you watch.
ARE WE READY TO HAVE OUR HEART RIPPED OUT? I'M NOT!
Episode Score: 9.6/10