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Sansa, Lord Commander of Winterfell.

So if Arya (or anyone in fact) disagrees with Jon in season 8 that means she’s betraying him ? There is a difference between saying your opinion to someone you love and betraying someone, you know. There is nothing wrong about Arya telling Jon if he’s doing something wrong in her opinion. She will obviously stay loyal to him, protect him & help him. I mean… don’t you have brothers & sisters ? I disagree with my brother and my sister sometimes and I love them deeply.

Stop exaggerating what actors say, especially when they’re paid for it. And stop hating on Maisie and every actor because they say something you don’t like.

Sansa vs Dany

“Pitting” Sansa against Dany isn’t about Jon, especially not now. It’s about morals and what kind of ruler the North deserves and whose morals we agree with.

Jon could die in the first few seconds and I still wouldn’t support Dany no matter what. I don’t agree with her ruling and conquest methods, that’s it. I don’t agree with burning enemies alive, I don’t agree with conquest of locals in general, I don’t agree with blood superiority or purity. Sansa wouldn’t either. That’s it.

Sophie Turner’s Recap of Sansa’s Story Pretty Much Convinced Me That Wedding Night 3 Is Coming

I was going to write a long meta about Sansa Stark’s Story video but instead I decided to break it up into parts talking about the most important aspects of Sansa’s storyline and what I feel it means for season 8. Before I dive into this I just want to say that Sophie Turner did a phenomenal job recapping Sansa’s story. Out of of all the character videos I definitely felt that Sansa’s was the most endearing/heartfelt and I genuinely can’t understand how anyone can hate this character.

Anyway, now that I got that out of the way let’s begin. One of the very first metas I ever wrote was the importance of Sansa going through a process of healing in sex/intimacy in season 8 and how it was crucial to her storyline. My post post got blessed with a BEAUTIFUL addition from @hopepeaceandblackgirlmagic that eloquently summed up my thoughts perfectly. You can check out that post here (x). As I was watching Sophie Turner talk about Sansa’s journey, I couldn’t help but notice again how significant Sansa’s sexual traumas have played in her life and how there seems to be no natural resolution to it.

One of my favorite parts of the Sansa Stark story video is that Sophie reminds us at her core who Sansa Stark is and what she wants! Sophie clearly tells us that at Sansa’s core she has:

1. Has always been driven by family/the love for her family and not power.

And

2. Ultimately Sansa has always dreamed of a love and a marriage that reflects HER PARENTS.

Yes, she wanted to be Queen but not a Queen for power or control but a Queen in love with King just like the fairytales.

That’s why I get so infuriated with antis or people who don’t understand Sansa’s character at all when they scream and say “Sansa doesn’t need a man!” What people don’t realize is that it’s so much bigger/deeper than that. Despite what Sansa has been through and even if she hasn’t lost hope for love/marriage, at the CORE of who she is Sansa has always wanted love! She has always wanted a marriage for love and she has always wanted a family with children of her own! POINT, BLANK, PERIOD!

Thank you Jesus that Sophie has confirmed this for the clueless!

Moving on to the part I want to get too, I genuinely believe that the resolution we all want and hope for Sansa is coming in season 8. Some of the things that Sophie said in this video made me raise my eyebrow and the fact Kit couldn’t keep his composure while talking about Sansa might be a dead giveaway. Also when I think of the pattern of the story, particularly Sansa’s wedding nights, I can’t help but think that “good things come in threes.” Like Sansa had two shitty wedding nights but the third is going to be the treasure chest. I could be totally wrong but I feel like this is where the story is heading and this where Sansa will finally have a natural resolution to the sexual traumas she’s faced. I also feel we as an audience would feel internally satisfied and a sense of relief about that part of her storyline.

For Sophie, something that stood out to me like a sore thumb was when she said “Sansa has always dreamed about her marriage and consummating her marriage with a young prince.”

Correct me if I’m wrong but has Sansa ever dreamt of consummating her marriage?! I’m not a book reader so I might not be privy to all the information but considering the fact that she’s 11 in the books and 14 in the show for her first marriage, that would be hella strange if she did. Also as far as I know Sansa has only ever dreamed of the love, marriage and babies but has seemingly never thought about the consummating part. Case in point her scene with Margaery:

Based off this scene alone I don’t think Sansa has EVER had a conversation about sex let alone is day dreaming about consummating her marriage! Even in the scene where she gets her period, I don’t think it even registers to Sansa that would have to sleep with Joffrey. She is solely traumatized by the idea that she now has the ability to bear him children.

