HBO releases new info about Game of Thrones episodes 606 and 607 

released a couple weeks ago, but now we have more info about the sixth and seventh episodes of season 6!

Today, HBO officially released the episode synopses, and confirmed that both episodes will be written by Bryan Cogman. The episode descriptions tease the return of old enemies and include at least the taste of one catchphrase that will leave viewers (and book-readers especially) gagging for more.

Episode 606, titled “Blood of My Blood,” will air on May 29th.

An old foe comes back into the picture. Gilly (Hannah Murray) meets Sam’s (John Bradley) family. Arya (Maisie Williams) faces a difficult choice. Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) faces off against the High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce).

The episode is written by Bryan Cogman and directed by Jack Bender.

Episode 607 will be titled “The Broken Man,” and will make its debut on Sunday, June 5th.

The High Sparrow eyes another target. Jaime confronts a hero. Arya makes a plan. The North is reminded.

This one is also written by Bryan Cogman. This is the first season 6 episode directed by Mark Mylod, who helmed 2 episodes in season 5.

Well, these synopses are juicier than some of the ones we’ve seen in the past, as vague as they still are. We can look forward to meeting the Tarlys in episode 6, and as for that old foe, I have a feeling that might be the first sighting of Walder Frey this season.

In episode 7, the title seems like a sure reference to a speech from the books but the synopsis avoids mentioning that character, probably for good reason. But I think we can look for Ian McShane in this episode. Jaime confronting a hero makes me wonder if we’ll be seeing the Blackfish back around this point in time.  And as for the rest….the North remembers, indeed.

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How and when is Daenerys going to make her way back to Westeros? Feels like it’s time for her to join the fray…

So that means we won’t see Sam’s family until episode 6?

I wonder who the old foe is in episode 6 and who the hero Jaime meets in Episode 7. Very intriguing indeed….

EDIT: The old foe could very well be Walder Frey.

Septon Mer-elder Brother and Blackfish and Manderly (possible gravedigger) ep 7.

Wow! Seems like we’re getting TWO great speeches in episode 7!

So that means we won’t see Sam’s family until episode 6?

Sounds like big two episodes for Arya I’m excited about what will they title the 9th episode

The Hound will return! A better and different man probably 😀

The old foe…the Others (aka White Walkers) strike again? “Blood of my blood” seems more a reference to family ties and not so much to Dothraki oaths of allegiance, after all.

So, we’re not skipping a week this year, right?

If the rumors that Tommen and Margeary convert to faith and people are cheering them, are true, then I guess the “hero” could be Tommen

Also, “the North is reminded” could be the Manderely speech!

These are much better synopses too. Particularly interested by the Arya parts, although I can’t wait to meet the Tarlys (it must be important if we’re being introduced to them now, and James Faulkner looks like the perfect Randyll to me).

Nice to see Bryan back for these two episodes. I didn’t think much of Mark Mylod last year as a director and was slightly surprised he was invited back, but I’m sure he will better this time.

They wouldn’t qualify for the Emmy’s if they did.

OMG I am so excited!!!!!! I really wasn’t that hyped for the first episodes, but I am reeeeaaally looking forward to eps 5,6 and 7. Bran and flashbacks, Jaime finally doing something, Arya doing something, epic speeches…And only R’hllor knows what come then!

I’m thinking the hero Jaime confronts is probably the Blackfish.

“Arya makes a plan” I´m gonna think that the plan is to escape The House of Black and White and Braavos and return to Westeros, I think she is going to kill the Waif in one of their trainings, maybe thats why Arya was jumping like in a chase in the Trailer #2.

Actually they’ve skipped a week in past years and still qualified for the Emmy’s.

I’m really curious to see how the Jaime/Faith story will go. It sounds like the big confrontation from the trailers, with the Tyrells, Jaime, and Mace at the steps to High Sept will be in 606. But the High Sparrow is still around in 607 and it sounds like Jaime is moving into his Riverlands plot in 607, which we also know is happening at some point this season based on the trailers. Also, who could the ‘hero’ be if not Blackfish? It won’t ‘The Broken Man’, he can’t come back and get into his big fight in one episode, and when he does fight it won’t be against Jaime.

So what happens? Does something happen in 606 that makes him wash his hands of Kings Landing and leave for the Riverlands with the Lannister forces?

Brienne. Shortly after Pod accidentally kills Bronn for sneaking up on him.

I’m thinking the hero Jaime confronts is probably the Blackfish.

Yes but they started much later this season.

I’m already wearing my “The North Remembers” t-shirt. Also waiting for Horn Hill, the athmosphere there might be colder than beyond the Wall.

