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Have you ever figured out that one of your friends was throw you a surprisal company and , rather than say yes or no when you face her about it , she just aver , " Maybe … " in this high - hawk tone that sound like a Kardashian sister making out with a baby seal of approval – as if that is supposed to make you shy that there ’ll be a surprise party , even though you know the whole prison term that there will be ? That is exactly howGame of Thronesand HBO treat the decease and rebirth of Jon Snow .
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As presently as the Lord Commander expire in last time of year ’s finale , we all know he ’d be coming back , but then we spent months let HBO and everyone involved with the serial get away with telling us otherwise , because what if ? What if Jon Snowwasactually dead andwasn’tgoing to come back , except as an inert remains with multiple stab wound in it ? What if they were telling us the fair truth ? So when Jon Snow add up back to life in last Nox ’s sequence , it was like all of our Friend had stick out out to wish us a felicitous birthday , and we could n’t even dissemble to be surprised or happy about it because we were so smashed that our friends had been lying to us for week .
All aright , enough of this belabored metaphor – let ’s take a tour of Westeros and see just who showed up to our re - natal day political party , and what it all mean for the time to come .
Castle Black: Heeeere’s Jonny!
Ser Davos , some Jon Snow stalwart , and his red - eyed wolf are about to take their last stand with Jon ’s body , as Alliser Thorne is literally fall apart down the door to get to his lily - white corpse . At the last minute , there is a battering on the gate into Castle Black . Could that be the phone of a giant x machina coming to save them ? It ’s really a behemoth and a caboodle of the wildlings , who have arrived to protect their friend Jon Snow .
All right , I have no idea how the hell Edd produce them to show up so quickly . perhaps Davos sent a raven ahead with 20 tongue emojis followed by an ambulance emoji ? It ’s unreadable , but seemed solely out of the blue . The good part of their entrance , however , was the one Night ’s Watchman who shot the giant with an arrow . Please . That ’s like trying to envenom the drinking water of Las Vegas by shed one tab of LSD over the Hoover Dam . That giant took the arrow out of his coat , put it in his pocket , and saved it for later on in case he needed a toothpick after he feast on a dinner party of crow .
Meanwhile , the ancient cuckoo bird Melisandre is loaf around her elbow room waiting to start reading her copy ofAARP : The cartridge clip . She ’s distressing because the Lord of Light failed her and she does n’t lie with what her index are for . Boo - freakin'-hoo . As Davos points out , this lady queefed a shadow goliath and she ’s delirious because Stannis Baratheon twist out to be the also-ran we all knew that he already was . She ’s like a Bernie Sanders supporter the day after a Democratic primary .
Davos convinces the Red Woman to give her magic a shot , because she see a non-Christian priest do it once in a cave . think of right smart back in time of year three ? Probably not . And we did n’t even get a good manners call - out in the " previously onGame of Thrones . " We all knew what was coming next , even though it seems like it should be far too long for Jon Snow to be bring back to life . He ’s been bushed for 60 minutes at this point . Is n’t there some sort of statute of limitation on Resurrection of Christ ? Should n’t the five - mo linguistic rule apply to more than donuts that you dropped on the carpet ?
Melisandre visits Jon Snow ’s au naturel torso ( save for a modesty cloth over his Valyrian steel ) . With all the dirty things that we ’ve seen on this show , we ca n’t see what Jon Snow has lying to the south of the Wall ? She gives him a bathing tub , cuts his hair , throws some of it in the fire , and then mumbles the magical words desperately over and over . It ’s like when you ’re trying to find that one PornHub video recording that ’s going to get you over the sharpness , and no matter how many snip you scroll past under the " MILFs eat sweet " tab , you just ca n’t receive the right one . in conclusion , like so many of us when PornHub fails us , she gives up and will the room to go observe the end of SportsCenter and perhaps play some Xbox . As we all know he would , that is when Jon gasps back to spirit .
But what does his coming back to life mean ? So far we ’ve seen Khal Drogo come back to life , and he was muted than a ranter at the bottom of a purse of ketamine . Then the Mountain returned , and he ’s like some form of Frankenstein beast who ca n’t speak , will only defend Cersei Lannister , and care to bolt down drunks as they ’re taking a leak against a wall . Then there is Beric Dondarrion , that wild dude who issue forth back in the cave while Arya Stark await on back in Season 3 . He seemed to be fine , but he said he ’s " a little bit less " every time he comes back .
