I’M OVER PEOPLE HATING ON SANSA.
SANSA REPRESENTS US. OKAY?
SHE CAME INTO THIS WORLD OF GAME OF THRONES TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS AND EXPECTING LIKE A FAIRYTALE FANTASY WHERE THE BAD GUYS ARE BAD AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE GOOD AND THE GOOD GUYS WIN. AND THERE’S LOVE AND ROMANCE AND VALIANT KNIGHTS AND HAPPY ENDINGS.
AND THEN SHE LEARNED (AT THE SAME TIME WE DID) THAT THIS ISN’T THE WORLD OF GAME OF THRONES: NED FUCKING STARK THE MOST HONORABLY HONORABLE MAN GETS HIS HEAD CHOPPED OFF ON A WHIM BY A STUPID TYRANT BOY.
SO WE TRY TO LEARN HOW THIS GAME WORKS JUST LIKE HER. WE LEARN FROM CERSEI AND BAELISH AND OTHERS THAT THOSE WHO SCHEME AND MANIPULATE AND CARE ONLY ABOUT THEMSELVES ARE THE ONES WHO SURVIVE.
WE WATCH AS THE HONORABLE GOOD CHARACTERS LIKE JEOR MORMONT, ROBB STARK, CATELYN STARK, JON SNOW, ETC. DIE.
WE WATCH AS THOSE WHO TRY TO PLAY THE GAME BUT AREN’T GOOD ENOUGH AT IT DIE: MARGERY, ETC.
SO NOW SANSA CAN PLAY THE FUCKING GAME AND WIN AT IT.
AND NOW WE FULLY UNDERSTAND HOW THIS GAME IS PLAYED AND WHO WINS AND WHO DIES AND HOW WE CAN’T TRUST ANYONE...
AND YET WE STILL DREAM OF A WORLD WHERE JON SNOW AND DANY CAN RULE THE SEVEN KINGDOMS AS HONORABLE AND JUST PEOPLE AND EVERYTHING IS OKAY.
THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS.
SANSA LEARNED.
WE LEARNED.
WHY HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN YOUR LESSONS GA?