Going Over Sansa I, A Game of Thrones

Rereading A Game of Thrones. Here's me going over Sansa I, AGoT

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Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on the fantasy novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. A Game of Thrones is one of the most successful television series to ever made and continues to captivate audiences all over the world. The series is set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, and interweaves several plot lines with a large ensemble cast. The first narrative arc follows a civil war among several noble houses for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms; the second covers the attempts to reclaim the throne by the exiled last scion of the realm's deposed ruling dynasty; the third chronicles the rising threat of the impending winter and the legendary creatures and fierce peoples of the North.
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[Longshanks]

Something I really like about the way George wrote Sansa’s perception of events is her filtering of “Joffrey… screaming obscenities, terrible words, filthy words.”
We can, especially with the show, get a good idea of what Joffrey was saying here but Sansa, even in her own mind, sanitises what she’s hearing. Even in her own perception of things, she can’t bear to actually break the vision that she has of Joffrey being the perfect, chivalrous prince. She can process the violence simply because she has no choice but here she is desperate to minimise the obvious reality of who Joffrey is. There’s a number of reasons for this, ranging from her Septa warning her never to utter such vulgar language to it breaking her fairytale vision of the world but I think the most important reason is because she wants to be able to deny what she’s heading came from him. She wants to hold onto the image she has of Joffrey so wants to brush his words away as conveniently as possible.
The greater irony, of course, is that she still can’t minimise his actions. Even with her filter turned on, we still get a horrific impression of Joffrey but Sansa doesn’t care - or is at least willing to overlook it in order to cling to the version of him she wants to exist.

It’s a single sentence but I think it does a lot to show Sansa’s mindset at this time, and characterises her a lot for such a small number of words.

[picklejarmonsterfanboy]

I'm glad this "Going over" video was delivered WITH HASTE

[Grumbo-]

It's always a great day when Preston Jacobs uploads

[smitty]

i like how adventures through farms, fields, and holdfasts seem stupid when it's with a stinky peasant boy, but a magical adventure with an attractive rich boy

[kevincredibles]

Something that just occurred to me when you discussed the age disparity between Mycah and Arya is that she maybe found someone to fill the hole left by Jon Snow. They’re nearly the same age, and it would further validate why Arya took his death so hard

[arvaakuka]

The fact that Cersei is creating this situation where Joffrey and Sansa, these two teenagers who are clearly attracted to each other, have to spend the day alone and there's no resistance to them leaving the camp almost makes me wonder if Cersei wanted Joffrey to take Sansa's maidenhood in order to seal the betrothal and make sure that Ned is not going to get between Joffrey and the throne.

[henryparker]

It's also interesting how Sansa reads Joffrey's initial agression towards Mycah. "The wine had made him wild." Of course whilst it might be partally true, it is also her trying to play down his actions. One can easily imagine a parallel world where they married and she would have to continue to make excuses for his abhorrent behaviour.

[TTtheStranger]

14:25 Arya struggles to make friends with people later because she is forced to be someone else (arry, weasel, squab, no one, etc)

For example, during Arya 4 (the fight with Loch) in Clash, she catches herself opening up to hotpie and abruptly changes her mood and pushes him away.

As well as not being herself, she’s been through the slaughter of her household and death of her father. It changed her.

[TheKingOfRooks]

52:55 I just realized that Ilyn is probably trying to apologize to Sansa, he probably heard how much he scared her and stood in front of her apologetically. She read him as stripping her with his eyes when really he was just lowering his head apologetically and then meeting her eyes with his.

[natie]

Sansa knew that the Southern court would look down on her as a rough Northerner. She would have to try very hard and not make any mistakes. But Arya was getting worse, running around wilder than ever and exposing them to ridicule. Sansa was probably resentful of Mycah. Arya liked him and didn’t like Sansa. Arya wanted to run wild with him, risking her life and ruining her clothes and getting Sansa in trouble for not stopping her. Arya spent time with him and anyone else, not Sansa. Sansa had to be good and perfect. Arya could run wild and be bad.

[jeffyoung]

I like the heavier discussion of themes in this going over chapter :)

[maxwell_j_R]

12:55 do you not think it is possible that Sansa is magically projecting onto the direwolf? Maybe Lady is gentle, because of the warg-bond. Is it possible Sansa has already had wolf dreams? (She wouldn't think back about those dreams, because thinking about being a wolf wouldn't be lady-like.)

[AlexanderTheMedium]

Sansa is not dumb. Many people in her position would have fucked up, for example Arya. That is the point.

[classicdansmith]

It makes sense that Arya might have been quite social and friendly before everything happened, and then after seeing her dad die, losing her family, she would be affected by all of that

[gokbay]

24:10 Yes, but while allowing Arya swordfighting lessons he does reinforce the gender norms by telling her she'll marry a lord and have his children. He still has those traditional gender ideas, but simply allows for somewhat more freedom/flexibility within the gender roles.

[ahspire]

im reading the first book at the moment for the first time so every time you drop one of these i get excited as hell

[gingersmash]

Back to back days going over AGOT 😩😩😩😩😩

[convenientlyshapedlamp]

My favorite Preston series by far, glad they’re relatively easy on him to put out

[memeaficionado]

Ive never considered it from ser Ilyn's POV, thats fucking hilarious lol. The entire group of nobles just roasts you in public for no reason. Poor guy cant even speak up for himself 😂

[jclaburn]

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a major inspiration for the series, and we have to acknowledge that even though most knights are horrible in it (the three biggest villains of the story are all Norman knights), Ivanhoe is a true knight as is Robin of Locksley (it was this story which popularized Robin Hood and Friar Tuck from local legends throughout the English speaking world) as is the book’s version of King Richard the Lionheart (the mystery Black Knight).

Which is all to say that Breanne and Dunk and Jon as true knight figures are part of ASOIAF too just like true knights are part of Scott’s story, and Jon and Breanne as well as a reformed Jaime are all going to play key roles saving humanity.

George isn’t saying the idea of true knights is stupid and shouldn’t exist. He’s showing reality wasn’t like this just like Sir Walter Scott did (where three different knights each victimize one of the three most important female characters) while also saying it is people who think like Sansa who will help save the world because they have true knight ideals like Ivanhoe and Robin Hood and Scott’s King Richard the true king returning to put things aright for the common folk.

George’s final book if he can finish it is going to be more hopeful and idealistic than Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Sansa has been set up for a happy ending where, long after she loses all her idealism, she actually gets saved and protected by true knights, actually marries a good-hearted prince, and gives birth to princes and princesses. That’s one of George’s biggest final twists.