They'd borrowed murderous uncle Euron Greyjoy's plan of striking up an alliance with Daenerys across the Narrow Sea – she would get the boats she needed to bring the Dothraki to Westeros, they would have the use of her dragons as they reclaimed the Iron Islands. You don't have to be original to win the game of thrones - just quick and ruthless So we learned as we caught up with Yara and Theon in an excruciating brothel scene that mostly consisted of Theon pulling faces as he remembered Ramsay had made sausage meat of his genitals (possibly literally). Yara and Theon's plan is crazy - but it just might work After overcoming impossible odds, might it be the small details that prove their undoing? How very Game of Thrones that would be. Yet here they were, begging the houses of the North to come to their side only to be rebuffed at every turn. Jon Snow died and returned, Sansa had survived Ramsay's depredations.

It's what happens next that really counts. Heroic deeds are good only for songs and boozy reminiscing. 'I served House Stark once but House Stark is dead.” Once again Game of Thrones reminded us of the great, grim truth underpinning the series. 'Where was King Robb when the Ironborn attacked this castle,' asked the head of House Glover.

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