'Game of Thrones' recap: 'The Gift'
Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers for Sunday’s episode of Game of Thrones.
Winter is coming. As Stannis will tell you, those aren’t just the Stark words — they’re a fact. We’ve been told this since the very first episode of Game of Thrones, but the cold season has never felt so imminent as it did in Sunday’s episode, an hour practically covered in snow (literally and figuratively).
Things are getting chilly in Westeros and Essos, and not just for the people who are actually fighting their way through the white fluffy stuff. From the Wall to Winterfell to Dorne to King’s Landing, things aren’t looking so good for the vast majority of our characters, who are forced to make the most of bad situations, a task at which some are exceedingly better at than others. As the fifth season builds towards its inevitable climactic ninth episode, it’s easy to see characters being put into places where they will have to make hard decisions. Whether or not they can make those decisions, well, who can say? But whatever they do, winter is still coming. And there’s nothing they can do about that.
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