Last week's episode caused Missouri senator Claire McCaskill to stop watching “Game of Thrones.” But I wonder why she didn’t stop watching when Drogo first penetrated his weepy young Khaleesi. Or when Jaime had sex with his grieving sister on their son's casket amid her cries of “No!”
I wonder why the senator would stop watching now when Iwan Rheon does pretty much the same thing the muscular Jason Momoa and the handsome Nikolaj Coster-Waldau did in earlier seasons. I like to believe she merely missed those episodes.
Last week. On “Game Of Thrones.”
* Dany, Jon and Stannis were wholly absent.
* Arya learned she didn’t hate Sandor Clegane, got to see a big room filled with thousands of faces, and learned she was ready to become someone else.
* Jorah was told his father was murdered by mutinous underlings, then ran into slavers who believe a dwarf’s cock has magical powers. (Was Shae from that part of Essos? I wonder she too subscribed to that belief?)
* “Quite a family to abandon,” Petyr Baelish told (warned?) the former Lancel Lannister in King’s Landing. “We all have our fantasies, Brother Lancel. Mine just happen to be entertaining.”
* Cersei learned Sansa Stark is alive and engaged to Ramsay Bolton.
* Baelish offered to conquer Winterfell (taking it from either Stannis Baratheon or Roose Bolton while impaling Sansa Stark’s head on a spike) in exchange for being named Warden of the North.
* Uncle Jaime interrupted his daughter/niece’s make-out session before he and the Sand Snakes were captured by Prince Doran Martell’s guards.
* “If they arrested all the pillow-biters in King’s Landing, there’d be no room in the dungeons for anyone else,” remarked Loras’ grandmamma, newly returned to King’s Landing. “Has The Crown suddenly stopped needing the troops, gold and wheat my house supplies?”
* A surprise witness at a Faith inquest got Queen Margaery tossed into stir alongside her brother. “Tommen! Tommen!!” Margaery screamed as she was taken away.
* Sansa Stark married Ramsay Bolton, and Reek got to be part of the wedding night.
Game of Thrones 5.7 FAQ
What’s it called?
“The Gift.”
Who’s responsible?
Teleplay is credited to series masterminds David Benioff & D.B. Weiss.
What says HBO?
“Jon prepares for conflict. Sansa tries to talk to Theon. Brienne waits for a sign. Stannis (Stephen Dillane) remains stubborn. Jaime attempts to reconnect with family.”
The big news?
Jon, Stannis and Davos return this week. Will the Khaleesi?
9 p.m. Sunday. HBO.
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