Game of Thrones Season 6 Finale What will Happen to the Characters?

After a bloody battle from the previous episode of Game of Thrones Season 6 the next big thing is the season finale and more questions are raising what is gonna up to with the characters.

Finale? Will Tommen die? What did Lord Baelish wanted from Sansa Stark in return of helping her? Well, here are some predictions about what can happen next on Game of Thrones Finale after all it’s a power packed season and it should end with a strong note and a lot of cliffhangers.

Bran Stark

It’s been a long time seeing Bran Stark on Game of Thrones. Last time we saw him, he was with Meera and his uncle Benjen Stark. We saw his face which was pierced by a dragon glass and as he said, he was saved by the Children of Forest using a dragon glass.

He has no control over his vision and it lead to the death of Hodor as well. What he could do next is go into another vision and seek a way to stop the White Walkers or just finish them.

Or he may give a way to the White Walkers to climb the wall and get to the other side of it due to his stupidity. One thing looks sure that we will have another look at the White Walkers by the end of this season.

He is now the three-eyed raven so lets see how well he manages things however he cannot do much other than sitting and getting visions from past and the future but he can definitely warn others or help them fight the dead.

Sansa Stark, Littlefinger, Jon Snow and Winterfell

Honestly speaking, the Battle of Bastards was epic. But Jon Snow was really lucky of surviving the endless arrows and enemies attacking. There was something in the Lord of Light that not even a single attack hurt him other than being stumbled.

This showed that he is very emotional and being emotional never helped anyone. So, he might just be a weak King but we know he is Jon Snow, the greatest Swordsman living who even killed White Walker.

One more thing is that he doesn’t want to rule but to serve. He want to save the world from the White Walkers. While Sansa has become really strong character now.

After the brutal treatment from Joeffrey she was sent to hell to Ramsay Bolton who brutally raped her and beat her. And there is one possibility that she might be carrying his child.

But it’s been a long time since she escaped from him. It’s Game of Thrones and anything can happen so we can’t rule out this theory too. In the preview teaser we saw Lord Baelish asking for something from Sansa.

One theory is that he would ask her to Marry him so that he would become the Warden of North and we all know he kissed her. Another thing is that he might ask for something else, like a forgiveness. But that doesn’t seem like a Baelish’ thing.

Melisandre

The fate of Melisandre is also on the cards because she was the one behind burning the daughter of Stannis Baratheon and Ser Daavos only found it in the last episode when he found that wooden horse he gave to her.

Honestly, I don’t want her to die because she is definitely the hottest women on the show. Although she is probably hundreds of years old but who the hell really cares when we know that in real she is young.

Kings Landing, Cersei, Margaery and Tommen

The trial by combat is not in business anymore and Cersei along with Margaery and Loras Tyrell will face the trial in front of the Seven Gods. Cersei wasn’t happy (obviously) with this and she won’t just let them do this. So, bloodshed is promised in Game of Thrones Season 6 Finale.

There are theories running around the web that she will kill the High Sparrow and all the other septons along with King Tommen. She has got the Mountain and she can kill the High Sparrow and others but definitely not her child.

Margaery ,however, is smart and hasn’t done a sin that will punish her for lifetime so she will confess that she had lied and will be spared for a very little price, maybe another Walk of Shame. Loras however can also be spared if he admits his sins.

Arya Stark and Jaqen H'Ghar

If there is one thing we are looking forward for in Game of Thrones Season 6 Finale, then it is Arya Stark and Jaqen H’ghar. I mean, Arya Stark has killed the Waif or she hasn’t it isn’t clear yet.

Maybe the girl who died was Arya Stark and the Waif took her face and presented herself as Arya Stark or maybe it is Arya Stark herself. Even Jaqen H’ghar looked confused. He wasn’t sure who she was.

And if she is Arya Stark, Jaqen H’ghar might chase her to protect her because we all know he has a caring place for Arya and he might just take one of the faces from the Wall and just protect her.

Anyways, we would really like to see her meeting her brother and sister namely Jon and Sansa because -A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell. And I am going home.

