Game Of Thrones: 5 Winners & 5 Losers In 'Breaker Of Chains'
The Losers:
5. Ser Dontos
Sansas would-be-hero ends up being nothing more than a hired middleman in Littlefingers plot to break her free of Kings Landing, and his payment is a crossbow bolt to the chest and head. At first, Sansa doesnt believe Ser Dontos was in it for the money, until Littlefinger reveals the truth behind the family heirloom that the drunken fool had gifted her. With Sansa implicated in King Joffreys murder, Ser Dontos silence in the matter of her flight is bought with his death.The fools end is not surprising really, as he was a pretty pointless character on the show. Sansas role in saving his life all those episodes ago served only as plot device for establishing him as someone she knew and didnt have to fear when he later accosted her in the Godswood. In this series of articles, were not at all concerned with the nature of the adaption from the books, but in this case it is worth mentioning that the relationship between Sansa and her fool is much more layered and drawn out. Ser Dontos leaves her secret messages and they have several clandestine meetings in the Godswood; he becomes a very important person in her life during this time. Ser Dontos likens their relationship to that of the heroes of Sansas favourite folktale, in which Florian the Fool falls in love with a maiden named Jonquil. It is a sweet gesture, and it makes the truth behind his motivations in rescuing her much more like a betrayal, which provides a layer of emotional investment to reader when he is then killed. In the TV show, you really dont know enough about him to care. This is a case of a character losing out because of the realities of adapting multiple chapters of text into five minutes of screen time.
