Warning: Spoilers galore!
The foreplay finally came to an end on “Game of Thrones” Sunday night with the show’s most spectacular battle ever: Jon Snow (Kit Harington) v. Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon).
The bloody showdown at Winterfell between Bolton’s band of thugs and Stark & Co. made “Lord of the Rings” look like a first-grade production of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”
But the more significant development was during the first half of the episode when Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) was approached by Yara (Gemma Whelan) and Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) to reclaim the Iron Islands from their vulgar uncle. And the dysfunctional siblings brought a whole fleet of ships along with them.
Start spreading the news! She’s leaving today!
Here’s hoping. Daenerys is the most exciting character on “Game of Thrones” and yet she’s been trapped in Slaver’s Bay for six seasons, running for student council president.
What have we learned in Meereen? Dany loves freeing slaves, loathes the masters, and is a divisive figure around town. Got that? Good. Mother of Dragons, pack your things, book a one-way stateroom on the Greyjoy of the Seas and don’t look back.
Now is the time for Khaleesi to go to Westeros.
The groundwork has been laid. The Stark flag is flying high at Winterfell again; cherub King Tommen (Dean-Charles Chapman) has turned into a religious zealot who changed the law so he can off his serpent mom and brother-in-law; Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) escaped “The Matrix”; and the White Walkers are in hot pursuit of Raisin Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright).
Strike while the Iron Throne is hot. Spare us another whole season of Daenerys negotiating in a pyramid while her dragons make cameos. Nobody — and I mean nobody — cares one bit about the Sons of the Harpy.
If the Breaker of Chains doesn’t say, without any ambiguity, “It’s time to take back what is rightfully mine” and then stare off into the horizon, Sunday’s season finale will go up in flames like so many Shireen Baratheons.
Burning the khalasar’s hut to a crisp and unleashing her dragons on the masters’ naval fleet was all a hoot — but neither did anything to change Daenerys’ big-picture situation: biding her time, twiddling her thumbs, and saying, “I don’t have enough ships yet.”
Now she’s got the ships, she’s got an army, she’s got allies, she’s got Tyrion (Peter Dinklage). Like a 20-something who’s saved up enough cash for her first crummy apartment, Dany is ready to move out of the house and set the world on fire.
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