Which of these will Jon be ? I was sort of hoping he ’d be like Wesley inThe Princess Bride , where his Quaker have to hale him around for the final act while he slowly find the usage of his branch . I ’m assuming he ’ll be back to normal , because he ’s Jon Snow and they ’re not go to bring him back just to kill him again like they did to Khal Drogo .
But what will he be lacking if he ’s a little bit less ? Is it whatever was set underneath that tiny cloth ? Is he now in the same club as Theon , Grey Worm , and Varys ? Or mayhap his woman chaser Ghost is decease to pall ? Or maybe Jon was a ghost all along ? SURPRISE !
Winterfell: who let the dogs out?
Sansa and Brienne are in the woods on their direction to Castle Black , and they ’re talking about how Arya dresses like a lesbian and they ’re cackling away like two lady friend who just discovered that Ellen DeGeneres wish to wear pants suit to the Oscars . They should stop express joy because their plan to go to Castle Black is perfectly imbecile . It ’s the first station that everyone would believe to look for them . It ’s sort of like if Arya decided to run King ’s Landing by going to a Tegan and Sara concert . She ’d still be locked in the donjon now .
Inside Winterfell , the obnoxious Ramsay Boltonhas already figured out Sansa and Brienne ’s programme , and tell his father Roose that he ’s pass away to storm Castle Black , drink down Jon Snow , and take Sansa back . Roose thinks this is an awful estimate because it will wrench the Frederick North against the Boltons . Ramsay rebuts that they do n’t involve everyone , just the coffee , the Karstarks , and the Manderlys . Thanks to the ready to hand reminder in the " antecedently on , " we recognise the Karstarks hate the Starks because Robb murdered their lord . Thanks , " previously on . " It seems like his architectural plan should work out .
Roose tells Ramsay , " If you develop the report of a mad bounder , you will be treated like a mad dog , taken out back , and slaughtered for pig feed . " This , and the news of the birth of his new baby comrade , pisses Ramsay off so much that he slays his father and then feeds his stepmother and half - brother to his dog . What is up with Ramsay Bolton and cad ? I ’ve heard of Crazy Cat Ladies before , but a Psychopathic Dog Man is a new one .
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Things are looking bad for Ramsay . His stepmother was Walda Frey , and her grandfather Walder , the architect of the Red Wedding , does really rash things to people who make the marriages he ’s broker . Just expect Robb Stark . Ramsay also does n’t bonk that Castle Black is not only protected by the Night ’s Watch , but it is now home to a ton of wildlings and at least one giant . consume Castle Black is not going to be the cakewalk that he thinks it is . But at least he got the part right about Jon Snow being awake up there .
God , I ca n’t wait for Ramsay to get a Bolton to the head .
Pyke: what is dead should die already
The only things bad than ember in your stocking , a burning sensation when you pee , or a John Kasich stump speech is Pyke in the opening night credit rating . When the tower and the flimsy bridge comminute their way of life to the sea during the topic song , I always need to shut off the goggle box , crawl under the covers , and research " MILFs wipe out dessert . "
Who cares about Pyke ? No one . Not one individual person . Well , Theon does , I hazard , since he ’s headed back there . So does his sister Yara , who does n’t need to keep fighting war on ground . So does their beginner , Balon , who brags that he ’s the only world-beater left standing in the War of the Five Kings , a program line equivalent to " I am go to die in the next scene . "
I was right . His brother Euron shows up , and they have this stupid competitiveness in the rain that I ca n’t peradventure manage about and hold back so many words . Shut up and throw the guy cable over the bridge already ! Good – he did . Balon ’s dead . Are we done here ? Nope .
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What ’s up with the cast here , anyway ? Balon isancient . The role player playing him , Patrick Malahide , is 71 years old . Pilou Asbaek , the actor playing Euron , is 34 . Are these buddy from another mother ? And what about that old guy with hairsbreadth just like Melisandre ’s when she takes off her magic necklace , who presided over Balon ’s funeral ? He ’s think to be another Balon brother – Aeron Greyjoy , nicknamed the Damphair ( damp hair – get it ? ) – and the player playing him , Michael Feast , is 69 . The last time I was this confused was when I learn that Hodor is think to beolderthan Ned Stark .
WTF . Anyway , Yara mean that she ’s go to be queen , but Damphair is telling her she ca n’t because of some dumb law . Are we headed toward a world where women are in command of everything and the world is ultimately at peace ? Will Dany have the Iron Throne , Yara have the Iron Islands , and Sansa , the oldest remain Stark , have Winterfell and the North ? That would be pretty rad .
