If it’s Friday, it must be time for the WiC Scale! Once again, it’s time for our weekly score of who’s up, who’s down, and who’s out in Game of Thrones. This way be one of the shortest Scales of the season, as many of our storylines were left off screen this week, and their characters holding their last positions until it is their time to return. Those who sat out this round including the entire Meereen contingent, those at the Wall, those who just left the Wall, and the Idiot Ironborn. This also marks five weeks running where we are free of the Damn Dornish. How much longer can the winning streak for viewers continue?
For those few whose stories dominated the hour, how did they dominate their their plot?
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
The High Sparrow: First he got his fanatics sanctioned. Then the got the army. Then he got the Lannisters discredited. Now he has the Crown. Not bad or only being here for just over 10 episodes.
Up
Coldhands/Benjen Truthers: Whether or not it’s true in the books, it is in the show. I suppose that will be our trade off for the lack of Lady Stoneheart. Also, Hi Benjen! Long time, no see.
Sam and Gilly: Not only did they get a pretty ride across the countryside in a high stylin carriage, a good meal and (at least for Gilyl) a new outfit, but Sam now has a Valyrian steel sword.
Lady Crane: Not only did she get a new devoted fan, she also got to keep her life, and she got to find out which of her rivals were trying to kill her.
Arya: Welcome back, Stark Girl! Screw this No One business. The real action is being someone on stage….. (Not that this will last long with that whole “face now needing to be added to the hall.)
The Waif: She doesn’t need weapons, and she doesn’t need to say “I told you so.” She does it all with her body.
Dany: So she’s recycling her dead husband’s speeches. Did Drogo ever do them from the back of the biggest dragon ever created on a television CGI budget? I don’t think so.
Middling
Bran and Meera: The good news is they lived. The bad news is they have no idea what’s next and are having to blindly follow a dude who was almost a white walker.
Tommen and Margaery: Well, that’s one way to force the generation above you to buzz off with their barely concealed manipulations. Too bad they seem to have traded it in for what might be an more overbearing set of overseers.
Kevan: The only one who wasn’t openly humiliated on the Steps of Baelor by the High Sparrow, he even got the bonus of seeing the Jaime/Cersei nexus forced apart without him having to lift a finger. Too bad his King is now answering to a High Authority than the Hand.
Down
Jaime and Cersei: The saddest part is that neither of them seem to have realized how badly they’ve lost yet.
Lady Olenna: At least she understands how badly they all lost.
Daario: Sorry dude. Dany’s now got something better to ride than you.
Randyll Tarly: Not only did he find himself breaking bread with a wildling, his wife told him to buzz off and his son stole the family heirloom.
The Freys: They’ve lost Riverun, and everyone is laughing at them. Who says there’s no karmic justice for breaking guestrights?
Edmure Tully: Oh that’s where he’s been? Oh. That sucks.
Out
No one–and we don’t mean Arya either! (Not yet anyway.) For the first time all season, we had an episode free of cutting back the casting budget. It won’t last though…..
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/06/03/the-wic-scale-winners-and-losers-from-blood-of-my-blood/
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