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canyonwalker) wrote2022-10-21 04:30 pm
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GoT S6E4: Sansa and Petyr
In Game of Thrones S6E4 Sansa Stark and Petyr Baelish meet again for the first time in several episodes. Given what's happened in Sansa's storyline, she has a lot to say to Petyr. Though what she says is intense, it's relatively brief. That leaves me wondering whether she understands the true depth of Petyr's deceit.
Fan sites don't have a lot to offer on this question, alas. That's because there's no authoritative book source to draw additional detail from. This storyline in the TV series represents sort of a mash-up of two separate storylines in the books combined with something that might happen in yet-to-be-published book 6. Spoilers up through mid season 6 beyond the cut.
What I'm talking about, of course, is Sansa's marriage to psychopathic Ramsay Bolton. And that's what Sansa confronts Petyr about, at a secretive meeting in Mole's Town in S6E4. She demands to know, did Petyr know how brutal Ramsay would be to her when he arranged their marriage (and failed to warn her), or was he somehow amazingly ignorant of Ramsay's monstrous reputation?
Petyr dodges the question by simply saying (and repeating) that he's sorry. Sansa notes that she could have Brienne simply lop off his head right then and there. By not doing so she's indicating that a) she recognizes there'd be consequences to that, but also b) she's willing to continue working with Petyr to destroy the Boltons and reclaim Winterfell for the Starks. But that's where I really wonder, does she know how evil Petyr is?
Petyr plotted to murder her uncle, Jon Arryn.
Petyr set her family on a collision course with the Lannisters.
Petyr betrayed her father.
Petyr plotted to kill the king.
Petry killed her aunt. In cold blood. In front of her.
Sansa trusted Petyr when he arranged her marriage to Ramsay Bolton in season 5. She believed his assurances that it was a hardship she could endure. She thought Petyr's (icky) infatuation with her was an asset. I thought so, too, FWIW. That's why in my predictions after season 4 I expected that tragedy would happen around her rather than to her. Petyr didn't actually love her, icky or otherwise; he sent her to be raped and brutalized, knowing it would advance his position. Sansa now shouldn't believe a thing he says. Yet she seems too willing to continue working with him, as if this next time will be different.
Fan sites don't have a lot to offer on this question, alas. That's because there's no authoritative book source to draw additional detail from. This storyline in the TV series represents sort of a mash-up of two separate storylines in the books combined with something that might happen in yet-to-be-published book 6. Spoilers up through mid season 6 beyond the cut.
What I'm talking about, of course, is Sansa's marriage to psychopathic Ramsay Bolton. And that's what Sansa confronts Petyr about, at a secretive meeting in Mole's Town in S6E4. She demands to know, did Petyr know how brutal Ramsay would be to her when he arranged their marriage (and failed to warn her), or was he somehow amazingly ignorant of Ramsay's monstrous reputation?
Petyr dodges the question by simply saying (and repeating) that he's sorry. Sansa notes that she could have Brienne simply lop off his head right then and there. By not doing so she's indicating that a) she recognizes there'd be consequences to that, but also b) she's willing to continue working with Petyr to destroy the Boltons and reclaim Winterfell for the Starks. But that's where I really wonder, does she know how evil Petyr is?
Petyr plotted to murder her uncle, Jon Arryn.
Petyr set her family on a collision course with the Lannisters.
Petyr betrayed her father.
Petyr plotted to kill the king.
Petry killed her aunt. In cold blood. In front of her.
Sansa trusted Petyr when he arranged her marriage to Ramsay Bolton in season 5. She believed his assurances that it was a hardship she could endure. She thought Petyr's (icky) infatuation with her was an asset. I thought so, too, FWIW. That's why in my predictions after season 4 I expected that tragedy would happen around her rather than to her. Petyr didn't actually love her, icky or otherwise; he sent her to be raped and brutalized, knowing it would advance his position. Sansa now shouldn't believe a thing he says. Yet she seems too willing to continue working with him, as if this next time will be different.