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- After two very good episodes, Game of Thrones season five has finally found its stride, because “High Sparrow” was a nigh perfect hour. Paced with conviction and moving with ease, each sequence stopped expositing this week and started delivering the goods…and severed heads.
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Posted: Apr 27, 2015 1:57 am
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
Despite not quite knowing why Moat Cailin was featured on the episode at all ('twas in the opening credits, there was a big establishing shot at one point, and then nothing happened there), "High Sparrow" was a strong episode that helped shape and twist the show's huge sprawling story back to the first two seasons. Oh, and it gave us a wedding that actually ended in a happy consummation night (at least for one of the participants)! Lest you thought that was an impossibility in Westeros at this point.
But yeah - the North still remembers! The most interesting stuff this season so far has been happening up and around Winterfell and the Wall, where forces are aligning - albeit separately - to recapture the land once ruled by the Starks. Sansa is entering into a marriage with ex-bastard/current-psycho Ramsay while Stannis is readying his men to march into war within a fortnight. There are a lot of moving parts here and I can't wait to see how they all intersect - either to bring about triumph or more tragedy.
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Still, you know he wouldn't have agreed to the marriage if he'd heard so much as a peep about Ramsay. The guy's a dangerous rarity as Littlefinger's not gotten wind of any of his cruel games. "I'll never hurt her," Ramsay lied, with Littlefinger unaware of the dude's reputation. I was like "NOOOOOOOO!" when he got the message to head down to King's Landing. So Sansa will have that to contend with. As well as, I guess, the jealousy of Ramsay's side squeeze/hunting partner Myranda (that was her giving Sansa the stink eye, right?). Anyhow, I don't think the show will once again give us a "Sansa gets constantly brutalized" storyline so I look forward to her taking more control of things.
Oh, and as for Moat Cailin. Yeah, it was in the credits, but all the actual meet-and-greet stuff with the Boltons happened at Winterfell (which was getting renovated). So Moat Cailin was only there when Brienne and Pod watched Sansa ride off. Representing, sort of, a "gateway to the North" that Sansa could recognize so that she and Littlefinger might stop and have that big talk.
Sticking with the "Revenge of the Starks" storyline, Jon refused Stannis' offer of becoming Jon Stark, causing instant comparisons to the stubbornness and honor of his father. A trait that Stannis surprisingly, despite his own pronounced rigidness (and that fact that Ned's final actions before he got caught involved supporting Stannis), recognized as something that got Ned killed.
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And then directly following this scene came Jon beheading Janos Slynt - the baby-killing creep who Tyrion banished from King's Landing when he was the acting Hand. So now that's the third public execution on the show in three weeks (and the second at Castle Black). A curious trend here in Season 5. Though I will say - at least we all wanted to see this guy get decapitated. This was the most satisfying Season 5 execution for sure. Villains and cowards rarely get their comeuppance so it was awesome to see Janos go out the way he did - begging and sniveling. And the fact that Jon's stick–to–itiveness (and willingness to do the deed himself, Ned-style) kind of impressed Ser Alliser made it all even better.
So the Sansa/Jon/Stannis stuff is working great this year as they're all about reclaiming what was stolen from the Starks - though Jon's path is currently a stubborn one. Don't worry, Davos is working on him. Arya's story is good too but she seems so far away now from exacting revenge. She's had a bloody reckoning on her mind for years, but now she's across the Narrow Sea sweeping floors and washing dead bodies. And as Jaqen pointed out, she's apprenticing in service of herself not in service of the Many-Faced God - aka Death. After a scolding, she ditched all of her Arya gear, but saved Needle. So she's still not all in. Which is either a good thing or a bad thing. If she went full Faceless Man, she'd probably never avenge anything since they're all about being "no one." But if she doesn't commit, she might falter in her training.
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"High Sparrow" helped raise the stakes in the North while also helping us, as viewers, re-invest in wanting to see the Stark family avenged. Tyrian's journey, Arya's apprenticeship, Dany's rule, and the goings-on in King's Landing feel like their own bubble stories (for now) so the real movement and intrigue is happening in upper Westeros where our...
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