sansa iv, a clash of kings & jon xii, a storm of swords :
[requested by millie]
She shouted for Ser Dontos, for her brothers, for her dead father and her dead wolf, for gallant Ser Loras who had given her a red rose once, but none of them came. She called for the heroes from the songs, for Florian and Ser Ryam Redwyne and Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, but no one heard.
They were not little boys when they fought, but knights and mighty heroes. “I’m Prince Aemon the Dragonknight,” Jon would call out, and Robb would shout back, “Well, I’m Florian the Fool.” Or Robb would say, “I’m the Young Dragon,” and Jon would reply, “I’m Ser Ryam Redwyne.”
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Jon and Sansa book parallels [part four]
I wanted to wait a while after the finale for the drama to
die down and I stopped either reacting to other posts or getting tangled up in
my head before I attempt to review my previous thoughts about how the show went
about declaring Jon King over Sansa, how this story works in relation to
Cersei’s own coronation in King’s Landing, and what did or did not work for me
and why. Also, the whole JonSansa tension and how Littlefinger fits in.
amazing though, don’t you think?
The North Remembers
Go! Go! Follow your commander!
Full disclosure: the Grand Northern Conspiracy is one of my favorite parts of the books. It’s smart. It’s engaging. It falls in line with what we’ve been told of the North. It’s uplifting in that the Starks’ cause lives on in all Northerners. It’s loyalty and love wrapped in a layer of cunning and political maneuvers. It’s just fantastic.
But as disappointed as I was that it didn’t make it to the show, and as flabbergasted as I was as to why, I could have gotten over it if we had gotten a properly thought-through alternative story and if the characters’ motivation and the force that drives their actions fell in line with the information the show provided us with previously. Instead, what we got just didn’t make sense. It wasn’t cohesive or logical. If you try to put together the parts that ultimately led to Sansa and Jon’s army being at such a disadvantage in numbers, they just don’t glue properly. Mainly because it was so easy to poke holes through the characters’ motivation, and because the show made some very questionable decisions in its storytelling that only served to compromise our heroes’ credibility and political awareness, not to mention destroy the image of the North that had been cultivated so far.
– A contradictory storytelling:
It was a given that going in the complete opposite direction of the source material when it comes to the Northern story was going to garner some backlash, but it got harder to work through the change when the show chose to hint at the story going one direction then suddenly did the opposite while still having the main characters be adamant that honor and vows would hold up. The Northern arc actively ignored some key events like they never happened, and turned several characters to fools that had no idea what the fuck they were talking about, from Sansa to Jon to Robett Glover to Roose Bolton. Everyone was wrong. Everyone was foolish. Only Ramsay knew what was up. Even when his opinions were put against an experienced warrior’s like Roose. Even when everything we’ve been told previously points to the opposite.
Sam speaks 