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Some instinct made her lift her hand and cup his cheek with her fingers. The room was
too dark for her to see him, but she could feel the stickiness of the blood, and a wetness that was not blood. “Little bird,” he said once more, his voice raw and harsh as steel on stone. Then he rose from the bed. Sansa heard cloth ripping, followed by the softer sound of retreating footsteps.
When she crawled out of bed, long moments later, she was alone. She found his cloak on the floor, twisted up tight, the white wool stained by blood and fire. The sky outside was darker by then, with only a few pale green ghosts dancing against the stars. A chill wind was blowing, banging the shutters. Sansa was cold. She shook out the torn cloak and huddled beneath it on the floor, shivering.
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Ok, so as much as I am totally crushed regarding yesterday’s underwhelming scene (more ranting later) I want to share some important info with my fellow sansan shippers to get your spirits up a bit!
So I’ve been an HBO devotee for quite a while and can say I a good understanding of how they work, which brings me to my point:
HBO does not place deleted scenes on their dvds, BECAUSE THERE ARE NEVER ANY DELETED SCENES IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Their series are extremely expensive, well thought out, meticulously planned productions where every minute and every cent counts. Basically, if it gets filmed, it gets shown. From it to go from page to screen requires countless decisions to be made (lighting, makeup, costume, set design, sound design, editing, etc.) and lots of manpower.
So I think we can be sure that D&D, the producers, and the director all meant for the scene to be in the episode. In my experience the decision to cut the scene probably came from an Executive Producer with veto power. This doesn’t have to be the case, but the other option is that after the episode was ready they decided to take it out (‘cause you can be sure it was in the episode originally since the look of the photo is from a take that has been edited and color-matched and other technical things…) .
So I can say with a great degree of sureness that we will probably get to see that scene someday. However, we still have to ask, beg, and plead HBO for it and make sure that they understand it was a big mistake on their part to have released a promotional still for a scene not present in the final product they presented.
TV shows and Films are incredibly collaborative projects where to put the blame on any one person without evidence is wrong and just plain discourteous. So, in conclusion, let’s ask for our scene, but let’s make sure that mutual respect and understanding are what sets us apart from other fans.
GO FORTH AND RAIN EMAILS DOWN ON HBO!
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staring at his hands and ignoring everything else should not get me so hot and bothered.
welcome to my nerd cave: rememberwheretheheartis: skagos: missmeaghanrose: Aw shit this means…
Aw shit this means no Blackwater cloak
that she keeps in her hope chest probably because she constantly misses him as we learn in ASoSright? Fuckers.i completely forgot about the cloak now you’ve reminded me and oh god now im…
I knew it. In the first glimpses of Blackwater in early promos Sandor was not wearing his cloak and my bullshit radar tingled.
Now I have this terrible fear that SanSan was only in our heads or that after all those years GRRM decided to let go of this idea and just let Sandor chill in QI for the rest of his days so Sansa could become some kind of Virgin Queen.
I refuse to believe that. I think in this episode, GRRM really tried to salvage what had become of this relationship and did the absolute best that he could with what he was given. He may have written this episode but it was focused on the battle because that’s what the producers wanted.
D&D aren’t subtle like GRRM and aren’t as good with the foreshadowing. Benioff himself is a writer. His book, City of Thieves, is actually good, quite entertaining, but not very deep. Lots of action, bombs, sex, and the ending is so obvious and there’s self-insertion in there (sound familiar?). Really just entertaining, read it once and lend it out and forget about it. My point it, the showrunners don’t understand the literary devices like GRRM does, and GRRM has riddled his novels with hints and foreshadowing and symbolism with Sansa and Sandor. I have a degree in Lit and I hated writing and it was always a struggle for me to write these bullshit 15 page papers, but damn could I have written forever about Sandor and Sansa, if we had studied this in classes.
I am clearly biased, but to me, it’s the only endgame relationship for Sansa that actually makes sense. Sandor is there when she physically becomes a woman (“flowering”), he’s there when she symbolically becomes a woman (Blackwater), and he’s in her dreams (which are so important to this series) as she really starts to blossom into her womanhood. She compares other men to him, hears his voice when he’s not there, constantly wonders if she made the right decision to stay in KL. Sansa is the person that melts the ice that surrounds Sandor’s very heart and soul, who makes him care again and reminds him of the innocent child that he once was, before he became a killing machine, back when he was Sandor and not Hound or Dog. They are so important to each other. He probably dreams of her on the QI as well. It’s no mistake that the last novel will be called A Dream of Spring.
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That’s right — there is now an official Game of Thrones cookbook. And while it doesn’t include a recipe for sauteed horse heart a la khaleesi, it is stuffed with Westerosi dishes that actually sound scrumptious… as well as a guide to making honeyed locusts. We interviewed the authors of A Feast of Ice and Fire about the challenges of cooking fictional food, weird medieval recipes, and which fantastical world they’d like to tackle next. Hint: It rhymes with “Larry Totter.”
