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There are a few things that Game of Thrones delivers reliably every season. Big jaw dropping moments, for instance. Tyrion quips, for another. Oh and killing off characters. Even in the less bloody thristy seasons, like Season 2, people are always dying on screen.
But that logic, Sophie Turner’s remark on the red carpet this weekend that suggested characters will die is not all that newsworthy. And Yet.
Some #GameOfThrones characters won't make it to the final season, @SophieT teases (Watch) pic.twitter.com/MzNiye5HxT
— Variety (@Variety) September 19, 2016
“We’ve got one more season…well, not all of us.”
Speculation AHOY
Could Turner be speaking of her own “hanging around in Belfast” a lot longer? Of the main characters who are heading into Season 7, Sansa’s character is one I’ve got on my list as “questionable” for survival. Some characters we know their time is running out. Cersei for instance. With a religious tinged 9/11 on her hands that the smallfolk will suspect she caused (not like she wasn’t obvious about it) nothing about her reign is expected to be easy, or very long. It’s just a matter of how and when.
As for people who were there at the Emmys, most people expect Arya to survive, though that’s more holdover from book readers who have been repeating the rumor for over a decade that because Parris (Martin’s wife) loves the character, she won’t be killed off. Jon Snow already dided once, one does sort of assume it will be so he can make it to season 8. Likewise, everyone assumes Daenerys’ survival into Seaosn 8 is assured.
Which leaves Sophie Turner’s Sansa as a possible character to not survive. I personally am a proponent of this theory. Like Cersei, the details are all up in the air. Does she join with Littlefinger against Jon because she feels his being elevated to King in the North over her is deeply insulting? Is her joining with Littlefinger a ruse to keep Jon safe? Does she join with Littlefinger and then regret it and decide to turn against him? Does she do something that reminds us all how much audiences have hated her for her shortsightedness all these seasons? Or does she turn out to have become a master chess player, and the only one who can stop Littlefinger’s chaos ladder climbing?
All of these roads still lead to Rome: that Sansa’s path and choices will most likely not lead to her seeing the final battle against the Night King. Whether that means she’s one of those who has one more season or not, that’s something we’ll have to keep speculating upon.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/09/21/sophie-turner-not-us-make-game-thrones-season-8/
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