Wait please elaborate on the off campus Jonsa au post
hi sry for the late response!!! i was kinda busy last week but im free now!
i read The Deal years ago, and at the time i actually didn't find that many similarities between Garrett/Hannah and jonsa. i mean sure, Garrett has those stromy gray eyes and Hannah is very good at singing just like Sansa, but book-Garrett is a little too aggressive for my taste. however, the tv series adaptation really deepened their characters (at least imo).
show-Garrett is more mature and respectful, which is exactly how i imagine Jon. they also deepened hannah's storyline, changing the whole dynamic from "two broken people fixing each other" to "fixing ourselves first, then loving each other"—which is what i like the most.
i can totally see Sansa as Hannah: a girl who has been through so much, but still gets up, keeps going, and tries to find beauty in a world that was once so cruel to her. they are both strong and independent women who won't be broken down by life's hardships, and most importantly, they see the world as it is and love it still.
narratively speaking, i can easily see Joffrey as that mayor's kid who did terrible shit to Hannah/Sansa. and of course, his family would cover it all up, making the stark family lose both their money and reputation. (in the book, the offender's mom is the mayor of hannah's hometown, and she's the one who brings total destruction upon Hannah's family—and we all know Cersei would do the exact same thing without batting an eye.)
Garrett always feels like there's this same kind of anger and destrudo flooding his veins that he has to rein in all the time, and his biggest fear is becoming as violent as his father. the show really intensifies this fear; it almost feels like a curse passed through blood during that staircase fighting scene. Phil Graham is also a whole lot better at disguising his true colors than he was in the book, which makes him lean way more into rhaegar's character imo. i can easily see Jon as Garrett: a boy raised by Rhaegar, who witnessed and was a victim of the Targaryen madness, refusing to become his father.
also, Phil wants Garrett to follow in his footsteps, wanting to live through Garrett's body, which kinda reminds me of how rhaegar was obsessed with the prophecy—the exact actions are different, but i think the underlying core is the same.
anyway, these are my thoughts on this topic!! shout out to this post for pointing out the similarity in the fighting scene too. i know there are technical rules for cinematography and framing, but the shots are literally identical!!! 😭😭😭😭
