Can You Go Home Again? Game of Thrones Recap: Season 6, Episode 2: ‘Home’

Source: www.mediaite.com - Sunday, May 01, 2016
Spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 2: “Home.” —— “What is dead may never die.” Well, he’s back. After 1.9 episodes of teasing deferment, after bottomless threads of internet speculation, we got the much-heralded resurrection of Jon Snow in the final second of the new season’s second episode. And perhaps the only thing actually surprising about it is that it happened in precisely the unsurprising manner that everyone expected. In what might be described as some Westerosi object lesson in Occam’s Razor, the (former) Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch was zapped back to life by the magic of the Lord of Light. Of all the myriad way he might have been rebooted , that was the most obvious, but who cares? There is precedent for this. We last saw the Lord of Light pull this little trick via one of his earthly avatars in Season 3’s “Dark Wings, Dark Words,” when Thoros of Myr, of the Brotherhood Without Banners, brought one of his compatriots back to life, saying: “It’s the Lord of Light brings you back. I’m just a lucky drunk who says the words.” It was just one of many ways the second episode of season 6 harkened back to earlier days. If last week’s “The Red Woman” was a quick-and-dirty reminder where we left everyone at the end of season 5, “Home” took a somewhat longer view: revisiting stories and characters that had been left languishing on the show’s cutting room floor, some of them for years now. A homecoming, indeed.

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