After last week’s cliffhanger resurrection, we dove full force into “Oathbreaker”’s plot: Jon Snow is so woke, so bae. While we all prattled on about Melisandre’s crisis of faith and wavering trust in the Lord of Light, we should have been worried about Jon, who returned from the afterlife to inform us all that absolutely nothing was there. (“You know nothing, Jon Snow.”)
After that—and after realizing that his brethren murdered him, and Olly “put a knife in my heart”—it’s clear Jon is plunging into a deep, cold existential freak-out, one that culminates in his executing his unrepentant killers, handing over his head-crow cloak and Castle Black to #1 pal Eddison Tollett, and peacing the fuck out.
That’s how the episode ended, leaving us with the question of where Jon might go, particularly since Sansa and crew are presently en route to find him with the Night’s Watch. But as “Oathbreaker” checked in with every major character, skipping along at a pace that seemed a little bit rushed, it was clear that this was one of those plot-advancer episodes meant to motor us along to the next one (as well as prolonging the Jon Snow mystery as long as possible.) It wasn’t as satisfying as last week’s nailbiter, but it did carefully set up a little pile of Jenga blocks that will very obviously come crashing down before the end of the season.
Danaerys is locked up in Vaes Dothrak among a somewhat rad coven of former khaleesi, and yet her presence there is another testament to how misogynistic Dothraki culture happens to be. She would remain there to like, light fires in pits all the livelong day, but because she actually went out and explored the world, now her fate is up to the Dosh Khaleen? So maybe she’ll be scheduled for execution. I’m already picturing a dragon or two swooping in right as her head’s on the chopping block.
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