Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers from Season 6 of Game of Thrones.
Three episodes down, seven to go. Arya got her sight back, meaning we’ll finally get to stop watching her brutally beaten every episode. I mean, come on, you’d think someone would help out a blind girl getting savaged in the public. Rickon’s back in play, but no longer is his dire wolf. That’s three dire wolves down, three to go.
The biggest scene came when Jon gave up the black by using a technicality in the Night’s Watch oath. This frees Jon up to enter the Bastard Bowl against Ramsey Bolton, now emboldened by a prize hostage.
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Meereen was boring and inconsequential as ever. Jaime and Cersei got sent to the little kids table while their uncle and Olena Tyrell rule the kingdom and fix the mess Cersei created. Zombie Gregor’s identity was confirmed while he quickly becomes the most watchable and charismatic character in King’s Landing.
Here are a few predictions for the upcoming episodes:
1. Shaggydog’s not dead.
You’re probably not alone if you’r saying, “who?” Shaggydog is Rickon Stark’s direwolf. The wolf, Osha and Rickon have been out of the picture since Season 3 when the group parted ways with Bran to seek safety with House Umber. Well apparently that plan backfired, or did it?
Smalljon Umber displays the decapitated head of Shaggydog as proof of Rickon’s idenity. But is this Shaggydog or just a normal wolf?
Consider these two photos from the show.
In the two pictures you can see that Grey Wind, Rob Stark’s direwolf, has a massive head. The next picture of Shaggydog’s head compared to Smalljon’s hand, is not very large, probably the size of an average wolf. If Shaggydog is three seasons older than Grey Wind (probably about a year or more) then presumably the head would be larger.
So if it’s not Shaggydog’s head this could mean the Umber’s are playing a long con to betray Ramsey and destroy his house from within. Or maybe the prop guy should have just made a larger head.
2. The Hound is not dead!
The out-of-the-blue banter between Arya and the annoying Faceless Men girl basically confirmed the Hound is alive. The whip to the side after Arya lies about having the Hound on her death list is all the coal needed to power the hype train of Sander Clegane’s return.
H0w did Faceless Men girl even know about the Hound? Who cares. It’s just a shameless way to keep the viewer from forgetting the poor guy in the sea of characters and events before his inevitable return.
3. Ollie is not dead.
Just kidding he’s totally dead. That little shit was smug to the bitter end. I mean I get that his parents were killed, but sheesh, did he have to be so unpleasant about it. Interesting to note that Jon did not behead the traitors per Stark custom, which may denote a change in the him.
4. There are no gods.
By Jon’s admissions this episode it appears that there are no gods only magic. His long stint in death yielded nothing but darkness. Not to say that an afterlife is required to the existence of gods but it does seem like a further evidence to the atheist worldview of Game of Thrones.
In episode 2 Davos specifically said to Melisandre that he did not care about the Lord of Light only the magic that she personally wielded. That magic was able to revive Jon, even when Melisandre’s faith was at its weakest.
Magic has been displayed in the show many times but not always linked to one particular god. While Melisandre and Thoros of Myr, used magic connected with the Lord of Light, Daenerys used magic to survive the funeral pyre and hatch the dragon eggs. Qyburn seems to use magic of his own when creating Zombie Gregor while the White Walkers have their own resurrection magic.
Jon’s uneventful death may have been the key evidence to prove that there is no one true god, or non at all, and that the supernatural elements are solely tied to magic.
5. Nothing will happen in Meereen, again.
Another episode and a few more non-events in arguably the worst part of the show. The preview for the next episode confirms that we will have to suffer through more boring Meereen scenes.
When will the showrunners put the inextricable Harpy city out its misery and take the characters we care about back to Westeros already?