![]() So even though Jon Snow knew her for far longer, these guys understand her better, and would never be oblivious enough to wonder if she’d ever had opportunity to use the sword that Jon gave her. Ditto her and the Hound while she was simultaneously his hostage and his apprentice. But she and Gendry went through a lot together during their shared time as prisoners and then fugitives. Every reunion Arya has had since returning to Westeros has been striking because of how much she’s transformed since each person saw her. Five-plus have passed since she and Gendry were separated by Melisandre’s desire to harvest his royal blood. Which brings us to one daughter in particular, and two of her former traveling companions.įour seasons have passed since Arya left the Hound to die in a lonely field. 'Game of Thrones' Finale: Who Will Sit on Iron Throne? All the surviving Stark siblings were finally under one roof (even if Bran would differ with describing Jon that way) and Arya was so happy to see Jon that she actually smiled for several seconds! Former spouses (and technically still married under the eyes of Westerosi law?) Sansa and Tyrion got to chat, and Sansa realized she’s grown smarter than the imp! Sam and Jon hugged it out, and Sam blurted out the truth about Rhaegar and Lyanna’s secret marriage! And, in the episode’s spine-tingling concluding scene, Jaime Lannister returned to Winterfell and was immediately confronted by the boy he threw out a window at the end of the series premiere! ![]() (Only King Robert’s arrival at Winterfell in the series premiere and the zombie demonstration for Cersei in the Season Seven finale are in serious contention, depending on how you define “major.”) This was virtually every Game of Thrones reunion we’d been waiting years to see. Instead, Benioff and Weiss treat the premiere as an epic calm-before-the-storm outing, taking advantage of one of the largest gatherings of major characters they’ve ever had. (Unless you’re one of the three people hung up on whether Euron Greyjoy would get to fulfill his fantasy of having sex with a queen.) The Night King didn’t even appear, with a Hannibal-esque tableau of the murder victims at House Umber used as an economical way of establishing how close the zombies are getting to Winterfell. Sam finally tells Jon who his biological parents were, but that’s about it for major plot advancement. Yet “Winterfell” is in no particular hurry to get to most of that. There are only six episodes left (albeit some of them close to feature-film length) and a whole lot of story still to cover: the war with the Night King, the ongoing battle with Cersei for mortal control of Westeros, whether Jon Snow will embrace both his lineage and the Targareyan tradition of incest and, most importantly, whether Bronn finally gets a castle he can keep. Weiss aren’t on Bran’s side in this particular argument. Suffice it to say, Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Game of Thrones Season Premiere Recap: The Return of the King The Wall has fallen, the army of the dead is marching south through Westeros and the endgame has already begun. Yet no scene better encapsulates the goals and strengths of Game of Thrones‘ final season premiere.Įarly in “Winterfell,” as the bulk of the show’s surviving hero types assemble at Winterfell, Bran protests that there really isn’t time for all the formal pleasantries that Sansa, Dany, Jon Snow and the others want to engage in. Narratively, there is no good reason for the scene we’re spotlighting this week, a brief interlude where Arya catches up with both the Hound and Gendry. Full spoilers for the Season Eight premiere, “Winterfell,” coming up. So every week, we’re drilling down on one memorable scene in particular. Among those lords present are Edmure Tully, Samwell Tarly, all three Stark siblings, and… Robin Arryn, who ascended to Warden of the East and Protector of the Vale after the deaths of his mother, Lysa Arryn, and Petyr Baelish.A lot happens in each episode of Game of Thrones. The second half of the Game of Thrones series finale jumps ahead two weeks from Jon Snow’s stealth murder of Daenerys Targaryen, where the heads of all the major houses in Westeros have convened to decide what to do with Tyrion Lannister and Jon-and that pesky succession question. But there was one crucial, unexpected element that the show did resolve: What happened to Robin Arryn. There were a lot of loose threads Game of Thrones did not manage to tidy up in its final hour and a half-like why it even mattered that Arya and Bran Stark had magical powers if they don’t use them for the entirety of the final season’s epic wars what’s going to happen with the brothels and clean water how the Wall was rebuilt so quickly and what the Night’s Watch will do now without the White Walkers, and so on.
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