I could be wrong, given how certain characters seem to travel quickly, but I don’t think Jaime will go from confronting the High Sparrow in Kings Landing in one episode to confronting the Blackfish in the Riverlands in the next.

These episodes are just getting better and better so far, can’t wait for more.

really looking forward to the episode titles for 8,9, and 10 ^^

Am I the only one who reads “the north is reminded” as a bad thing? Like reminded why they hate the Boltons, though I suppose they have been reminded of that often enough!

Let’s hope “The North is reminded” is the Starks and allies recruiting supporters, especially the Manderlys and Mormonts, and not Ramsay reminding them that their treachery will be punished.

Me neither, but hope his character hasn’t changed too much. The Hound/Arya road show back in S4 was great. It added a bit of humor with his occasional foul mouthed outbursts which I miss 😀

We’ll just have to wait and see how things pan out…

So hype! The “hero” probably is Blackfish, although I don’t know why they describe him as a “hero” even if we do consider him as a “good guy”. It could also be a confrontation of him and Brienne, or someone else that we think of as being heroic.

That’s how I took it as well, Jon and Sansa will need Northern allies. And they’ve mentioned on the show already that the Mormonts stay loyal to Starks.

I could see maybe, Mormonts, Umbers, some of the mountain clan men Jon tells Stannis to find in the books joining their Wildling force. Just give me ep 9 already…BASTARD BOWL!!!

Cersei sends him, going by the trailer. But yeah, I’m not sure what sort of outcome in 606 would lead to him so rapidly pivoting to another plot in 607, particularly as it doesn’t sound like things in KL are remotely settled afterward.

When we first heard about “Fletcher” being cast and filming at the same time as the other lord, I figured that Team Stark would go to White Harbor. But it looks like the whole meeting of the Northern lords is occurring at Bear Island, which seems like it would kind of mute the impact of the “North Remembers” speech, seeing as that requires Manderly to have gone out of his way to show up at this meeting to begin with.

I wish they WOULD have taken a week off. I wait almost 10 months and the season just flies by. I hate how fast the time goes!

Arya to still be in Braavos by episode 7 confirmed. I guess it’s the whole theatre troupe thing. She’s ordered to kill one of the actors, she refuses, The Waif comes after her (the chase scene in the trailer and from set reports), she kills her and flees to Westeros.

An old foe comes back into the picture. Gilly meets Sam’s family. Arya faces a difficult choice. Jaime faces off against the High Sparrow .

Old Foe has to =Walder Frey (gotta set him up so he can die in couple episodes lol) to get Riverlands back in the picture for next episode

Ayra sees actors group and relaizes she isnt just “a girl” and decides to go back to Westeros is my guess

The High Sparrow eyes another target. Jaime confronts a hero. Arya makes a plan. The North is reminded

Ayra escaping from Faceless men and killing The Waif (taking one name off her list) and heading home

Northern Lords meeting with Davos/Sansa/Jon and agreeing to rise up against Ramsay..CAN NOT WAIT

Lyanna Mormont will get a part of that speech and a part from his daughter/grand-daughter, forgot exactly what she is, the green haired one.

Mandarly will join Ramsey and switch sides during the battle.

I hope we’re still getting the Northen storyline in episode 6. I’m greedy lmao. Is there any chance we’ll see Jon and Sansa in this episode?

I imagine Bran will take a break this episode (6 and maybe 7). I think Arya gets a mission and she will have to decide whether she’ll go through with it or not.

No mention of Dany, even though the episode title screams Dothraki…. HBO is keeping everything on a tight leash. I’m worried about Ser Friendzone too.

Also, do you guys think we’re getting Yara (and her brother) in these episodes? I need to see the aftermath of the Kingsmoot.

“The north is reminded” about damn time lol.

They wouldn’t have qualified for the Emmy’s if they did.

The Broken Man + The North Remembers being in the same episode… Well, this seemed the only appropriate response…

I hope I’m wrong, but when I read “the north is reminded” I got a bad feeling…. like they are reminded why you don’t rebel against the throne or something of that nature. Hopefully it’s more along the optimistic lines everyone else seems to be feeling.

Why are so many people hung up on this travel thing? Who cares how long it takes to get from point A to point B….isn’t the important thing to get there? People really want to see countless roadshows? Why not get to the meat of the story instead of the mashed taters? When you watch a show in outer space, it actually takes a long time for space travel, but nope…we’ve invented warping time so there can actually be a themed show instead of just watching a space ship going from A to B. Who questioned that?

The story isn’t about HOW someone gets from place to place, it is about what happens at where they arrive.

