‘Game of Thrones’ Recap, Season 7 Episode 5: The Sins of the Father Persist
Much of recorded history has been the story of fathers and sons, with women written down merely as the familial covalent bonds that connected them when they were recorded at all. The names of fathers pass to their children, here and in Westeros, where men announce their pater familias to strangers as a way of locating themselves, both in society and in power.
Dead fathers loom large in…