Lady Stark returns as a vengeful, undead version of herself called Lady Stoneheart, and she joins up and takes charge of the Brotherhood Without Banners (not to be confused with the Brotherhood Without Manners). Lady Stoneheart Is Nowhere To Be SeenĬatelyn Stark is killed along with her son and his wife at the Red Wedding but in the books she doesn’t stay dead-well, not entirely dead anyways. But it won’t be the stupid crap we got in the show with her and Arya “fooling” Baelish in one of the worst, most ham-fisted storylines of the later seasons. In any case, we have no idea what will happen with Sansa who remains at the Eyrie with Littlefinger when we last saw her in the books. Having Sansa actually be married to Ramsay makes absolutely no sense, and it was at that moment that I realized the showrunners were not nearly clever enough to pull this off. The lie is part of the wonderful intrigue that makes Martin’s work so compelling. It strengthens their claim to Winterfell which is tenuous at best after their betrayal of their former lord and the murder of Robb Stark at the Red Wedding. The Boltons, meanwhile, hatch their own plan and have Ramsay marry Jeyne Pool and then lie about it and claim that she’s Arya Stark. There is simply nothing strategic about giving her over to the wicked Boltons. Littlefinger was in love with Catelyn and sees her in Sansa. She is the daughter of one of the most powerful Houses in Westeros and niece to Lady Arryn, Catelyn Stark’s sister. Littlefinger keeping Sansa for himself as part of his bid to become the lord of the Eyrie and take over House Arryn makes sense. a huge loss that earned him nothing whatsoever-a political maneuver so stupid and shortsighted that one can’t really call it a maneuver at all. This was an “out of the frying pan into the fire” moment for Sansa. I’ve long argued that HBO’s Game Of Thrones jumped the shark not in its shoddy 7th season and not during the execrable final season, but rather the moment Littlefinger took Sansa Stark and pawned her off on the Boltons for no good reason whatsoever.

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