Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 6 Review Imdb

In tonight's new episode of Game of Thrones, the siege of Riverrun came to an end, and no one was safe.

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The Faith Militant are running rampant in the Blood-red Keep, cheers to Tommen's alliance with the church. Lancel and his unpleasant boyband try to force Cersei to meet with the High Sparrow, and Cersei finally gets the opportunity to show off her new toy. Threatened with the possibility of violence, Cersei accepts it furiously and sics FrankenMountain on the boyband. One ripped-off head subsequently, Cersei and Qyburn are smiling like proud parents, and Lancel knows they are deeply outmatched.

In the Throne Room, Cersei finds at that place'south an declaration due presently. Her uncle Kevan shows upwards but long plenty to be a misogynistic ass, and I'g wondering how long information technology will be earlier Uncle Kev gets the FrankenMountain cervix adjustment.

Finally, Tommen makes his pronouncement, regarding the trials of Cersei and Loras. He sets the long-awaited date- and throws a nasty curveball in Cersei's plan by forbidding all trials-by-combat. Instead, seven septons will determine their fate at trial. The combat ace in the hole she was counting on is useless. In that location is no fashion Cersei is going to fool seven septons who all bow to the High Sparrow.

Qyburn steps upwardly and confirms to Cersei vaguely that "that rumor" is true, afterward all.

"That rumor" Qyburn references, the one that his little birds have confirmed- my best guess is information technology'south wildfire, based on Bran's visions. With her programme of trial-by-combat out, and her own son doing nothing to help her, Cersei might be going kamikaze.

Somewhere in the Riverlands…

Sandor Clegane is on a roaring rampage of revenge, and that's bad news for a few men this week. The outlaws who sacked the hippie district last week- minus Lem Lemoncloak, who is occupied elsewhere at the moment- are relaxing and talking trash when the Hound and his axe finds them. They don't dice well, only Sandor is in fine old form.

Subsequently, Sandor does detect Lem- and the balance of the Alliance without Banners, who have Lem and two other men strung up for their assail on the innocent villagers. BWB leader Beric Dondarrion and his mad red priest Thoros of Myr are punishing them for violating the BWB'southward ways. Despite the fact that Clegane fought with Dondarrion last time they met, this time they become on swimmingly. Sandor actually has changed. Mostly they haggle over the hanging men a bit and Sandor steals Lem's boots after he finally executes the outlaws who killed Brother Ray.

Over dinner, the Brotherhood makes the Hound an offering- to join them. "The cold winds are rise," Beric warns, and they need good men. The thought that Sandor can however do good in the earth is revisited, and he'due south once more left pondering his uncertain future.

In Meereen…

R'hllor's charismatic preachers are doing their piece of work every bit promised, selling Daenerys (and her advisors) to the crowds. Varys is at present evidently headed out of town on a mission, looking to learn more friends in Westeros to further their cause.

Dorsum at the pyramid, Tyrion forces another awkward drinking game on Missandei and Grey Worm with marginally ameliorate luck this time. Honestly, Tyrion is that lamentable guy who wants to beverage all the time but doesn't want to beverage alone because he knows what information technology means, so he peer-pressures people. The trio tells some painfully bad jokes, and once again, nosotros're cheated out of the punchline of the honeycomb and the jackass story.

The monotony of uncomfortable drinking games is cleaved up by the slavers from the other cities returning to claim "their belongings." The masters launch an attack on the city, burn-bombing Meereen from their ships as Tyrion, Missandei and Grey Worm argue over strategy.

Deciding to hunker downward in the pyramid, they get ready to defend themselves at the sound of a threat close by. The door opens, an Unsullied looks out….and bends the human knee to Daenerys, who steps into the pyramid without warning, later on her long absence.

At Riverrun.…

The siege of the castle continues, with the Blackfish holding business firm and properly wasting Jaime Lannister'due south time. Brienne and Pod arrives at the siege camp and are brought in to meet with the commander.

Bronn gleefully teases Pod (his acquaintance from the days when the swain squired for Tyrion) and makes some swell observations about the possible attraction betwixt Jaime and Brienne. Permit the record show, information technology is too now catechism that if given the opportunity, Bronn would definitely fuck Brienne.

In the tent, reunited for the first time in ages, you can run into how much it ways to Brienne when Jaime says he'due south proud of her for all she's done since she left King's Landing. At present, her cause is in direct opposition to his once again. Their situation is complicated, with their conflicting loyalties, but and so, it always has been. Jaime is yet struggling with the notion of doing the right thing, and how it clashes with his desire to return to Cersei and the life he knows. Even knowing Brienne's suggestion for the Blackfish to abandon the castle volition fail, he lets her try. Before they function ways, she offers him dorsum the sword Oathkeeper, having fulfilled her vow to find Sansa.

"It'southward yours. It'll always exist yours," Jaime says. And I'm fairly sure every shipper just well-nigh died right and so.

If they meet again, they may have to fight, but conspicuously neither of them want it.

Unsurprisingly the Blackfish has no interest in her offer, and doesn't trust the Kingslayer's discussion. He won't abandon the defense of his own home for Sansa, the niece he barely knows.

