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Help[Opinions] Re: Sansa
in reply to a message by Perrine
I think Sansa as a character was harder for people to like. She was more complex than Arya, who was a pretty one-dimensional badass. I have heard a lot more criticism of how Sansa developed as a character. I know plenty of people who hate Sansa and find her an insufferable character, but she turned out to be one of my favourites, while Arya bored me a bit.
In the same way, Sansa is harder to enjoy as a name than Arya. It's a bit weirder. Aria was already kind of trendy, so Arya didn't have to work very hard to get attention; it just put a little twist on something people already liked.
I do wonder, if the names on the characters had been swapped, if Sansa would have become popular? Or if Arya/Aria would have risen as much as it did?
In the same way, Sansa is harder to enjoy as a name than Arya. It's a bit weirder. Aria was already kind of trendy, so Arya didn't have to work very hard to get attention; it just put a little twist on something people already liked.
I do wonder, if the names on the characters had been swapped, if Sansa would have become popular? Or if Arya/Aria would have risen as much as it did?
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I liked Arya before I read Game of Thrones, so I think if their names were switched I might have liked "Sansa-named-Arya" more because I was already biased toward the name.
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I don't know and I have only read the first couple of books and didn't watch the series much but I always liked Sansa better than Arya. I never really got the impression that she was unpopular. But I could be wrong.
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She got more popular with time I think, she’s personally my favorite female character and the one I identified with the most, since my survival strategy is endurance rather than rebellion.
There’s a frustrating tendency for some people to hate female characters who aren’t “badass”.
Anyway the name itself is possibly more out there than Arya? As a name, Sansa reminds me too much of Gregor Samsa from Kafka’ s Metamorphosis.
There’s a frustrating tendency for some people to hate female characters who aren’t “badass”.
Anyway the name itself is possibly more out there than Arya? As a name, Sansa reminds me too much of Gregor Samsa from Kafka’ s Metamorphosis.
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Sansa is portrayed as more of a victim than Arya in the show, and it's basically said in the end that she'd be weak if she'd never been victimized. I was more interested in Arya's character in the books (wouldn't agree she's one-dimensional), but I hate how both of them were portrayed in 2nd half of the show.
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Ahh okay, I didn't watch the show (I think I saw a few episode of the first season and that was that). I liked her in the books (I liked Arya too but not as much).
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