Oh this could only mean two things. It could be the greatest episodes of all time in GAME OF THRONES (i.e. season 4 episode 6 the laws of Gods and men) or the worst episode in GAME OF THRONES (i.e. season 5 episode 6 unbowed, unbent, unbroken)

I just learned to ignore these comments, they are, in my opinion, the silliest complaints.

No, that wouldn’t fit what we know at all. The actor playing Manderly filmed for a single day, the same day as the actor playing the character we’ve been identifying as Cerwyn. It was the second-last day of filming, well after Snowbowl was wrapped. There’s clearly some gathering of Northern lords where Manderly announces that he’s joining the Starks.

Agree 1000%. I have no idea why people continue to complain about this. It’s the most pedantic of criticisms.

Nice to have confirmation that Bryan Cogman will be writing Episodes 6 & 7. That means that we know the writing credits for the rest of the season, barring some unexpected surprise. Benioff and Weiss should be handling Episodes 8, 9, and 10.

I agree that the old foe is most likely Walder Frey. I might have thought it could be either the Night’s King or Euron, except that we know that we’ll see them both in Episode 5 first.

The hero that Jaime meets in Episode 7 is definitely the Blackfish. The synopses do ‘spoil’ – if you can call it that – Jaime and the High Sparrow both survive the confrontation at the Sept.

Not sure who the High Sparrow’s other target is. Cersei would be more of an old target, to the extent that he ever took his eyes off her in the first place.

Margaery will also be out of jail by then, and Tommen should have accepted the faith. Maybe it’s not a person – could he be eying the realm itself?

No Sam and Gilly in Episode 5. That’s all right – their appearance would have been a quick one anyway. Hopefully they’ll get a decent amount of screentime in Season 6.

Despite Maisie Williams’ claims that her storyline would be sparse this year, she’s been in three episodes so far (granted, her scenes were fairly short). We now know that she’ll be in 5, 6, and 7 as well. That’s six episodes already – which is just as many as she appeared in for Seasons 4 and 5.

Filming spoilers also suggest that she’ll be in Episode 8 (unless those scenes were moved) and the finale. So if anything, her storyline more closely resembles her workload for Seasons 1, 2, and 3 in episode count, if not necessarily screentime.

? Awesome. Looks like we may get two famous speeches in that episode, then.

Last, I noticed that while they relented and started including Jon in the promotional photos, they’re still doing everything they can to keep him out of the synopses. I wonder if that will last for the rest of the season.

They wouldn’t have qualified for the Emmy’s if they did.

Not true. At any rate, I’m saying what I wish happened, not what is. 🙂

Do you think Arya will get the assignment to kill someone she knows/loves? To prove she’s really “no one”?

They could have filmed this at different dates.

Mandarly won’t ride in battle…. They could easly film him on a hill away from the battle…. It does make me reconsider things.

There you did it, now you are going to be reminded that the show wouldn’t be eligible for an Emmy if they had taken a week off, which might be true, but totally misses the point you are trying to make. And I agree with you.

I want this to last, not rush by as it is already doing. Having one precious week more would be swoon worthy. Already we are half the way through after this Sunday. For all the waiting, 10 weeks really flies by. And before we know it….BAM in your face waiting that long in-between of madness, where chaos ensues and boundless theories are brought forth. In other words, the OTHER fun begins. 😉

“Piglets and pawprints!” cried Eatbugs, then paused and looked quickly around. He leaned toward his companions. “Let’s be off!” he added, his voice a conspiratorial whisper.”

Episode 606, titled “Blood of My Blood,” An old foe comes back into the picture.

Episode 607 will be titled “The Broken Man”.

AS SANSA, DAVOS, MEL AND JON CONVINCE HOUSE MORMONT TO GET ON THE RIGHT SIDE

I hope we’re still getting the Northen storyline in episode 6. I’m greedy lmao. Is there any chance we’ll see Jon and Sansa in this episode?

There’s a chance, certainly, though it would probably just be some of Team Stark talking while on their way to Bear Island. Which may be useful to show, since there are some combinations of characters we haven’t seen much of yet (e.g., Sansa and Davos). As far as the Northern story goes, we know they leave the Wall in episode 5, they’re at Bear Island in episode 7, and in episode 9 we get the battle. So there’s a question of how much, if any, bridging material there is between those events (I’d be kind of surprised if they weren’t in episode 8, just because the show usually prefers to build up the big season-ending battle in the episode prior).

The Faceless Men aren’t allowed to kill people they know. That’s their most obvious limitation.

I am very impressed with the way that the writers, directors, and show-runners are keeping elements of the books in play even though we are well past book territory- the “pink letter,” “the ‘broken men’ speech,” and what seems almost certain to be another classic bit of GRRM dialog with the north being reminded. A really wonderful treat for book readers, still.

