Jon Snow gets justiceand now his watch is ended
Huge Stark family shakeups this week on HBO’sGame of Thrones.
Arya Stark got her vision back.
Bran Stark saw his father in action at the Tower of Joy.
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Rickon Stark has returnedbut in Ramsay’s clutches.
And Jon Snow just executed his enemies and quit the Night’s Watch.
That quote often comes to mind while watching Kit Harington, who is rather terrific at physical acting.
Watching googly-eyed Ser Davos is satisfying, and even icy Melisandre is pretty stunned.
Jon Snow tells them there’s no afterlife whatsoever, which is definitely a disappointment.
You go on."
So yeah, buddy, shake it off; you’re fine.
Seriously, how much did Melisandre snip off during her impromptu resurrection ceremony?
They didn’t know Jon Snow died.
But since he’s back, so they don’t actually need to know that now, really.
There’s also lots of vomiting.
This takes place at the end of Robert’s Rebellion against Prince Rhaegar Targaryen.
The tower is guarded by members of the Kingsguard, most formidably by double-sword-wielding Ser Arthur Dayne.
What comes next is a fantastic sword fight as the totally outnumbered Dayne kills just about everybody.
It’s pretty clear Ned’s about to die, but he knows that’s not what happens.
It’s an intriguing character wrinkle, as Eddard Stark has long been considered honorable to a fault.
With Dayne gone, Bran speaks for all of us: “What’s in the tower?”
Vaes Dothrak:Dany is brought to her depressing new home for widowed khal wives.
Here, we finally see behind the curtain to glimpse his method"making people happy."
Meanwhile Tyrion is bored.
He’s stuck with Grey Worm and Missandei, two characters not exactly known for their conversational skills.
The news makes Tyrion only slightly less bored.
Quite rightly, they scurry out of the room.
Here the Mountain quite literally scares the st out of Maester Pycelle.
They hurry past Mountainstein just like the little kids.
Braavos: Here’s a real rarity in theThronesuniversea training montage!
It’s craftily edited so you almost don’t quite realize it’s a montage, but it is.
But Arya sees right through that (ahem).
Winterfell: Ramsay could use some cheering up.
I like how Ramsay is totally unfazed by Smalljon’s attitude and seems, if anything, amused.
You just never know how Ramsay is going to react to anything.
Smalljon reveals he has a present for Ramsay, which gets him excited.
People probably don’t bring Ramsay presents very often.
One is a hobbitor, er, Rickon Stark!
But Ramsay isn’t sure it’s really him, and frankly neither are we.
You could say he’s an “oathbreaker.”
Everybody is very upset about this.
“We could just kill the direwolf.”
“Sure, okay, that solves that!").
Ser Alliser Thorne, well, we’ll get to him in a moment.
While Olly looks indignant.
And he can do that, sort of.
The Night’s Watch creed says, “Night gathers, and now my watch begins.
A loophole, and he only had to get stabbed to death to do it.
I wonder if he’s going to let Edd come with him.
Personally, I loved Thorne and want to eulogize him a bit here.
He wasn’t a total villain like Ramsay or even an evil schemer like Tywin.
And his position was never indefensible.
Thorne’s duty was to keep the Wildlings and supernatural beasties from coming south.
The Wildlingsas we saw with Olly’s familyrampage through towns killing innocent people.
A great number of southern houses want Thorne on that wall; they need him on that wall.
He’s their Col. Jessup.
Plus, Thorne’s total intractability wasfun.
No matter what Snow did, Thorne’s hatred only grew.
Then, finally, Thorne gets so fed up with him, he stabs Jon Snow to death.
Snow is deadreally dead.
Thorne finally got rid of his nemesis.
Then Jon Snow comes back to liferesurrected and seemingly totally fine.
And Thorne, this guy, he’s still not impressed!
Even Jon Snow returning from the dead doesn’t faze him.
Ser Alliser is just like:Oh yeah?
You think you’re special or something?
You just gonna keep being resurrected like a coward whenever life gets too hard and somebody kills you?
So Thorne actually tries to make Snow feel lousy about not having the decency to stay murdered.
“You’ll be fighting battles forever,” Thorne tells him.
Is that that kind of man you are?
He’s since been dubbed “the most hated character in television.”
Now he’s giving Joffrey foot rubs in hell.
And see our brief chat with Harington aboutwhy Snow is leaving the Night’s Watch.
Here’s our trivia question, for a season 5 Blu-ray set.
First to email the correct answer togotpodcast@ew.comgets it.
