As we’ve discussed a few times so far this season, now that Game of Thrones is in relatively uncharted territory out ahead of the books, the show and HBO have gone to great lengths to keep important plot points under wraps. Which is good! The whole thing would be pointless if they just ran out mid-week and told people exactly what was gonna happen in the next episode. And they’d get yelled at so much. I mean, people get angry if you say what happened in the episodes after they run on Sunday nights. Doing it before would be madness. This way is better.
One other fun result of the added secrecy is that the episode descriptions keep getting more and more vague. Here are the latest pair, just released by HBO.
First up, we have episode six, which is titled “Blood of My Blood” and is set to run on May 29:
An old foe comes back into the picture. Gilly meets Sam’s family. Arya faces a difficult choice. Jaime faces off against the High Sparrow.
Hey, you know what? There’s actually some real information in there. Would you look at that! Now, of course, most of those sentences could end up meaning anything. “Jaime faces off against the High Sparrow” could refer to anything from a stern conversation to, like, a bareknuckle street brawl. Probably the former, maybe, but who knows? Last week they said “Jorah and Daario undertake a difficult task” when they meant “They sneak into the town and watch Daenerys kill a dozen Khals with fire and then emerge from the burning temple naked and unscathed to the awe of tens of thousands of Dothrakis,” so…
Anyway, the seventh episode is titled “The Broken Man” and will run on June 5. Here’s its summary:
The High Sparrow eyes another target. Jaime confronts a hero. Arya makes a plan. The North is reminded.
Ahhh, there it is. The only thing anyone can deduce from any of that is that the High Sparrow, Jaime, and Arya don’t die in the next two episodes, which… actually that is kind of useful. You know, if you’re the gambling type.
(Via Watchers on the Wall)
