Littlefinger, Little Flay, and Sansa's Blackening (with spoilers)
Leann 2022-03-27 09:01:14
Whether it is in the main line of the plot development or in Martin's book , it's always Littlefinger who plays the role of Sansa's teacher. In the Seven Kingdoms, Littlefinger is a unique character. As Eunuch Varys commented, if he needs to break through the Seven Kingdoms to get what he wants, Littlefinger doesn't mind being the King of Ruins. Because Littlefinger is very clear that the balance between the families and the order in the Seven Kingdoms will only maintain the power of the nobles and princes. This characteristic of egoistic rationalism distinguishes Littlefinger from other aristocratic men and women, big and small: Littlefinger is Littlefinger, and does not represent any family, but only his own interests. Because of this, while the aristocratic men and women in the play struggle with their family responsibilities, personality flaws, and some of them go to self-destruction, Littlefinger rises step by step in the turbulent times of the Seven Kingdoms. At the end of the ninth episode of this season, it seems that The North is in hand.
Littlefinger is Sansa's enlightenment teacher when it comes to court intrigue and scheming. In "Game of Thrones", teachers always have some special feelings for students, such as Ja Kun to Arya, such as Littlefinger to Sansa. On top of that, Littlefinger's feelings for Sansa are primarily an empathy for his teenage sweetheart Caitlin. Physically, Sansa, with burgundy hair and blue eyes, has inherited Caitlin's beauty, and Caitlin is the only woman Littlefinger craved but didn't get. But if you delve into the growth history of Sansa in the play, it is not difficult to see that there has always been something similar to Littlefinger in Sansa: self-interested rationality.
Going back to the first one, Sansa was the most alienated Stark from her siblings. She is at odds with her younger sister Arya, and despises her illegitimate son Jon, and her interactions with her eldest brother Robb and her two younger brothers are not described much. At least it can be seen that there is no relationship between her and her siblings. Too strong emotional bond. Therefore, when the father took his two daughters to the north, Sansa's heart was full of yearning for the prosperous life and beautiful clothes in the royal city, and she had little nostalgia for the Winterfell she grew up with and her brothers who were about to part. In King's Landing, she betrayed her father to the queen. Although she did not expect that this would eventually put him to death, her motives were always her own interests and situation, and she never thought too much about others, even her biological father. After her father died, she lived in Joffrey's humiliation, so much so that the little devil once asserted that this girl would outlive us all. Why does the little devil who has always understood human nature say that? Because he saw the girl's calmness in protecting herself in troubled times and blood feuds. Because she only thinks about herself, she has no shame she can't stand. Sansa is a person who holds grudges rather than gratitude, so she doesn't think about what happens to the only two little devils in King's Landing who have given her shelter after Joffrey's death. Littlefinger, who pays special attention to her, should not fail to see these qualities—this may be the reason why Littlefinger chose her to teach her carefully, in addition to her status as the heiress of the North and Caitlin's daughter.
In the novel, Sansa has been kept in the valley by Littlefinger so far, and has slowly grown and blackened. In the episode, she was quickly thrown into another purgatory, Winterfell under the rule of Little Flay. Sansa's bad masculinity culminates here in Little Flay. When it comes to perversion, Emperor Joffrey is just a little kid who doesn't care about his mother or mother in front of the little skin. Some people on the English forum complained that the perverts in "Game of Thrones" lack depth, but I feel that if I add some childhood information explained in the book, the perverts are as classic as textbooks, with great analytical value, and it is worth writing a big article. Long text, I can't expand it here. What we need to pay attention to here is the subtle influence of small skinning on Sansa. Joffrey is a little brat because he really doesn't know anything about the human heart. He can only hide on the Iron Throne and hurt others with the sword of power, and once pulled off the Iron Throne, he can't do anything. But small peels are different. Little Flayer loves violence as much as Joffrey, but he's better at smelling human frailties, stripping the skin of what a human being is, smashing noble men and women into situations where dogs are inferior, and then killing them. This is his revenge on the world that rejected him.
It is precisely because of Xiao Baopi's sensitivity to the soft points of human nature, and his obsession with manipulation that breaks people's hearts, "don't know anything" Lord Snow is calculated by his opposite, "Know everything" Lord Snow, If it weren't for the protagonist's aura breaking out at this moment, not to mention the lives of his brothers, he would have to take care of Melisandre again. But my interpretation of the ninth episode is that Lord Snow, who knows everything, is still being calculated. Knowing him is like knowing Sansa who has a bone attached to himself. When the horn in the valley sounded, Littlefinger sat on the horse calmly, and Sansa with burgundy hair was riding a white horse with a slightly contented smile on her face. There are two interpretations of this scene. One is that the reinforcements in the valley just arrived, and the cavalry broke up the small skinned infantry encirclement from the periphery - this is an inspirational story; the other is that the reinforcements in the valley have already Arrived, just waiting in the distance for the little skinned men and horses to form a siege against Jon's army. The second possibility is darker. If the little skinning used the opponent's younger brother as bait to lure Jon into a rain of arrows, and then used his cavalry to collide with the opponent and die together, and finally surrounded the opponent's supported infantry with armored soldiers, causing stampedes, and finally annihilating all the opponent's forces in one fell swoop, Sansa is using her own (suspected) brother as bait, enjoying the thrill of taking victory away from her opponent when Little Flay thinks she's on the line. If this is a game of chess, Xiaobopi thinks he is a superior chess player, but he does not expect that Jon is just someone else's pawn. Sansa used the same trick to break through the small skinning game. This insight and strategy of people's hearts has nothing to do with her experience of being imprisoned and tortured in Winterfell. Going back to the inscription, the little skin said to Sansa before the temporary: "You can't kill me. I am part of you now." But such language can no longer cause harm to Sansa today. Sansa said: "Your words will disappear. Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear.
If the plot really develops like this, it is impossible to predict how much collateral damage will occur in the process, but this is obviously not a scene that Jon and his army of rough men can handle. Dear Jon, can you take your men and go back to the wall sooner?
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Jaime Lannister: Fuck prophecy. Fuck fate. Fuck everyone who isn't us.
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Margaery Tyrell: [haggard prisoner] I am the Queen and I demand to see my brother.
Septa Unella: Sinners don't make demands. They make confessions.