Littlefinger returns, and Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen make their biggest decisions yet
This episode was indeed a song of ice and fire. In the North, Jon Snow faced the cold reality of what he must do to take back the North, while in Essos, among the Dothraki, Daenerys Targaryen again has the flames of righteousness at her back.
While “Book of the Stranger” continued with the dialed-back pace of its predecessor, it ended strong with the series’ two most important players making monumental decisions that will likely change the course of history in Westeros and beyond.
At the Wall, Jon Snow is packing for the south, in search of some warmth, but Edd presses him to stay and honour his vow. Jon isn’t having it.
They killed him, after all. Oh, but what’s that? A horn! Visitors approach.
None other than Sansa Stark, Podrick Payne and Brienne of Tarth enter the gates of Castle Black. For the first time in a long time, two relatives of Stark blood are reunited as Jon and Sansa embrace with the kind of feeling that can only be called relief.
Maybe Jon isn’t so keen on splitting the scene now, especially now that he and his half-sister (or so we’ve been led to believe) are reminiscing about kidney pie and their youth at Winterfell, which is now held by Ramsay Bolton.
So much has changed. Sansa is not the naive little would-be princess she once was, and the bastard of Winterfell is technically a zombie.
Ah, but Jon still wants to go, and he intends for Sansa to come with him. Where shall they go, though? Sansa says there’s only one place: Home.
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