Once again, Liam Cunningham is front and center as HBO promotes Game of Thrones Season 6, which premieres on April 24. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, the actor reiterated that, although Davos and Melisandre may find themselves in the same situation now that Stannis is gone, any partnership they form faces a big obstacle—it’ll probably implode the second Davos discovers what Melisandre did to Shireen. “There’s now a big expectation about him finding out,” he said. “I think Davos absolutely needs to find out what happened.”
More generally, he had some very laudatory things to say about the upcoming year.
"This season’s cool because it resets the chess board and people get partnered with new people. Last year it was ‘worlds colliding.’ This year, it’s almost like you’re in a different drama series. There are new plans – and they’re enormous plans. There are new loyalties. There are new tensions. There are tensions between people where there were not tensions before. The words on the page are as delicious as what we’ve had in the past. And it’s culminating in some of the most remarkable television that’s ever been made. It’s astonishing."
“Enormous plans,” “remarkable television,” “astonishing.” Cunningham doesn’t scrimp when it comes to adjectives. Not for the first time, I’m afraid that Cunningham’s prominent presence on the interview circuit means that Davos won’t survive the season.
And losing Davos would be a shame, because since Ned Stark died, he really has been the moral center of the show. “He’s one of the few in the show who are not self-serving and finding themselves in trouble because of their ambitions,” Cunningham said. His death might come as a bigger blow than many in the audience realize.
I’m betting that the “remarkable television” Cunningham is talking about refers to a big battle scene we’ve heard plenty about during the off-season. We’ll all find out soon enough.