Daenerys Targaryen, Greyjoys, Tyrion And Meereen

Daenerys is back in Meereen and has destroyed the masters. We have seen her talking and promising the Greyjoys to give them Iron Islands back and in return to declare her the Queen of Seven Kingdoms.

That was one thing, but what about the harsh condition of Meereen? Tyrion tells him that the great game is terrifying. Definitely he was talking about Meereen and the Seven Kingdoms.

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Game of Thrones Season 6 Questions that We Need Answers

Game of thrones season 5 finale throws us a major heart break and cliffhanger from Jon Snow stabbed by his own men to Daenerys Targaryen and her dragon running into a horde of Dothraki warriors. Meanwhile, Sansa Stark and Theon Greyjoy are running for their lives and political powder kegs everywhere are waiting to go boom. Since the show is now moving past the point where author George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series left off, nobody really except the showrunners knows where any of this is headed.



The anticipation of Game of Thrones season 6 premiere is raising the bar and it makes us to get the biggest unanswered questions awaiting us in Westeros this year. Winter? Definitely coming. Everything else? Your guess is as good as ours.



Is Jon Snow dead? Like, dead dead? When everyone involved with Game of Thrones swears up and down that Jon Snow is dead, they're probably not lying. Last season's final shot Jon in the snow, blood gushing out from multiple stab wounds, with the unblinking eyes that are cinematic shorthand for "yeah, this dude's a corpse" doesn't leave a whole lot of wiggle room. Nor do the clips from the trailers that show him lying in state, surrounded by Ser Davos and various Night's Watch loyalists.



So does this mean Jon is following his father Ned, his half-brother Robb, and his stepmother Catelyn into Shocking Stark Death Oblivion? Since the most recent volume of the novels, A Dance with Dragons, ends on this exact same cliffhanger, nobody knows for sure but don't count the boy in black out just yet. For one thing, he has a special connection to his direwolf Ghost, and may be able to "warg" his consciousness into his animal companion. For another, the red priestess Melisandre is hanging around, and her religion has serious resurrection powers. Readers have long speculated that a combination of these two kinds of magic ice and fire, if you will, perhaps with an assist from his psychic brother Bran will give Lord Snow his ticket back to the land of the living, and leave him much more whole than other resurrectees have been in the past.



What the hell's going to happen at the Wall? Nothing good! Ser Alliser Thorne has led a mutiny against Jon Snow for allowing the wildlings through the Wall, which means more bloodshed between rival factions is sure to follow. The feral tribe from the outlands may not have been the late Lord Commander's biggest fans, but they're not likely to take kindly to his murder by a pack of bigots, whom they outnumber by an order of magnitude. The late Stannis Baratheon's two most devoted followers, Davos and Melisandre, are still in the mix as well — and so is at least one giant, whom Jon helped rescue from the besieged fishing village of Hardhome. To the south, the Boltons are in charge, and they could well send forces to slay the few remaining Stark and Stannis loyalists at Castle Black. And to the north, of course, the White Walkers are coming, with their army of the dead in tow. It's an explosive situation, and the whole Wall could fall if it blows up.



What's going to happen to Daenerys? The Mother of Dragons fared a bit better than Jon Snow did last season, if only because he's dead and, well, she isn't. Still, Dany is in a pretty precarious position. Her attempt to govern the city of Meereen ended in a bloody insurgency that forced her to flee on the back of Drogon, her black dragon. She's now stranded in the middle of the grasslands known as the Dothraki Sea — alone, hungry, unable to force the beast to follow any of her commands, and finally, surrounded by a khalasar of warriors on horseback. Never the most popular figure among the horselords, our heroine is shown staggering into their capital city in the trailers, where forces unknown strip and manhandle her.



Is she a prisoner, forced to join other widowed khaleesis in early retirement? Is she going to rally the Dothraki to her side with a little help from her scaly friend? Where did he go, anyway? What will happen if and when Daario Naharis and Jorah Mormont her two rival warrior-suitors, one of whom is infected with the greyscale plague track her down? And will any of it bring her any closer to invading Westeros and taking back the Iron Throne — or defending the Wall from the White Walkers?



