The lights dim. The air stills. The warning of impending nudity and violence flashes up on screen. And Throners – my beloved, wonderful, powerfully sexual Throners – we're home.
S5 E2 - The House of Black and White, aka "Let's Cram In All the Storylines"
S5 E3 - High Sparrow aka "The North Remembers, Bolton and Baelish, so get ready to have your skin flayed by Sansa the Mighty"
You know, I'd always hoped there would be cause to use the words "Jon Snow" and "head" in a sentence again, but I must admit to hoping it would be in another context. Much the same way I thought the idea of the new Lord Commander "brandishing his sword" would be more exhilarating than it turned out to be.
S5 E4 - The Sons of the Harpy aka "Because arming religious nutbags always works out SO well."
S5 E5 - Kill the Boy aka "I Hate the Boltons So Much Right Now"
S5 E6 - Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken aka "You Thought the Show Might Be Getting Dull So We Decided to Seriously Mess You Up".
S5 E7 - The Gift aka "In Just Seven Minutes I Can Make Sam Tarly A Man".
S5 E8 - Hardhome aka "The One With The Zombies"
S5 E9 - The Dance of Dragons aka "You're Not Wrong There"
S5 E10 - Mother's Mercy aka "How Do I Go On?"
This is undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveller returns. We cannot go back. We look upon ourselves of a year, two years, three years ago, and we wonder at our youth, our naivety. We shake our heads and let a grin wry amusement play upon our lips as we remember how blithe we were about those so-called shocks of yesterday. Ned Stark's decapitation? Pfft, child's play. The Red Wedding? Puppets on a string.