![]() Yara is right: “Theon” is dead, only Reek remains.ĭaenerys’s arc from season one has been from little girl to candidate for the Iron Throne to liberator of Essos. Now we see it pay off as a bit of Bolton’s psychological warfare technique that seems pretty ahead of its time. At the time, it worked as a really good reveal: the show’s writers throwing off rabid fans by introducing Ramsey in a different way and obscuring his identity for the greater part of the episode. He helped Theon escape, killed some of his own men, and claimed he’d be him back to the Iron Islands on behest of his sister. And remember, Ramsey Bolton first came to as a spying servant sent to save him. ![]() He’s a eunuch who has endured so much flaying that his instinct when the door opens in the dog pen is to cringe away from the light, expecting a beating. Theon, or “Reek” as he now thinks of himself, has been totally Homelanded at this point in the game. Why doesn't Reek allow himself to be saved by his sister? And why does this prove to Roose that he's capable of transforming back into "pretend" Theon? ![]() TV Westeros Explainer: The 5 Questions You Had About ‘Game of Thrones’ 4×6 1. ![]()
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