Meereen: half-brother of dragons
Daenerys is still MIA , and she ’s lost ascendency of the cities that she ’d previously absolve . So it ’s up to Tyrion totry– only his idea of sample is to go make booster with dragons . I would endeavor to make friends with a Red Sox fan after a licking to the Yankees before I tried to make supporter with some flying lizard .
When the pilot light light in that flying lizard ’s throat flared , it seemed like Tyrion was fixing to be a person - kebab . But then he undid their shackles and they adjudicate to stay put in their pen . It ’s sort of like those orcas that are raise in Sea World and ca n’t hold up in the sea anymore . But if Tyrion can image out how to use those flying dragon to get what he wants , everyone is doomed .
And he is almost surely going to envision out how to apply those dragons . Have youheard the theorythat he ’s Daenerys ' half - blood brother ? They are entirely going to be riding side - by - side atop two of those dragon by the time this serial publication is over . But who will pilot the third ? It better not be thatthirsty AF Dothraki dude from last hebdomad !
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Braavos: sticks and stones
Arya is still the big at play Donatello fromTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , and that jerky intern from the House of Black and White smack her face in yet again .
After the Stark girl gets the seafarer dumbfound out of her yet again , Jaqen H’ghar shows up and tells her to say her name and she can have protection or food or her eyesight back . It ’s like one of those granting immunity challenge onSurvivorwhere they taste to tempt contestant into quitting so they can wipe out earthnut - butter cookies . Arya does n’t fall for it because she has watched a lot ofSurvivor — well , not recently ( # TooSoon ) . She is rewarded by being taken back to the White House Black Market store in the Braavos mall .
She ’s instruct to recollect not remembering her name . And she ’s training to be an assassin . If this keeps up , she may even forget to recollect the names on her famous list and vote out some other citizenry instead . I just ate some peyote , so forgive me for theorize the following : what if , after her school is done , someone hires a Faceless Man formerly known as Arya Stark to take out a sure freshly rise brother of the Night ’s Watch , who just happens to be her half - comrade ( or cousin , bet on whether you believe Bureau of Intelligence and Research + L = J ) ? Or a finally glad Sansa ?
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King’s Landing: Sparrow escape
The High Sparrow ca n’t kill Tommen , though , because if the Martin Luther King Jr. were to die , then Robert Baratheon would have no living sons or brother , and it would be undecipherable whom the Iron Throne would go to . There would be another war , and the High Sparrow would surely be overthrown . His good hope is to continue to control this organization instead of ushering in a new one .
as luck would have it , Tommen fit to his female parent to get her to teach him how to be stiff . If there is one gripe in King ’s landing place who knows something about being ferocious , it is Cersei Lannister . She might not be that smart , but she is one severe queer . It ’s going to be poison apples for everyone .
The Life Tree: raisin' Bran
I saved the best for last because we saw Bran Stark back and all uprise up this calendar week , like one of those kid stars you ca n’t believe turned out to not be a gaga drug addict . He ’s chilling in this giant tree with the Three - Eyed Raven , and they ’re take in his father Ned Stark sparring with his sidekick Benjen back in Winterfell long before Bran was contain . They ’re like Bill and Ted and they ’re on an excellent dangerous undertaking , only they ca n’t do anything in the past but observe . phony , dude !
This is how we ’re going to happen out that Jon Stark is really Ned Stark ’s nephew and that his female parent is Lyanna Stark , correct ? Right .
The creepiest part was that weird cleaning woman who count like the sexual love tiddler of Vanessa Williams and that jumbo spider fromLord of the Rings . What was going on with her , and why did n’t they get Lady Gaga to play the part ? She could have done it without any makeup and could have just as easily order Bored Meera Reed that she ca n’t leave just yet because Bran needs her . Maybe the Spider Lady is the Great Goddess of Foreshadowing .
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Also , Hodor ! And Willis !
Bran ’s trip in the Life Tree was pretty amazing , but I thought he was proceed to get some veridical power . I desire some X - Men shit up in here , like shooting optical maser out of his eyes , rush around at the hurrying of auditory sensation , and shape - shift . Looking at the past is pretty cool and all , but I can ascertain honest-to-goodness episodes ofSupermarket Sweepon YouTube and there is less magic about me than there is aboutMagic Mike . We all knew that Jon Snow was descend back from the dead , and we also know that Bran is going to verify one of those flying dragon with his warg powers , so why do n’t we just get the surprise party over with already ?
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