Episode 01: Dragonstone
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Probably the best of the character sketches though was the lengthy, virtually wordless sequence of Daenerys Targaryen finally arriving back in her homeland, taking possession once again of her ancestral seat. Not for nothing was the episode named for it. That sequence had some beautiful visuals, counterpointed brilliantly with the faces of Emilia Clarke and Peter Dinklage conveying powerful emotion without so much as a word.
The main theme returns many times in this episode, and it will discussed when and how, is of causality: how every action has its specific sets of consequences, regardless of time. Many characters in this episode get to understand, live, and sometime even suffer or repent once they realize that their action(s) in the past, whether in previous seasons or beforehand, whether directly or indirectly, comes with its appropriate repercussions towards them.
The first new episode in over a year opens with Arya Stark doubling down on her spectacular murder of Walder Frey last season by killing all of his remaining bannermen and supporters -- and she does it in the most deliciously devious way possible, by impersonating the old traitor himself. The mic drop moment comes when Arya tells Walder's poor, long-suffering wife, \"When people ask you what happened here, tell them the North remembers; tell them winter came for House Frey.\" If you didn't cheer, you may be a wight.
In previews leading up to the new season, both Kit Harington and Sophie Turner have played up the idea that Jon and Sansa will be at odds, but from the honest conversation they have in this episode, when she calls him out on not listening to her, it seems like these two are actually going to work well together as long as they keep communicating.
While you've got to feel bad for poor Jaime, who basically spends the whole episode getting shade thrown at him from Cersei and Euron, it's kind of spectacular to see Cersei in full-on Mad Queen mode, and it's refreshing that she doesn't immediately say yes to Euron's proposal of marriage, instead making him work for it, the way a woman in Westeros rarely has the opportunity to do when it comes to a political union.
The final minutes of the episode are a haunting, poignant summation of everything Daenerys has been through up to this point, and while there's an obvious relief for her at finally returning to Westeros, you can also feel the weight of everything she still has to accomplish bearing down on her. The episode is undoubtedly a scene-setter for the season to come, but I still felt a chill when she asked \"Shall we begin\" This is the moment we've been waiting for since the show began, and from this point on, everything will change.
Watchers of the realm, rejoice! The off-season has been dark and full of terrors (and a bit longer than usual), but our long wait is finally at an end. The seventh season of Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on Sunday (July 16), and we're here to give you a rundown of everything that happened in the episode.
Inside the throne room, Daenerys pulls down one of his banners before approaching the throne. Instead of sitting down, she goes to a side chamber, the one with the great table carved like Westeros. Tyrion follows her, and it's here that she speaks for the first and only time in the episode. \"Shall we begin\" Cut to black, roll credits.
Notably absent from the episode: Yara (Gemma Whelan) and Theon (Alfie Allen). It was disappointing that Arya didn't go save her Uncle Edmure while she was at the Twins, but hopefully his wife Roslin Frey set him free after everyone else was killed.
At least, that's my guess. So far I've seen five minutes of this season, so I could be totally wrong. All the Starks could die three minutes into episode 2, although I think, if they did, I'd probably have heard about it.
And thus begins the world's most boring scene. It's not pointless, exactly. You see, these guys are Lannisters soldiers, Arya's enemies, but they're also nice. They have families and dreams and make their own blackberry wine. It's a scene that says, \"Hey, Arya, maybe don't be such a murdering psycho, like, all the time\" But it just drags on and on. We don't know these people. We don't care about their dads and their homes. The only interesting moments comes from Arya herself, when they ask her what she's going to do in King's Landing, and she tells them she's going to kill the queen. They all laugh at this great joke, and so the scene ends, having gone literally nowhere. Especially as we've already seen that Arya doesn't hate and kill completely indiscriminately, because she saved the Frey woman in the very first scene of this episode!
Ned had discovered that King Robert's kids were actually fathered by Jaime Lannister, but the new king Joffrey wouldn't have any of that talk about his incestuous parentage and took off Ned's head, sparking a war that that kicked off the larger arc of the show in Westeros. This was particularly shocking because Ned was positioned as the protagonist of the series before being killed nine episodes in.
After defeating the Lannister army last episode, Daenerys has the survivors in her mercy -- including Randyll and Dickon Tarly (Samwell's father and brother). They refused to bend the knee and for keeping their honor, were burned to a crisp by Drogon. That leaves House Tarly without a head... unless Samwell ever leaves the Night's Watch without being executed for desertion. 59ce067264