Flayed Potatoes, 2nd part of TOJ flashback,(which they would not put in a synopsis so as not to spoil it) so Bran will be in it.

TeamJon will have just a “catch up”( prolly not more then a couple minutes ) or may break for an episode (plans/leave The Wall this week and we see them again 2 weeks from now) …with TOJ happening I think we will all be ok with that 😉

TeamDany same way as she had big moment last week and has another one coming up soon (getting back to Merreen)

About High Sparrow’s new target, I can think of two:

1. Jaime. This will make Jaime go to Riverlands (we heard Cersei in the second trailer telling someone to go and lead the Lannister army).

2. Cersei’s trial. The High Sparrow will turn his focus on the trial.

Thank you! I expect we’ll see some preparations for the battle in episode 8. Littlefinger also needs to show his face more on the show. I’d love to see Sansa interact with Davos and Mel. We also need a scene with Jon and Mel…..she’s making some bold assumptions isn’t she? No salt….no bleeding star….

Umbers are with Boltons. Mountain clans might be replaced by wildings. Mormonts, Hornwods, Cerwyn or Manderly seems realistic.

2nd part of TOJ flashback,(which they would not put in a synopsis so as not to spoil it) so Bran will be in it.TeamJon will have just a “catch up”( prolly not more then a couple minutes ) or may break for an episode (plans/leave The Wall this week and we see them again 2 weeks from now) …with TOJ happening I think we will all be ok with that

I forgot, that’s actually a reason why I think Jon will be in episode 6, just because to me it would be weird to reveal his parentage in an episode that he’s not even in (which perhaps doesn’t logically follow, since Bran learning it has no connection to Jon, but symbolically, or whatever, it would feel off to me).

I want them in every episode haha. I won’t be ok 😛

There’s just so much that needs to happen imo…. Davos and Mel’s conflict, Jon and Sansa making plans and catching up (I don’t think they know about the Umbers and Karstarks), Tormund doing something idk 😛

rolling rolling rolling! the HYPE train is a-rolling!!!!!

I was thinking the same thing. Seems like the best way to remind the north who is in charge is by flaying a certain Stark captive…

The Broken Men and North Remembers speeches in the same episode. Woah.

Walder Frey is back a bit earlier than I thought, episode six. Does this mean we’ll see the Riverlands before Jaime goes there? It seems a bit unlikely, doesn’t it? Maybe Walder Frey personally goes to King’s Landing to ask for Lannister aid? I don’t know…

The only line that is a complete mystery to me is this:

Fez: So what happens? Does something happen in 606 that makes him wash his hands of Kings Landing and leave for the Riverlands with the Lannister forces?

That is a bit of a missing key motivation for me too. Considering the spoilers we heard from the set, the situation with the Faith is far from settled in episode six. So I do wonder what could drive Jaime away, specifically.

I don’t want to see endless shots of people on horses. But an acknowledgement of just how vast Westeros is gives more heft and grounding to what is happening on screen. Making travel effortless and near instantaneous diminishes all that, and makes it seem like everyone is fighting over a small island, not a continent the size of South America.

All they need is the ocassional throw-away line about how long the trips are, like they did in the first season when they got from Winterfell to Kings Landing in one episode.

I don’t think “The North is reminded” is going to be Wyman Manderly and his speech. Like Mihnea said, I believe it will be Lyanna Mormont taking Wylla Manderly’s speech from the book:

I know about the promise … Maester Theomore, tell them! A thousand years before the Conquest, a promise was made, and oaths were sworn in the Wolf’s Den before the old gods and the new. When we were sore beset and friendless, hounded from our homes and in peril of our lives, the wolves took us in and nourished us and protected us against our enemies. The city is built upon the land they gave us. In return we swore that we should always be their men. Stark men!

He almost does in the book. In a single chapter he departs King’s Landing and arrives in Harrenhal, which is close enough to Riverrun. Not that this will stop certain book readers from forgoing the necessities of pacing on TV and resorting to the almost always silly “He’s using Littlefinger’s teleport, LOL!”.

Who is code-name “Fletcher”, then? “A fat nobleman in his 60’s” with “distinctive rugged features, a Northern accent, and a distinguished air” who “has a stirring speech during which he unexpectedly shifts political allegiances”. If that’s not Manderly, who is it?

Let’s hope “The North is reminded” is the Starks and allies recruiting supporters, especially the Manderlys and Mormonts, and not Ramsay reminding them that their treachery will be punished.

