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The Vale knights is just simply D&D writing and their obsession with delivering Red Wedding twists. They hide the building and the character to fit the outcome.
Jon being told to kill Dany ti me and time again? To hide the knife twist. Despite Jon killing Mance for mercy or exiling Melisandre for burning ONE girl.
Let's compare it to the Rohirrim. Both Tolkien and Jackson show us the rohirrim riding to Gondor in a race against time. We don't wonder if the will come but rather if they will arriba before Minas Tirith falls.
That's good writing.
Hi there!
The best twists are the ones that are prepared and that you could have seen coming.
I mean the siege of Minas Tirith is a classic in that regard. We know the Rohirim come (and we might even suspect they come in time), we know Aragorn tries his best, we know Eowyn is among the Rohirim. But did anyone predict the Witch King being killed by Eowyn and Merry, Denethor's madness and Faramir's almost death?
Sigh!
D&D could have shown Sansa waiting anxiously for the Knights of the Vale to arrive. We could have seen her meeting LF, telling him that she did not know he would come, we could still have had Jon in dire need of relief. I mean I rather like the episode with BotB (mostly because Sapochnik did a splendid job) but the Knights of the Vale could have been handled better.
Thanks for the ask!
Apparently Iâm still not done.
For everyone accusing, âyouâre just mad that your fave didnât win/you just wanted her to live/you just canât handle shocking tvâ --Â
Yâknow what was a fantastic example of Game of Thrones pulling a shocking twist that actually worked? That I thought was brilliant even though it involved the violent death of a character I was not ready to say goodbye to?
Margaery Tyrell.
I love Margaery. Sheâs probably my second-favorite character in the whole series. Sheâs quick and clever and manipulative, and she weaponizes femininity. Sheâs a great foil for Cersei, because they have a lot in common, but their values are so different, so they exercise similar means to vastly different ends. I always wanted her to be a POV character in the books, and I was delighted when the show cast the absolutely incredible Natalie Dormer and gave her a bit more of a spotlight. I would have watched her forever. I would never have wanted her to die.
But when she did?
It was satisfying. Not because I wanted her dead, but because it made such sense for the story.
Margaeryâs playing the game, but what she fails to realize until itâs too late is that, while she thinks sheâs playing chess with Cersei, Cersei has, in the grand tradition of spoiled children who realize theyâre losing, knocked over the board. And that fits in line with everything we know about Cersei. Sheâs a scorched-earth kind of thinker, and she has been since childhood. Of course Cersei would blow up the Sept out of spite, to avoid the consequences of her actions. (And of course she would think that would be a perfect win, while failing to see how that would affect Tommen -- because she doesnât actually know her kid, she loves the idea of him more than the reality.) Margaery isnât perfect; she trusts her own gameplay too much, and while sheâs certainly not naive, she -- like Olenna also cops to later on -- has a failure of imagination where it comes to Cersei. Tyrion falls victim to the same flaw. No one else is quite willing to believe the depths of Cerseiâs perfidy, and they pay for it.
(This is also, btw, a way in which Cerseiâs character is also done a disservice by this season, but thatâs a whole other essay)
But whatâs really great is what we see of Margaery in those final moments. Sheâs still playing the game, and sheâs playing it gloriously. Sheâs absorbed in her new role as Virtuous Queen -- but that glint is still behind her eyes, particularly when the High Sparrow mutilates Loras, and it hints at something that will never have the chance to play out -- how she and the High Sparrow would have to keep maneuvering around each other.
And then, watching mile-smarter-than-everyone-else-in-the-room Margaery realize whatâs actually going on -- guh, it was so good.
Because Margaery is smart enough to realize that something is up. She puts the pieces together. âCersei understands the consequences of her absence and she is absent anyway, which means she does not intend to suffer those consequences. The trial can wait. We all need to leave.â She may not have guessed exactly what will happen -- because who could imagine that Cersei would take out a quarter of the city to avoid prosecution? -- but she knows itâs going to be bad. And so in her final moments, she drops the Virtuous act to try and get everyone the hell out. Itâs not her fault the High Sparrow is too absorbed in his self-appointed holiness to listen to her. She dies striving to counter Cerseiâs maneuver. She fails, but sheâs still herself as she fails.
It makes sense for Cersei; it makes sense for Margaery; it doesnât destroy who Margaery is in her final moment.
And so, the story satisfies.
I wanted Margaery to live. I wanted her to win her battles against the High Sparrow and Cersei. I wanted good things for Margaery. I was horrifically shocked, but it didnât make me angry. It told a good story that was true to the characters and to the audienceâs expectations. I canât remember exactly when it occurred to me, âHoly hell, Cersei might blow them all upâ. Sheâd inquired about the wildfire I think in the previous episode? So that was on the table. I knew that. I could see it heading in that direction. But you still have time to think, âWell... she wouldnât really, would she? Or even if she would... someone will stop her, right? Or at least figure out how to escape? This... this wonât really happen, will it?â But she would, and no one does, and it does.
Thatâs how you shock an audience without shredding everything they care about in the characters youâve asked them to invest in.
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