Sandor POV Chapter - Yay or Nay?

I would love reading Sandor's thoughts, but on the other hand, I don't think I'd be heartbroken if we never got it. It could ruin a little of the mystique, but I don't think so.

I'm going to be super nerdy and go back to "Beauty and the Beast," the show with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton. We saw things from Vincent's point of view, heard him confess his thoughts and feelings to "Father" (not unlike Elder Brother, eh?), but he was still a shaggy, cat beast with claws of death. So, yeah, I think Martin could make it work.

However, I don't need it because I think seeing him from Sansa's perspective helps us appreciate what she sees in him, how their relationship grows. I don't know that I need his love or his crushing cynicism described in any more detail because he's already been pretty dang clear about what he's feeling and thinking. His soliloquies to Sansa are detailed, poetic, full of emotion. We don't have a chapter P.O.V. from him, this is true. But when he does speak of himself, he speaks at length so it's almost as if he's getting a mini-p.o.v., at least in Sansa's chapters. And with Sandor, actions speak even more loudly than words, and both Arya and Sansa are very detailed in how he acts around them.

Maybe he will write it, but I think that later. And maybe with another name, not Sandor, as Reek, Alayne and all Arya´s alias. But I really believe that if he writes his POV then it will lead to his death.

Yes exactly, I would like to get a glimpse into Sandor's "transformation" - to see a little bit of his struggles with becoming a better man, getting over his hang-ups about Gregor/seeing the futility of a life lived for hatred and vengeance (a major theme in the books already), and contemplating his future. (And any vague references to a "little bird" he left behind wouldn't hurt either, heh.) Yes, we can infer much of this based on Brienne's QI chapter and the things EB tells her, but I think Sandor deserves a few pages of his own at this point. 


You know, that's not the first time someone has brought that up, and it intrigues me that so many people seem to assume that a POV chapter portends a character's inevitable demise. From what I have observed, this primarily only applies to Prologue/Epilogue POV characters. Other minor/one-off POV characters, with the exception of Arys Oakheart and Quentyn Martell, seem to be hanging in there (so far)? All the Greyjoys are still alive, Barristan the Badass, Areo Hotah, Jon Connington, etc. I don't think one Sandor/Gravedigger chapter will mean his death. I think it could act as an interesting bridge between The Hound and New & Improved™ Sandor Clegane. 

Why do you thing George decided not to give him a POV when other characters like Damphair have one and they don't seem more important than him? Perhaps to keep Sansa and Sandor's romance in the shadows? She is very reserved but he isn't and what he feels would be too clear much earlier.

I love the way we get to know so much about him through serveral character's eyes, so I'm not sure whether it would be better or worse to have a POV chapter for him. The way he is portrayed feels like getting to know him ourselves,as if we were Arya,Sansa or Ned and could interact with him. His characterization is very well done and we know him like we know people in real life, without getting into their heads. I feel curious though, his head must be an interesting mess. That giant of a man who is such a romantic at heart must have interesting thoughts.

Anyway, for me the most interesting question is why, why did George decide not to write a Sandor's POV chapter? Any thoughts?

Interesting idea, perhaps there is something really important waiting for them. I had never thought Jorah and Sandor had too much in common but you are right, there is a certain parallesim between these two men. Jorah is the knight who didn't behave honourably and Sandor the non-knight who proved more honourable than most, both were the winners at a tourney and in a way,they both won their lady's hearts and in a tourney (Jora's wife and Sansa), both were rejected as you have said and both followed a different path when they left, Jorah to a life of debauchery and despondency (poor guy)while Sandor is going the opposite direction,it seems.

I think you are into something and these two still have to play a really important role as two contrasting approaches to chivalry (another would be Jaime, and also Brienne) as well as that of two men deeply in love with a woman they cannot have,or so it seems for the moment. Really interesting.