Spoiler Alert: 'Game Of Thrones' brings back an old friend

This post contains spoilers for 'Game of Thrones' Season 6, Episode 6, titled, 'Blood of My Blood.'

To refresh your memory on where we left off, check out last week's 'Game of Thrones' recap - After the tragic death of Hodor and Summer in last week's episode, Bran Stark was due for a win - and many fans had hoped it might come in the form of his long-lost uncle Benjen, who has been AWOL since Season 1.

Last we heard, the loyal Night's Watch Ranger had gone missing on a mission north of the Wall, where his story should've had an unhappy ending - but luckily for Benjen, Bran and us, after the Ranger was stabbed in the gut by a White Walker with a sword of ice and left to die, the Children of the Forest found him and were able to halt the spread of the White Walkers' magic, preventing him from turning into a Wight. (I wonder if the same trick works on greyscale? Paging Ser Jorah!)

Admittedly, Benjen looks a little frosty, but he's still a lot friendlier than the Night King and his wrecking crew, and at this point, Bran needs all the allies he can get. The Three-Eyed Raven apparently called Benjen for help before he died, and it looks like he'll be taking over mentoring duties while Bran tries to sort through the infodump the Raven gave him in 'The Door.'

While Benjen's return was undoubtedly a welcome sight (especially for book fans who have spent years speculating about the identity of a character called Coldhands, whose description seems to match a lot of what we see from Benjen here), Bran's newly-received knowledge also offered us a glimpse into the past, revisiting the rise of the White Walkers and the deaths of Ned, Robb and Catelyn (along with another mention of Lyanna), but also going further back in time to the night when Jaime killed the Mad King, Aerys Targaryen, stabbing him in the back after Aerys tried to burn down King's Landing. That was also the night when Jaime earned his title of Kingslayer, and it was interesting to see those brief flashbacks juxtaposed with Tommen's decision to strip his uncle-father of his Kingsguard position, when in both instances, Jaime was actually trying to do the honorable thing and save the city - once from Aerys' pyromania, which would've seen the inhabitants of King's Landing burned alive in their thousands; and once from the religious fervor of the sparrows, who could easily destroy the city with their zealotry. No good deed goes unpunished, especially when you're a Lannister.

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