S5EP8: Return of the King

Well, I’m two weeks behind on this post and we all know what happened in the Hardhome episode. So we’ll just go straight into the scoring. Basically, last season’s scoring champ returned! After leading the league in points last year, Tormund has been quiet all year. Well, that all changed when he smashed the Lord of Bones into submission and then acquitted himself very well in the battle versus the wights. Still, 57 big points won’t even get Tormund into the top ten for scoring this season, as scores have leapt up huge this season. It’s nice to see Tormund get his moment though.

As for everyone else, it was a light scoring week mostly, excepting Tormund and Jon Snow’s fight. Heck, there was only one insult, by Daenerys of all people. And it was nice that Tyrion finally got his drink on again. With only six characters posting points, this was this season’s lowest scoring week by volume and quantity. But oh, the penultimate episode is right around the corner!

Then again, with Benioff and Weiss surprising us with a big battle in EP8, does that mean EP9 will be quieter? Let’s hope Stannis can give us another huge fight!