Game of Thrones: 6.02 - Home

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Bran trains with the Three-eyed raven. In King’s Landing, Jaime advises Tommen. Tyrion demands good news, but has to make his own. At Castle Black, the Night’s Watch stands behind Thorne. Ramsay Bolton proposes a plan, and Balon Greyjoy entertains other proposals.

 

[REBerg]

How dearly the dead love taking that deep, gasping, first breath when resurrected. Well done, keeping us in suspense until the last few seconds of the episode. Welcome back, Jon Snow!

How about that Ghost? Such a modest guy. He lounges back, allowing Melisandre to have her time in the spotlight, patiently waits for everyone else to leave the premises, then makes the spiritual transfer.

Mel will still get the credit. Ghost continues to masquerade as nothing more than your common, everyday, household Direwolf.

 

[Ed Ryder]

Top stuff.

So Bran is basically in the Great Machine from Babylon 5...

 

[Koopa]

First, hurray for Jon.
Secondly, what happened. Did Melisandre fail, did she help prepare Jon's body to make the transfer, was Jon's soul in Ghost his body and did it need melisandre sorcery to help complete the transfer. Was Ghost and Jon capable of doing this on their own, kinda like Varamyr in the book can skinchange but to a greater effect? If Jon's body was technically dead, did Ghost and Jon need Melisandre sorcery to help revive/heal the body before the soul could be put back in. Did Melisandre sorcery do the trick on it's own but with delayed effect. So many questions.... .

On other notes:
- Euron is shown doing the deed himself, no speculation here wether he actually did it and how. Dude got some serious armstrenght to throw a man over the railing as quickly as that.
- Sansa will come to Castle Black, not Alys Karstark as it is in the books, will she end up marrying Tormund Giantsbane then to replace the Thenns? Will the alliance between the wildlings and the north restore the Starks in the Winterfell. After all with Roose dead, and Ramsay his intentions, a battle between the 2 sides have become more or less inevitable.
- Bran will apparantly not stay in his cave, but go back out in the world. As to how and why and what he'll do in the future, i've got no idea. I'm guessing he didn't have anything to do with Jon's resurrection though going by the scenes shown. So that speculation kinda goes away.
- Tyrion being badass and releasing the dragons, more fuel to the Tyrion being a Targaryen theories. Did Mad Aerys rape Joanna Lannister?
- Church of the seven pointed star actually coming out and proclaiming they want control of the empire/kingdom. Time to start taking them serious and have them understand what it means to truly enter the game of thrones i'd say.
- Can Hodor talk and is he playing dumb on purpose, or did something really happen to him damaging his brain?
- They left out Arya being able to see through the eyes of animals. Will that happen later, since she is still blind?

 

[Koopa]

Hmm, after seen inside episode 2 of HBO, the writers make it seem like mel came true after all.

 

[Ed Ryder]

Can anyone remember what Littlefinger is currently doing?

 

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The look on his face when he realised he shouldn't have tried to follow Thorne's order to fight. The aim, pull of the trigger and the mistake. I laughed out loud when the giant grabbed him and smacked him against the castle wall. Pure comedy.

For once GoT has brought a smile on my face and restored my faith in this series. The justice got served. Thorne had no right to commit King Snow as a traitor. He saved them, and he saved Wildlings. North will remember. But that's the way North has always been. It's a brutal place, where the justice gets served one way or another.

I don't have high hopes for Bolton's. In fact, I want them to get ran over by Night's King's undead army, to get equal justification for the crimes they've committed in the recent past. But, then again, I also know that they're needed, when the White Walkers arrive in large numbers.

It is not if, but when.

Then again another kind of justice happened outside the Red Keep, where Sparrows seem to have taken power away from the Royal Families. It is almost similar event to the fall of Berlin Wall, where people said no more. Essentially it is the bitter poison Cercei has to drink, because not even his bodyguard can slaughter all people in King's Landing. Although I think he would take away quite number of them, from knowing what Mountain has done in the past.

I think Tommen knows that. He wants to retain Iron Throne with his family.

In the mean while, I love the way of how Tyrion shows from a season to another having biggest balls in the world. And he's such little man to face dragons to just have a word.

I could not have been able to do it.

By the way the best episode. Treachery included.

 

[Koopa]

House Bolton is about to die out, meaning the dreadfort will become available as a seat for someone... .
I disagree and agree with what you said about the sparrows. True that common folk can take away the power of the established rulers (till a new upper class born from the commoners takes their place), but I wouldn't call the sparrows justice. The dude playing the High Septon is doing a great job, he definitely gives me the creeps. Biggest mistake cersei ever made is allowing the faith to bear arms once again. Usually nothing good comes from giving fanatics weapons, especially not when they're ruled by a schemer whom believes in his cause.

 

[Dave]

I can't see how this can all be tied up in the number epsiodes that are left.

Are the Dragons free? Or, just unchained but still locked in a dungeon? Because there is one possible ending; the Dragons escape, kill all the Humans and live happily ever after.