So yeah when Sophie said that I was like:

And then I was like:

Because to me the only logical explaintion of why Sophie would say that about Sansa is that Sophie is aware that Sansa not only gets her resolution to her sexual trauma but also gets a core dream in her heart fulfilled which is to be married for love! Another point is this, I don’t care how people try and rationalize it and explain it away but it is way to convenient that Jon Snow is the only eligible person who not only is a secret prince and heir to the Irone Throne but is literally the embodiment of everything Sansa wants in a partner! Bonus, he happens to be her cousin not her brother which is perfectly normal and acceptable union in Westeros!

I’m going to end this meta with this, I believe there are a few important themes that we are going to see in season 8 one of them being that we are going to get back to core of who these characters are, what matters to them/their dreams and who they are meant to be. Like I’ve already stated Sansa’s past sexual history ABSOLUTELY MATTERS and is an essential part of her storyline! I’m not saying that Sansa is about to have some sort of glorious visual sex scene, but what I am saying is that in that specific area she will finally get the resolution she deserves with someone who is kind and loves her dearly.

House Stark Video Breakdown: S8 Predictions

The House Stark video is bloody brilliant! Here are my thoughts.

At face value, it summarizes all the key events that have happened to the Starks from S1 to S7. In subtext, it predicts what’s possibly about to happen in S8.

The video begins with Ned and Jon talking about his mother when Jon is leaving Winterfell to join the Night’s Watch while Ned is making his way to King’s Landing.

Then the scene shifts to the Tower of Joy where Lyanna is dying and asking Ned: “Promise me, Ned. You have to protect him”.

The video starts with a “theme of protection” how Ned promises Lyanna to protect Jon as part of the pack. This theme is very important. The Starks are a pack and they protect each other. This theme keeps recurring throughout the video and in fact, the video even ends on the same theme.

Then we have Robert Baratheon showing up at Winterfell to make Ned the Hand of the King and now the political drama begins. What’s interesting to note is the choice of this shot where Robert tells Ned:

“There’s a war coming Ned, I don’t know when, I don’t know who we’ll be fighting but it’s coming.”

At face value, it means the Great War against the NK, but is it though? 

(Sure the fight against NK is a very big deal, but it’s not the only war that will be fought next season)

Remember the context of Robert’s premonitions? He was talking about Daenerys marrying Khal Drogo, a Dothraki horselord, who has 100,000 fighting for him and could potentially invade Westeros. 

Currently who has the same Dothraki horde of a 100,000 strong fighting for her? Daenerys Targaryen, together with 2 dragons and the Unsullied!!!!!

This is very very important ..I will come back to this later!

I think the subtext of including this shot was to foreshadow a potential fight against Daenerys, her Dothraki horde, and her dragons in S8. 

This is Dance of the Dragons 2.0 we are talking about. There is another shot that alludes to this happening.

This shot of a ruinous Harrenhal (from Season 2) they deemed to include in this video!!!

I was wondering about why would they show Harrenhal? 

Aegon the Conqueror, atop Baelerion, roasted this place with Harren the Black and his sons inside it. That was the start of the reign of the Targaryens in Westeros.

You know what else happened at Harrenhal?

A battle between two dragons at the start of the first Dance with Dragons between the two opposing factions of greens and blacks of House Targaryen when Queen Rhaenryra was fighting Aegon II’s forces. 

Caraxes and Vhagar fought each other in the Battle Above the Gods Eye with Harrenhal at the backdrop. This is happening at Riverlands, close to the Trident, where I am sure we will see another fight between the last two dragons, Daenerys and her nephew Jon. If Jon rides Rhaegal, then we could definitely see a Drogon vs Rhaegal fight. Most battles of note in ASOIAF happened in the Riverlands, why will this be any different?

(Also wouldn’t it be ironic that the place where Aegon the Conqueror launched the reign of House Targaryen with fire and blood destroying one of his biggest opponents is the same place where the reign of House Targaryen is ended by his namesake Aegon the last of his name aka Jon Snow? Aegon the Conqueror obliterated House Hoare that day when he burned down Harrenhal, maybe this foreshadows Jon Snow defeating Daenerys and ending House Targaryen.)

