March 28, 2024

The Red Woman

After nearly a year of waiting, Game of Thrones has returned to kick off season 6 with a nice bit of set up and a couple of surprising twists in The Red Woman. The Cast Beyond the Wall returns with your guide to all of the biggest moments of the episode followed by some fun theorizing and analysis looking at the meat and potatoes of what this episode is all about.

The Cast’s hosts Caleb Masters, Austin Lucari, and Daniel Stull are joined by Dalton Stuart of The GoodTrash Genrecast and The People’s History of Film to travel from the the water gardens of Dorne all the way to the furthest reaches of Mereen in this week’s recap.

The Red Woman serves more or less as a pretty standard Game of Throne premiere by checking in with most of the major players while also planting a few seeds for the bigger things yet to come. Showrunners DB. Weiss and David Benioff open with a sequence at the wall that removes any doubt the audience had. Jon Snow is dead. For now. Further south, Jaime and Cersei are reunited to mourn the loss of their daughter Myrcella at the hands of Ellaria Sand. Lena Headey steals the spotlight as the episode’s MVP in one of the character’s most vulnerable scenes to date.

To cap off the episode, our hosts talk about how this season seems to be pushing the ladies of Westeros to the forefront and the more optimistic tone when compared to the somewhat dour downtrodden tone of season 5.


The Red Woman Time Stamps

Game of Thrones S6Guest Introduction – 1:50

Review – 3:25

Tyrion and Varys in Mereen – 8:54

Arya in Braavos -24:04

Dorne – 26:17

Lannisters in King’s Landing – 32:58

Winterfell – 39:11

Davos and Melissandre At The Wall – 58:01

Closing Analysis – 1:16:56


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  1. I disagree about the motivation of why they “respect” Dany–its merely because she’s the wife of Khal Drogo (respect isn’t the correct term either.) By the end of the scene, they aren’t respecting her femaleness/status of a wife, but more the traditions of their past in treating their wives as property. Huge difference here.

    Regarding Stannis, I think Stannis’s ACTUAL death was more about Brienne than Stannis. I agree with Austin/Dalton re: Stannis’s funeral/literal death was him advancing his Winterfell attack (which had many episodes to that plot point). Brienne deserved the moment, and if she actually hadn’t killed him in that moment, her entire arc would have been rendered useless and made one of the strongest female characters one of the weakest.

    I love Austin’s idea regarding Snow’s Second Coming. I’ve got my personal fan theory about this, and I’ve heard more regarding making him a whitewalker, but this will be awesome to see what happens. That Targaryen rez method is exactly what I’ve been imagining. Glad to know others think that as well.

    Regarding the Dorne thing. I always interpreted that Trystane was in the Castle at Dorne, not in Winterfell. Seems that this GOT easter egg article agrees with me taking note of the sigils: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/04/game-of-thrones-the-red-woman-brienne-sansa-catelyn-easter-eggs

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