But after so many drastic repositionings, many of our characters were still settling back into their groove, and last night's premiere still felt largely expository. In Thronesland, a change of location is often the most demonstrative power play of all, and those characters who have made their moves also happen to be the ones expected to rack up lots of Go GoT points. Arya's en route to Braavos, Varys successfully smuggled Tyrion to Pentos, and Stannis and his army made their splashy (with wildling blood) entrance in the north. Finally, characters who had spent years on end frittering away in their own corner of the world were beginning to broaden their horizons. The fourth season of Game Of Thrones ended with one inglorious death and a battle of arguable climactic value, but its real significance was its geographical shakeups.
We'll tear each other apart for sport if we want to, thank you very much We'll tear each other apart for sport if we want to, thank you very much. What's really important is that we all have a sense of agency in this game that we're not ruled over by some self-righteous mother of dragons who thinks we're too good for this kind of debased human cockfighting. Mistakes will be what makes this season worth fighting for: misplaced trust in characters, misremembered plot points from the books, inadvisable smack talk.
Our high fantasy league embraces imperfection. These words, uttered by a certain late king beyond the wall, could just as easily have been spoken by any of the brave souls at The Verge playing the Game of Game of Thrones this season. "The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I ever wanted."
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