See Yet Another Character Return From The Dead (Video)
By Ani Bundel
Game of Thrones Season 6 is the year we’re all going to remember for the show bringing back characters from previous seasons who we haven’t seen in years. From Benjen, who we hadn’t seen since way back in Season 1, to Rickon and Osha to reanimating the once-dead Jon Snow, everyone seems to be coming back around. Even those we once took for dead.
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Spoilers? Maybe I’ll cut off your head.
There was much protesting in these parts at the end of Season 4 when it was time to write a Curtain Call for The Hound. After all, in the books, there are large circular hints that the Hound is not in fact dead at all, but alive and well and living on an island where everyone has taken a vow of silence.
But the show is not the books. And as we have seen in the last few years, especially with characters whose death fake-outs have lead to convoluted plotlines, or worse, not lead anywhere, have been cut down right and left. Mance Ryder, for instance, was killed outright, instead of smuggled offscreen.
So although it feels like the show has done its best to keep any instance of dead characters coming back to a minimum until this season, to have The Hound return—and in a manner that is somewhat similar to the way he returns in his book plot—was a nice development for those who have held out hope that our favorite dawg would one day reappear.
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Like earlier this season with Euron’s murder of Balon, the show made no bones about the man who is living in the commune is the Hound, whereas the books only gave hints. There were no costumes to cover him up. No big circular hints. The Hound is back. And he’s filled with hate. It’s why he lived.
And what are those plans the gods have for Sandor Clegane? COULD IT BE CLEGANBOWL?
https://vine.co/v/iY99MlgvY1a
Well, this certainly is a way to bring him back into the story. (And it explains why Ian McShane was only in the one episode.) I’m sorry he didn’t get to meet Brienne on the road like in the books. But this was probably more effective.