Game Of Thrones Recap: S6E5 ‘The Door’

The Iron Islands: The Greyjoys

The Kingsmoot commences. Theon’s redemption I’ve said before, is a storyline I’m most invested in and while I never believed he wouldn’t follow through and back Yara, the shots and editing were superb enough to build the tension and then release it when Theon gives his identity-affirming speech in favor of his sister (notably, one he’s not unconscious at the end of). All the upside of liberal democracy!

Now for the downside. The joys of non-incestuous sibling union is cut short by the arrival of their uncle, the murderous pirate Euron whose claim is a total Thrones-ian wrench into a perfectly-laid plan. The Drumpf-lite upstages the two with his grandiose talk of his cock and his cock’s plan of building the Iron Fleet to court Daenerys Targaryen (and her dragons) and return her and her armies to Westeros. Hell, when Yara accuses him of murdering her father to seize throne, he brags about it. For all his brazen arrogance, all Euron really seemed to need was his gender to get the Ironborn to ratify this Trumpian outsider and his outsized promise. Make the Iron Islands Great Again!

After undergoing the Drowned God baptism (wherein Ironborn are literally drowned to see if they come back), Euron’s first act as king is to try and kill the rest of his family (lots of family annihilation this season i.e. Martell, Bolton, now Greyjoy). However, Yara and Theon escaped during his coronation with their loyalists and the Iron Fleet’s best ships. Undeterred, Euron turns his new kingdom into a ship factory.