Theon may not have killed Sansa’s brothers, but he did kill two stable boys. There was something a bit dark and twisted about this. And two, that he didn’t actually kill Bran and Rickon. She didn’t quite break through the layers of psychological shackles Ramsay has built into Theon’s brain, but she did shake two remarkable things loose: One, an admission from Theon of his own moral guilt and self-hatred. So last night, she came at Theon with everything in her arsenal: her history, her family name, her poise and her rage. Her storyline last week was one of episode six’s strongest parts, but also its roughest, what with Theon turning her in and the servant woman paying the price. Makes sense, but it was still a gut punch to see Jorah check the slowly spreading greyscale as he walked back out into exile.
But a betrayal is a betrayal and a ruler must also maintain her aura of authority. Tyrion’s assessment of Jorah was also brutally logistical: Jorah adores Daenerys, and a ruler does not get far if she kills those who love her. I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about getting this on the nose, but I liked the straightforward approach Peter Dinklage took to the dialogue: He’s not terribly confident that just rule is possible in Westeros, but a man he trusts thought Daenerys might be able to pull it off, so here he is. Thematic subtext has increasingly become text in Tyrion’s storyline this season, and his self-introduction to Daenerys took this further than ever. So the best parts of the interaction were the little things: Tyrion’s wry emotional armor when Daenerys starts digging into why he killed Tywin Daenerys wordless recognition of Tyrion’s drinking problem, and the bluntly offhand way she took away his wine and Tyrion cutting through the mythos Daenerys has built around herself to suggest she might serve her fellows better by remaining in the East to rule. You could feel the weight of hopes and assumptions pressing down on their every word together. First, Daenerys and Tyrion! Not only have the show’s writers been grooming these two to meet for seasons on end, but characters within the narrative world have been as well. Weiss needed to make room for one of their biggest, most momentous, and most terrifying sequences yet. And it revealed why things got a tad manic last week: David Benioff and D.B. The whole thing felt like that weird brawl in the water gardens in episode five: rushed and half-assed. It was worrying, given the possibility the show might ditch its slow and deliberate pace to power through the rest of the storyline in two remaining seasons.īut last night’s “Hardhome,” while not the season’s best episode at a holistic level, was a return to fine form. Though I wasn’t able to recap last week’s Game of Thrones (What is HBO doing showing an episode on Memorial Day weekend, anyway?) I wasn’t impressed.
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