That’s the last we see of those two because we have a ton of exposition to get to in… King’s Landing!

Tyrion saves the day by making some pretty bold claims about his penis and Jorah’s fighting abilities and they set sail in search of cock merchants and fighting pits! Ah, the adventurer’s life. They have a brief debate about the merits of monarchy and whether dragons can sing and then they’re captured by slavers. But it’s pretty gross.īack to Dinklage and the newspaper magnate from Downton Abbey. The next thing we know, it’s corpse-scrubbin’ time again so I guess that fountain is full of poison, huh? This harmless bit of deception earns Arya the right to see what’s been going on with all the dead bodies and the answer to that question explains everything. One of the things Arya’s apparently being taught in this dismal place is how to be a good liar, and she really impresses her face-changing mentor when she persuades a dying girl that she’ll get better if she drinks out of a fountain. Frustrating stuff, for her and me, but I guess it’ll all be worth it if she can eventually kill anyone she wants.

She has to want to become “no one,” whatever that means, and everyone there can tell that she doesn’t really want to become no one. It’s like a waaaay more disturbing Karate Kid. From what I can gather, Arya came to this mysterious place in search of magical abilities to kill people and has instead found herself playing confusing games, being hit with a stick when she lies, and preparing dead bodies for something that no one will explain to her. She’s still in the big stone building in Braavos where the syntactically challenged guy who was briefly an old black man lives. Not as bad as cock merchant, but pretty bad.

The episode opens on Arya who has apparently been on corpse-scrubbing duty for a while. The episode was called “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken,” but I think we can all agree that it should have been called “The Dwarf Lives Until We Find a Cock Merchant.” Will we ever hear a more pleasingly demented line of dialogue on this or any other show? Not likely. I’m really not clear on what Arya is up to. You are in very good hands here because I have seen every episode of this show and, not to brag, but I have frequently had a pretty good handle on what’s going on. Hello! I am delighted to be guest recapping last night’s episode of Game of Thrones.

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