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For those non-book readers among us, The Golden Company is a mercenary army who have famously never broken their contract, despite the notorious reputation of most sellswords. The most arrogant man she’s ever met, bringing The Golden Company to their aid. Speaking of Euron, he seems to finally be getting some interesting character moments, now that Cersei has allowed him into her bedroom. As Qyburn tells her the dead have breached the wall, she simply says “good.” With a smile, overlooking Euron’s fleet. Moving south, in King’s Landing, it’s interesting to see how blatantly Cersei is sticking to her guns. But then again, that’s never stopped anyone on Game of Thrones, so we’ll see what happens there. Furthermore, I must be the only person online who isn’t shipping the two of them, having always seen their relationship being much more of a sibling nature than a romantic one. It looks like the blueprint given to Gendry might be the weapon we see Arya wielding in the trailers for the show. With all these reunions, a rather enjoyable moment between Arya and Jon: “How did you survive? I didn’t.” Before a somewhat strained moment between Arya and The Hound, and then a very deliberate and specific meeting of Arya and Gendry. Tyrion makes the grave mistake of announcing a Lannister army riding north to their aid, which will be interesting next episode, now that Jamie is in Winterfell, which Sansa later points out isn’t the smartest notion: “I used to think you were the cleverest man alive”. Hunger is far less cinematic than war, but no less deadly or less real for the time period. I do love that Sansa pointed out how on earth they’re going to feed the greatest army the world’s ever seen. They don’t know, or trust, this new Targaryen queen.
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We then have a meeting of the leaders of all the great northern houses, where Liana Mormont gives voice to the collective thoughts of the north.
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Could’ve explored that moment a tad longer. We also pushed very quickly passed Bran’s exclamation that the wall has fallen, and The Night’s King now has one of Dany’s dragons.
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It also took me some time to adjust to how much shade Sansa was throwing Daenerys’ way, but I’m pretty sure that residual frustration at the Arya/Sansa animosity from last season, whereas a healthy scepticism of Dany actually makes sense in this case. I wouldn’t mind if they dialled it back, just a tad. But it does feel a bit gratuitous at times. Since the show diverged from the books there has been a marked increase in dwarf and eunuch jokes, and I mean, sure, they have their place. That said, I was not a huge fan of Tyrion and Varys’ cock and balls jokes. Such a poignant way to start the final season of an epic show, and made even more so by the end of this episode also mirroring the final scene of the pilot but we’ll get to that later. Repeating the mistakes, or diverging from those, of the generation before. So much of Game of Thrones is about patterns. Complete with mirroring shots and even the rousing theme of The King’s Arrival back from S01E01. An unnamed northerner boy climbs to get a better look, much like Bran and Arya did whilst Arya is smiling at the young fellow, much like Ned and Catelyn were. A clear and glorious homage to King Robert’s arrival in Winterfell from the pilot. The credits, however, are nothing on the opening scene of the show. I’d be paying particular attention to the emphasis put on the crypts of Winterfell, just in case we get some dead family members coming back in the next couple of episodes. My best guess is that with most of this season is taking place in relatively few locations, an expanded sequence for both Winterfell and King’s Landing is necessary, but also very much welcome. I am a big fan of essentially mapping the path of the Army of the Dead with the flipping of the blue/grey tiles as we move south. On through to Winterfell, and then King’s Landing. From The Wall, now with a gaping hole in it, down to The Last Hearth, ancestral home of the Umbers. For one, we move through Westeros from the perspective of the Night’s King. And in this recap/review, so are spoilers.įirst thing you’ll notice is that the iconic opening credits are vastly different. It’s an episode with a distinct air of things to come. An episode of progression and forward momentum. It’s an episode of reunions, and first meetings. Season eight, episode one, “ Winterfell”, is very much setting the pieces in place moving forward for the remainder of the series. Game of Thrones comes back to us in quite frankly, spectacular fashion.