Game of Thrones “No One” Review

<p>I apologize for not talking about the best episode of season six last week when &&num;8220&semi;The Broken Man&&num;8221&semi; brought The Hound back into the fray and introduced Ian McShane into the cast&comma; but E3 preparations have led to <em>Game of Thrones <&sol;em>being sort of secondary in my head&period; But we&&num;8217&semi;re back&comma; and I intend to explain to you just why Arya&&num;8217&semi;s storyline finally matters and why Jamie Lannister is on my good side again&period; The latest episode&comma; &&num;8220&semi;No One&&num;8221&semi;&comma; is full of redemption both in terms of characters as well as my emotions towards the show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let me just say that last week&&num;8217&semi;s episode of <em>Game of Thrones<&sol;em> brought me to a halt in my hate of Braavos&&num;8217&semi;s scenes&period; Arya is now being hunted by Jaqen&&num;8217&semi;s apprentice&comma; who seems hellbent on killing Arya&period; Unfortunately for her&comma; Arya has learned things and is extremely confident in herself&comma; even after being stabbed a bunch in the stomach&period; The final moment of this entire story for the episode establishes Arya as No One&comma; because she finally mastered being someone&period; I think that might be one of the best endings for a character&&num;8217&semi;s arc &lpar;obviously not the entire arc&comma; but a major one in Arya&&num;8217&semi;s life&rpar; that <em>Game of Thrones <&sol;em>has had that didn&&num;8217&semi;t end with the main character dying&period; Even though we had to struggle through so many terrible episodes of Arya training to be No One&comma; I can&&num;8217&semi;t help but feel satisfaction at how the story closes out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking of character arcs redeemed&comma; I am falling back in love with Jamie&period; Sure&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s still kind of a slave to Cersei&comma; but it is clear he is learning what true love may be&period; It may in fact be that he should go out and be with Brienne&comma; but part of me wonders if that would ever happen&period; It seems likely after Brienne escapes from Riverrun that Jamie has in fact fallen in love with her in a way which he hasn&&num;8217&semi;t quite realized before&period; Sure&comma; there was an entire journey where the two were basically tied to the hip&comma; but I think he only came to recognize Brienne as a friend&comma; not as a lover&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m not sure that Jamie will ever break out of the spell Cersei has on him&comma; but I could definitely see it happening if pushed to the point of choosing in some capacity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;109016" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-109016" style&equals;"width&colon; 4057px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-109016" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03135838&sol;game-of-thrones-season-6-no-one-image-1&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Game of Thrones" width&equals;"4057" height&equals;"2700" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-109016" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Game of Thrones<&sol;em>&comma; HBO&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>But I have to also add that every moment in Riverrun was a treat&period; Blackfish is such a great character who has honor&comma; yet recognizes his own flaws&period; He knows his place in the game of thrones and he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t attempt to go beyond those limits&period; We also got great scenes between Podrick and Bronn&comma; both characters who got a little bit more bonding because of their past with Tyrion&period; I loved all the quips and character interactions that cemented Bronn as one of my favorite characters&comma; and Podrick as someone who could be more than just a squire someday&period; If he would even want to be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While Jamie is off letting Brienne escape from Riverrun&comma; Cersei is being put in a great bind that feels extremely rewarding&period; Many theories for <em>Game of Thrones <&sol;em>think that trial by combat was going to lead to a certain fight between two brothers&period; I think that fight might still exist&comma; but it is not going to happen under the guise of lawfulness&period; Tommen&&num;8217&semi;s decision to remove trial by combat as an option in the court of law makes sense from the reasoning he gave&comma; which is essentially that it is an unfair way to cheat punishment for someone&&num;8217&semi;s sins&period; But it also just feels like the High Sparrow is getting information that makes him far more lethal than Cersei may have believed him to be&period; And we got a scene of The Mountain killing some of High Sparrow&&num;8217&semi;s henchmen which was extremely brutal but in a really sudden way that I loved&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m curious to see if they explore the idea of spies more&comma; or if the showrunners feel that they have already explored it enough with Varys&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;109017" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-109017" style&equals;"width&colon; 3606px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-109017" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03135820&sol;game-of-thrones-season-6-no-one-image-2&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Game of Thrones" width&equals;"3606" height&equals;"2400" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-109017" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Game of Thrones&comma;<&sol;em> HBO&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Remember Varys&quest; Remember how excited I was for him and Tyrion to have their own show together&quest; I&&num;8217&semi;m not anymore&comma; and neither is <em>Game of Thrones<&sol;em>&period; We get a glimpse at Meeren as the slavers prepare an assault on the city&period; But don&&num;8217&semi;t worry&comma; Daenarys will get to fight her first real war because she showed up just in time&period; How the showrunners didn&&num;8217&semi;t just have a shot of her flying into the city on Drogon&&num;8217&semi;s back is beyond me&period; It would have been a welcoming bit of epic in comparison to the really grating timeliness of her arrival&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But who cares about Meeren&comma; right&quest; I want more of The Hound&excl; And we got it with some more of the Brotherhood without Banners&period; It wasn&&num;8217&semi;t much&comma; but you can definitely see the show putting The Hound in a position to become helpful&comma; as the Brotherhood seems to be on the side of justice&period; There really isn&&num;8217&semi;t much there&comma; but I hope the Brotherhood stays on for a while because it turns out that I really missed them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;109019" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-109019" style&equals;"width&colon; 3681px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-109019" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03135742&sol;game-of-thrones-season-6-no-one-image-4&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Game of Thrones" width&equals;"3681" height&equals;"2450" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-109019" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Game of Thrones&comma;<&sol;em> HBO&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>There was a noticeable absence of any Jon Snow in &&num;8220&semi;No One&&num;8221&semi;&comma; but I didn&&num;8217&semi;t mind it at all&period; We know we&&num;8217&semi;re gonna get a big fight between Jon and Ramsay&comma; so it is definitely alright to save that for the penultimate episode of the season&period; Which is the next episode&excl; There is always a big battle in episode nine&comma; so expect huge set pieces and a hell of a lot of blood&period; Until next time&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><em><strong>Game of Thrones airs Sundays at 9&sol;8c on HBO<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;