I Rewatched “Game Of Thrones” Season 5 And Noticed Some Interesting Details
The Big Plot Stuff:
• Arya uses a face to disguise herself in the brothel, and she kills Meryn Trant. As punishment for disobeying orders and using a face before she’s “ready”, Arya is blinded.
• Myrcella, Jaime, Bronn and Trystane depart Dorne. Ellaria seems to play nice and kisses Myrcella goodbye, but she’s wearing poisoned lipstick. On their boat, Myrcella and Jaime reconcile and she reveals she knows he’s her father – just in time for her to succumb to the poison and die in his arms. On shore, Ellaria takes an antidote.
• Cersei confesses to sleeping with Lancel to the High Sparrow and he tells her she still has to have a trial, but he’ll allow her to return to the Red Keep to see Tommen – after a walk of atonement. The Shame Nun cuts Cersei’s hair short, strips her and then forces her to walk from the Sept of Baelor to the Red Keep, ringing that shame bell every step of the way. Cersei is pelted and abused along the way. She arrives at the Red Keep, bloody and crying, and is welcomed back by Qyburn and the now-undead Mountain, who is a new member of the kingsguard.
• Tyrion, Daario and Jorah sit on the steps in the Great Pyramid waiting around for Dany, but then apparently they have enough of that, and Daario and Jorah decide to go off searching for her. Tyrion wants to go too but they convince him he’s more use staying in Meereen to rule the city in Dany’s absense, with the help of Missandei and Grey Worm. Also, Varys finally arrives in Meereen.
• Somewhere far from Meereen, Dany tries to get an injured and exhausted Drogon to take her home, but he refuses. Dany goes searching for food and is surrounded by Dothraki. She drops her ring before she’s captured by them.
• The storm has moved on and the ice is thawing, but that doesn’t help Stannis because half of his men have deserted him, including all the sellswords, who have taken all the horses. Selyse has died by suicide. Melisandre is shaken and abandons the camp. Stannis persists in marching to Winterfell, planning to lay siege to the castle, but Ramsay and his troops ride out to attack. Sansa uses the opportunity to light a candle in the broken tower, but Brienne just misses it as Pod informs her he’s seen Stannis. Ramsay’s army defeats Stannis’, and Brienne finds Stannis just in time to finish him off as revenge for Renly. Meanwhile, Reek kills Myranda and helps Sansa escape.
• Sam convinces Jon to let him go to the Citadel to learn how to be a maester and research the White Walkers. Davos arrives at Castle Black and pleads with Jon to convince the wildlings to fight for Stannis, but Jon says “it’s not their fight”. Melisandre arrives and reveals Stannis is dead – and so is Shireen. You can actually see the second Davos’ heart cracks in two. Later, Olly draws Jon out of his office and leads him to a group of Night’s Watch men, who take turns stabbing him “for the watch”. Olly delivers the finishing blow, and a LITERALLY heartbroken Jon dies.