Inside The Episode: “Kill the Boy”

As many of our readers know, the official “Inside the Episode” for “Kill The Boy” leaked early, giving us spoilery insights into the episode before it aired. We’ll still embed it here for those who abstained from watching. For everyone else, skip down to the other three videos this week.

Besides the Inside the Episode (which focus on Aemon’s speech to Jon, Sansa’s Dinner with the Boltons and Drogon’s flyby), we’ve got George RR Martin on the Stone Men and Greyscale, as well as Emilia Clarke and Michiel Huisman discussing Daenerys’ decisions.

I already broke this down when it originally leaked, but once again I am struck by Roose’s ability to control his son. Also, if he has any brains, he’ll install Fat Walda in a bedroom on the ground level and tell her to stay away from all staircases, windows and wells.

The show built to the Stone Men attack by focusing on greyscale these last couple of weeks. For the record, Stone Men Disorder (SMD) actually does exist. “Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive” in our world doesn’t affect the skin like it does in Westeros, but by adding that calcification component, Martin added a leper-like facet to the disease.

This is an odd clip, because it focuses on Dany’s choice to bring the Masters before her dragons in chains. But by the end of the episode, she’s changed her mind, announced that’s is wrong, and decided to marry one of the Masters instead. I wish they’d discuss that slightly out-of-left-field decision. Though watching dragons burn and eat a Master is fun (and the dragons look cheerful as they eat together) I think the latter choice in the episode is the more important one.

This week’s scene doesn’t relate to Dany or the Stone Men. Instead, we get a replay of creepy Myranda leading Sansa to meet Theon. Not that this isn’t an important moment, since seeing Theon will give Sansa a clue to just what a monster Ramsay is…

• Published on 05/12/2015 at 8:00 AM CDT
• Last updated on 05/12/2015 at 8:00 AM CDT