Keeping up with reviewing this season on an episode by episode basis is harder than I thought it would be. The season's over, but here I am with a post reviewing episodes five and six more than a week after the season finale.
Cersei is pregnant, but I think it's safe to say that she won't stay alive long enough for her child to be born, not after what happened in the season finale. This episode confirmed my on-going suspicion that Dani will not take the throne as her own. For all her talk about justice and the freedom to let people choose, she didn't deal with Randyll and Dickon Tarley very well. She had the Drogon burn them alive because they had the unfortunate luck of serving the Lannisters and because they refused to follow a "Queen" they know nothing about, and rightly so I might add. I bet Olena got into her head when she told her to follow her intuition and not to simply listen to her Hand's advice. By the end of the episode, I was also convinced that Little Finger was going to die this season. His downfall is surely going to be his overconfidence. He thinks he can manipulate anyone and get away with it. I knew that once he started messing with Arya, that he will meet his end very soon.
Jon and the other's trip "beyond the wall" had bad news written all over it. I was actually very surprised to find out that none of the significant characters were killed or turned into White Walkers. I also didn't expect for the White King to have such great aim, but he does. "Beyond the Wall" contained quite a few impossibilities veered to the crew's favor that had me thinking that the Game of Thrones' anti-hero days are over. For one, Gendry (yes, Gendry is back) runs all the way to the Wall to send for help in the span of a few hours, all the while the crew is surrounded by White Walkers who don't so much as move a muscle until The Hound provokes one of them after throwing rocks at him (not the best decision he's made). Uncle Benjen resurfaces and saves Jon after he's left behind (not spitefully, of course). It was very sad to see Benjen sacrifice himself. He was the only minor character left that made a first appearance in season one, let alone a Stark.
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