What's going to happen in Meereen? There's no reason to believe the Sons of the Harpy will stop their insurrection just because the queen who freed their slaves fled the scene. The ruling council currently in charge consists solely of non-natives: Grey Worm, general of the Unsullied; Missandei, her translator; and Tyrion Lannister, who talked his way into her good graces just before she flew away. Two of the three are former slaves themselves and thus unlikely to be popular with the aristocracy; the other has a price on his head. The Imp's pal Varys is along for the ride, too, but the spymaster's loyalties have always been questionable. Finally, there are still two dragons locked up beneath Dany's palace. Talk about wild cards!



5. What's going to happen in King's Landing? Seriously, is there any place here that isn't a ticking time bomb going into Season Six?! Like Jon and Dany, Cersei Lannister started last season in charge and ended up in deep shit. After empowering the extremist religious leader known as the High Sparrow — in the hope that he'd take down her rivals she wound up in the crosshairs as well. Now she's endured a horrifying walk of shame but will still have to stand trial ... and we've all seen how trials in King's Landing go. Her brother Jaime's back in town, bearing the bad news of their daughter Myrcella's murder, and her undead bodyguard Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane is running around too. There could well be a three-way bloodbath in the streets between Lannister, Tyrell, and Faith Militant forces before it's all said and done four-way, since Dorne's Prince Trystane is a newcomer to the city this season. It's a recipe for disaster potent enough to make Meereen look like Des Moines.



6. Will Arya stay with the Faceless Men? The wild-child Stark girl ended last season by crossing the evil Kingsguard Ser Meryn Trant off her kill list; her supervisor in the mystical order of assassins called the Faceless Men blinded her as punishment. Will she continue her training to become "no one" and join the FM for real? Or will she continue her vendetta against the Lannisters, perhaps by heading back to Westeros to seek them out?



7. What will Sansa and Theon do? When last we saw the Lady Stark and the heir to the Iron Islands, they were leaping from the walls of Winterfell to escape the sadistic Ramsay Bolton. The trailers indicate that they survived the leap, but little else. Who will they turn to for help? Will they hook up with Davos and Melisandre (and possibly Jon Snow) at the Wall? Will they hunt down her kid brother Rickon, since they're among the very few people who know he's still alive? Will they connect with Brienne of Tarth and her sidekick Podrick Payne, who are still sworn to protect her? And how will her malicious mentor Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish react once he learns the awful truth about her marriage and her subsequent jailbreak?



8. What will Bran learn from the Three-Eyed Raven? The crippled Lord of Winterfell traveled far beyond the Wall to meet the literal man of his dreams: the Three-Eyed Raven, a sorcerer allied with the ancient Children of the Forest against the White Walkers. But the journey cost the life of his ally Jojen Reed, whose psychic abilities echoed those of Bran himself, and after their arrival at the Raven's weirwood throne we haven't seen a glimpse of the group since.



Magic is always a harsh master on Game of Thrones, and there's no telling what further sacrifices the young Stark and his friends will have to make to aid his sorcerous new sensei (played this season by the great Max Von Sydow). Will he use whatever new powers he gains to help his scattered siblings, up to and including a revived Jon Snow? How important is he in the coming war against the Walkers and their horn-headed ruler, the Night's King? And will he somehow gain access to Ned Stark's big secret: the truth about Jon's parentage?



Winter is coming so here's your quick-and-dirty 'Game of Thrones' Season 6 refresher course on who's who and what's happening from Westeros to the Wall.



9. Where's Rickon? The youngest member of the Stark clan, little Rickon was last seen a few seasons ago. He and his wildling babysitter Osha split up from Bran in order to evade detection by the Boltons, heading for the ancestral stronghold of devout Stark allies House Umber. With Robb dead, Jon a bastard and dead, and Bran off taking wizard lessons from a tree-man, that leaves the little lord as the rightful King in the North.What will he do or what will be done to him, if Roose and Ramsay get to him first?

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Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode Titles Leaked Online

Just a few days to go and we really can’t take it that the excitement for Game of Thrones season 6 is at the highest peak at the moment. HBO already released two trailers for the upcoming season 6 and the second trailer is just full of spoilers that wrecking up fans what could happen next.

