Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 4 Review

" You will not use them. They will use yous. That is what they practice ."

Then Grey Worm tells Tyrion in the middle of this calendar week'due south episode, chiding the diminutive Lannister'due south attempts to solve the slavery problem in Meereen using mere words. But he could exist referring to anyone: this is an episode featuring many instances of people surreptitiously using one some other to go what they want.

Hell, that's what the championship of this show is basically all nearly. But you lot know what? Forget all that. Considering STARK REUNION!

How long has it been since we had a genuine reunion between the Stark children? It feels similar forever - particularly since the serial has previously teased u.s. with a few nearly-misses (Jon and Bran glimpsing each other at Craster's, for case).

But in a show filled with such unrelenting grimness, a moment of euphoric release like Sansa and Jon running into each other'due south artillery is a real tonic for the soul. Ramin Djawadi's aching score underpins the moment wonderfully, and honestly, was there a dry eye in the land?

Jon Snow and Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones s06e04

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Even after that initial moment of cathartic joy, the scenes between Sansa and Jon are the highlights of what is already a not bad episode. Dany'due south terminal scene may be wreathed in flame, just the real warmth comes from seeing the 2 Stark children sitting in each other's visitor and smiling. Imagine that: Jon Snow and Sansa Stark! Smile!

Sophie Turner and Kit Harington are superb throughout, and just one scene of the estranged pair reminiscing happily about their babyhood feels like enough to counterbalance a yard grim scenes of Ramsay'south sadism (well, almost. We'd only just gotten Osha back, dammit!).

The Stark scenes also serve equally a reminder of simply how much Sansa has grown - far more then than Jon Snow has, in fact. Not but is she self-aware enough to apologise for existence such a spoiled child, but it's she who must compel her older brother to fight to reclaim their ancestral abode.

Jon's been through a hell of a lot - and died for it - and it'south understandable that he wants to be done with fighting. And while Jon apologises for his by besides, he still sulks today, whereas Sansa is demonstrably no longer the spoiled and silly little girl she once was.

Podrick, Sansa and Brienne in Game of Thrones s06e04

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She's also been through a lot, but rather than weary her, information technology'due south energised her. Sansa has developed the steel and the resolve to fight for what'south right and what's hers, without giving it a second idea. Someone get this woman a throne, already!

Speaking of which, that may exist merely what Littlefinger is working towards. It'south our first Petyr Baelish scene in quite some fourth dimension, and here he returns to the Eyrie and reminds usa simply how effortlessly he tin manipulate people - peculiarly those equally feeble-willed as Robin Arryn.

It doesn't seem similar Jon, Tormund and pals take enough men to challenge Ramsay at Winterfell, but with Littlefinger and the forces of the Vale finally entering the playing field? Well, but maybe.

There'southward plenty more than manipulation throughout the 60 minutes, every bit Tyrion tries to work the slave masters in a sequence that fifty-fifty manages to make Missandei and Greyness Worm interesting, while in King's Landing anybody's trying to influence each other.

The High Sparrow - whose scenes are increasingly but an alibi to let Jonathan Pryce do some acting (and that's only fine) - tries to use Margaery, who mayhap misinterprets why she's been allowed to see her broken blood brother Loras. Cersei and Olenna, meanwhile, hold to apply each other, as they come up up with a plan to remove the Sparrow from his perch.

Game of Thrones s6e4: Tyrion and Lord Varys plot

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It's an hour in which the female person characters are uniformly the stronger. Sansa, Yara and Margaery all have to be the ones to tell their brothers to exist stiff; to stop crying; to think who they are. Brienne towers threateningly over everyone in the Northward (and Tormund's confusion over what to make of this strapping warrior woman is priceless), Cersei and Olenna are the big power players in the capital, while fifty-fifty Missandei has more vim and vigour about her than usual over in Meereen.

Just it's the final sequence that sticks in the mind - even if it is, by design, 1 nosotros've seen earlier.

As Daario and an increasingly ailing Jorah plough up to rescue her, Daenerys has other, much bigger ideas, and uses her status equally 'The Unburnt' to turn the tables spectacularly on the rough and vile Dothraki leaders, upending braziers until they're burnt alive.

Daenerys in Game of Thrones s06e04

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Much every bit she did mode back in season ane, Daenerys then emerges from the flames, as naked as the day she was born, without so much as a singed pilus on her head. And, of course, the people kneel earlier her. Wouldn't you lot?

It'due south a repeat play a joke on, yeah, but withal an effective one - both for Dany and the show - and the combination of Daniel Sackheim's direction, some impressive CGI work, and (again) Djawadi's score make information technology a hell of a way to stop the episode.

Just it'south perhaps in Daario's reaction that the gravity of the moment is truly felt - this is possibly the first time the cocksure rogue has ever truly seen Daenerys Targaryen. And that look of fear and wonder in his optics is well earned.

Between Dany'south new army - she's arguably now in a stronger position than always before - and the Sansa/Jon alliance, it's a rare episode that nosotros tin can largely chalk up to the adept guys. And Game of Thronesneeds that every now and then.

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