‘Game of Thrones’ season 5, episode 9 preview: Emilia Clarke, Maisie Williams in ‘A Dance of Dragons’

“A Dance of Dragons” is the title for next week’s new episode of “Game of Thrones,” and if there was ever an episode to be excited about at the moment, this is the one. It is a chance to see potentially Emilia Clarke’s Dany back at the fighting pits again in a different way, while at the same time also starting to see a continuation of what is really going on with the Arya story. To date, this has been the hardest story of the season to wrap our head around, though we love the layers that it is giving Maisie Williams to play.

As the synopsis below indicates, you should also expect to see in a big way what comes next for Jon Snow after the epic sequence in “Hardhome” Sunday night:

“Jon returns to the Wall; Arya runs into someone from her past; Mace visits the Iron Bank; Stannis faces a difficult decision; Daenerys oversees a celebration of athleticism.”

Given that the ninth episode of the season is typically a tremendous one, our expectations are certainly high and then some. This can be said even more so after everything that we saw on the show tonight, which included a reminder for how screwed over Jon and most of … well, everyone are courtesy of the White Walkers. We now know so much more about them, and how dangerous they truly are moving forward the rest of the way.

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