Stangler

The Good Dany saving herself. So glad she saved herself and she did it in style. Jon and Sansa meeting up. Sansa telling it like it is. Everything about Sansa is great in this episode. Brienne and Tormund, Brienne confronting Stannis lackeys for doing dark magic GW and M telling Tyrion what the masters are really like but also playing along with his plan. Tyrion may be wrong here which isn't terrible as it should at least push the plot forward. The head games of the High Sparrow. His ability to get into the heads of characters is fantastic. I know his parts are kind of boring but his scenes are always fascinating to me. He is the king manipulator and you never really know what his game is. The OK Theon going home. Alfie is fantastic in the role but I just don't care about the Ironborn. Dreary and boring. Marg and brother is a solid scene. The show is definitely starting to establish that Marg needs to be in charge. I think her ascent should be solid and this episode lays a lot of groundwork for her. Her future is also a lot less clear compared to Sansa's. The bad Ramsey and the wildlng; She is brought back to be killed in no time. Maybe this has more importance but probably not. Jon Snow is being reluctant still which makes no sense and is against his character. In the story he has to be reluctant before he gets the pink letter but in the book it is because of his oath. So the show had to invent a sense of reluctance and it doesn't work for me. The only up side is that it gives Sansa a lot of chance to shine. The bottom line The episode was kind of boring up until the end. The show could have been the stuff at the wall, Marg in the cell, and Dany saving herself. Everything else was just "connective tissue" that keeps the plot tied together and moving forward.

When the episode ended I was disappointed a bit but as I thought about the entire episode more I liked it more and think they just mixed the stories together poorly. They ended on a powerful moment with Melisandre which isn't exactly happy making but it is good character development. The entire episode really only has one meaningful resolution which is the Sansa part which is also the only happy moment. I think they should have saved that moment for later in the episode. Obviously the episode is juggling a lot of plot lines and for the most part each one took a step forward so it is kind of just filler. As for the ring in the grass. It is in the middle of this circle of hoof prints that only had a little piece of grass that wasn't trampled. There wasn't that much ground for him to cover in order to find it and he knew where to look fr signs. The Dorne story line is not as layered as the books but the book wasn't that good either. They seemed to just reinvent the story for the show and what they came up with isn't all that compelling. The story is picking up steam and I am hopeful for this season.