Later, Jaime meets with Edmure Tully and softens him up by discussing his baby, the child conceived at the bedding at the Red Nuptials. Edmure pokes at Jaime,  wondering how someone like him tin sleep at nighttime. Edmure pricks at his conscience in the way Brienne did, but Jaime remains focused on his goal.

He brings up Catelyn, and her honey of her children, earlier working his style around to his real bespeak: catapulting Edmure's baby into the walls of Riverrun if he doesn't cooperate.

Later on, we see Edmure, now freed and more than presentable, approaching the drawbridge of the castle. The Blackfish argues against letting him in, but the men feel they have no choice but to obey their true lord and lower the drawbridge, letting him in.

In one case inside, Edmure gives the order for every man to lay down his weapon, surrendering Riverrun to the Freys and Lannisters. Edmure orders the Blackfish to be put in irons and given over to the Freys (payback for the Blackfish being and so chill almost letting him hang, I suppose).

Simply the Blackfish isn't one to become downwards piece of cake. He helps Brienne and Pod skid away, via a rowboat on the river below Riverrun. Freys and Lannisters make full the castle, the men come up to take the Blackfish, and patently he dies off-screen, every bit a soldier reports to Jaime that the Blackfish died fighting. (The HBO Viewer's Guide backs that upwards, and seems to kill whatever promise that the Blackfish escaped.)

Standing on the walls, Jaime sees the rowboat slipping away. His and Brienne's eyes meet, and they moving ridge good day.

In Braavos….

After a functioning, Lady Crane discovers Arya in her dressing room area, bleeding and in desperate need of assist.

Yes, that was Arya getting righteously shanked last week. That was Arya wandering effectually in broad daylight undisguised when Faceless Men were hunting for her. The Waif really is that ineffective a Faceless person. All that theorizing from fans after terminal week'south episode, and uh aye…

Anyway, Lady Crane stitches up Arya (later on revealing she has a habit of stabbing her boyfriends), who isn't sure where to go anymore. Arya needs to residuum and heal though, so she reluctantly accepts milk of the poppy and sleeps.

Later, Lady Crane checks back in on Arya, who is still out cold. While getting more medicine from a shelf, a immature man appears behind her.

Arya wakes up to find Lady Crane expressionless, with the Waif standing over her. The Waif is adamant to finish the job when it comes to Arya too.

She jumps out the window, fresh stab wounds and all. The Waif is close on her tail, chasing her through Braavos: downwardly stairs, over walls, through marketplaces, until Arya leaps again and rolls down a long flight of stairs, reopening her wounds. She manages to get away, staggering back to her hidey hole, where the Waif tracks her down.

Challenged by the Faceless woman, Arya rises to her anxiety, Needle in hand- and slashes at the candle, bringing the room and their fight into total darkness. Handy for a girl who has trained recently every bit a blind person. Unfortunately we don't see any of this fight.

A quick cutting to the House of Black and White, and suddenly at that place'south a blood trail catching Jaqen'southward interest. He follows it back to the Hall of Faces, where he discovers a very new and raw face has been added to the collection- the Waif's.

"Finally a girl is No I," he says to Arya, who raises Needle.

"A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell, and I'm going home."

Jaqen accepts her choice with a touch of a smile as she leaves.

Assorted Thoughts on the Episode:

This was non one of  the better episode of the series. It was frankly a scrap of a mess. The good news is that fifty-fifty a weaker episode of Game of Thrones however has slap-up moments.

Highlights:

Jaime & Brienne'due south scenes, and Bronn's moment with Pod.

Jaime & Edmure's conversation. Thank god, they finally let Edmure speak!

The activity portion of Arya and the Waif'south scene was not bad, beautifully done and not bad use of a location.

Essie Davis is wonderful and I'm so glad we had her fifty-fifty for this curt amount of time.

It may disappoint some just I like that Cersei can't use her trial-by-combat play a joke on. Anyone who knows her would have seen that coming a mile away and plotted around information technology, as the High Sparrow clearly did.

Waiting to see…

The return of Thoros and Beric is interesting. Thoros we knew nearly a while dorsum from filming spoilers, but Beric is more of a surprise. With Beric still in play, what does that hateful for the evidence's version of the BWB plot? The loss of Beric is significant in the books, and bringing him dorsum makes me think it's simply so he can pass his spark of life onto someone else. Otherwise, what's the betoken?

Just…bad

The Meereen scenes were more or less a mess. The masters suddenly showing up…merely and so, oh no, it's Dany at the door! The pacing was all wrong, and Tyrion's scenes with Grey Worm and Missandei are a waste matter of time.

Testify, Don't Tell part 1: If you're going to kill the Blackfish, information technology damn well ameliorate be on camera. If the Viewer's Guide is right and he'due south expressionless for existent, what a full letdown. The build-up was good, then it completely fizzled with that off-screen business.

Show, Don't Tell part 2: Arya and the Waif are finally going to have a final showdown, and nosotros don't see any of information technology? There was really no suspense in how information technology was done. All the momentum of the chase was gone. They didn't need to show united states of america cut off her face up- that part could have been a surprise.

Across the lath, there was a lumpiness to the episode with jokes falling flat and the pacing of the scenes erratic. There were good scenes, for sure, only I recall this volition go down equally one of the low points of the flavour.

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