 

[Koopa]

jon and dany fight the others, people die but the others are repelled. Bran finds a permanent solution by making peace with the surviving others. in the seven kingdoms most truly evil dudes will be dead, and after all this war people be wanting peace.
Peace out ~~

Or something like that

 

[Brian G Turner]

Just a question before I watch this - I saw a couple of people on Twitter complaining about Ramsey, presumably in this episode as it'd just aired. Anything yucky there? Just to know if I'll need to fast-forward any scenes? (I skipped all the torture scenes in Season 4).

 

[Ed Ryder]

Nothing yucky, just something that's left to the imagination. And Ramsey being Ramsey

 

[Ste-Pe]

Yeah when you see Ramsey near his kennels I'd hit fast forward if I were you. You get an idea of what will happen before it does, but you don't *see* anything.

Dave- I think the dragons are free, but they've just decided to stay in the dungeon (for me that one scene of Tyrion with the dragons was better than the whole of the three hobbit films)

Loved the episode, can't believe how quickly it all moved along.
Fantastic to see Jon again, at last a very happy ending to an episode (just please don't kill him again)

 

[svalbard]

"Don't eat the help." Brilliant.

 

[Mr Orange]

thought it was a good episode, a few things that didn't really add to the storyline but enough that did to keep me happy. glad to see jon's eyes weren't blue when he woke up. i do kind of hope he gets all vengeful and wreaks some havoc on the Boltons, with Sansa's help.\

the sparrows aren't quite as formidable as they are in the books - just a bunch of monks with clubs, instead of the proper army with knights etc they are in the books. looking forward to zombie mountain being unleashed properly

not quite sure why Davos was apologising, especially after it was made such a big deal in the season trailer...

so far this season has done a good job of changing my views on some characters - i am starting to get behind characters that previously i just wanted to see get taken down (Melissandre and Cercei are two prime examples)

 

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i do kind of hope he gets all vengeful and wreaks some havoc on the Boltons, with Sansa's help.

What Sansa can do that thousand wildlings cannot?

the sparrows aren't quite as formidable as they are in the books - just a bunch of monks with clubs, instead of the proper army with knights etc they are in the books. looking forward to zombie mountain being unleashed properly

A proper army? And a zombie mountain? I have no knowledge of these things. Can you explain a bit more, please?

not quite sure why Davos was apologising, especially after it was made such a big deal in the season trailer...

He's like any other good man. Always too humble to admit they're good on anything. Davos is a leader, not a front-line soldier who can take on wave after wave enemy opponents, and raise as a victor in the aftermath.

 

[Mr Orange]

What Sansa can do that thousand wildlings cannot?



A proper army? And a zombie mountain? I have no knowledge of these things. Can you explain a bit more, please?



He's like any other good man. Always too humble to admit they're good on anything. Davos is a leader, not a front-line soldier who can take on wave after wave enemy opponents, and raise as a victor in the aftermath.

Sansa can unite the North. and she will be accepted in a way that an undead jon snow and the wildlings will not be

In the books the Faith Militant includes a lot of knights and soldiers etc. Zombie mountain - Ser Robert Strong.

And yes, Davos is humble, but people seemed to make a big deal about him apologising in the trailer (what for, who to, etc), when in fact it just seemed to be him apologising for not being a good fighter...

 

[Gnrevolution]

Lots of great scenes and lines in this episode, in particular:

• Davos' apology just before the fight was about the start - have to say Longclaw looked good in his hands...
• Wun Wun taking revenge on the Crossbowman, very Avengers meme
• Ser Robert Strong punching the man to death in one blow!
• Tyrion 'I drink and know things' Lannister releasing the dragons, was sure they might show him with damp trousers afterwards, i certainly would have had this!
• Ramsay destroying the Bolton House - yes, he's in charge now but looks like alliance with the Freys are over (unless he spins a good excuse), no-one will trust him now. And when he gets to Castle Black he's going to be in for a 'giant' surprise (apol.)
• Jon's return - man Kit Harrington will get some stick for this (I'm dead, honest, yeah right Kit we believe you), I did think the Dire Wolf was going to stop breathing at the end, instead he just had his lazy on. So who thinks he will prank them by pretending to be dead when they come back in, then jump up at a wholly 'appropriate' moment?

 

[Koopa]

in the books the faith's militant are divided in 2 groups:
- The warrior's sons , basically the elite whom choose the High Septon as their master (from noble families, trained in warfare), Lancel Lannister being an example for it.
- Poor Fellows, basically the poor whom decide to take up arms for the faith. They're the bulk of the faith militant

@Petyr Baelish, in the show, I remember him meeting Cersei and Olenna. My guess is, he's either still in King's Landing, or in the Eyrie, or with the knights of the Vale heading for Winterfell.

 

[Ste-Pe]

My memory's very hazy, but have we met the female creature living at the cave where bran is, before?