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The Hidden Message in Sansa Stark's Hairstyle During the 'Game of Thrones' Finale


This post contains spoilers for the finale of Game of Thrones. Consider yourself warned.

Listen, I’m one of the many people with a lot of notes on the Game of Thrones finale—well, and the past two seasons, really. But one thing this show has almost always gotten right is the hairstyles and that remained true through the last moments of HBO’s epic series.

Over the course of eight seasons, the incredible stylists on the show have woven hidden meanings into the hairstyles of characters like Cersei and Daenerys. Perhaps the character who had one of the most dramatic character arcs on the show is Sansa Stark, and the changes she underwent were often reflected in her hair.

Sansa’s hair often reflected the women she was emulating during certain moments of her life, from her mother Catelyn’s simple, yet beautiful braids to the more elaborate styles worn by Cersei during the early seasons in King’s Landing. “Sansa’s hair is constantly reflecting the people she’s learning from, or mimicking, or inspired by at the time,” Sophie Turner explained to Refinery29 in 2017. “When she’s Cersei’s prisoner, and she’s kind of absorbing all her manipulative techniques, it’s reflected in her hairstyle, and when she’s finding the spirit of Margaery in herself, she wears her hair like Margaery.”

But tonight, Sansa stood up for herself and her kingdom by refusing to bend the knee to her brother, Bran, and securing freedom for the North with her as the queen. In the closing moments of the show, we see Sansa make her way through the lords of Winterfell to be crowned and her hair is noticeably down—simple and without braids.

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She is no longer modeling herself after others. Instead she has truly come into her own as Sansa Stark, the Queen in the North.

Sansa Stark in the Game of Thrones series finale
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Sansa Stark the Queen in the North on Game of Thrones.
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It’s a truly memorable moment for a character who has grown from a petulant child to a true leader, after suffering as much as almost any character on a show filled with agonizing pain. Fans on social media were equally moved.

“She never wears her hair down. Sansa has always used her hair to look like the people she’s trying to emulate, as well as trying to communicate non-verbally,” one fan tweeted. “By wearing her hair down, I feel like she’s showing that she’s her own person and she can speak for herself now.”

All hail the Queen in the North—long may she reign.

Abby Gardner is a contributing writer at Glamour. You can follow her pop culture musings on Twitter @abbygardner or in her weekly newsletter, We Have Notes.





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Emilia Clarke and Sophie Turner Penned Emotional Farewells to 'Game of Thrones'


Tonight is truly the end of an era: Game of Thrones, one of the most talked-about shows of recent years, is ending after almost a decade. It’s been eight seasons of blood, sweat, and tears (speaking for the characters here) as Westeros’ contenders have fought their way to the Iron Thrones. Although we’re not sure who’s going to wind up on it—that answer will play out in Sunday night’s finale—it’s safe to say that the last episode is going to be an emotional one for the show’s fans. But it’s a big night for the cast, too: After all, they’ve been inhabiting their characters for years—some of them for the duration of the show—and for younger members like Emilia Clarke, who plays Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen, and Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark, that means their characters have taken up most of their adult years. Leaving them behind after tonight is a big deal. Both actresses took to Instagram on Sunday to pay tribute to their time with Game of Thrones—and the posts will truly tug at your heartstrings.

“Finding the words to write this post has left me overwhelmed with how much I want to say but how small words feel in comparison to what this show and Dany have meant to me,” Clarke wrote in hers. The mother of dragons chapter has taken up the whole of my adult life. This woman has taken up the whole of my heart. I’ve sweated in the blaze of dragon fire, shed many tears at those who left our family early, and wrung my brain dry trying to do Khaleesi and the masterful words, actions (and names) I was given, justice.”

Clarke continued: “Game of Thrones has shaped me as a woman, as an actor and as a human being. I just wish my darling dad was here now to see how far we’ve flown. But to you, dear kind magical fans, I owe you so much thanks, for your steady gaze at what we’ve made and what I’ve done with a character that was already in the hearts of many before I slipped on the platinum wig of dreams. Without you there is no us. And now our watch has ended.”

Turner didn’t spare us any tissues with her post, either. She addressed her character directly in a thank-you note to Stark:

“Sansa, Thank you for teaching me resilience, bravery and what true strength really is. Thank you teaching me to be kind and patient and to lead with love,” she wrote. “I grew up with you. I fell in love with you at 13 and now 10 years on.. at 23 I leave you behind, but I will never leave behind what you’ve taught me. To the show and the incredible people who make it, thank you for giving me the best life and drama lessons I could have ever asked for. Without you I wouldn’t be the person I am today. Thank you for giving me this chance all those years ago. And finally to the fans. Thank you for falling in love with these characters and supporting this show right through till the end. I’ll miss this more than anything.”

