(Spoilers Main) Game of Thrones Rewatch: Season 5, Episodes 1-4
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Welcome to our discussion series leading up to the Game of Thrones Season 7 premier. Each week we are going to feature a few episodes and this week, we are looking at Season 5, Episodes 1-4. Summaries unabashedly stolen from Wikipedia.
Remember, this is a Spoilers Main thread, so we're assuming people are caught up on both the 5 main novels and the first 6 seasons. Please cover any other content -- including unaired TWOW preview material -- with spoiler tags.
##Season 5
Episode 1: The Wars to Come
Directed by Michael Slovis - Written by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss
In a flashback, a witch tells a young Cersei that someone younger and more beautiful than herself will one day steal her accomplishments. After Tywin's burial, Cersei chastises Jaime for freeing Tyrion. Lancel Lannister returns, now a devoutly religious man and a member of the "Sparrows". In Pentos, a despondent Tyrion agrees to accompany Varys to Meereen to support Daenerys's claim on the Iron Throne. In Meereen, the insurgent "Sons of the Harpy" murder an Unsullied, and Hizdahr zo Loraq and Daario Nahaaris try to convince Daenerys to reopen the traditional fighting pits to appease the former Mereenese elites. Daenerys' locked-away dragons breathe fire at her when she comes to check on them. In the Vale, Littlefinger puts Robin in the care of House Royce and leaves with Sansa, their caravan passing Brienne of Tarth and Podrick Payne. At the Wall, Stannis seeks to enlist the Wildlings in his war against Roose Bolton. Jon Snow is unable to convince Mance Rayder to accept Stannis's authority. Stannis then has Mance burned alive for treason, though Jon shoots him with an arrow to kill him quickly.
Episode 2: The House of Black and White
Directed by Michael Slovis - Written by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss
Arya arrives in Braavos and is accepted into the House of Black and White, also called the temple of the Many-faced God. Jaime tells Cersei he is going to Dorne to bring back Myrcella and recruits Bronn to assist him; Podrick Payne recognises Littlefinger and Sansa in a tavern; Brienne of Tarth tries to offer Sansa her protection because of her vow of allegiance to Catelyn Stark but is rebuffed. Stannis offers Jon Snow legitimacy and lordship of Winterfell if he leaves the Night's Watch to help him, but Jon declines; Samwell nominates Jon as a candidate for Lord Commander, and he is elected by the casting vote of Maester Aemon. Daenerys faces a riot after she decides to execute a former slave who murdered a captured member of the Sons of the Harpy before he could be tried. Drogon reappears when Daenerys is atop her citadel overlooking the city of Meereen.
Episode 3: High Sparrow
Directed by Mark Mylod - Written by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss
Margaery, newly wed to Tommen, manipulates her husband into planning to send Cersei to Casterly Rock. Baelish conducts Sansa Stark to Winterfell to cement an alliance with Roose Bolton through her marriage to his son Ramsay; Sansa will consolidate the Bolton hold on the North, while Baelish hints that an alliance between the North and the Vale would be capable of bringing down the kingdom. Jon Snow refuses Stannis' offer to make him Lord of Winterfell, and Stannis plans to leave for King's Landing via Winterfell. To adapt in the House of Black and White, Arya throws all her personal effects into the river except for Needle, which she hides in a pile of rocks. At Castle Black, Jon names Ser Allister First Ranger, but Janos Slynt refuses to follow Jon's orders that he leave to rebuild Greygard. Snow executes Slynt himself. Lancel finds the High Septon in a compromising situation in Littlefinger's brothel; in a purge, Cersei decides speak to the High Sparrow. Tyrion and Varys arrive in Volantis and visit a brothel, where Tyrion is abducted by Jorah Mormont.
Episode 4: Sons of the Harpy
Directed by Mark Mylod - Written by Dave Hill
The Sparrows arrest Loras Tyrell. Margaery is enraged, but Tommen proves too weak to arrange his release. Melisandre tries to seduce Jon Snow in an attempt to convince Snow to go to Winterfell with Stannis. In the crypts of Winterfell, Baelish reveals he has been summoned to return to King's Landing by Cersei. Before leaving, he tries to dispel Sansa's misgivings towards Ramsay Bolton, telling her that even if Stannis does not defeat the Boltons and rescue her, she can easily manipulate Ramsay. Bronn and Jaime land secretly in Dorne; they encounter and kill four horsemen, then use their clothes and gear as disguises. The Sand Snakes learn from a sea captain that Jaime has come to Dorne for Myrcella; Ellaria convinces the Sand Snakes to plan to avenge the death of Oberyn by abducting Myrcella before Jaime can intervene. Ser Jorah plans to redeem himself to Daenerys by giving Tyrion to her as a prisoner. In Meereen, Hizdahr zo Loraq makes another appeal to Daenerys to reopen the fighting pits; the Sons of the Harpy run amok and ambush an Unsullied patrol inside the citadel; Grey Worm is critically wounded and Ser Barristan is killed.
####Season 4 Rewatch (2017)
Click HERE for links to earlier episode discussions and rewatch threads.
Posted Jun 6, 2017, 2:37 PM UTC