(Spoilers Main) At what point does [******] behead [******] for constant insubordination?

she doesn't know it's A Song of Ice and Fire

We need to take a step back here. D&D are playing "just the tip" here with a full fledged idiot plot. An idiot plot is a plot that perpetuates itself as a result of the characters' idiocy. If the character simply wasn't an idiot, the plot would resolve. This could work in say, a Farrelly Brothers movie, but not in Game of Thrones.

The audience knows, or reasonably should know, that the ultimate plot of A Song of Ice and Fire will be resolved through the alliance between Jon and Dany. We know this. D&D have provided the audience a really solid MacGuffin - the Dragonglass needed to defeat the White Walkers - to justify the meeting between the two. This meeting has been stalled, sometimes justifiably and sometimes annoyingly, for seven seasons.

Everything is in place here. Indulge me, and let me briefly recap:

  1. The White Walkers are coming

  2. Jon is the King of the North

  3. Queen Dany is at Dragonstone

  4. Dragonstone has Dragongglass

  5. You need Dragonglass to kill White Walkers

  6. Dany has Dragons, which Davos even explains will kill the undead army (thanks for that pivotal exposition Ser Davos)

  7. Tyrion tells Dany Jon is a-okay

  8. Both Jon and Sansa know Tyrion (and by extension the Queen he serves) is a-okay too for their own goddamn personal experience.

  9. Most importantly, the audience has known or should have known all this shit since around the end of Season 3 at the latest.

So let's not split hairs here. Everything is in place. This isn't a "fan service" moment that would simply be cool if it happened. This is what must happen for the seven seasons of build up to be properly resolved. Jon has to go to Dragonstone and he has to forge an alliance with Dany so they can fight the White Walkers.

Sansa's push back is wasteful and irritating to the audience. She's an idiot. Maybe it's "in character" because she doesn't know what the audience knows, but that's only a useful device when it's used properly (like for dramatic irony, say). That's not the case here.

It's just Sansa spouting nonsensical bullshit in D&D's increasingly desperate attempt to make her a "player" to the unnecessary annoyance of the audience.

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