(My list also includes Arya’s time in the House of Black and White, and Mance Rayder’s supposedly unstoppable, 100,000-strong Wildling army.) (Or choked by her own whip, in Nymeria’s case.) The Sand Snakes arrived with lots of fanfare and a killer debut scene in Season 5, but will endure in “Thrones” lore as one of the show’s biggest disappointments. That was a pretty fitting end for Obara and Nymeria Sand, who showed up Sunday full of big talk about giants they planned to slay only to be hoisted with their own petards by Euron.A Few Thoughts While We Speak Ill of the Dead But as with every other union or reunion of characters in Sunday’s episode, the true significance of the moment is probably yet to be revealed. “That’s not you,” she said, seemingly speaking to herself (though the relationships between the Starks and their wolves are complicated). (You’ll recall that she bit Joffrey’s arm.) This conviction seemed to receive another test later in the form of a pony-sized wolf that seemed to be Nymeria, last seen being chased away in Season 1 for her own safety. But on Sunday, at least, there were signs of the warmhearted girl we all remember.Īrya was initially aloof as she enjoyed another hot pie with Hot Pie, but when the lad revealed his true narrative purpose - to notify her that Jon was back in charge in Winterfell - it redirected her from her revenge quest to King’s Landing. I worried about Arya’s emotional well-being last week, after her objectively awesome and also totally ruthless decimation of House Frey. Will she succumb to his ambitions, which could, after all, secretly align with the values she picked up from Cersei? Or will Arya arrive in time to help her be her best Stark? The other thing Jon’s exit does is place Sansa in charge of Winterfell, which she seems ready to take on but which also leaves her vulnerable to Littlefinger, ever lurking. “I’ve outlived them all,” she says, because “I’ve ignored them.”) (He’s a clever man and I’ve known lots of clever men, Lady Olenna tells Dany, perhaps opening a fault line that will intensify with this defeat. The outcome would seem to be a blow against both Dany’s typically patient strategy and Tyrion’s plan to use nonforeign invaders to counter Cersei’s nativist rhetoric. The invasion itself was chaotically rendered, but Pilou Asbaek continues to be a kick as Euron, who arrived on a fanged gangplank that took out some poor sailor. It will be a less powerful Dragon Queen that Jon meets, now that some significant portion of her fleet has been destroyed by Euron’s surprise attack, with Yara, Theon, Ellaria and the Sand Snakes all lost in some fashion. (Even the stalwart Lady Mormont urged Jon to refuse the call.) The reactions were one of several alliance scenes in this Risk-board setting episode, which also saw Cersei whipping up xenophobic fears in King’s Landing and Dany negotiating infighting, the Achilles’ heel of large coalitions, over whether it is better to rule by winning hearts (Varys and Tyrion) or inspiring fear (Ellaria, Lady Olenna).īut Jon opted to go to Dragonstone, an outcome that was never really in doubt because his departure sets into motion a couple of arcs that have been queued up for a while. The letter was met with almost universal scorn from the northerners, who distrust both Targaryens and Lannisters. That would be the promised one between Jon Snow and Daenerys, which was set up last week with Sam’s dragonglass discovery - Jon wants to mine it, Dany is sitting on a mountain of it - and formalized Sunday with an invitation from Tyrion. (And it mostly made sense!) Elsewhere in Dragonstone, Grey Worm and Missandei found a way to make it work.Īnd we haven’t even gotten to the most momentous meeting of all. Others felt each other out, like Daenerys Targaryen and Varys, who hashed out six seasons of tangled history in a few pages of dialogue.
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