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1. warmth by @citruspeel

2. nothing burns like the cold by @jen-snow

3. two fools in love by @shakespearianne

4. wool & tallow by @orangeflavoryawp

5. the things we do for love by @ladywolfmd

much love to ALL of the jonsa content creators out there, for real!!

Like they literally made him look more gorgeous & stately, sigh… my heart 😢

Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) thinks your “petition and things like that” are “disrespectful.” (NYT)

Jacob Anderson (Greyworm) thinks you’re “rude” and also wants to remind you that the show doesn’t belong to you. Also, he thinks your petition “trivializes” all the hard work that the cast and crew put into this last season and that you doing so is “sad.” (see appearance on Strahan and Sara)

Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark) thinks your petition is “ridiculous” and has kind of “taken it personally” so great job there, assholes. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Pedro Pascal (Oberyn Martell) wants you to shut up. And he wasn’t even in season 8. (Twitter)

Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) claims she’s never heard of your shitty band. (The New Yorker)

Daniel Portman (Podrick Payne) has resorted to making snide petition jokes via twitter and/or reblogged others that have done so. (Twitter)

And finally…Kit Harington (Jon Snow) “doesn’t give a fuck” what you think. In fact, he literally said you can “go fuck yourself.” (Esquire)

But yeah, you lot are totally right, this cast and crew is absolutely basking in the warmth and comfort of your support. 🙄

I read the petition maker’s statement on Reddit. He said he was just doing it to ‘make a statement to HBO’ and that he ‘never meant an actual remake.’ Also said that he was doing it to to defend the cast and crew and give them the better-written ending that their hard work deserved.

TBH it sounded like a big backpedal. I bet he updated the rationale when the petition reached the cast and crew’s ears and reworked it so it sounded more palatable. He then said his update just came too late.

You can make a statement about your dissatisfaction with the writing through a lot of things - open letters, fanfic, whatever. Or just plain say they deserved more, applaud their hard work, etc. But this person’s reaction is to actively petition it being ‘remade’. Signing it means you’re going to ask them for even more hard work to deliver a product you’ll be satisifed with.

How is -that- appreciating the hard work the cast and crew? Sounds like a sugarcoated justified tantrum to me.

PS:

With the whole ‘I never intended an actual remake’ etc. If he never really intended one from the start, he wouldn’t have said ‘remake’ at all. What’s the point of ending the petition summary with ‘Subvert my expectations and make it happen, HBO!’?

Game of Thrones  (April 17, 2011–May 19, 2019)

Ripped our hearts out at points. But life isn’t fair, and GOT was never meant to be fair either.

On Jon + Ghost

Yes. Maddening. How could Jon leave Ghost behind?

But guys. That shot of Jon walking away was a shot of Sam and Gilly, Tormund, Ghost, and Winterfell. It was a shot that sums up who Jon has been all his life. It is a metaphor for him walking away and leaving this pasr behind.

With all the behind-the-scenes pressure on Jon (Varys wants him to be King, Sansa conspires for this as well, Arya does not trust his Queen, darker Dany implications), obviously he will have to make some crucial decisions. And I think, he will do what he thinks is right, he will despise the idea of power even further, and will return to the North. Like Ghost, he does not belong to the South. The seemingly careless goodbye is a metaphor of him abandoning who he is, only to return where he truly belongs.

And that’s Jon’s arc now. His war is over, and he will decide who he is. Stark or Targaryen or Snow? Ruler or warrior? Etc.

On Missandei

Heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking. She was good and loyal to the very end and brave and deserved better.

Unfortunately, life does not give us what we deserve and neither does GOT. At this point, it makes sense that Cersei would take someone Dany cares about. It makes sense that she would kill her. It was, truly, awful and painful, but not untrue to the story. And that’s all that is to be said.

On Jaimie and Brienne

I know. When they got together I swear my heart was racing. And when Jaimie left I was like… what the hell.

But it makes sense. Jaimie, as much as we love him, has done some inherently unforgivable things. His fate has always been tied to Cersei. But he isn’t going to save her now. Not this time.

It’s not clear to us yet what his intentions are. Is he going there just because their fates are tied? Is he going there to save her? Is he going there without really knowing why?

Either way, Jaimie now knows what man he wants to be. He’s already left Cersei when he saw who she was. He also knows who he is.

I am firm in my belief that Jaimie will kill Cersei. Yes, I think he will die; he leave the world as he reached it, with Cersei, but finally free of her influence. Not a good man, because he is not. Not a bad man, because he is not that either.

Jaimie’s story has been about freeing himself from Cersei; he does this by fulfilling the valonqar prophecy. Brienne could not have her happy ending with him for this to happen as much as she deserved better. And it makes their stories (Jaimie’s redemption and Brienne’s true love and abolition of black-and-white morals) all the more tragically and heartbreakingly beautiful.

On Cersei

This. Was. Peak. Cersei.

The smart evil queen we love to hate, who knew Dany would go to Dragonstone, took down one of her dragons, and then her entire flee. Because she is smart. This is the strategy GOT was missing in battle.

On Dany

Ok. I’ve talked about this before. I knew she was going to go dark. And you know what? I love that they are not fucking up her arc by not doing it or by doing it in a black and white sort of way. Doing it like this is an unseen plot twist: a character poised to be the protagonist becoming someone she never wanted to become.

And the best part is you can feel for Dany. She does have a good heart. She is charismatic. As great as Jon, if not better, because not only she inspires love and rides dragons, she birthed them while she had nothing.

And now, no one appreciates this. Nor do they give her enough credit for the battle against the WW. On top of this, the one thing she wants her entire life is threatened by the man she loves. The only one she has left, as well: Dany is left alone, without those who have been with her forever. With 2 dead children, Jorah and Misandei gone.

It is not an excuse per se. But you see where she is coming from. You are tempted to excuse her. You can’t hate her. This is tragic. Because you can see how Misandei’s Dracarys can haunt her. And even if it will mean the death of innocents, I can imagine many good people still saying it, because this is how much they loved and fought.

That is peak GOT. Complex arcs. Tragic arcs. Villains you can understand: villains who were never meant to be or wanted to be villains. Not just “mad”. That would be boring af.

Tyrion and Varys

Ok. FINALLY some good dialogue. FINALLY some ethical discussions. Who deserves power? How far should you go to ensure the right person is on the throne? Missed you, Game of Thrones.

(Also. Tyrion. Never wanted power. Always accepted sitting on the sidelines to correct other people’s fuck ups, but always with good itnentions. If Jon doesn’t want the throne, could Tyrion get it? If there’s a throne at the end of this.)

Sansa, caring about her family but playing the game, because this is how she’s learnt to survive.

She has not hesitated to do what she thinks is right to protect her home the same way she did not in the Battle of the Bastards. And if it means playing the game behind Jon’s back… well. This is who she is. A player of the game, who knows all too well what happens if you fight with honour.

Arya turning down being a wife at a castle, because this really is not who she is.

The Hound and Arya marching to KL to finish business. Because Arya is capable of love, but, from the very start, has never been one to settle down. And this has not changed yet. As she said to Ned in s1, that is not her. As she said to Nymeria, that is not her.

Nikolaj’s acting was brilliant here

you can see the utter pain in Jaime’s eyes for upsetting Brienne so deeply, and you can see that he so desperately wants to say something and to show her that he doesn’t want to hurt her, rather save her.

5 minutes later: *rhaegal dies* *missandei gets killed* *daenerys’ fleet is destroyed*

Sansa: