The deaths of Ramsey Bolton and Peter Baelish were the two most satisfying scenes in GoT.

Sansa is never broken. That's her strength, endurance - then absolute power.

I hate all the Sansa hate. People forget that when she was in King's Landing she was 14 years old.

Oh Sansa. They will never make me hate you.

Bro he wasn’t trying to help sansa! He was trying to break her, so he could control her completely.

Sansa developed her own kill list.
Peter Baelish, Ramsay Bolton, Joffrey Baratheon. Ser Meryn Trant was probably on it too, while Cersei might not have made her list. But, the biggest name on Sansa's list was King's Landing.

Sansa effortlessly dropped the idea in Tyrion's head that there might be a better claimant than Danaerys to the Iron throne. It was a idea that drove Danaerys to sacking the city, much to Sansa's glory for the torment experienced by the court.

12:12 also, he made Sansa distrust Brianne before, and now she is the only person in that room who Sansa trusts.

The breakdown of this scene is exquisitely done. The references nicely interjected. Bravo!!

i enjoyed this video analysis. Sansa is one of the most complex characters in Game of Thrones. Initially she was weak and dependent on others. Then she endured so many horrors and learned so much. I love how she ultimately survives, with help from a few others, and becomes powerful, and a True Queen in the North.

When young girls are taught that 'polite' women don't speak of certain things, don't air out the family's dirty laundry, etc. what they're really being told is to never warn other girls/women about the danger certain men present. These girls are taught to keep quiet so as to protect the abusers. Don't. Tell on these men in a safe way to a safe person. If they don't listen, tell someone else. Keep. On. Telling.

13:41 I was thinking "human trafficker".

I hate Petyr Balish - but he is also one of my FAVORITE characters. He's such a calculated little weasel who has been so good at his game... until he wasn't. I was genuinely sad to see him go, but also rooting for it too - if that makes sense?

I ADORE SANSA. What Petyr did to her was truly unforgivable.

He tries to gaslight. But she's keeping it real.

She tells LF to go back to the Vale, that she never wants to see him again . She says she and Jon will take the North back on their own. But every Sansa hater will go on about how she should’ve told Jon that she wrote to LF asking him to send the Knights of the Vale, that a lot of Jon’s army died because of her not telling him.

How could she tell Jon? This scene was the last convo she had with LF before the Battle of the Bastards, and she had NO WAY of knowing if LF would come through for them, especially after she’d threatened to have Brienne kill him.

PLUS, Jon wouldn’t listen to her when she told him that Rickon was dead brother walking, and he took Ramsay’s bait, almost getting himself killed going all Leroy Jenkins, which was against the careful battle plans they’d made about not charging in first. But sure; it was all Sansa’s fault for not telling him that the KotV MIGHT be on their way to help.

Jon might’ve been off defending the North and all of Westeros against the Night King’s undead army, becoming a great warrior and leader, but Sansa had been watching the Great Game and its biggest players up close for years. She’d learned that the only protection she really had was her status as Ned Stark’s daughter and heir, and the only real protection she had was her wielding that power herself. She couldn’t trust any man to take it from her under the guise of wanting to protect her. She saw what power did to people, and what they would do to keep it. Jon had been Lord Commander of Castle Black, and she hadn’t seen him since she was a child still believing in fairy tales. She didn’t know if she could trust him, and she didn’t have enough time to find out before they had to face the Bolton army. LF planted that seed of doubt, then showed up to save the day, thinking that he’d gotten back into her good graces. But all he did was walk into the trap set by the pack.

There is a component i think many people over look when it comes to Little Finger and the Marraiages of Sansa Stark.  He helped engineer the weddings of Sansa and even Sansa witnessing his relations with Caitlin's sister to make himself look like a perfect idea of a husband.  The thing he missed is that Sansa grew up.  

He expected the wedding to Tyrion to disgust her, the wedding to Ramsey to break her.  But they forged her insted.  Little Finger is great about understanding what men want and predicting what they will do. I believe he is genuinely unable to understand how Caitlin and therefore Sansa want and will do.  I believe it why he is so obsessed with them.

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The hatred for Sansa is nonsensical and shows me that people don't see the nuance in her character. She is probably one of the most realistic and better-written characters on the show, with an interesting evolution. Like other high-born ladies of the court, including in real-life history, she was raised to marry well, be pretty and bear heirs to further the family name and legacy. Her time was spent on ladylike pursuits such as sewing, dancing, making things beautiful, and learning to host etc, while in her spare time she filled her head with the romance of shining knights and chivalry, as was expected of her. She was groomed to be an ornament for powerful men, especially as the eldest daughter, which left her spoilt, vain, and naive, with rose-tinted glasses as a child. But life later put her through the wringer, and she realised she didn't live in a fairytale like in the books she read. Constantly used as a political pawn to further other people's agendas, she had no power or autonomy to make major decisions for herself after her father's arrest and subsequent beheading. Routinely backed into a corner, she eventually learned to play the game. At King's Landing, she began hiding her true emotions and thoughts, spouting PR-coded answers under the guise of politeness and meekness to those who held literal daggers at her back. It was strategic to hide under the radar like a mouse. First, in her own not so perfect way to protect her family. Then, when she thought all her family were dead, she played the game for self-preservation. At one point, Tyrion even commended her, saying, "She may survive us all yet," as he was the only one who saw through her facade. He, too, was putting on an act. They both have people underestimating them.

Yes, when I first watched GOT, in the early seasons I was annoyed with Sansa, but then I viewed her character objectively, even through a real historical lens, and began to understand her. And while it took her a while to fully learn all the intricacies of who people truly were (like Littlefinger, with the Ramsay Bolton marriage situation fully opening her eyes to how duplicitous and dangerous he is), she's also intelligent, which we see as the series progresses, more than people gave her credit for. She became malleable in the face of her tormentors and others. With Joffrey, she learned not to show her emotions, as he feeds on them, by acting weak, dumb, and submissive. He eventually stopped paying her attention and found other people to torment. Not many people would have survived the years of abuse, humiliation and loneliness she went through without breaking. Sansa isn't a warrior in the traditional sense, wielding a sword (like her sister Arya), having the loudest voice in the room, or acting first before thinking things through because of honour or for justice (as other members of the Stark family learned too late, leading to their demise). She is a character with grit, perseverance and patience (getting her revenge when the time was right) who has quiet power amongst all the noise.

Ramsay Bolton didn't systematically breakdown Sansa, he did systematically breakdown Thoen. He'd have liked to have done similar to Sansa, and did put some effort into it if nothing else purely due to his nature, but not the same kind of single minded effort like what produced Reek. Ramsay did enough to Sansa for her shared (with Reek) trauma at the hands of Bolton to bring her back around to caring for that POS who betrayed her family in possibly the worst betrayal of the whole damn series, but Ramsay failed to break her.

Very intriguing. I love these deep dive food for thought psychoanalysisisis... very much. You have my gratitude. Please keep it up.

One of my favorite scenes of hers is when she's trying to get back at Ramsay, who now has a little brother. "You're a bastard. A true born will always have the stronger claim." "I was made true born by the king!" "Another bastard?"

The idea was always batshit that Sansa would accept being handed to the Boltons, instead of telling  the Lords of the Vale that LittleFinger murdered Lysa Aryn.