The setup sure made you think she was about to mercy kill herself. I think that's what the show was going for.
But c'mon, there'd probably be a revolt by Sansa fans if she died by her own hand. It was never really in doubt she wouldn't go out that way.
I thought she was going to ask Tyrion to do it for her, because she couldn't do it herself. And then he would man up and do it, right before all the zombies dropped dead.
shareI think you're right. That did appear to be what they were about to do and would have if Arya hadn't killed the Night King at the exact moment that she did.
shareI kind of thought she would, expecting Tyrion to join her, but then he'd cop out and escape and be haunted with more guilt.
shareNo. Seppuku is ritual disembowelment, it’s not just stabbing oneself in the gut or heart. Sansa has no training in Kenjutsu.
shareI think that scene harkens back to the the Battle of Blackwater episode where Cercei was ready to poison herself and Tommen before Stanis could take the city. Sansa has learned quite a bit from Cercei, including in that episode as Cercei explained to her why Ser Ilyn Payne was with them, and the writers have highlighted that aspect of their relationship throughout the later seasons, and this scene was just another example of that.
shareHell no! Sansa is a Stark and a major bitch, and high aristocrats and major bitches don't kill themselves as long as they can make anyone else suffer.
I assumed she and Tyrion were going into fight-or-die mode, and I think cutting out every single glimpse of them fighting was yet another idiotic decision made by the directors. A few seconds of them hacking at unarmed zombies would have cleared that up, but no! They chose to cut it out and leave all the fans wondering what happened there.
Really? You think a scene where Sansa and Tyrion are cutting down wights wouldn't be too cheesy to be believable?
shareAt that point they were cutting back and forth between scenes very fast, it wouldn't have done any harm to have a five-second glimpse of those two in action. An extended scene would have been cheesy, a quick glimpse would have shown what they meant by that exchange of looks.
And as with so many other damn things with this episode, it would have stopped all the fans having to ask each other what the hell happened there.
Hmm...maybe. Though I'm not sure how there could be much of a fight with that tiny dagger between the two of them.
More likely any kind of charge by an untrained woman with her bare hands and a dagger armed dwarf would be met by a swarming horde of ghouls where they'd be instantly and too easily eaten alive. It'd be the equivalent of a suicide run.
Like I said on an earlier thread, the zombies were unarmed, some of them aren't very agile, others would be on the verge of falling apart, and they'd be greatly outnumbered by the humans. A hundred thousand of them are unstoppable, but individually they aren't as dangerous as a human knight. Humans who'd brought steel swords, kitchen knives, or pitchforks in case of emergency could hack them to twitching bits, and if I was down there and had my good cleaver that can joint a frozen turkey, I'd have it out and be doing my damndest to go out fighting rather than cowering.
Of course Tyrion and Sansa couldn't put up much of a fight against knights or trained fighting men, but against the well-aged and outnumbered dead of the Stark crypt, they'd have a decent chance if others backed them up and Sansa figured out how to use that knife sooner rather than later.