Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 1: GIF Recap

The long night is finally over and Game of Thrones Season 6 has officially begun. Sunday night’s episode was everything a season premiere should be, delivering exciting fight scenes, intense drama, and even tender moments with that Game of Thrones flair we’ve come to know and love.

Like last season, we will be breaking each episode down with amazing GIF’s from the always cool folks at COUB, as well as a few of our own design.

We start Episode 601, “The Red Woman,” with a recap from the Season 5 finale. This is the only real recap you need to remember.

Yep…still dead. Jon is still dead.

Oh look, there’s that silly “Traitor” sign, and it’s still a terrible plot device.

Meanwhile, at Winterfell they say, that Ramsay’s small heart grew three sizes that day…oh, wait.

While Ramsay was feeding his dogs, Sansa and Theon were out for a morning stroll through the woods.

Why are they so scared? Ramsay is a reasonable guy, right?

This was actually a nice and tender moment.

Suddenly, a wild Brienne and Pod appear!

Theon Greyjoy, Hand of the Queen.

In King’s Landing, Jaime returned Myrcella’s body to Cersei and then came up with new words for House Lannister.

In Dorne, the overall plot was murdered.

And the Sand Snakes used Littlefinger’s patented Magical Teleportation Device (LMTD) to warp over to Trystane’s boat and kill him at the same exact time his father and his father’s bodyguard were being murdered. It’s Dornish kismet!

In Meereen, Tyrion and Varys walked the streets without an escort, because there’s no way the Sons of the Harpy know that Tyrion is the new city regent and would attack him openly in the streets. Also, they are in merchant clothes…the ultimate disguise.

Possibly the line of the night, that. And then Tyrion zings Varys further with the coup de grâce comment of all time.

Out on the plains, Legolas and Aragorn found Pippin’s ring on the ground, and are now hot on her trail to rescue her from the Orcs!

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

In the end, being the wife of a khal saved Dany from a terrible fate.

Keeping things in Essos, Arya got the snot smacked out of her by

the Waif

Sexy Jesus

No One

The Faceless Man

Busted Ass Kimmy Gibbler

a mean person. I can never keep up.

Back at the Wall, Davos and Alliser Thorne are having a pleasant chat about the culinary necessities of traveling South .

Then Melisandre took off her clothes and her necklace and OH MY GOD WHY?

That’s it for this week, be sure to tune in next week for the GIF breakdown of Episode 2, “Home.”