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Okay, we’re through geeking out on period details (for now). That said, Arya reportedly will watch a similar play in Martin’s upcoming The Winds of Winter, so the scene probably had the author’s approval. That may sound like an awfully nit-picky assessment of a show that regularly features freakin’ dragons, but Martin’s commitment to a faithfully portraying European culture at the time of the War of the Roses is the stuff of legend.

We’ll leave it to the many Shakespeare scholars penning morning-after thinkpieces to point out that everyone in that play likely would’ve been imprisoned for mocking the royal family. That said, watching her disgust over the way her father is portrayed in a comedic stage play was surprisingly moving. There’s some payoff when Arya is given another assassin mission, but she still seems too far removed from the central action. We finally get some background on the Faceless Men, and we’re sure it’s all leading somewhere, but frankly, we still wish Arya had a less mumbo-jumbo-fueled storyline to work with this season. The show’s not gonna win any awards for its social consciousness, but it’s taking steps in the right direction.įrom there, Arya gets her ass kicked (This is still GoT, after all.) as part of her anonymous assassin training.

In fact, the tense standoff in which Sansa confronts Littlefinger with the reality of what’s happened to her displayed an real awareness of the trauma that sexual abuse creates. It’s a scene in which the show demonstrates that it’s at least slightly more compassionate toward the victims of sexual abuse than past controversial rape scenes would lead us to believe. 'The Door' starts explosively enough, as Sansa spits those words at Littlefinger, whom she hasn’t seen since he arranged her disastrous marriage to Ramsay. 'If you didn’t know you’re an idiot if you did know you’re my enemy.'

Watch Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5 Online Every season of Game of Thrones goes by too quickly for our liking (even though we’ll take a tight ten-episode structure over a marathon network season any day).īut Season 6 is flying by faster than most, largely because of how incredibly eventful the show has been these past five episodes.

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