This clause arrest spoiler for " Book of the Stranger , " the fourth sequence of the 6th time of year ofGame of Thrones . move with circumspection . And read our full breakdown of the episode ofGame of ThronesS6 , E4 here .
Game of Thrones is not an " awwwwwww " show . Friendsmade us syncope . Gilmore Girlsearned its cuddling . Mad Menoccasionally swept us off our animal foot with a dah of sweet . Game of Thronesis not that show – until it is , and it prompt us how much we love these freakin ' character .
The last time Sansa Stark view her phoney brother Jon Snow was way back in the very first episode of the serial , before she ’d departed for King ’s Landing and Jon Snow had shipped off to Castle Black , and the Stark clan had shattered into a million objet d’art . The two partake in just one scene together and did n’t speak to each other – not even to say a proper goodbye .
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And yet , six seasons in , family tethers the two . Sansa and Jon are both subsister , barely , of a venomous , power - athirst world . So when they in conclusion united in " Book of the Stranger,“Game of Thronesfound a manner to pull our heartstrings . The conflict is real , and the two Stark congeneric are the admirer , my admirer . Too early to cue the Queen ?
" There ’s only one post we can go , " Sansa tells Jon over some of Castle Black ’s finest bathing tub ale . " Home . "
Jon was n’t win over untilresident A - jam Ramsay Bolton , fresh off murdering Osha ( sorry , House Umber truthers ) , pip off a subject matter – a nasty , snarl contract of war settle down in George R.R. Martin ’s original novel . Do n’t countenance the record book - reading child say youGame of Thronesis off - script . Godhead D.B. Weiss and David Benioff just gibe old pieces into a newly constructed puzzle .
Here ’s what Ramsay wrote Jon , in full :
To the traitor and bastard Jon Snow ,
You allowed K of Wildlings to pass the Wall . You have tell on your own variety . You have betrayed the North . Winterfell is mine , bastard . follow and see .
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Your sidekick Rickon is in my dungeon . His direwolf ’s hide is on my floor . Come and see .
I want my bride back . get off her to me , asshole , and I will not trouble you or your Wildling lovers . Keep her from me , and I will ride northward and butcher every Wildling man , womanhood , and baby live under your shelter . You will watch as I sputter them living . You will watch as my soldiers take turn assault your sis . You will keep an eye on as my dogs devour your unwarranted little brother . Then I will smooch your eyes from their socket and let my dogs do the rest . Come and see .
Ramsay Bolton , Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the compass north
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Martin ’s version of the so - call in Pink Letter ( a reference to the rosy hue of House Bolton ’s seal of approval ) is very unlike . In the books , Mance Rayder is still active – another Wildling , mask by Melisandre ’s conjuration , lead the King - Beyond - the - Wall ’s place in the interest - burn scene – and the bride Ramsay honorable mention is Arya Stark , only , unbeknownst to Jon , it ’s not Arya at all but a stand - in name Jeyne Poole , a Winterfell girl who ’d accompanied Sansa to King ’s Landing and whom show - watcher have n’t seen since Season 1 . Stannis is the fictive Billie Jean Moffitt King alluded to in the taunting missive , although he is still alive in the Holy Scripture , as are Stannis ' wife and child , both dead on the show . So … much more complicated than what Weiss and Benioff have set up .
Anyway , here ’s the original book text :
Your false world-beater is dead , phony . He and all his master of ceremonies were smashed in seven days of battle . I have his magic sword . Tell his red whore .
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Your false king ’s admirer are dead . Their head upon the wall of Winterfell . Come see them , mongrel . Your sham king lied , and so did you . You told the worldly concern you burned the King - Beyond - the - rampart . Instead you sent him to Winterfell to steal my bride from me .
I will have my bride back . If you need Mance Rayder back , come and get him . I have him in a cage for all the north to see , proof of your lies . The cage is cold , but I have made him a fond cloak from the tegument of the six cocotte who come with him to Winterfell .
I want my Saint Bride back . I want the false B. B. King ’s queen . I want his girl and his red beldam . I want his Wildling princess . I want his petty prince , the Wildling babe . And I desire my Reek . transmit them to me , bastard , and I will not trouble oneself you or your black crows . Keep them from me , and I will cut out your son of a bitch ’s heart and eat it .
Ramsay Bolton , Trueborn Lord of Winterfell .
As Weiss put it in HBO ’s post - show reflexion , Jon Snow " has to do the right affair . That ’s why he ’s Jon Snow . That ’s why we love him . And that ’s why he get himself down . " Please recount me there ’s no fashion another Jon bites the dust this time of year . That ’s not the Queen cue my meat wants the right way now .
Where does it go ? And is this the beginning of a free burning friendship between Sansa and Jon ? We already know from the prevue that Jon and the Wildling army will confront Ramsay for the much - touted engagement of the bastards , a.k.a . BastardBowl . How Sansa factors in is less clear . After a few brutal encounters with the Lannisters , Petyr Baelish , and the Boltons , she ’s ready to reclaim Winterfell with or without Jon .
What she lacks in Arya ’s fighting acquisition , she makes up for with regal inherent aptitude . Sansa has a greater ballad of the land than the rest of our thespian . And she ’s matured – the Sansa of Season 1 would never have touched a chomp of her Castle Black gruel . In " Book of the Stranger , " she stomachs it , she sagely declare , " There are more of import things to think about . "
Winterfell could be where Sansa ’s story ends , filling Ned ’s absence , rising to ruler condition , and welcoming Bran back into the fold if he make his way back from beyond the Wall . opportunity are , it wo n’t be that simple .
Theories in play suggest Jon make a run all the way to King ’s Landing – or wherever the last struggle against the White Walkers takes lieu . If so , I already miss Sansa by his side . Maybe a fiery Daenerys Targaryen could replete the void . It ’d be a dissimilar form of warm and fuzzy – let ’s hope Jon ’s actually a Targaryen if Drogon determine to nuzzle him – but maybe .
TheGame of Throneshappy ending will be a blazing conflagration of flames , bloodline , and melted White Walkers . But as long as Sansa and Jon make it to the oddment , I ’ll be smiling .
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