It’s truly the end of an era, but we can’t wait to see what these two lend their talents to next.



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Twitter's Predicting How 'Game of Thrones' Will End, and the Theories Are So Funny


Warning: Spoilers ahead!

The Game of Thrones finale is quickly approaching—it’s a matter of hours now!—and fans are waiting to see how everything will finally wrap up after eight nail-biting seasons (and that’s to say nothing of last week’s episode, which left everyone in a tizzy). It’s been close to a decade of twists, turns, favorite characters getting killed off, and some extremely convincing fan theories—some of which have gone very wrong.

Now, as everyone eagerly anticipates the start of Sunday’s 80-minute finale, Twitter users are taking to the platform to offer some predictions about how the series will end. Sure, we might now know that Sansa Stark’s fate is going to make us feel all sorts of ways, but Game of Thrones fans are keeping things a little more light-hearted by offering up some really funny predictions.

“Game of Thrones ends with Jon Snow going full Cady Heron and just breaking off pieces of the iron throne to give out to everyone,” a fan predicted.

There was this meta theory: “Game of Thrones finale is gonna end with the screen going black, and then Tony Soprano snapping out of it and finishing his dinner.”

One fan just wants Tormund to live his best life: “The only satisfying conclusion to Game of Thrones is if it ends with a Tormund bottle episode, where he’s up north, just chilling and getting over Brienne, really starting to take care of himself.”

“The finale of Game of Thrones is just one hour of Daenerys trying to rebuild King’s Landing with ramen noodles and sandpaper,” another fan predicted.

Another user is looking out for the dragons: “Spoiler: The dragon gets into her dream college and everyone cheers.”

There’s this pretty ideal ending: “My GOT ending: Brienne and Sansa marry, jointly take the Iron Throne.”

“Game of Thrones ends with Bob Newhart waking up next to Suzanne Pleshette,” one user wrote. “‘Honey you won’t believe the dream I just had,’ he says, launching into a convoluted recollection of rape and dragons that ends with Suzanne asking for a divorce.”

One offered some deadpan British humor: “I reckon I know how Game Of Thrones finishes. It’s with the end credits and some music.”

And then there’s this voice of reason, who offers the most convincing theory of them all: “the writers creating the script for the finale knowing full well they about to fuck everyone up.”



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This 'Game of Thrones' Theory Suggests Varys Took His Rings Off for an Important Reason


This post contains spoilers for the final season of Game of Thrones. Consider yourself warned.

The countdown to the final episode ever of Game of Thrones is on, and we’re not quite sure what everyone’s going to do with themselves once the juggernaut HBO show ends. In the meantime, I guess we’ll all just continues to analyze (and criticize) every frame of footage to try and figure out what is going to happen on Sunday night.

One prevailing guess among fans is that Daenerys Targaryen is going to die. In the previous episode, Dany basically breaks bad—possibly becoming the Mad Queen—and torches huge swaths of King’s Landing with her lone remaining dragon, Drogon. Based on the reactions of Jon Snow and Arya Stark, it would seem they’re not comfortable with her new leadership strategy. And some fans think will lead to Arya taking down the Mother of Dragons, just as she did the Night King.

If she is indeed the one to kill Dany, perhaps Arya will use her training by the Faceless Men to get close to her. But a new fan theory (first laid out on Buzzfeed) suggests the actual method: poison. We know that Varys sent letters—presumably telling others in the realm about Dany’s “madness” and Jon’s rightful claim to the Iron Throne—before he was executed. And, as Buzzfeed points out, he also very deliberately removes his rings while writing.

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What could that mean? The theory suggests that there may be poison in one of them that is meant to kill the Mother of Dragons—and it’s based on the show’s history with deadly accessories. Back in season four when Olenna killed Joffrey, she did so with poison that was originally hidden in a jewel in Sansa’s necklace.

We already know that the Master of Whispers was trying to assassinate Dany with poison, so the thinking is that he deliberately removed the rings because he knew he was about to die and wanted to leave them for someone else like Arya, Jon, or Sansa to use.

We’ll find out on Sunday when the saga comes to an end.

Abby Gardner is a contributing writer at Glamour. You can follow her pop culture musings on Twitter @abbygardner or in her weekly newsletter, We Have Notes.





