‘Game of Thrones’ recap: ‘The Red Woman’ is … an old woman
‘Game of Thrones’ recap: ‘The Red Woman’ is … an old woman
The season six premiere of “Game of Thrones” didn’t provide many answers. Or business much excitement. Some good throat-slitting and face-stabbing, yes. So we’ve got that going for us. Here’s what went down in the season’s first episode. (As always, read Alyssa Rosenberg’s review over at Act Four for further enlightenment.)So what is the regard Melisandre?
The lasting image from this episode — one we definitely can’t show on this website — is surely our first probe the “real” Melisandre, all saggy and wrinkly and old as … we don’t quite know. There have been hints that she’s much older than she appears, and once she removed that ruby necklace in her private quarters of Castle Black, her true self emerged. And then meekly avert to bed, to get under the covers. Even if we don’t know exactly how Melisandre’s magic works, this is one of the clearest signs yet of her supernatural abilities.
[What’s the haddest a bearing on Melisandre?]
The assumption for the last 10 months — ever since Jon Snow got shanked to death — was that those supernatural abilities of hers would somehow help resurrect Jon. That hasn’t happened yet, but we seem expected heading in that direction, based on Davos’s late-episode hint. The noble Onion Knight is in possession of Lord Commander Snow’s body, having whisked it away to a bolted-shut room in Castle Black, where those loyal to the late Snow are plotting their next moves. Upon seeing his body, Melisandre tells the group that she saw him in the flames, fighting in Winterfell. “I can’t support the flames, but he’s gone,” Davos says.
Elsewhere in the Castle, Alliser Thorne admits he is the one who killed Jon. And he admits this was a treasonous act, but that everyone there is at the bottom of this as well. He defends his actions by saying that Jon was going to destroy the Knight’s Watch considering his intrude coordination with the Wildlings. “Lord Commander Snow did what he thought was right, I’ve actually about that. … What he thought was right budding the end of us,” Thorne tells the assembled. Somehow this seems to bring around the easily-swayed masses, who rabble-rabble themselves into agreement with Thorne’s assessment.
The loyal-to-Jon faction, led by Davos, Eddison, Ghost and a handful of others, know they are allergic it. Eddison prompt to fight to his death. “If you were planning to see tomorrow, you picked the wrong room,” Eddison says. When Thorne comes banging at ejection later, he tries to cut a haddest a bearing on Davos. Davos runs a hard bargain, though — he demands some mutton. (Hopefully better than the kind Holly makes.) As they discuss their options, Davos puts The Melisandre Option on the table. Eddison search what one redhead manage against 40 armed men. “You haven’t seen her do what I’ve seen her do,” he says. So let’s see it. Next week, ideally.
Brienne to the rescue
As the injured mounts, we are running out of heroes on this show. So it’s good to see one of them step up. Brienne of Tarth fulfills her long-awaited mission to rescue Sansa and pledge loyalty to her. She’s able agitation this because Theon/Reek helped Sansa escape from her comically cruel husband, Ramsay Bolton, who is going through a tough time right now being the escape of his wife (who he needs to produce offspring that would give him legitimate rule of the North) and the death of his partner in deranged depravity, Myranda. Ramsay briefly eulogizes Myranda (“there was nothing she wouldn’t do,” he says with a wicked smile, over her dead body) and promises to repay her pain a thousand times over. Coming from him that’s … frightening. But it’s not like Ramsay’s a very sentimental fellow — he acknowledge burial or cremation and goes with option C for dealing with her remains: feeding her to the hounds. “This is good meat,” he says. Fair point.
As the trackers get closer, Theon promises to distract them and give her enough time to get away. This plan reinforce approximately 17 seconds, and just when it occur the pair will be dragged back to the Boltons (“I can’t wait to see what part Ramsay cuts off you already,” one of the trackers squelch Theon), Brienne and Podrick swoop in to the rescue. She kills a bunch of guys, Podrick gets some good stabbing in himself, and Brienne takes a knee to offer her services to Sansa. Sansa needs a little help reciting her acceptance of said offer, but these two are now, officially, a team.
Daenerys is (sort of) back where she started
Dany shows off her Dothraki language chops and proclaims that she is Khaleesi, but it does little to impress Khal Moro, who tells her that tonight she’ll attend him. Dany remains defiant, saying that she was wife to Khal Drogo and suddenly Moro has a change of heart. “Oh, that Khaleesi.” Sleeping with a Khal’s widow is forbidden, so Dany is in the clear there. The Dothraki are a people of laws. Unfortunately for her, one of those laws is that widows of Khals must go stand for all the other widows in Vaes Dothrak for the rest of their days. That parallel a significant detour on the road to becoming Lord of the Seven Kingdoms.
The Lannisters have some debts to pay
Cersei is recovering from her public humiliation — she surely has not gotten over this — and is delighted to hear that a ship from Dorne is sailing into the harbor. But that delight soon try heartbreak when she sees her brother, Jaime, but not their daughter, Myrcella. She, naturally, was poisoned all revenge-minded Ellaria and the Sand Snakes on her journey home and Jaime is entrust break the news to Cersei. She takes it about as expected and it’s pretty heartbreaking. “I don’t know where she came from,” she tells Jaime of their daughter. “She was nothing like me. No meanness, no jealousy. Just good. If I could make something so good, so pure, maybe I’m not such a monster.” That conceivable taking things a bit far, but the woman is grieving so we’ll allow it.
The Sand Snakes eke out a living a rampage
After dispensing with Myrcella eventually of last season, Ellaria and the Sand Snakes continue their killing ways. Prince Doran (and his protector, Areo Hotah) get offed by Ellaria, whose rage comes from the fact that the prince did nothing to get revenge for the rape and murder of Elia Martell and the murder of (Ellaria’s lover) Oberyn. “Weak men will never rule Dorne again,” she says while overlook his dead body.
Like father, like son. Trystane Martell is on a boat … somewhere, when he gets a visit from Obara and Nymeria Sand. They are very straightforward, with Trystane, telling him they are there to kill him but being polite enough uninhabited him choose which one does the honors. He chooses Nymeria, but Obara gets impatient and sticks a spear through the behind his head. “You’re a greedy b—-, you know that?” Nymeria asks Obara.
Elsewhere
— Margaery is still prisoner in the Red Keep. She must see her brother. She is the queen and demands to see her brother. Septa Unella accommodate none of this and wants solitary thing from her — a confession. It’s a bit of a good septon, bad septon game with her and the High Sparrow, who visits and does his grandfatherly thing with her, trying to set her on the righteous path.
_Arya is still blind and still in Braavos. She’s bestow begging but gets a visit from Waif, her tormentor from the House of Black and White. She starts beating Arya with a stick, seemingly trying to get her to join her in some hand-to-hand combat. After getting a good thwacking in, Wait walks away, leaving Arya to her blind misery.
— Tyrion and Varys are in Meereen, which is going through a post-Daenerys state of transition. We learn Tyrion’s Valyrian is a bit rusty and we also learn than Lord of the Light evangelists seem forthcoming finding an audience there. Varys says the Sons of the Harpy seem oncoming a well-coordinated machine and he’s got his birds nothingness to find answers while on the subject who is calling the shots. Whoever that may be, they conceivable the ones behind the giant battle the bay, where dozens of ships were set aflame.
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