Game Of Thrones Season 6: 10 Big Questions We're Asking After 'Home'

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Balon Greyjoy is dead. Roose Bolton is dead. Jon Snow is very much alive.

There's a lot to cover from the latest episode of Game of Thrones, Home, but the last of those mentioned above is so big that it has overshadowed the other two, and pretty much everything else.

It's understandable: for nine months now, HBO and Kit Harington have been saying that Jon is dead (not a lie, and not the right question to be asking anyway), and also that he wouldn't be back as anything other than a corpse (now that was the right question, and definitely a massive lie, if a necessary one).

There's more to Home than just Jon Snow though, even if he is the most important part of it. Bran finally returns after a season-long absence, and with him are flashbacks to a happier time for the Starks. Two Lords of major houses have been killed, and no one's really batted an eyelid. Tyrion went and told a story to the dragons, and left without so much as a scorch-mark. Hodor said words that weren't 'Hodor'!

This was a great episode of Game of Thrones, even if it is still mostly setting things up for the rest of the season, and it's left us with a lot of questions going forward - about Jon Snow and everything else that happened.

10. ​How Will Things Escalate Between The Lannisters And The Faith?

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While death swirls around Westeros - rulers have thus far been killed in Dorne, Winterfell, and Pyke - things are a little quieter in King's Landing. So often the eye of the storm, this feels like the calm before it.

As calm as things can get in the Seven Kingdoms, anyway.

Tensions are rising between the Lannisters and the Faith Militant, and you have to think it's going to come to a head at some point. They almost boil over this week, thanks to both Jaime and Ser Robert Strong having run-ins with them. The moments pass, but the threats linger.

This will presumably be ramped up in the next couple of episodes (especially since Jaime has to get to the Riverrlands at some stage as well), the question is how?

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