Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 6 Recap

Game of Thrones (2011-)
Season 6 (2016)

Created by: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
Starring: Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, Lena Headey, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Aidan Gillan, Gwendoline Christie

Plot: 
HBO's fantasy drama series adapted from George R.R. Martin's book series A Song of Ice and Fire follows the civil war of kings and usurpers in Westeros who wish to sit one the throne. The scale and scope of the story is staggering, fully realized with a large ensemble cast.

Previously
The white walkers were the biggest surprise last episode. They weren't at the wall, they were outside of the Three Eyed Raven's cave.
Bran and Meera are on the run. Are white walkers going to be able to track Bran wherever he goes? How will he manage? What does it mean now that he's the Three Eyed Raven? I bet he'll still be able to have visions, and he will fill in the blanks on the region's history. How powerful is he? He has to be powerful, but he's also untrained.

Yara and Theon Greyjoy fled. Where do they go? They are small in number, so while they have a head start on Euron I doubt they can storm a castle. They've tried that before and couldn't keep a castle. Is Euron going to be a major story? He has to start from scratch building boats, and it's not like this series needs another main character. There's no way he becomes husband to Daenerys as he claims.

Sansa and Jon Snow ride South to recruit armies under the Stark banner. Daenerys didn't do anything last episode, so I'm wondering when she'll implement her plan of world domination. Blood of my blood sounds like a Daenerys episode.

Jorah is riding solo again, charged with finding a cure for stone flesh. I don't think we'll see much of Jorah. I'm guessing this is a way to write him off. At least I hope they write him off. We don't need his solo story.

This has to be the episode where zombie Gregor Clegane undertakes trial by combat. The show has teased that for long enough.

Check out my Game of Thrones season 6 recaps. 

Review: Episode 6 - Blood of My Blood
Bran and Meera are wandering the woods, with Bran in a vision. He's seeing a lot of history, his own, the region's, and the world's. When you're the Raven, you need to know the history of the world.
Meera can't protect him, which I didn't expect her to. The white walkers have found them, but a black robed man with a covered face saves them. Could this be Benjen Stark? If so why wouldn't he have been turned to a white walker? He's obviously too pale to be fully human. Possibly he's been raised from the dead, but wouldn't that have to happen before dying North of the wall? Benjen was last seen on an expedition North of the wall.

Episode 6 - The Benjen mystery is resolved.

Coldhands claims the Three Eyed Raven sent for him. Coldhands is Benjen. How is he alive and how is he connected to the Three Eyed Raven?
Benjen was killed by a white walker, but the Children of the Forest stopped him from turning. He's been an agent for the Three Eyed Raven since.

Samwell and Gilly visit his home. This is a way to ensure Gilly's child has a good life. Gilly has to hide she's from North of the wall though. It's a foreign environment for Gilly, and Samwell's father Randyll misses his arrival while out on a hunt.

Episode 6 - Gilly and Samwell visit his home.

Gilly cleans up nice, when she dresses up for dinner. Samwell's father is just as cold and menacing as expected. Dinner is quite awkward. Randyll insults his least favorite son. Gilly defends Samwell, recounting the time he killed a white walker. That illicits a few chuckles, and she lets slip that she's a wildling. Randyll responds that Samwell would never wield the family sword, and that he would never be head of the family. He insults Samwell and Gilly in equal measure. Randyll agrees to let Gilly work in the kitchen and take in the child, but Samwell will never set foot in the castle again. This might be the first time the Samwell story is actually interesting.
Samwell decides to take Gilly with him and steals the family sword as well. It's the first bold move he's made, but how can he train to be a maester with a wife in tow?

Tommen is concerned about Magaery's walk of shame, discussing it with the High Sparrow. Tommen gets to meet his queen. Magaery seems to have fully repented, realizing she was never devoted to helping the poor. I can't help but think this is a ruse, pleading to the story to get out of imprisonment. That or she's putting on a show for Tommen. It could be a bit of both.

Episode 6 -Jamie takes a few losses this episode.

Jamie gathers Lord Tyrell and the Tyrell troops to stop Magaery's walk. Jamie demands Magaery and Loras. The High Sparrow dismisses death as a great achievement in the service of the gods, but relents. Magaery doesn't have to walk as her atonement is complete by bringing Tommen into the light of the Sparrows. Magaery is trickster.  Her ruse was to fool Tommen, not the Sparrows. Tommen unites the crown and the faith to Jaime's chagrin.
This isn't Magaery pulling a fast one, this is the High Sparrow. He's won.
Tommen banishes Jaimes from King's Landing. Jamie will deal with the Blackfish at Riverrun. He pledges to  hire Bronn to kill the High Sparrow, but Cersei cautions him against it. Jaime should take the castle back because it should be a Lannister castle. Cersei will face trial by combat soon, which means we won't see the Zombie Gregor in this episode either.

Arya gets to see more of the Bravos play. This time Joffrey dies. She's touched by the monologue delivered by the actress she's contracted to kill, and this causes her to hesitate before adding the poison to her drink. This is her first true step into the brotherhood of assassins. She's confronted by the contract and gets a story of how the actress got started. Arya gets to offer her own suggestions to tweak the actress's monologue. Arya steps in and stops her contract from drinking the poison. She reveals who gave her the contract and the girl from the House of Black and White is of course spying on her. Arya retrieves her sword Needle. She's no longer on track to be one of the many faced men.

Episode 6 - Arya is no longer the girl without a name.

Jaqen promises the other girl that she can kill Arya. He's disappointed in Arya's decision as she had many gifts, but she isn't made to be an assassin.

The Blackfish takes back Riverrun from the Freys.  Walder Frey demands it back, but he's met with excuses. Walder Frey plans to use Edmure Tully as a bargaining chip.

Episode 6 -Daenerys the dragon rider.

Daenerys and Daarios discuss the invasion of Westeros. He claims she's a conqueror, not meant to sit on a throne. She stops him, a strange breeze having caught her attention. She rides ahead on the path alone. She returns riding a dragon, because of course she is. She delivers an impassioned speech and the Dothraki agree to ride across the sea to Westeros and conquer the realm for her. It's not like you refuse a woman riding a dragon.