![]() ![]() But that was in the past the present holds sometime far more daunting. Convoluted metaphors aside, House Greyjoy has had its fair share of traumas heinous enough to splinter its foundation. (We still get chills thinking about Theon’s reign over Winterfell.) The post upon which Ramsay whipped, the living being upon which he conducted his twisted “games” of torture, Theon lost control of his mental and physical state, and quickly deteriorated not unlike a slice of lemon cake would in a bowl of warm milk. Theon (Alfie Allen) spent most of his young adult life as the object of Ramsay Bolton’s (Iwan Rheon) most devious dark fantasies - only after stabbing in the back the members of the house that raised him. A house we’d long assumed to be semi-stable is cracking, and fast: the Greyjoys. In-fighting (and, unfortunately, in-breeding) is just one of many typical Thrones antics, and has been expected over the past six seasons.īut now, as season seven finds its footing, the tides are turning - both figuratively and literally. And let’s not forget the child bride-wedding Freys the evil incarnate, human-torturing, animal-abusing Boltons or the Lord of Light-worshipping, brother-and-child-assassinating Baratheons. There are the Starks, whose bastard son actually isn’t a bastard but rather the physical byproduct of two extremely powerful houses (and no one knows that yet) and whose direct lineage remains in only four children. There are the incest-loving, king-slaying, sept-burning Lannisters who’ve been all but completely wiped out at the hands of other Lannisters. In the hierarchy of narrative needs in Game of Thrones, dysfunctional families sit right at the baseline, snuggled up closely with revenge, murder, and copious amounts of mulled wine. Warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 6, and Game of Thrones season 7, episodes 1 and 2. ![]()
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