“You loved that cunt Stannis, and I loved the man he burned,” observes Tormund. Yet they pause a moment to acknowledge the limitations of their past loyalties - to Stannis Baratheon and Mance Rayder respectively. In battle, both Ser Davos and Tormund prove steadfast lieutenants to Jon Snow. Isn’t it odd that I felt his loyalty to the Boltons disgraced the North? I was pleased to see him hacked down by one of the wildlings he feared so much he’d betray his house’s ancestral loyalties. And until the very last moment, I was hoping somehow Jon could save his little brother. I was even holding out hope of a last-minute Smalljon Umber allegiance switch that never came. Jon’s preference for rash heroism over wise counsel is what makes him a Stark. Sansa was right about this (and everything else). Of course Ramsay would never let Rickon live, instead using him to lure Jon into a trap. “Other people dying.”Īnd seeing as I’ve already mentioned the bungled military decisions that led to the horrors of World War I: what are Rickon’s legs? Springs! Steel springs! What are they gunna do? Hurl him across the field! How fast can he run? As fast as a leopard! How fast are ya gunna run? AS FAST AS A LEOPARD! “It always seems a little abstract, doesn’t it?” says Tyrion ironically to the Masters. Those whose loyalty is bought with love, with security, with liberty, with money, or with fear. (Where the fuck, by the way, was Ghost - the only living direwolf to stick by his Stark?) But people, too. Not just hounds… or dragons, or stags, or bears, or direwolves, or any those heraldic beasts on the great house sigils. This is fitting as, at its heart, it’s all about our responsibility to the vulnerable in our care. This penultimate episode of the season is titled ‘Battle of the Bastards’, and it aired - I can’t resist pointing out - on Father’s Day in the US.
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