[SPOILERS
for the latest episode of Game Of Thrones]
Whilst
most of season six is starting to move at a decent clip after a slow
start (Dany is the God of Hellfire and she begs you to invade
Westeros!), Castle Black is still sort of sedate.
I
mean, there are obvious reasons. The Castle Black cast clearly has to
wait for the Knights of the Vale to turn up before marching on
Winterfell and delivering Ramsay his long overdue brutal murder. The
result, though, is slightly odd. There's this scene where Brienne
just wanders up to Ser Davos and Melisandre to passive-aggressively
inform them that she was the one who killed Stannis. On the one hand
this is oddly low key for Brienne, she's normally more direct than
this, but on the other it actually manages to save Melisandre from
the massive social embarrassment of confessing to child murder.
Meanwhile,
Jon Snow is happy to see his sister alive and they have some great
scenes together as a pair but once everyone's sitting down to lunch
things get quiet and awkward. Dolorous Ed in particular seems
completely unprepared for the presence of a highborn woman. He gets
only a few lines but you get the impression he's constantly mentally
reminding himself not to swear.
At
the other end of the table, Tormund Giantsbane is giving Brienne the
gladeye. I mean, he was obviously enchanted by her heavily armoured
charms the moment she rode into Castle Black. “At last,” he
thinks, “a real woman! One
that could bench press me!”
I
am so very much on board for Brienne/Tormund, you have no idea. Come
on, let's have just a scene or two of Tormund awkwardly flirting with
Brienne before the inevitable Battle Of Winterfell.
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