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'Game of Thones' Fans Think Jon Snow Will Turn Against Daenerys in a Major Way


Throughout the last season of Game Of Thrones, things have started to get bleak for Daenerys Targaryen. She’s lost some of her most trusted advisers and a second dragon child, leading many people to hypothesize that she might be slowly following her father’s footsteps and descending into madness. But some new GoT fan theories take that idea even further and suggest that her fate will be so dark that she’ll end up betrayed—and even killed—by her lover/nephew Jon Snow.

Considering Dany’s death is not fun at all, but it’s necessary given how diabolical the showrunners have shown they can be with plot twists. Already, there have been a couple of indicators that the Mother of Dragons is heading toward demise: Her judgement has been questioned by the Stark sisters and her supposed advisers Varys and Tyrion, pushing the plot toward an unavoidable conflict over the true heir to the Iron Throne.

Then, of course, there’s the whole Azor Ahai Prophecy that has lurked in both the books and in the show: The Prince That Was Promised will save the Seven Kingdoms, but first he will kill the woman he loves. Tons of people think Jon Snow is Azor Ahai, and he’s sworn his allegiance to his Khaleesi so many times by now that it’s starting to get a little suspicious.

There is also the whole business of that vision Dany had in season two, when she saw herself walking into a trashed throne room in the dead of an icy winter. Then, she came across her dead husband, Khal Drogo, and her unborn baby. Some Reddit users have suggested that all of that—including the Iron Throne in her grasp—are symbols of things she’s wanted but will never attain. Others have thought that the ice in the vision might represent Jon Snow, who could be the one to end her dreams of ruling.

A Vox piece outlines the ways that the show has foreshadowed Dany’s dark turn and points out that she’s capable of great violence. On the most recent episode of the series, she went back and forth about burning down King’s Landing in order to rip Cersei out “room and stem” as she’s promised.

Personally, killing Dany and having Jon Snow save the day (after he’s fumbled so many times) seems like a massive waste of eight years that involved building up a powerful female warrior, who has become one of television’s most powerful and compassionate figures. But, then again, when you play the game of thrones…



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This 'Game of Thrones' Theory Suggests Sansa Stark Will Be the One to Kill Cersei Lannister


Warning: Some spoilers for this season of Game of Thrones ahead.

Sansa Stark has been rising in the Game of Thrones power rankings for weeks—seasons, really. Once a privileged young girl of Winterfell who didn’t care to focus on much outside of herself, Sansa has become a true force in the Seven Kingdoms. She’s my personal choice to sit on the Iron Throne when this saga wraps up in three weeks.

And now, a new theory (from Hollywood Life) suggests that Sansa will actually be the one to kill Cersei Lannister as focus returns to King’s Landing after the defeat of the Night King.

The most popular guesses as to who might take down the queen are her brothers, Jaime and Tyrion, or Arya. This is thanks to the prophecy from Maggy the Frog, which Cersei heard as a child. In the books it says, “And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.” Valonqar means “little brother,” which at first glance would mean Tyrion. But it could apply to Jamie, too, considering he’s the younger twin. Notably, thought, that specific part was left out in the show. And then, of course, Cersei sits high on Arya’s kill list.

Cersei Lannister and Euron Greyjoy in King’s Landing.

But it would be super cool if it was Sansa, especially since Arya just had a big moment in killing the Night King.

Don’t forget that Maggy’s prophesy also includes this bit: “Queen you shall be…until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.” Sounds like Sansa, no?

So, how might this all go down? The dagger that Arya gave to her older sister during the Battle of Winterfell plays a big part. “Stick ’em with the pointy end,” Arya says, in a callback to the same advice Jon Snow gave to her in season one. While Sansa has never trained to be a physical fighter like Arya, she has learned a lot about politics and manipulation by Littlefinger and Cersei herself. The theory points out that, in season seven, Sansa admitted to “learning a lot” from Cersei.

“What if it’s actually the person she least suspects? It would be satisfying as hell to watch Sansa kill Cersei with Arya’s dagger,” Avery Thompson writes for Hollywood Life. “Sansa learned so much from the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Cersei helped shape Sansa into the woman she is today. But just like Arya, Sansa harbors a hatred for Cersei. Cersei had a hand in having Sansa’s father, Ned, killed, which Sansa had to watch from just inches away. She helped keep Sansa in King’s Landing and away from her family for years.”

The motive is definitely there—and thanks to the dagger from Arya, Sansa now has the means. But will she take her shot when the opportunity arises? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.



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