OFFICIAL Game of Thrones Thread - Page 143

I keep waiting for that useless cunt Sansa to die. I'd be happy if something terrible happened to Littlefinger and Cersi, too, but at least they're entertaining in the meantime. Sansa is just a pointless waste of resources.

I'm guessing she's going to pull a Reek and finally find her balls and turn into an interesting character with a big role to play.

At least, that's what I hope, cause yeah, she's pretty annoying at the moment.

The only bad thing about splitting the season into two, is more Joffrey

Supposedly he has told at the least the GoT producers how the series ends, so if he dropped dead, hopefully we'd at least find out the broad strokes of how everything ends up. But yeah, the man needs to quit doing conventions and expansion books and stuff, and get writing. He's like 65 and 400 pounds, I wouldn't bet on him living to a ripe old age.

For your Joffrey concern, well, there's always this:

I feel like Sansa is moving towards the point where she's growing up and becoming a real human being. There are only a few completely irredeemable characters in the series: Joffrey, Ramsay, Gregor Clegane. Even Cersei shows flashes of humanity by the end, and even though I'm sure she will remain a villain to the end, I found it hard not to have a certain amount of sympathy for her.

I think Sansa has a purpose.

She's naive but she was raised as a diplomat of sorts. She's the only one one left who paid attention in her lessons and has any hope of navigating the North through the politics that will follow as westeros ends its current phase of outright war.

I think partnering her up with littlefinger leads her to this role--take the history and interhouse relations she knows and add some of the political intrigue (that didn't exist in the north) that littlefinger is the master of.

Definitely agree. She has a role to play, and she is growing into that role.

I'm curious to see whats going to happen with Arya. I mean, ok, yeah, she's going to be a badass assassin or whatever, but what role is this going to play? Is she going to have to give up being a Stark, or is she just going to learn her badass assassin skills and then leave?

Theon/Reek is an interesting character, too... I think he has a big redemption coming.

Arya reminds me of my daughter and I want so much good for her that it's almost painful to read her chapters because she goes through so much. I think there is no way she forgets that she's a Stark. I do think the endgame of the story is Jon Snow, who has been speculated to be the love child of Rhaegar Taergaryen and Lyanna Stark, being the new king and Arya has such an important connection to him that there is no way she's not involved in his struggle. I think the tragedy for her will be having to leave behind the Faceless Men, who have become a surrogate family for her as her blood family was torn apart. I also hold out hope that Syrio, who we never actually saw die in the book or the show, will turn up somewhere before the end.

Also, hasn't Theon already had a redemption in helping to save the girl pretending to be Arya (or something like that. My memory is a bit muddled on this point). I am guessing Theon is dead now but there's no way to be sure.

The big mystery for me is whether Ramsay actually caught and killedMance and his women. Some of the samples already released spoiled the fact that Stannis is still around (not a huge surprise) but I hope that Mance made it. I had really warmed up to that guy.

Oh yeah, Jon is, IMO, clearly becoming the focus of this story. R+L = J. Fire and Ice. No way it's not that. Honestly, makes you wonder what role Daenerys will have. Hell, maybe they get married, even though they are first cousins. Wouldn't be the first time Targaryens have wed... Now, only question is how he comes back to life. My money is on Melisandre seeing the errors of her ways and going all Thoros of Myr on him.

I think Theon/Reek has more redemption coming. I mean, that was nice and all, but he can't have survived all of that just to save Jeyne Poole.

I can't quite recall, but something about the letter that Ramsay sends to the Wall regarding Stannis was false IIRC, making me think that the whole thing about him being captured was bogus. Agreed that I hope Mance made it, he was a pretty cool character.

Excited to see what happens with Jaime too, he has turned into one of the most interesting characters in the books.