Game Of Thrones Season 7: 16 Best Internet Reactions To "Stormborn"

2. Welcome Back, Reek

There will be some who think that Theon's "betrayal" of his sister in the face of Euron's attack is a reason to hate him again, but you will see few more tragic, complex moments in the rest of Game Of Thrones. No matter how far he moves away from Ramsay's torture of him, or how healed his physical wounds, he is Reek forever, and his fragility will be not only his undoing, but some other people's too...

He was triggered not least by Euron's evil, but by the challenge to his masculinity (or his ability to live up to conventional masculine paradigms, anyway), and he withered.

And bundled in there was a hell of an allegory about the true cost of slavery and abuse...