Gamer Throons (SPOILERS for S6Ep9)

Old Man Rating: 9.75

After last week's episode - I re-watched it and found it even more annoying, though the Riverrun scenes were very good and the Jaime-Edmure one on top of the ones I called out last week - this was a real zinger.

Yes, zinger. Deal with it.

This and the Door have been standouts this season.

Was it perfect? No.

We'd all predicted how it would play out and Vale armies was a bit Helms Deepish and plotwise that jarred a little. But the battle was brilliantly done - I can't think of another depiction of a battle of that era which felt so real.

Why, though, didn't Sansa tell Jon about the Vale armies - could have saved hundreds and hundreds of their side's men. It would have been good for her to kill Ramsay but the way it played out in the end was fitting.

I did get a little grit in my eye when the Stark banner was unfurled again at Winterfell. Sure that was just me.

Mereen was for once well done - Tyrion had a good episode for a change (it's the writing, not the acting which is always great from Dinklage, and the writing this time was up to it). Tyrion vs Dany was good and the Dany/Tyrion/Theon/Yara scene was really good. I can forgive the fortuitous timing of the Dothraki arrival though it was a tad convenient.

They set up R+L=J for ep 10 as well (Jon will find something in the crypt to show his parentage in parallel to Bran revisiting ToJ - a letter, a harp, a scroll, his own future resting place with his parentage on it, whatever). So he finds out at the same time we do. Or at least that's what I reckon. Plus Davos will want a wee chat with Mel, and I wonder if Littlefinger will be feeling as smug at the end of ep 10 as he is at the start of it. Throw in Arya vs Walder Frey and Cersei's Bonfire Of The Sanities and we might have us an episode...

I suspect they'll end with the R+L=J reveal, so the season starts with Jon's death and ends with his birth. The wall is definitely coming down but I think next season, not this season - I think the battle against the Others will be the core of the final two seasons. Of course I'd love to be wrong about that but they've got a lot to fit into next week's finale, even if it is a long one (69 minutes).

Posted By: Old Man on June 20th 2016 at 11:33:31

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