YMMV / Game of Thrones S6E6: "Blood of My Blood"

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • When we last saw her, Margaery was still defiant of the Faith of Seven and urging Loras to not give in. When Tommen finally gets to see her here, not only has Margaery "confessed" her sins but she now seems to be an actual believer and coaxes Tommen to join the High Sparrow. Is this all part of a long con on Margaery's end or was seeing Loras in his deteriorated state finally serve as her last tipping point?
  • The Waif's treatment of Arya. She seems eager here to kill Arya for betraying the orders of the Many Faced Gods, which implies that she is doing this out of zealotry. That said, one could also argue that she was also harsh in her training seemingly to push Arya out before she got in too deep, and the fact that Arya still betrayed her duties is her own fault.
  • Arya has obviously failed her tests, but what about the Waif? She has always been downright enthusiastic about bullying Arya and seems awfully eager about her new assignment, while a proper Faceless Man is expicitly not supposed to have any personal agenda or quarrels with their targets. Did "Jaqen" really command an execution, or is he simply pitting two failed students against each other?
• Ass Pull:
  • So, first, being killed as a human and risen by a White Walker turns you into a wight under the Walker's control. Second, if a Child of the Forest puts a Dragonglass dagger into a living human's heart, he becomes an uncontrollable White Walker. So far, so good. Now, if you take a halfway-risen wight and perform the Dragonglass ritual on him, he becomes a conscious, docile hybrid. What now? Of course, a wizard did it. We can assume that both cases of dragonglass use were simply culminations of different sorts of magical ritual. It's not like people complain when they see a wizard waving his wand and having him heal an injured person, even though an identical wand wave previously set an enemy on fire. Magic in fiction tends to be more about the will behind the symbolic action, than the action itself.
  • Daenerys is suddenly able to quickly track down Drogon and control him to boot. In the last two seasons the struggle with her seemingly untameable children was a central element of her plotline.
• I Knew It!: To say that there was a lot of speculation as to the fate of Benjen Stark, most of it revolving around him not actually being dead, would be a gross understatement. A lot of fans assumed he had survived the ranging somehow, but not that he would come back to the series and not in such a pivotal fashion.
• One-Scene Wonder: The Mad King appears in scarcely a few seconds of flashback, but that was all that's needed, coupled with his Large Ham line; "BURN THEM ALL!"
• Special Effect Failure: A moderately attentive viewer watching the shot of Jaime riding up the steps of the great sept will notice the unnatural stillness of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's head as compared to the body of the stunt double on the horse.