Tyrion kidnapped! Arya learning to become an assassin! A beheading!
"The High Sparrow," the third episode in this season's "Game of Thrones" season, had a lot of interesting plotlines.
Foremost, in the show's final moments, Jorah Mormont kidnapped Tyrion to take him to Daenerys. This could be really, really bad for almost any other character. But methinks Tyrion is clever enough to talk himself out of almost anything.
Next, Arya got acquainted with The House of Black and White, the legendary school for assassins, and that, my friends, is some badass training. She has to disown her old self to become a face-changer and got slapped around for not really doing that.
"I am ready. To be a faceless man. To be no one," Arya pledged. She had to throw all of her possessions into the sea, but couldn't bring herself to get rid of Needle, the thin blade given to her by Jon Snow.
Meanwhile, Arya's sister, Sansa, was paired up with the cruel psycho Ramsay Bolton. First Joffrey, now this: poor girl.
Her half-brother Jon Snow is doing much better, though. As the new commander of the Night's Watch, he's been doing the job well – running meetings by Robert's Rules and the like. But when Janos Slynt, that worthless waste of flesh who double-crossed Ned Stark resulting in his death, wouldn't follow commands, Jon knew what to do. Off with his head!
It's been a while since we had seen a good beheading, and this was a good one. Slynt pleaded and whimpered and cried. But no matter. A swift blow from Jon's Longclaw, and that was bloody that.
In King's Landing, Tommen married Margaery and they have sex – lots of sex. Cersei, unsurprisingly, hated this. And the power struggle between the two women continued.
Some questions going forward: What's going to happen with Sansa?? Being paired up with a Bolton can't be good. What's the weird procedure being done in the basement of King's Landing? Might it have something to do with The Mountain? And, what's going to happen when Tyrion meets Daenerys? We've never seen the show's two biggest stars on screen together before. Should be fun.
Episode grade: B+