Here's How Sophie Turner Feels About Sansa's Ending
Warning: The following post contains spoilers for the finale of Game of Thrones. If you don't want to know what happens, stop reading now.
? Game of Thrones ended with Sansa Stark becoming Queen in the North.
? Prior to the finale, actress Sophie Turner said some fans wouldn't be happy with how her character's story ended.
? Turner told Entertainment Weekly she "wasn't bummed at all" with Sansa's ending.
For a lot of Game of Thrones fans, there was one character that absolutely had to make it to the end of the series alive: Sansa Stark. She's become an incredibly popular character over the course of the last eight seasons, undergoing immense hardship and emerging stronger and wiser. Which is why a lot of people felt that she would be a worthy candidate to sit on the Iron Throne.
So, did the ending to Sansa's story deliver?
Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa, had us all holding our breath in a recent interview when she said: "It’s a great ending, from my perspective, it’s very satisfying... But I think a lot of people will be upset too."
Last night's series finale ended with Sansa's younger brother, Bran Stark, taking the Iron Throne (or whatever is left of it, post-Drogon). However, he did so with her blessing: "I love you, little brother, and always will," Sansa said. "You will make a good king." But then, in a moment that had the Sansa Hive punching the air, she declined to give him her vote in the newly founded Westeros electoral college, instead opting to secede from the Seven Kingdoms and rule the North as an independent nation.
And while some viewers might be disappointed that Game of Thrones didn't end with Sansa on the Iron Throne, Turner is more than happy with her character's destiny as Queen in the North.
"I wasn’t bummed at all," she said, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. "Because ever since the end of season one, Sansa has not been about the capital or being queen. She doesn’t believe she could rule and doesn’t want to. She knows her place is in the North and she can rule the people of the North and rule Winterfell. She’d probably be capable [of being queen of the Seven Kingdoms] with the help of her family and advisors like Tyrion. But she has no desire to be ruler of all of the Seven Kingdoms."
It's certainly true that Sansa woke up to the brutal realities of royal life under Joffrey and Ramsay's respective reigns of terror, and it makes more narrative and emotional sense for her to rule from her family home of Winterfell than from a ruined Red Keep. And after an arduous eight year journey, seeing Sansa crowned and sitting in her father's old seat in the Great Hall was about as satisfying an ending as the show could deliver.
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