And Sandor Clegane, who stood by and watched as Joffrey taunted and berated her, as Ilyn Payne beheaded her father, as Meryn Trant beat her in front of the entire court, abruptly shifts the conversation to her repeated rape and torture while married to Ramsay Bolton with a particularly dehumanizing phrase. This line pivots the whole conversation-and its tenor. “Yes, I’ve heard,” he responds, leaning in a little. Worse, it obfuscates each character’s growth.
(It has spawned quite a bit of fanfiction as well.) Much has changed for each character since then.īut, frustratingly, in “The Last of the Starks,” every piece of their interaction is confusing and limited.
When they were in King’s Landing together, their relationship interrogated the deepest prejudices each one had, which made it both fraught and one of the show’s most intriguing. Sansa was just a little girl when they first met, and had watched him do plenty of awful things. the Hound ( Rory McCann), the first between these two characters since they parted at the end of Season 2 in King’s Landing.īack then, the Hound was Joffrey Baratheon’s ( Jack Gleeson) right-hand man. But what stopped me in my tracks was an early conversation between Sansa Stark ( Sophie Turner) and Sandor Clegane, a.k.a. Sunday’s episode of Game of Thrones, “The Last of the Starks,” was disappointing on several fronts: poor plotting, frustrating character development, a coffee cup.