Episode Report Card LuluBates: A | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT All's Well That Ends With Wildling Hoards
By LuluBates | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 06.03.2012
Back at Winterfell, Osha leads Bran, Hodor and Rickon out from their hiding place. The castle has been sacked. Bodies litter the courtyard, fires are burning, the dire wolves whine in their shed. They scour the building for Maester Luwin and eventually find him in the sacred grove, propped up against a tree and staring at the pool. He puts on a brave face for the two young boys. He tells them he feels fine, but it's clear he's just joshing. He reminds the boys that while Winterfell burns, they are still alive, and they have each other. They don't want to leave him, and he sweetly tells them that he doesn't want to go. He pulled both of them into the world and has seen them almost every day since then. He can't bear to leave them, but the band of hoodlums and bandits may return and the boys must flee to the Wall. Jon Snow will look after them there. He sends them away with Hodor while Osha stays to help ease his passage into the next world. She offers him milk of the poppy, but for some reason he prefers to leave the world with a little of the stabby stab. She obliges as we watch the boys flee to the North. [Note: Anyone else notice that when Hodor took Rickon's hand, instead of the usual, "Come along," he sweetly said, "Hodor"? Hodorable!]
Daenerys wanders around the House of the Undying looking for her wee baby dragons opening doors and looking for clues. One door leads into a vast room filled with pillars. It's snowing and the ground is white. At the top of a dais sits something that could be the Iron Throne. It's hard to tell. She reaches for it, but doesn't touch it, because she knows she can buy a replica on eBay.
She hears the screeching of her dragons and wanders through an archway into a vast snow-filled land that looks like Mance Rayder's kingdom in the North. Then she spies a tent. She walks toward it, and when she enters she finds Khal Drogo holding a baby, waiting for her. Daenerys thinks she's dead and has entered the Night Lands. Drogo laughs that maybe he told the Great Stallion to go fuck himself and refused to go to the Night Lands without her. Daenerys goes to sit with her husband and child. Khal Drogo tells her that if this is a dream, he will kill anyone who tries to wake him. Daenerys looks at the baby, realizes it looks nothing like her, and gets up to go. She knows it's some seriously dark magic at work.
When she leaves the tent in tears, she finds her dragons chained on a pedestal in a small tower room. As soon as she enters, Pyat Pree, the creepy bald cryptkeeper dude that she stabbed, shows up. Then another of him appears. He tells her that she is home now. With her dragons. They missed their mother. Chains appear and pull her arms tight. She is trapped. She looks at her dragons, they look at her and she utters, "Drakkaris!" The baldie looks at her in confusion because why is she talking to her dragons about shitty cologne? Then the dragons start spitting fire. He succumbs to the flames very quickly, which isn't that surprising. An overdose of Drakkar Noir is always fatal. The chains disintegrate as El Baldo dies. Daenerys and her dragons start whistling "Freedom" by George Michael and no one tries to stop them.