“Game of Thrones” fans are in an uproar over the surprising resurrection of a character in Sunday’s episode, “The Broken Man”, which was written by Bryan Cogman and directed by Mark Mylod.
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Aside from the Hound’s mini-arc, not a whole lot happens. Sansa wants to go begging to other houses, but Jon refuses. “I was born in this castle, and I intend to die in it”, he says-an easier sacrifice for an old, heirless man than the young soldiers who make up his army, and have no choice but to follow the principled whims of their highborn lord. Let us know by commenting below! Now, they’re on the way to hopefully meet Daenerys.
#After winning over the wildings, John wins over Lady Lyanna ( a little girl) of bear island who agrees to part with 62 men for the Winterfell fight. Arya falls into the ocean, but manages to scurry out of and walk about the town, though her fate remains unclear. She reminds Cersei that she’s out of allies. The only good news is that Bronn is finally back, because he’s hilarious and he and Jaime together are the show’s best buddy comedy. Just like the rest of this episode. The pair then bumped into Brienne and Podrick, with Brienne and The Hound having a lengthy fight which left The Hound seemingly dead. Arya’s actions are inexplicably out of character. We see her write a note, but we don’t know what it says. Yet she parades through the streets, sans Needle, arrogantly tossing gold around like an amateur. The North seemed to have forgotten their pledge and none of the houses agreed to lend support in going against Ramsay, except Lyanna Mormont (Bella Ramsey) of House Mormont and the remaining Wildlings. But then again, the internet is dark and full of spoilers and unproven theories.
“My character – it’s in there to highlight, maybe some kind of change for the Hound”, Ian said. Naturally, the Sparrow is getting rid of anybody who might be a perceived threat – last week it was Jaime’s turn, now Lady Olenna, and soon Cersei with her trial. “I served House Stark once, but House Stark is dead”, he laments-and given the recent track record for both Stark loyalists and the Starks themselves, who could blame him? Game of Thrones prominently features four to six different players every week, expertly mixing and matching each one to ensure we never spend too much time on one. He takes a look at why, and calls out the “thesis statement about war and violence” the episode succinctly provides. Ray seems to think that the gods aren’t done with him yet, but the Hound thinks if they were real, they would have punished him by now.
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Maisie Williams as Arya Stark in a scene from Game of Thrones. This isn’t the National Basketball Association. There’s the big battle of Winterfell that has been teased, but there are storylines in Meereen, Braavos, King’s Landing and the Iron Isles that need to be wrapped up. This has obviously been a harsh framing of a fine and solid episode but, under my own high standards and the standards of many, an episode like this doesn’t hold up. In fact, you can see her fleeing for her life from the Waif in the preview for next week’s episode. The return of Rory McCann as the foul-mouthed ex-guard of Joffrey Baratheon was a curious experience-a story in unto itself, untouched by the events of the outside world-until they were, when the Brotherhood Without Banners violently killed off all of the members of the peaceful commune where the Hound had resided since being brought back from the brink of death by Ian McShane’s Brother Ray. That’s right – Lovejoy was in Episode Seven, The Broken Man. By the Thrones law and formula, which we can apparently predict now, things should be better from this point on.
