Daenerys Says Sansa Must Marry Again Archive
Sophie Turner in Season 8 of HBO's Game Of Thrones (courtesy Helen Sloan/HBO)
This post contains spoilers for Game Of Thrones, Flavor 8.
With the army of the expressionless and their in-demand-of-moisturizer leader, the Nighttime King, no longer a concern, let's get to the concern at paw: Who will sit down on the Iron Throne?
Game Of Thrones has been playing upwardly the bona fides of Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow and Cersei Lannister as potential rulers of the Seven Kingdoms. But another, less obvious contender is worthy of consideration: Sansa Stark.
Several things would need to go down for this to happen: Jaime Lannister could kill his sister/sometime lover, Cersei. Daenerys could die in battle. Then could Jon Snow, or if he survives, he could abdicate, hand the reins over to Sansa and spend the rest of his life brooding over his terrible dating track tape. Maybe Tyrion volition stop upwardly as Sansa's Hand, or even her married man (we did see some sparks fly in Sunday'south episode). Brienne of Tarth, the most trustworthy person around, could exist in charge of Sansa'south Queensguard. Arya Stark could accept a cool, clandestine solo assassinator gig. And just get out Bran Stark in Winterfell ("at that place must always exist a Stark in Winterfell" later all).
Taking the throne would be a total-circle moment for Sansa. When nosotros start met her in Flavour 1, she was an innocent girl who wanted to hang out in King'southward Landing, ally Joffrey and become queen.
She paid a very heavy price for her naivete. The Lady of Winterfell has arguably suffered more than whatsoever other major graphic symbol (certainly more than any other living one) and has proven to be a resilient survivor.
We wouldn't have blamed Sansa if those horrors - which we won't recap here because they are plentiful and terrible - turned her into a vengeful ruler. But they didn't. Instead, she is a stable and more than-than capable leader, 1 who doesn't fly off the handle when faced with criticism and cares more nigh her people and family than exacting revenge. Equally she told Arya in Season 7, beheading and executing people may seem satisfying but that'south not how yous keep factions together when you're trying to fight a state of war.
That'due south non exactly the attitude exhibited by, say, Daenerys, who has shown signs of Mad King-y tendencies.
Over eight seasons, Sansa has get well-versed in the treachery, lying and harm those with power are capable of rendering. Sure, she trusted the wrong people in previous seasons (although you lot could debate she had lilliputian choice but to accept Petyr Baelish's assistance in escaping Male monarch's Landing). But she knows better now.
"I'm a slow learner, information technology'south true," she tells Baelish in Season 7, earlier his execution. "Merely I learn."
The show's writers take been dropping hints this flavor that Sansa is not to be overlooked. "Many underestimated y'all," Tyrion Lannister tells her in the premiere. "Virtually of them are dead at present."
When Jon Snow dismisses Sansa'due south skepticism of Daenerys, saying that the Lady of Winterfell thinks she'southward smarter than anybody else, Arya responds: "She's the smartest person I've ever met," of Sansa, which is a super nice sisterly compliment, but also calls back to how Sansa described Arya in the previous season. "You're the strongest person I know," Sansa told Arya then, a argument that Arya demonstrated well when she killed the Night King.
Sansa proved her smarts as the merely major character who immediately doubted Cersei's pledge of back up in the fight against the expressionless - and that included the Lannister brothers who should know Cersei better than anyone. In the season premiere, Sansa tells Tyrion that she once considered him to be the nearly clever homo she knew, but he's now basically a dummy for believing the Lannister forces were en route.
Underestimating Cersei will be a huge liability in the upcoming fight for power. And Sansa knows not to do that.
While Sunday's episode had Sansa retreating - at Arya's wise orders - to the crypts, Sansa does accept an eye for military strategy that relies on evaluating the psychology of her opponent. In the Battle of the Bastards, she showed herself to be a better war machine tactician than Jon, knowing that Ramsay Bolton wouldn't fall into the trap that Jon intended to prepare. It was her surreptitious entreatment to Littlefinger that saved the solar day.
Sunday'due south episode besides demonstrated that prophecies and predictions we've seen in previous seasons are finding their fulfillment now. So let's not dismiss a flashback scene from Flavour five, in which a brash young Cersei has her fortune read by a witch, Maggy the Frog.
In that scene, Cersei declares she has been promised to prince Rhaegar Targaryen. "Yous'll never wednesday the prince," Maggy says. "Y'all'll wednesday the king." True, and truthful - Cersei didn't ally Rhaegar, but rather Robert Baratheon, who became king.
"You'll exist queen, for a time. And comes another, younger, more beautiful to cast yous downwards and have all you hold love," Maggy continues. "The rex will have twenty children. And you'll have 3 . . . Aureate will exist their crowns. Gold, their shrouds."
While Cersei was dislocated past that childbearing calculus, it added up: Robert would have several dozen children out of marriage, while Cersei and her brother Jaime would have 3 children. They have all since died ("gold, their shrouds").
Cersei did become queen through her wedlock, and back in Season 5, viewers likely interpreted the line about a younger and more beautiful "to cast you down and accept all you hold dear" as a reference to Margaery Tyrell. Nosotros all know what happened to her (RIP), and a dethroned Cersei became queen again. And while Maggy'southward fortune could besides refer to Daenerys, that also feels too predictable for a show known for its curveballs.
The younger and more cute 1 to cast Cersei down could very well be Sansa.
But maybe Sansa'south all-time qualification for taking the Atomic number 26 Throne is she'southward highly adept at the less glamorous aspects of ruling. Do you know how many spreadsheets would be required to coordinate the housing, food and fuel accommodations needed to keep an army of people alive and fed through a long winter? Sansa seemed to be the only one concerned with this!
Treatment logistics is a very underrated quality in a queen. But every bit we've seen in previous seasons, overlooking the money and food parts of running a kingdom can lead to your downfall.
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