Additionally, it also probably foreshadows another castle like the Red Keep or King’s Landing burning (similar to Harrenhal) at Daenerys’s hands (who is foreshadowed as Aegon the Conqueror come again.)

Moving on…

Let’s focus on the next trio of shots with Brienne’s voiceover saying:” Nothing is more hateful than failing to protect the one you love” over a shot of Sansa being tortured by Joffrey.

when Brienne says “the one you love” they show us Sansa!

I think they are implying Jon and Sansa here. Let me explain..Jon swore a vow to Sansa “I will protect you, I promise” and if any harm comes to Sansa, Jonny boy is gonna lose his shit (all those scenes in S7 where they showed us Jon was protective over Sansa were Chekhov’s guns waiting to go off and now in S8 they will go off). 

Does this mean that Sansa will get kidnapped by Cersei and the GC? Or will Daenerys threaten Sansa after seeing her influence over the Northern Lords, the Vale, and the Riverlands and especially after seeing how much more competent Sansa is in terms of ruling her people? Who knows..but suffice to say that if Sansa comes under any threat, Jon will most definitely lose his shit. 

This also extends to Arya, who has been thriving on hate towards the Lannisters and the Freys and anybody who has harmed House Stark. If anything happens to Sansa or any of the other Starks, rest assured Arya is going to cut a bitch.

Moving on….

This next bit is my personal headcanon…they show Jamie and Brienne talking about Sansa

Jamie: In my opinion girls like her don’t live very long.

Brienne: I don’t think you know many girls like her.

This means Sansa will survive.

My personal headcanon about why they inserted this, is D&D, Bryan Cogman, and GRRM’s way of serving up a sick burn to all those Sansa haters and so-called ASOIAF/GOT know-it-alls who do not get her character at all and twist themselves into knots trying to come up with theories about how Sansa is useless and serves no purpose to the story and needs to die. Wait till Sansa survives it all and becomes Queen of the 7Ks. (end of rant, sorry!)

Moving on….

The video then shows the journey of the last remaining Starks… Sansa survives the fall and makes her way to Castle Black to reunite with Jon, Arya makes her way to Braavos and trains to become No One, Bran becomes the 3ER and so forth.

Then they include a shot of Longclaw right after Sansa and Jon hold hands from that scene in Castle Black when Sansa says to Jon that a monster has taken their home and brother and they have to save them both. Needless to say, Longclaw is going to be important. Hold that thought..I will come back to it.

Then the Starks start taking revenge…A TIME FOR WOLVES!!!

They show a montage of shots of 2 wolves (meant to depict Nymeria and Ghost) interspersed with the Starks..

Arya is ticking people off from her Kill-List….Jon is fighting in the Battle of the Bastards, Ramsay Bolton being eaten by his (dis)loyal hounds, Petyr Baelish getting his comeuppance, Freys getting massacred, and Joffrey dying.

with Arya saying “the last thing you are ever going to see before you die is a Stark smiling down at you”.

Like this is ominous but much-needed. The Starks are all out for blood and they will fight like wolves. So far they have managed to exact revenge on anyone who has wronged them but the kill-list is not done yet.

The Stark video then winds down to show the roles Jon, Bran, Arya, and Sansa will play in S8.

Bran, as the 3ER, will be up against the NK. Benjen Stark reminds him of that and says that when NK makes his way to the realms of men, you will be waiting for him. Cue Bran vs NK. (I personally feel Jamie and Brienne will have a big part to play in it…They both have the two parts of Ned’s greatsword Ice)

Then we have a shot of Cersei against the Iron Throne

followed by a shot of Sansa saying “Winter is Here” implying that Winter is here and coming for all the enemies of House Stark, chief among them is Cersei Lannister. This shot also foreshadows that Sansa will become Queen of the 7Ks, like Cersei. 

Then we have a shot of Arya with the Valyrian steel dagger in her hands

followed by a shot of the Lannister Army

I believe that we will see a Stark-Lannister Coalition, spear-headed by Jamie, which will be instrumental in fighting against both NK and Daenerys and her dragons. What this shot also tells me is that this is a foreshadowing of Arya killing Cersei…the most important person still left on Arya’s list is Cersei and in S7 she said that she will go to KL to kill Cersei, that will come to fruition. Additionally, if you remember the lyrics of The Rains of Castamere,

And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low? Only a cat of a different coat, that’s all the truth I know. In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws, And mine are long and sharp, my lord, as long and sharp as yours. And so he spoke, and so he spoke, that lord of Castamere, But now the rains weep o’er his hall, with no one there to hear. Yes now the rains weep o’er his hall, and not a soul to hear.

