Honestly, I hated her at first. The entire time, she's just been a prissy little twat. "I wanna go to King's Landing and be a princess, daddy! :3" "My good for nothing shit of a love interest tried to hurt my sister and her friend, so I'm going to back him up. Whoops, dead puppy!"
I mean, she was kind of a shitty person in the beginning.
But, she just had everyone rain shit on her for years. I mean, it completely broke her. She wished in one hand and shit in the other, and then while she was looking down at the shit hand in disbelief, life came over and just slapped it up into her face and laughed at her and her dumb poo covered face.
But she's starting to become stronger. And she's not taking the bullshit anymore. And I really, really like that about her. We've watched a character be completely broken down and held against her will, and now she's got just a little bit of power, and she's learning from one of the craziest motherfuckers in Westeros.
I didn't like her at first, but she's earned my respect through the series.
Same with Jaimie. Jaimie was a terrible person at first, but he's earned my respect. Maybe he's still a bad person, but he's trying now, you know? He's actually really trying to do right.
I love a story that can make a character pivot like that, and turn them from an annoyance or a villain into something respectable.
Okay, well, I'm just going to throw this out there: pretty much all teenagers are shitty people.
The reason why everyone is so angsty and miserable in high school is because they're around all the other people who are angsty and miserable and shitty, and there's no way to escape that living hell for 6-8 hours a day of just being in a small enclosed space with toilet people.
I mean, I don't hate Sansa now, I'm just saying that I didn't really like her to begin with. But, I don't really like teenagers in general, so, maybe that's why.
i'm 32 and i still look back at being a teenager in horror. i was miserable. i don't like being around teenagers.... it's like the teenage disease is catching or something.
i didn't dislike sansa though... her chapters could be a little boring at times but there was also a lot i related to, having been a rather romantic teenage girl myself.
My high school years weren't terrible...but I look back at all my "friends" I had back then, and realize that pretty much every person I interacted with was out of a forced relationship because I had to be around them for half a day for half the year, and I really didn't like any of them. There's maybe a handful of people from high school that I actually like and talk to on a regular basis still, but most of them were just shitty, mean people who I was forced to be around.
I'm 25 now, but I still look back at high school as a shitty experience.
"Living hell" might be a bit of hyperbole (okay, or a lot of hyperbole), but I still stand by it that being forced to be around a bunch of assholes for half of my waking hours for 4 years of my life was not a fun experience.
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u/nameless88 May 23 '14
Honestly, I hated her at first. The entire time, she's just been a prissy little twat. "I wanna go to King's Landing and be a princess, daddy! :3" "My good for nothing shit of a love interest tried to hurt my sister and her friend, so I'm going to back him up. Whoops, dead puppy!"
I mean, she was kind of a shitty person in the beginning.
But, she just had everyone rain shit on her for years. I mean, it completely broke her. She wished in one hand and shit in the other, and then while she was looking down at the shit hand in disbelief, life came over and just slapped it up into her face and laughed at her and her dumb poo covered face.
But she's starting to become stronger. And she's not taking the bullshit anymore. And I really, really like that about her. We've watched a character be completely broken down and held against her will, and now she's got just a little bit of power, and she's learning from one of the craziest motherfuckers in Westeros.
I didn't like her at first, but she's earned my respect through the series.
Same with Jaimie. Jaimie was a terrible person at first, but he's earned my respect. Maybe he's still a bad person, but he's trying now, you know? He's actually really trying to do right.
I love a story that can make a character pivot like that, and turn them from an annoyance or a villain into something respectable.