Pol Jon points to Jon secretly scheming to save Sansa. However, there are clues suggesting that Jon might've made peace with dying for it… until Sansa refused to let him go.
"I wish you good fortune in the wars to come"
Ser arthur Dayne (S6·E3 : Oathbreaker)
Mance Rayder (S5·E1 : The Wars To Come)
Jon Snow (S7·E5: Eastwatch)
following the pattern,In the first two examples, these lines are said to the opponent. Also, the two accepted their fate but fought on regardless. Is that a sign that Jon, too, chose to walk toward death, knowing he would never return?
THE "BEST"
[ Sam x Gilly are heavily paralleled with Jon x Sansa ]
Pol Jon through Sam’s lens:
S6·E3 : Oathbreaker
Breaking it down: Sam admits his sole concern is Gilly and Little Sam’s safety, so he carefully weighs the best possible options.
In similar fashion, In S6 · E4, Jon admits to Edd that he’s done caring for anything or anyone. And right then, Sansa walks into his life, restoring his sense of purpose, his reason to protect and to care again.
Jon’s righteousness isn’t in doubt, but his loyalty narrows to a single purpose: He’s hell-bent on protecting the one he secretly Loves while pretending it’s all for “the North"
S7·E5: Eastwatch
(Jon to Daenerys)
MY people, Our People
TRUST
again, the word TRUST surfaces, paralleled with Sam-gilly, Jon-sansa.
But JON also asks for Daenerys's TRUST, yet doesn’t forget to call himself a stranger to her, and her a stranger to him.
STRANGER
STRANGER reference was probably, foreshadowing (“Stranger” from the Faith of the Seven, who represents death itself.) They are each other’s "Stranger" in a way, each holding the power to send the other to their death.
S7·E3 The Queen's Justice
“Our” King thinks what’s best for Sansa and Sansa thinks what’s best for Jon.
When Sansa says these lines, she already knows the truth about Jon’s Targaryen identity. Make of that what you will.
If the math is mathing, their top priority is clearly each other. Everything else matters just not as much as they do to one another.
Sansa was Jon’s “BEST”
S08 E06 · The Iron Throne
Sansa: You are good at this you know.
Jon: At what?
Sansa: At Ruling.
Jon : No.
Danaerys: we all enjoy what we are good at
Jon: I don't.
I think it's entirely possible that D&D are playing a winterhell 2.0 with POL Jon and Sansa already knew in that library scene because Jon told her when the scene cuts off. (And then later we get the twist with a hyped up: the pack survives moment)
But I think it's also possible that she figured it out in that moment. And it's really because she refers to it as Jon's war. Dani shows there she truly does not give a fuck about this war (even tho she wants to rule the north and the WW will destroy the whole universe) she is only doing this for Jon. And Sansa just told him she had faith in him last episode. I think Sansa knows Jon wouldn't fall in love with a woman who truly does not give a fuck about protecting people like that.
And if that's not enough D&D really lay down the anvil. "Who is manipulating who?" Jeez. Not subtle.
I was very excited with the way Sansa smiled when Danny asked "Who's manipulating whom?" To me, it read like Sansa finally realized Pol!Jon, and I explained it to my GA husband. Yep, the same husband who couldn't recognize a single artifact in the Aftermath trailer.
Would anyone like to know what he said? I hope you do, cos Imma tell y'all right now:
"Well isn't that obvious? I mean, he's definitely pulling out all stops to keep her there... Why is this a theory?"
At this point, I am going to stubbornly keep believing in political Jon because if he hasn't been trying to manipulate Dany to protect his family and the Westerosi, the alternative is too horrible.
If Jon was in love with her, if he believed in her, if he was blindly following into that slaughter without thinking it was necessary to protect his cousins, Winterfell, Westeros, then he deserves to spend the rest of his life living with his aunty in daily fear that she'll roast him alive.
I mean, he was in the VILLAIN SHOT. The Targaryens stood side by side in darkness as a dragon raised its head and burned an innocent man! If this all isn't for the greater good, than I am going to be traumatized. I can't imagine Martin doing this to Jon, so I have to believe Political Jon, but D&D are making disturbing and strange choices.
But, I think D&D feel compelled to make those choices to make Jon seem totally disinterested in the throne, unwilling to betray Dany, and weak, in order to get us to scream at him to do something, in order to push the audience into siding with Jon against Dany, in order for us to WANT him to take action, because then what Jon does next will seem justified.