They are showing us the sigil of House Lannister because a lion is a big cat.

One of Arya’s persona is “Cat-of-the-Canals”, she is the cat of a different coat in this song and in Braavos she becomes “NO ONE”.. Remember how Tywin Lannister destroyed House Reyne and how Cersei destroyed House Tyrell and they were playing this song? Well, justice will be served and Cersei (who is Tywin Lannister 2.0) will get the same fate at the hands of No One aka Arya.

The final bit that I want to talk about is this shot of Jon Snow about to thrust Longclaw into the body of a soldier at the Battle of the Bastards.

This shot awfully reminds me of this really old shot of Jon Snow from Season 1′s GOT “Iron Throne” preview….where he is about to thrust a sword into someone after a shot of him sitting on the IT as King.

This is very interesting. Why would they call back on a shot like this if this does not mean something? Who is Jon about to kill or rather going to kill in S8?

Here is where I want you to remember what Robert Baratheon said to Ned Stark from the lone shot they show us at the beginning of the House Stark video?

I think Jon will be the “bold man to wield it”  and kill Daenerys using a good sharp long knife called Longclaw (he could also use the Valyrian steel dagger but that would be too literal.)

Why Jon? Because he is the rightful King of the Andals, Protector of the Realm and Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. 

The use of “a bold man” reminded me of the following scene

This is what Jon said to Mance in Season 5 episode 1.

And now to all those crowing about kinslaying and this being dishonorable well here is what Jon has to say…

Jokes aside, this will pose a major “conflict of the heart” issue for Jon. He will definitely not want to kill Daenerys but “the things I do for love” may just force Jon to do this. Jon and Jamie are foils..Jamie pushed Bran out of the window, Jon may end up killing Daenerys if it means protecting the realm and House Stark/Sansa. I would rather Arya do the deed, it saves Jon from the sin of kinslaying but we shall see.

Finally, the video ends with Sansa saying the House Stark words about the pack survives and protecting the pack, ending on the “theme of protection” including this shot of Sansa and Arya in front of Ned’s statue in the crypts with the collective voiceover of Arya and Ned saying “in winter, we must protect ourselves and look after one another”. 

The video starts with Ned protecting Jon and ends with Sansa reiterating Ned’s lessons thereby showing that Ned’s legacy lives on within the current Starks and they will survive the Winter and come out victorious because the pack that stays together, always survives. A Time for Wolves indeed. 

Power is power

Cersei’s Journey For the Throne

“She bought me from my master and set me free” and Jon be like

What’s going through his mind right here? Is it everlasting love and affection?

lmao I noticed this too and wrote about it here and here. there’s Missandei in the gif below when she claims she had nowhere else to go. Dany turns her into her servant. Which is basically like, Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves and then putting them to work to get him re-elected. Meanwhile, Jon helps a group of people who were already free join the realm of “kneelers,” and doesn’t make them kneel to him or anyone else. Of course they’re going to fight for him after that. But they aren’t his servants.

Dani didn’t think about how it would look to the Westerosi that she’s using an Unsullied slave army to invade Westeros. Do you think the lords are going to care about the finer points of “well, she freed them from her masters and then they chose to fight for her so it’s all good.” lmao. Even if they did choose her as Missy says, Dani can’t prove to everyone else they voluntarily chose her. And did you Missy? Did you really have a choice? 

That’s what I think Jon was thinking.

Yeah I agree with this, 100%. It’s why I wonder about Missandei’s future when her boss wrecks everything to hell and back due to her own greed. 

Maybe Tyrion could persuade her to leave Westeros and head to one of the free cities? I think Greyworm is at risk, and something tells me Missandei’s opinion of Dany post Targbowl is going to change. Especially if say, Greyworm lands in the crossfire. 

I think Missandei is very astute. Probably one of the most astute members of Dany’s party. I have a secret hope that she’ll be observant enough to realize the North is never going to bend - not really. Maybe she’ll even quietly sympathize, and realize the North has been trying to cast off chains for years - chains that Dany is now holding and attempting to put on them.