Game of Thrones 6-2 "Home"

I missed writing about episode one of this season. I just have to say, though, that Brienne of Tarth (Human Female Paladin, Lawful Good), is so awesome, she's becoming one of my favorites.

I usually get a Game of Thrones post out within a day or two, but, I've been a little busy. I'm really trying to get my shit together. today I've been filing and I'm no-where finished. I lost the registration renewal for the Thunderbird, and I may or may not have let my life insurance lapse.

Fair warning: My Game of Thrones recaps are written from the perspective of a reader of the books.

Let us now remember the dearly departed: Balon Greyjoy, Roose Bolton, and poor, innocent Walda Frey.

You knew what was coming in this episode before it happened, there WERE hints. A big part of the episode revolved around the Greyjoys, with repetitions of the Drowned God's prayer which ends with "What is dead may never die". We even see Euron "Crow's Eye" Greyjoy, apparently risen from death by drowning.

As resident psychopath Ramsey Bolton is adding patricide and infanticide to his long list of offences against the gods and against common decency, up at Castle Black, Jon Snow rises,  but not quite the way I imagined. Firstly, Jon has been operating two or three steps ahead of everyone else at Castle black for some time now, and also, he's already seen his predecessor killed in a mutiny, so I didn't expect him to be stupid enough to invite a mutiny upon himself without already being in cahoots with Melesandre. But, the episode also had to do with Mel and her crisis of faith, so I can see why they might have wanted to go this way. Jon is a warg, so, his consciousness would have been residing inside ghost these past few episodes. Because of this, I think, unlike other people revived by red priests (such as Lady Stoneheart, if we ever meet her), Jon's spirit is probably still whole.

It was all good, but it would have been so much more epic if they had done it this way:
Melesandre gives up, thinking that her magic hadn't worked. They all bring Jon's body out to the pyre and the usual words but, his body doesn't burn. At "and now, his watch is ended", he jumps out of Ghost and back into his own body and walks out of the fire legally free of his vow. If Jon is who some of us think he is, that would have been fitting. I can't wait for episode 3. Judging by the preview, It looks like we are going to see the fight at the Tower of Joy, and possibly Jon's origin story".