Now, thanks to a leak, the first three episode titles have reportedly hit the internet. HBO has already announced the first episode's titles, ‘The Red Woman’, while the second will apparently be ‘Home’ and the third ‘Oathbreaker’.

Unfortunately, ‘Home’ is pretty generic and could mean almost anywhere. Winterfell for any of the Stark children. Casterly Rock for one of the Lannisters. Perhaps Bran has found his calling in the North. Or even Daenerys finding her home among the Dothraki.

On the other hand, Oathbreaker is almost guaranteed to be about Brienne. Seasons before, she took an oath swearing to protect the Stark children, while the name of her sword is also Oathbreaker.

Could she break her oath to Catelyn Stark? Does it have anything to do with her journey to meet Ian McShane’s character on the Quiet Isle it is place where The Hound is rumoured to be? In other Game of Thrones news, three clips have emerged online, one of which features Sansa and Theon running from Ramsey Bolton.

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Game of Thrones Season 6 Everything that We’ve Known So Far All Around The Kingdom

Once again Winter is Coming this April as Game of thrones season 6 will set to premiere this coming April 24, 2016. Before the season premiere will start let us just take a look what we have know so far in season 6 based in trailers and spoilers that we read online.

Now that the show has fully caught up with George R.R. Martin's epic-fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire both book-readers and newbie viewers are totally in the dark about what's going to happen next. That makes keeping track of the show's sprawling cast and countless subplots more crucial and more daunting than ever. With out a surprise for the newbie fans that George can even kill off your favorite character in the show you better prepare all the time.

The Wall Jon Snow is dead. The idealistic 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch was stabbed to death by his own men led by his longtime nemesis Ser Alliser Thorne for the crime of getting too cozy with the wildlings, whom he'd allowed through the Wall to save them from the White Walkers. Of course, there are different degrees of "dead" in this world, and the big question at the start of this season is whether Lord Snow will rise again aided, perhaps, by his psychic bond with his direwolf Ghost, or resurrected by the magic powers of Melisandre, the red priestess who's demonstrated an ability to raise the dead in the past.

The North There are no White Walkers south of the Wall (not yet, anyway), but monsters are abound nonetheless. Foremost among them: the Bolton boys, Roose and Ramsay, who have seized control of the ancestral Stark fortress Winterfell and defeated Stannis Baratheon's army. They had plenty of help from Stannis himself: He burned his awesome daughter Shireen alive as a blood sacrifice to the Lord of Light, driving his wife to suicide and seeing half his forces flee in disgust.

It was Brienne of Tarth, however, who delivered the killing blow against the man who would be king, at last getting revenge for his Melisandre-assisted shadow-murder of his brother Renly. Unfortunately, this meant she and her sidekick Podrick Payne took their eyes off the prize, abandoning their stakeout of Winterfell just when Sansa Stark, wedded to Ramsay and subject to his sexual sadism, signaled for their aid in escaping.

But Lady Stark found help anyway, in the wretched form of Theon Greyjoy, better known to his cruel Bolton masters as Reek. Finally snapping after untold abuse, he killed Ramsay's vicious paramour Myranda, then leaped off Winterfell's walls into the snow with Sansa before the Bolton forces returned from battle. Their current status and whereabouts are unknown.

Braavos The watery "free city" off Westeros' eastern coast is the current home to Arya Stark, who spent the season training under master assassin Jaqen H'ghar to join his order of mystical murderers, the Faceless Men. But while she's supposed to become "no one," she's still a Stark at heart. When she gets the opportunity to kill Ser Meryn Trant — the brutal pedophilic Kingsguard responsible for so much of the family's misfortune — she seizes it with gory gusto. This sits ill with her new bosses, who only kill when given the order, and she is magically blinded as punishment. The Iron Islands West Coast represent: Though they've receded to the background for several seasons, the warlike Ironborn are still nominally an independent kingdom, ruled by Balon Greyjoy, the last of the War of the Five Kings' main monarchs left standing. (Renly Baratheon, Robb Stark, Joffrey Baratheon, and Stannis Baratheon have all gone to meet the Seven, and you can throw in King-beyond-the-Wall Mance Rayder for good measure.) His daughter Yara may be helping him rule these rugged islands off Westeros' western shore, though her abortive rescue mission of her castrated brother Theon may have driven a wedge between them.

