The Game of Thrones Fantasy League – 6.06 – Blood of My Blood

Game of Thrones – 6.06 – Blood of My Blood

This marks a momentous occasion: an episode in which Arya appears and DOESN’T get injured. 

Finally some of the players who’ve picked her for their team can gain some actual points this week. This was yet another episode this year focusing on bringing characters back to their family, for better or worse. Shockingly of all, Benjen Stark reunited with his nephew, Bran: so far Benjen is actually scoring higher than any of the characters in Group B, and out of the characters in Group A has only scored lower than Bran and Jaime, which goes to show that with this current season, no gamble is too out there. Samwell reunited with his family and discovered that killing a white walker doesn’t matter to a father if he already has Cormac McLaggen for a son. And finally, Daenerys reunited with Drogon in an oddly unearned scene. She intends to rides to Westeros on her dragon: now, who’s going to be riding the other two?

After the following reasonings for some of the points rulings, here are the scores for the sixth episode of Season 6.

Possible points of contention:

As mentioned in the last post, Hodor gets deducted 30 points at the beginning of this episode for dying last week.

Bran’s vision, because it contains footage of him falling off the tower from the first episode, counts as a flashback as well as a vision, gaining him 50 points instead of the usual 40 points one would get for having a vision.

Several characters appear in Bran’s vision but do not actually feature in the episode, such as Roose Bolton, Catelyn Stark, Jon Snow, Leaf, The Night King, and the Three Eyed Crow, resulting in the highly bizarre score of 40 points for appearing in a vision but -5 points for not being in the episode. The characters and their respective scenes in his visions are from previously aired episodes which is why they don’t get awarded points for appearing in this episode, whereas the characters appearing in Bran’s visions from previous episodes (like Benjen in “Home”), gained appearance points as it was brand new footage.

Meera and Bran both get points for having the first line of episode as we hear Meera’s panting first but Bran speaks first.

Daenerys and Drogon both get points for having the last line of the episode. Daenerys has the final line of dialogue, Drogon makes the last sound.

Samwell, previously lost to the Night’s Watch, reunites with his mother, father, sister and brother giving him a staggering 120 points for reuniting with four relatives.

Lady Olenna and Mace Tyrell gain points for encountering Margaery, and she gains points for encountering them both.

Jaime and Lancel gain points for encountering each other as this marks the first time they have seen each since Jaime got captured in Dorne.

Jaime and Cersei sit at a table set with food and goblets, from which we can logically gather that they have been eating and drinking wine.

Unfortunately, neither Jaime nor Mace Tyrell gain points for leading an army into battle as there was no battle.

Character Scores

Here is a full list of the characters and their awarded points. If one of your characters does not appear in the following lists, this is due to their absence from the episode, for which you shall be deducted five points per character:

Group A – Main Characters

Arya Stark – 5 points: appears (+5)

Bran Stark – 150 points: appears (+5), first on screen (+15), has flashback (+50), first line (+10), encounters wight (+20), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), rides horse (+10), mentions dragonglass (+10)

Cersei Lannister – 35 points: appears (+5), drinks wine (+8), eats (+7), has a kiss (+15)

Daenerys Targaryen – 85 points: appears (+5), appears in vision (+40), rides a horse (+10), encounters dragon (+20), last line (+10)

Jaime Lannister – 115 points: appears (+5), appears in vision (+40), rides horse (+10), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), drinks wine (+8), eats (+7), has a kiss (+15)

Sansa Stark – -5 points: does not appear (-5)

Tyrion Lannister – -5 points: does not appear (-5)

Group B – Supporting Mains

Margaery Tyrell – 65 points: appears (+5), 2 X encounters previously lost blood relative (+30)

Samwell Tarly – 147 points: appears (+5), 4 X encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), eats (+7), has a kiss (+15)

Group C – Rest of the Mains

Daario Naharis – 35 points: appears (+5), rides horse (+10), encounters dragon (+20)

Gilly – 27 points: appears (+5), eats (+7), has a kiss (+15)

Jaqen H'ghar – 5 points: appears (+5)

Roose Bolton – 35 points: appears in vision (+40), does not appear in episode (-5)

Tommen Baratheon – 5 points: appears (+5)

Group D – Side Characters

High Sparrow – 5 points: appears (+5)

Meera Reed – 90 points: appears (+5), first on screen (+15), first line (+10), witnesses magic (+30), encounters wight (+20), rides horse (+10)

Olenna Tyrell – 35 points: appears (+5), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30)

Group E – Side Characters to the Side Characters

Kevan Lannister – 5 points: appears (+5),

Lancel Lannister – 35 points: appears (+5), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30)

Mace Tyrell – 45 points: appears (+5), rides horse (+10), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30)

Group F – Weirdos

Leaf – 35 points: appears in vision (+40), does not appear in episode (-5)

The Night’s King – 35 points: appears in vision (+40), does not appear in episode (-5)

Three Eyed Crow – 35 points: appears in vision (+40), does not appear in episode (-5)

Group G – Animals

Drogon – 70 points: appears (+5), appears in vision (+40), last on screen (+15), last line (+10)

Group H – Definitely Dead?

Benjen Stark – 110 points: appears (+5), rides horse (+10), encounters wight (+20), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), 3 X kills wight (+15)

Jon Snow – 35 points: appears in vision (+40), does not appear in episode (-5)

Catelyn Stark – 35 points: appears in vision (+40), does not appear in episode (-5)

Group I – Where are these fuckers?

Good question!

The Leaderboard

Players can see their scores by consulting their initials in the table below. Congratulations to CH for holding on to the top spot for another week! And also well done to RF for gaining 312 points this episode! She has moved up from 27^th to 24^th place so still has a long way to come, but keep it up! She gambled by choosing Benjen for her Group H character – that gamble has paid off this week, let’s see how well this plays out over the season! See you next time, for The Broken Man!