Game of Thrones S5 EP6 *unedited
Added 2024-02-12 15:12:15 +0000 UTCthis was really hard to watch...
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(I don't want to even say enjoy! because I didn't 😂😂)
Comments
Sansa and Theon are my two favorite characters. For Sansa it started really early on. Season 1. Maybe it was a defensive reaction to all the disdain she seemed to get for wanting the things she was raised to want. And then I thought she acted reasonably and smartly in her choices given the position she was in when Ned died. And for Theon, it started when he begged Robb to let him go to his father for help and grew from there. I think Alfie Allen (the actor) helped because Theon always felt the most real to me. Like in a stellar cast full of great character, Aflie delivered a character that was fully realized. Theon Greyjoy's every word, every act, every expression felt authentic to his motivations and desires and fears and intentions. Even though he undergoes one of the most dramatic transformations in the show, it feels believable and organic and TRUE. And I think he's relatable in that the core of his character is anchored in this deep, unceasing need to feel like he belongs and like he's worthy of the space he takes up in this world. It's such a base need and who can't relate to that, you know? Love him, hate him, pity him...Theon makes you invest in his story emotionally and you can't ask for more than that as a viewer. I think Alfie should have won every award for his portrayal. And then Sansa and Theon's relationship as survivors and family is so pure and desperate and the bond there and the way it plays out is really beautiful. Genuinely a highlight of the whole series for me.
SNBangtan
2024-05-25 21:45:42 +0000 UTCThe whole concept of the faceless men is so interesting. Like when Arya is giving that sick girl the water, she isn't /lying/ to her, she's become someone else. It's easy to think about the faces that they wear as masks just obscuring their own identity but the whole point of their practice is that they erase entirely their own identity. They are no one. So, they don't have to lie...they just create themselves over and over as the situation requires. Ideally, she would be the sick girl whose father brought her to the house of the undying just as much as she is Arya Stark of Winterfell. That's what the training is trying to happen for her. The goal is the erasure of Arya's mannerisms, history, experiences, preferences, associations, perceptions, etc and a detachment for the need to ground the "self" in any of those things. She has to become an empty vessel for whatever story and person she needs to adopt for a task/mission. It begs some really philosophical questions about the nature of self and identity and it's really cool.
SNBangtan
2024-05-25 21:02:51 +0000 UTCSANSA IS MY DIVA 4EVER!
Eve Griffin
2024-02-25 01:13:05 +0000 UTCWhen is the next episode going to drop? 🙂
Oliver Lysholm
2024-02-17 00:08:06 +0000 UTCI'm glad someone else mentioned this. I didn't really know how to put into words just how much torture of any kind—let alone the sheer amount and levels of cruelty of Ramsay's torture—changes a person fundamentally. Whatever part of Theon was looking at Ramsay assaulting Sansa and thought to save her somehow was *instantly* drowned out by his conditioning as Reek.
Taken For Pomegranted
2024-02-16 01:14:03 +0000 UTCTheon's perspective is so hard to read in the books, the torture is so brutal and naturally, they go into only the surface of it in the show. For example, Ramsay would play this "game" where he'd flay one of Theon's fingers and then leave him in a cell until he was literally BEGGING for it to be cut off. In the dank, dark dungeons screaming for relief for days, the raw nerves of a finger exposed. I think Theon even tried to bite his own finger off at one point he became so desperate. It became a kindness for Ramsay to finally grant him his request of amputation. Over and over. Watching Theon get reconditioned into Reek from his POV, you understand the depth that he is not Theon. He is completely broken. He's constantly doing little rhymes to remind himself that he's Reek, not a real person deserving of dignity or even a morsel of human decency. Just a pathetic, stupid animal who could be sent back to horrible suffering if he gives any hint of disloyalty. All this is why he doesn't do Theon (or human even) things like help Sansa or kill Ramsay or spill the beans about Bran and Rickon. He's not a functioning person who uses logic currently.
Katie Niekamp
2024-02-15 07:00:03 +0000 UTC