King's Landing Technically, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms is still ruled by Tommen Baratheon, but, well … it's complicated. The boy king was already being used as pawn in the power struggle between his wife Queen Margaery Tyrell and his mother Queen Cersei Lannister, who was losing that particular battle. In her rage and paranoia, she gave free rein to the Faith Militant, an army of fanatical worshippers of the Seven led by the grandfatherly beggar priest called the High Sparrow. This worked out well for a while, as the fundamentalists arrested Margaery's brother Loras for homosexuality and tossed her in jail for covering it up in the bargain. But the Queen Mother herself finally found herself on the wrong end of their wrath when her born-again cousin Lancel revealed their incestuous relationship and her involvement in the death of her ex-husband King Robert. Her partial confession led to the humiliating walk of shame that served as the centerpiece of Season Five's finale.

So who's in charge now? Well, the High Sparrow rules the streets, but Tommen still sits the Iron Throne, and his great-uncle Kevan Lannister serves as the Hand. Presumably Lady Olenna Tyrell, the matriarch of Margaery's family, won't let either of her grandkids go down without a fight. Yet even a humiliated Cersei has a secret weapon: Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane. Brought back from the brink of death after he was poisoned in a duel against the Red Viper of Dorne, he's now the Kingsguard's newest member — and oh yeah, he's a mute, blue-faced zombie, too. Hey, what could go wrong?

Dorne The culturally distinct southernmost of the Seven Kingdoms had largely been spared the destruction of the War of the Five Kings, until Prince Oberyn Martell, aka the Red Viper, attempted to get revenge against the Lannisters and their lackey Gregor Clegane for the murder of his queenly sister during Robert's Rebellion years before. To put it mildly, it backfired. With his girlfriend Ellaria Sand and their daughters the Sand Snakes swearing revenge, Cersei sent her brother Jaime and his sparring partner Bronn right into their home turf to bring back their daughter Myrcella, whom Tyrion had sent to Dorne as a bargaining chip, before they can take out their anger on her. Prince Doran Martell prevented the two groups from coming to blows, insisting on peace and offering to relinquish the young woman as long as her fiancé — his son Trystane — could travel back to King's Landing with them to serve on Tommen's Small Council.

Meereen The easternmost stop in our world tour takes us from ice to fire. The city of Meereen, conquered by Daenerys Targaryen, her dragons, and her patchwork army of freed slaves, is currently as unstable a place as King's Landing, if not more so. It's got a fanatical insurgency, the Sons of the Harpy, and an assassinated leader, Dany's fiancé Hizdar zo Loraq. But no one back at the Red Keep has to deal with two dragons chained in the basement, and the third, Drogon, running amok before rescuing his "mother" and fleeing to parts unknown with her on his back.

With the Khaleesi in the wind, it falls to her advisors to rule in her stead. This means a strange-bedfellows triumvirate of her right-hand woman Missandei, the young leader of the elite Unsullied troops Grey Worm, and newcomer Tyrion Lannister, who fled to Meereen in hopes of joining forces with her against his hated family. The trio are now in charge, with the Imp's spymaster buddy Varys riding shotgun. Meanwhile, the two men vying for the Queen's affection, sexy sellsword Daario Naharis and turncoat exile Ser Jorah Mormont, have set off to find her bringing Mormont's hidden greyscale infection and the potential for a plague with them.

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Game of Thrones Season 5 Episode 7 The Gift Full Wrap Up

We come to the episode of Game of Thrones The Gift on the heels of last week’s horrifying rape scene, only to find that some time has passed, and Sansa is in perhaps even more dire straits than we realized.

She is locked in her room when Reek brings her food. Bruises cover her arms. She begs the man who was once Theon to help her, makes him promise to light a candle in the tower so that someone will come to save her. But instead he goes to his master, Ramsay.

