The WiC Scale: Winners and Losers from “The Door”
By Ani Bundel
If it’s Friday, it must be time for the WiC Scale! It’s our weekly score of who’s up, who’s down, and who’s out in Game of Thrones. We’re officially halfway through the season, with only five episodes left after this! This week’s “The Door,” the fifth episode of the show’s sixth season, actually only had a few few plots move forward, but boy howdy did those who showed up this week get a move on. The rest stayed in a holding pattern, including every last fool in King’s Landing, and yet another week free of the Damn Dornish.
For those who did get take a turn, how did their fortunes rise and fall?
Up
Euron: I believe Mel Brooks said it best. It’s good to be the King.
The Waif: She doesn’t even *need* weapons.
Sansa: In charge, and manipulating things like a champ. Also? New Dress!
Jon: Finally headed out of Castle Black. Also? New cloak!
Edd: How did he get to be Lord Commander? The two sweetest words in the English language: DE FAULT! DE FAULT!
Kinvara: I do believe she may have taken charge of Meereen. The Sons of the Harpy should tremble.
The Night’s King: He marked Bran. That’s going to come in handy.
Middling
Tyrion & Varys: They just spooked the hell out of themselves hiring that Red Woman. But they did bring peace to Meereen. So.
Yara & Theon: Their crazy Uncle is now King of the Iron Islands and wants them dead. But they have all his ships. So.
Dany: She had to tell Jorah to leave again. But she has all the Dothraki. So.
Arya: She’s being given a second chance, and one that involves killing off a proxy from her own list. So why is everyone convinced she can’t and won’t manage it?
Down
Littlefinger: I’m only sorry he’s not in the out pile.
Jorah: His khaleesi left him behind again, with an order to go find a cure that doesn’t exist.
Melisandre: Kinvara threw shade at her, and now she’s traveling south with Jon towards the scene of her last crime. This can’t go well.
Brienne: Being sent back on her book plot to the Riverlands. And Sansa didn’t even order that Wildling With The Beard to go with her. Tragic.
Bran & Meera: Everyone they loved just sacrificed themselves to get them out of that cave….and into a snowstorm with zero visibility, no gloves, hats, or any provisions, and not a chance in hell of survival….. unless…
Out
Hodor: Our most heartbreaking death of the year, and book readers’ first chance to experience a Red Wedding-level twist without the benefit of foreknowledge. (The show keeps pulling these twists off—it’s quite remarkable.)
Summer: Felled by Winter
Leaf: Was there no HOA ordinance about burning leaves on cave property?
The Three Eyed Raven: To sleep, perchance to dream…
We’ll be back next week to break down the winners and losers of “Blood of My Blood.”