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| Black Amethyst by *Nachan, via deviantART |
This is one of the only illustrations I liked out of the handful on deviantART that depicted Sansa in her hairnet. Sometimes I'm so surprised at the dearth of good illustrations for what I consider major moments in the books! Nothing for Joffrey's death, and half the Sansa drawings include Sandor because people are CRAY.
This chapter took two tries to record. Brendan tends to do what I did the first time around, which is he reads so quickly that he misses some things, so when we started our first recording he thought that a bunch of questions had been put to rest when really they hadn't. It was one of our fewASOIAF-related arguments, and he finally decided to go reread and we tried again.
Not that certain questions aren't answered, because they are! Now we know who was behind the escape plan, which Brendan actually predicted and then forgot he had predicted. God bless his bad memory. And Dontos was willing to help Sansa...but only for a price, which Petyr wisely realized was too easy to top. And so away he goes!
How do you guys fell the TV show has handled Petry? And with Dontos not being in Season 2 almost at all, do you think they're going to keep the same "savior" for Sansa?
I don't know if I really like Sansa as a character. She's someone I have a harder time relating to. However, I do have a big problem with the hate she gets in the fandom for being a girly eleven year old girl. She is a very strong woman, and just because she displays that strength through courtesies doesn't mean she's weak. Arya wouldn't have survived a day in the circumstances Sansa did, just as Sansa wouldn't have survived what Arya went through. That doesn't make her weak. I guess my anger comes from the fact that I was more on the Arya side growing up, where I pushed back against being "girly" so hard that I think I probably missed out on some things. I wish we could accept "feminine" strengths being just as good as "masculine" ones, because one isn't really better. Sorry, I know you guys aren't attacking Sansa in this way in the podcast and that's one of the things I appreciate. I just wanted to vent about what I see too often.
ReplyDeleteI was blindsided by the Petyr reveal in this passage. I think I'm pretty oblivious when I read because I don't pick up on any subtleties until the second read through. Poor Dontos, though I'm pretty sure he would have betrayed her at the first opportunity. I'm guessing he will be in the show more this upcoming season, I think they might have just ran out of time for him with this past one.
After I read these two chapters the first time, I thought Littlefinger's goal was to poison Tyrion so that he would have Sansa all unattached to himself to place all of his feeling for Catelyn onto her. I think this because to me I thought Joff choked when he ate the pie, but having reread it, it could have been either way.
ReplyDeleteSo I also thought that Littlefinger is just trying to cover up the fact that he poisoned the wrong person when he explains it to Sansa. He seems to be able to exert some level of control over the king due to the fact that he has personal conversations with the king as seen by the jousting dwarves. That's the tiny shred of evidence I also use to think that Littlefinger influenced the King to execute Ned Stark as a way of exacting revenge against Starks for taking his love Catelyn (as he sees it).
I agree the show's Petyr Baelish is a completely different character and based upon a lot of decisions that were made to adapt Season 2 and it will be interesting to see how they change the book to adapt Season 3.
Hey Natasha, GRRM released a new sample chapter for TWOW
ReplyDeletehttp://georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html
sounds really exciting
Actually, by this point it should be possible to figure out from the text what kind of poison was used. We've definitely seen that poison once before: dark purple crystals that make the victim choke. Znrfgre Perffra hfrq vg jura ur gevrq gb cbvfba Zryvfnaqer.
ReplyDeleteThis poison apparently becomes indistinguishable once dissolved in wine. WHich is why it's almost sure the wine was poisoned. Which also means that no, Tyrion wasn't the target - Joffrey was.