Bear Island doesn’t need reminding! They recognize only one King in the North and their name is STARK! lol Lyanna

Old foe has to be Walder Frey. ‘Blood of my blood’ synopsis had no mention of Dany, but then, ‘Oathbreaker’ synopsis had no mention of Jon, so it does not say much. I am curious as to who High Sparrow’s new target is. Cersei, Margaery and Loras are already his targets. Could the target be Jaime? Other possibilities are Walder Frey (who betrayed a guest under his roof), Pycelle (who does not keep his oath of celibacy), Qyburn and unGregor (for obvious reasons). Since the title of episode 7 is ‘the Broken Man’, I guess the target will be unGregor, which brings Sandor into the picture.

In addition to what Sean C described, there’s another reason to think that the Northern storyline will probably be in Episode 6. There’s a brief shot in the first Season 6 trailer showing Davos standing alone in the snow, starring down at a pile of wood. It appears to be the remnants of a pyre.

I think that en route to Bear Island from Castle Black, Davos and company will stumble upon what remains of Stannis’s camp. Davos will discover the burned remnants of the stag that he made for Shireen amidst the ashes, and finally learn what happened to his Princess. The show foreshadowed that reveal via his conversation with Melisandre in Episode 4. It’s pretty much inevitable.

To be fair, this could also happen in Episode 8, as the armies march toward Winterfell. We don’t know exactly how far between Castle Black and Winterfell Stannis’s army got stranded.

Lady Lyanna is the head of her house, and already stated that they’re pro-Stark last season. To whom would she need to give such a speech?

Considering Stannis’ army walked the rest of the way to Winterfell on foot, I would have to imagine their camp is very close to Winterfell, and not likely to be something Team Stark would run across on their way to Bear Island.

can apply to so many storylines. I’m looking forward to its possible relevance in the Riverlands (!!!), Pyke (Theon), Meereen (Jorah), and the North (Davos, Jon, Hodor). Maybe Jaime too?

This season has been amazing so far, and i only see better things coming! (best of all, i don’t see any inkling that Dorne is returning soon…)

Closing up so many sidequests fills me up with utter joy. It’s like that moment – that moment when you play an RPG, and you have finally uncovered the entire map, and have finally all the weapons you need, and all the components, and are levelled up enough, and you know which dungeon you have to go to to unlock the endgame… but before you do, you go around and start submitting sidequests. Sidequest after sidequest. And you start getting so many greyed-off and ticked-off entries in your diary/journal/quest table/whatnot. Until you tick off them ALL. And it’s a magnificent, deeply fulfilling feeling if, like me, you are a completist.

So, that’s the feeling I’m getting this season.

I think the High Sparrow’s new target will be either Olenna or Littlefinger, after an accusation about Joffrey by whichever one gets to him first.

Jared: think that en route to Bear Island from Castle Black, Davos and company will stumble upon what remains of Stannis’s camp.

That makes absolutely no sense geographically. Bear Island is quite close to the Wall. Stannis was very near Winterfell in episode nine.

Is it though? I don’t think the show version is that big.

Roose said about how big the North is, in S4, we should get a fair number from that. I just have no clue about miles/feet….

The old foe…the Others (aka White Walkers) strike again?

“Blood of my blood” seems more a reference to family ties and not so much to Dothraki oaths of allegiance, after all.

maybe that could be the episode with the continuation of the Toj.

Littlefinger wouldn’t be anywhere near King’s Landing or the High Sparrow.

Good point! Davos is definitely getting to the bottom of this. I’m curious to see the confrontation.

Maybe it’s both? I don’t know. Is the assumption that other lords are gathering at Bear Island? Part of what makes me wonder if it is Manderly is that I don’t recall seeing any Merman banners in the shots during the battle. Maybe Fletcher isn’t Manderly but a Hornwood? Their banners were seen in abundance in pics from the set.

Why are so many people hung up on this travel thing? Who cares how long it takes to get from point A to point B….isn’t the important thing to get there?People really want to see countless roadshows? Why not get to the meat of the story instead of the mashed taters?When you watch a show in outer space, it actually takes a long time for space travel, but nope…we’ve invented warping time so there can actually be a themed show instead of just watching a space ship going from A to B. Who questioned that?

The story isn’t about HOW someone gets from place to place, it is about what happens at where they arrive.

High time someone pointed this out. Kudos!

It may be smaller, but Roose still said something about “hundreds of miles” I think. And that’s just the North. So maybe the Wall to Dorne in the show is a 1000 miles instead of 3000 miles. That would still make for pretty long travel times.

Even if Westeros is only the size of England+Scotland now, it would still make for pretty long travel times. Travel by horse is slow unless its a Pony Express situation, and there isn’t one of those in Westeros.

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