It’s scary stuff, the way the show presents marital abuse and rape as truly awful. It’s scary, too, that so many viewers would decide to not watch or discuss the show over this topic, since it’s a very real, human issue that people face in the modern world as well as Westeros.

These viewers will also have missed one of the best episodes of the season, an episode that ups the ante quite a lot, ratcheting up the tension, and setting in motion events that will carry us into what I suspect will be a harrowing final three episodes of Season 5.

In the North, three stories begin to play out.

Jon Snow heads off to find the Wildlings so that he can bring them south of the Wall to help fight the army of the dead and repel the White Walkers when they actually come. This leaves Sam alone with Gilly and a dying Aemon.

On his deathbed, Aemon observes Gilly’s baby, likens him to his own little brother “Egg.” This is Aegon, who would become king when Aemon refused the Iron Throne. Aegon is one of the titular characters in Martin’s Dunk & Egg stories. He’s the grandfather of Aerys II, the “Mad King” who killed Ned Stark’s older brother and father, and who Jaime Lannister killed. This also makes Aegon the great-grandfather of Daenerys Targaryen, and Aemon her great-grand-uncle.

Upon his death, the only known Targaryen left alive is Dany herself, though there are questions of lineage yet to be resolved.

Sam is left alone with hostile Crows. At one point two of them attempt to rape, or at least harass, Gilly. Sam stands up for her, tries very unsuccessfully to fight them off. He’s beaten badly, but doesn’t back down and almost certainly would have been killed if Ghost hadn’t suddenly showed up. Which reminds me, why haven’t we seen any direwolves lately? Not only Ghost and why isn’t Ghost with Jon? but any direwolves at all. I really wish Arya’s wolf, Nymeria wasn’t cut from the show, and that we’d see some of the Brotherhood Without Banners. C’est la vie. Oh, and Gilly takes Sam’s virginity, which is cute. It’s a funny reversal of roles, in a way. She’s on top, asks him if it hurts, and so forth.

The second story in the North is that of Stannis’s second great assault on one of the bad guy armies. The first time he was defeated by a combination of factors, though mostly it was Tyrion and his wildfire that stopped the Baratheon army.

This time it’s the snow. The army is running out of food. Horses are dying. Davos Seaworth urges Stannis to turn back and winter in Castle Black. But this could be a winter that lasts years, Stannis reminds him. By the time it’s over, it will be too late.

He makes a good point, though as Ramsay Bolton himself notes, the Northerners are used to fighting in the frost; Stannis and his men are not.

The Red Lady, Melisandre, has an idea, though. Stannis needs to sacrifice those with king’s blood in order to use her dark magic and bring victory The only person within miles that has any is Stannis’s own daughter, Shireen. Melisandre urges Stannis to sacrifice his own daughter in order to achieve his victory. At least for now, he refuses her, telling her to get out of his sight.

After his earlier profession of love to Shireen, I can only hope that he remains as stubborn in his resolve to protect her as he does in his resolve to march to victory or defeat. Spooky stuff. For being a lady of fire, Melisandre is one stone-cold…sorceress.

The final story in the North, which I began discussing up at the top, is the continuing trials and tribulations of poor Sansa Stark.

The lady—Lady Bolton now, I suppose is in bad shape, but she’s the bravest and most poised we’ve seen her yet. Her suffering isn’t intended merely as impetus for Theon to shake off his mental shackles, as some critics suggested last week.

If anything, it will be Sansa’s will, her sheer force of personality and courage, that finally convince Theon to help her if he does help her at all. So far he’s simply gotten an old Northern woman flayed. And if he does help her? She will be helping him as much, if not more. Theon is a victim, too, we’d do best to recall. But Sansa, in spite of her torment, is hardly broken the way Theon is broken.

She reminds Ramsay that he’s still a bastard that Tommen who legitimized him is a bastard, too. He doesn’t seem very pleased about this, and I shudder to think what he will almost certainly do to her later, but she’s obviously not lost her courage. If anything, she’s just now learning how brave and strong she truly is.

Here the inevitable fallout of all of Cersei’s plotting and conniving comes to a head, with not only Loras and Margaery in chains, but the Queen Dowager as well.

