Game of Thrones Episode 509—”The Dance of Dragons” GIF Recap

Welcome back to another Game of Thrones GIF recap! This week, while taking on Episode 509, “The Dance of Dragons,” we’ve decided to do something a bit different and go with GIFs made by the awesome folks over at Coub.com. We think you’ll like them, as they are much more reader friendly, and hey…they make noise!

This week featured the heart-wrenching death of the Princess Shireen of House Baratheon, who was obviously duped by her teeth-gnashing, kin-slaying monster of a father, Stannis Baratheon. I mean, come on Stannis, what changed in a week that you decided you needed to burn your own daughter? Was it Ramsay and his 20 good men? Did Melisandre threaten to withhold sexytime? Either way, Shireen’s death cast a pall over the entire episode, despite being smack dab in the middle. Let’s just get started, shall we?

First up, as previously mentioned, Ramsay and his 20 good men attacked Stannis’ camp. Apparently they learned super stealth ninja techniques, too.

Stannis was obviously upset, but when Davos tried to calm his best bud down, he got the stink-eye from Melisandre and Selyse.

Staying in the North (the extreme North), Jon and his merry band of wildlings zapped themselves to the Wall from Hardhome, presumably making use of Littlefinger’s teleporter.

For a minute, it looked like Ser Alliser wasn’t going to let them in.

Thankfully, Jon’s hair saved the day, and Ser Alliser commanded the gate to be opened.

Seriously, Jon needs a remote for the front gate. Isn’t that one of the perks of being Lord Commander?

Back to Stannis. Hey Davos, when do the “Oh shit he’s going to burn her!” red flags begin to pop up in your head?

And then Ser Davos the valiant rescued Shireen and took her to a farm where she could live out the rest of her days, her greyscale healed, and she played all day with her carved wooden stag. So…over in Dorne, stuff was happening. This is seriously the best Sand Snake scene all season.

Oh, and Bronn was released from prison, but had to endure one last punishment. There seems to be an on-going theme here.

In Meereen, the Olympics had just started…

…and Dany’s eyebrow game was on point!

Apparently greyscale has given Ser Friendzone super powers. He throws this spear like Thor…or Kit Harington in Pompeii.

Then, Mardi Gras happened, and everyone started to partaaay!

Ser Jorah continued to display his super powers when he pwnd a bunch of Sons of Mardi Gras.

NO DANY DON’T TOUCH HIM YOU’LL GET WESTERAIDS TOO!

Tyrion decided that an actual blade was sharper than his tongue, and saved Missy.

Finally, Dany channeled the power of her eyebrows and summoned her firstborn. Well, the biggest of her three simultaneously born dragon children.

Drogon heard his mother’s siren call and joined the fun, ruining Mardi Gras for everyone.

Seriously, shit just got real…reeeaaaal quiet.

Then Drogon had a snack.

Then fried up a few dudes for later.

I got nothing here. This is just a beautiful moment, folks.

Then Dany flew away, leaving her friends behind to clean up the aftermath of Mardi Gras.

Seriously though, these four are supposed to clean up all that stuck-on burnt man mess?

THE END

• Published on 06/11/2015 at 5:23 PM CDT
• Last updated on 06/11/2015 at 5:24 PM CDT