2.05 | 3.04 | 6.09
game of thrones
Goddamit, I’m still a little pissed at myself for how easily Game of Thrones was able to drag me back in.
#I vowed I would stop watching after what they did to Shireen #I still really fucking hate that they did that #And that’s not even getting started on the sexual violence #But I really wanted to see what happened to Sansa in the flesh as it were #So now I’m back in #Fighting all the way but back in
Why are all the Battle of the Bastards reviews so terribly insistent that Sansa didn’t care about Rickon? Yeah, she was pragmatic about what would most likely happen to him (and she was right) but her seeing his dead body is the final nail in the coffin for her to subject Ramsay to his deservedly horrible death. Yeah, she’s changed but she still loves her family, she’s still Sansa, there was no way Rickon’s death wasn’t heartbreaking for her.
rickon was a scared child, who had probably (most definitely) tortured by ramsay and who hadn’t seen any of his family in years. when ramsay told him to run in a straight line, that’s what he did. because that’s what scared children always do when they see someone comforting and familiar. rickon stark was a scared boy who had known almost nothing but war and heartache, so when the chance at being with family again comes up, he takes it and doesn’t think otherwise. rickon stark just wanted to see his brothers again, his sisters again but that opportunity was torn from him right as it was in reach. rickon stark suffered the most tragic fate of any of the characters who died before him.
I don’t know if anyone mentioned it, and I know not everyone will agree, but I’m personally really glad that in Sansa’s murder of Ramsay, she didn’t physically kill him.
There have been so many critics of Sansa who have harped on her for not being a warrior, someone who can physically draw a blade and ride into battle, and if she were to suddenly become a battle tactician or stab Ramsay with a knife I don’t think I would have enjoyed that – because, if she were to stab him and become some warrior, it would oddly support those who said they’d only like her if she became a physical fighter. So, I’m so glad that the way she was portrayed in the episode was wonderful.
She said she didn’t know a thing about battle, but still managed to save the day because what she did know was that they didn’t have the numbers. She killed Ramsay, but she didn’t do it with her bare hands. She let those dogs on him and she watched. She killed him, she “swung the sword”, in a sense, without ever physically laying a hand on him, and I love that. I wish that it wasn’t shown in a rape-revenge trope plot, because that’s a shitty trope, but I love that fans got to see how smart and powerful Sansa is without her having to physically fight and be something she’s not.