Cersei has been playing with fire, foolishly assuming that the High Sparrow was a corrupt ally, when all this time he’s been tricking her into letting her guard down.

It’s interesting that Littlefinger is portrayed as the one calling the shots here again. He supplied Loras’s lover to confess against the Knight of Flowers; and now he’s at least informing Lady Olenna that Lancel Lannister will do the same to Cersei.

Either way, it’s gratifying to see Cersei get a taste of her own medicine. She’s been as vile as ever all season, meddling and meddling and so smug. But she’s done more to weaken her family and gut the power of House Lannister than any Stark or Baratheon or Martell ever could.

Equally gratifying—or nearly so—was the wonderful exchange between the Queen of Thorns and the High Sparrow. This is the first time Lady Olenna has truly been at a loss, though I can’t help but root for her against the seemingly humble, but very dangerous, High Sparrow.

The man is a fanatic, no matter his plain demeanor and simple ways. He’d bring all sorts of zealotry and horrors to an already horrible world, and the targets of his “many” would not only be pampered noble deviants, but many other disenfranchised people in the lower class as well, no matter his Marxist leanings. The episode draws to a close with Cersei cursing her captors, locked up in the very same dungeon she concocted for the Tyrells. You know what they say about Karma.

In Dorne, Jaime confronts Myrcella. He wants to take her home, but she won’t hear of it. She’s fallen in love with young Trystane, the Dornish princeling. She’s happier in Dorne where, other than a few crazy Sand Snakes, things are relatively peaceful and incidents of intrigue, murder, and war are all fairly nonexistent compared to King’s Landing. Meanwhile, Bronn sings to his prison-mates, the Sand Snakes, and engages in playful banter. Viewers who thought he’d been “killed” by the Sand Snakes’ poison last week can eat their hats. While the sell-sword was indeed poisoned, the girls give him an antidote before it kills him. It’s a funny scene, with gratuitous levels of HBO nudity/strip-tease. But the entire Dornish story feels a bit anemic still at this point. We cannot languish too long wondering why we’re supposed to care.

The other big moment—one that’s danced around in the books but never actually happens—is Dany and Tyrion meeting at a small fighting pit in Meereen.

Dany has reopened the pits, has agreed to marry the charming Hizdahr zo Loraq, and is thus far refusing Daario’s entreaties to just kill all the great masters and put an end to the Sons of the Harpy terrorism once and for all. Be bloody, bold, and resolute, he tells her (in so many words.) But she says she’d rather be a ruler, not a butcher. “All rulers are butchers or meat,” he replies. Ten points to Daario.

In any case, Dany watches one of the matches where a bunch of slaves who aren’t supposed to be slaves fight each other to the death in order to qualify for the actual fighting pits. This strikes me as a hugely stupid and inefficient way to run gladiators. Why kill off your own slaves before they even have a chance to fight and make you any money? It doesn’t make sense. The slave owner is just burning money, basically, not even able to bet on the winner, or fight his men against the men of another slave owner. It’s absurd.

Dany thinks so also but then a new champion takes the field. It’s Jorah Mormont, though she doesn’t know it yet. He beats everyone quickly, as a trained knight surely ought to, and without actually killing them, and then reveals himself to Dany. Who just happened to be there at this very fighting pit, just like Tyrion just happened to be at the tavern where Jorah was, and this series of very contrived moments just keep coming over here in the east, away from Westeros.

“Of all the fighting pits in all the world, she walks into mine,” Jorah quips to himself, we imagine, before he takes the field.

But Dany is less happy to see Jorah, and almost has him taken away before Tyrion shows up. “Wait!” Jorah begs his queen. “I brought you a gift.”

Tyrion is fairly bold in announcing his presence as said gift. I’m really excited to see where the show takes their meet-up since it was one thing I so desperately wanted to happen in A Dance with Dragons and never got. The Targaryens and the Lannisters have a somewhat…troubled past. Tywin, Tyrion’s father, ordered the execution of basically Dany’s entire family. There’s no love lost between the two Houses. But Tyrion, as we all know, is a Lannister of a different color.

I think that this just might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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