Game of Thrones the Dragon and the Wolf Review

The seventh flavour of Game of Thrones has come to a conclusion, and there is a ton to talk nearly! I have to say that this episode review will be filled with SPOILERS, so if you haven't seen this week's episode of Game of Thrones, be sure to check that out, so come up back to read this review!

This is it. This is what we've been building to for 7 years, and information technology'south finally here. With the episode preview, we saw that all of our primary characters were finally coming together for the outset time, meaning we would encounter Daenerys and Cersei face-to-face along with plenty of reunions. We love reunions, and nosotros dearest activeness, and this episode promised both with the preview and the setup from each episode prior. No, the flavour finales aren't notoriously action-packed like the 2nd-to-last episode of each season, but they normally pull out all the stops when it comes to the political-thriller attribute of Game of Thrones. Before we showtime running down each event in this eighty minute-long episode, I do want to reiterate that this review will exist SPOILER-FILLED. If you haven't seen the episode, go cheque it out, then come right back to allow me know what you idea!

Let's start with the master event and the main selling point of this finale: the confrontation at the Dragonpit. The hair on my arms was standing up the entire time this scene was taking identify. Information technology wasn't just considering we were seeing characters we'd come to know, love, and hate all finally come up together. We could feel the tension. I always felt that, in true Game of Thrones fashion, something could go completely wrong in a matter of seconds, and we could encounter something nosotros didn't expect. While I was fully prepared for everything to get wrong, I'yard glad that it didn't. This scene was definitely more than reminiscent of previous Game of Thrones seasons in that it had the political thrills. The tension never boiled over and forced itself into a behemothic action spectacle. It remained at a highpoint throughout the scene, and stuck true to what the show, displaying that all of these characters are even so playing the titular game. I too loved that this episode is dialogue-driven. Tyrion, who is in contention for my favorite character of the series, hasn't been featured as prominently in this season just because action doesn't suit him the style dialogue does. Even though his screen-time has been down lately, I yet think he had 2 of the best moments this flavour, first in his meeting with Jaime in episode five, and then in his meeting with Cersei in this episode. His meeting with Cersei, brought a lot of character to life, and showed that while Cersei doesn't blame Tyrion for Joffrey's death, she does blame him for what happened to Myrcella and Tommen. Though Cersei is the villain, she is justified in thinking that. Strategically and logically, the Lannisters would have been better off with Tywin however in the picture, just Tyrion also justifies his killing of Tywin, and we get one of the almost powerful silent standstills we've seen in the entire evidence.

I mentioned it before, but I also loved all of the reunions. Tyrion was able to speak to Pod and Bronn for the outset time in a while, and I loved his conversation with Bronn. Both of them have been doing what they practice all-time, which is staying live and looking out for number i, only they do care deeply about each other every bit evidenced by the authenticity in both of their voices saying that they're happy to see each other again. The Hound meeting up with The Mountain was besides awesome, and though we didn't quite get the Clegane matchup we've been hoping for, it definitely teased a season eight fight between the brothers. The Hound met upward with Brienne for the first fourth dimension since their fight, and their conversation is another emotionally satisfying moment as they both share their willingness to protect Arya. We know that Arya doesn't much need it anymore, but the thoughts and intentions are still nice.

What I didn't call up well-nigh until watching this episode is that Jon Snow and Cersei were seeing each other for the first time since the serial premiere, but they're seeing each other equally such different people. In the series premiere, we probably would have thought that Ned Stark would exist leading the show seven years later, but information technology turns out that Jon Snow, who was sort of kept in the groundwork for most of his life, has ended up in the forefront. Over again, I call back this episode provided a great character moment for Jon considering in his soul, he is a Stark. He carries his accolade with him and stands past his discussion. He is one of the few characters refusing to play the game, which so far has only concluded up giving him positions of power. He remains true to his character and makes Cersei make a decision, forwarding her character later in the episode.

The final matter I'll talk nearly in this scene is where The Hound reveals the wight to Cersei and everyone at King's Landing. At first I was a fleck scared when The Hound carried the box out, then dropped information technology on the ground, and so opened the box and heard no dissonance and saw aught. I didn't want the trip due north of The Wall and Viserion'south death to be for naught, but I loved seeing the look on Cersei's face when he realizes that the army of the undead actually exists. Information technology's a look that we don't see often from her that says that she isn't in consummate control. It'south a nice moment of vulnerability for a grapheme who always knows what's happening.

Next nosotros'll motility onto Theon who had one of my favorite moments of the episode. He has this great graphic symbol-driven scene with Jon nearly heritage and choosing between being a Stark and existence a Greyjoy. He can be both by pulling the best aspects from both families into i person, and we starting time to see the Stark part of him return. We see the part of him that idolized Robb and now idolizes Jon as an honorable man, and though Jon says that he can't forgive Theon for everything he has washed, Jon does forgive him for what he can. Though we haven't seen any total-fledged Reek moments, Theon has been missing his individuality, and this chat with Jon gives him the guts to become himself again and get salvage his sister. I thought his fight scene was great, and it really shows that he has his Greyjoy roots inside him that can take a beating and never requite up. Too, though Jon doesn't know it, that conversation will utilize to him sometime in flavor eight, and I remember this is a great foreshadowing of how Jon will be able to pull all of his ancestry together to become something improve.

I've been waiting for a while to run across Littlefinger have his tricks catch upward with him, and this episode finally gave that to us. I beloved everything Littlefinger was able to do up until season seven, and he became one of the most interesting characters, just I loved seeing it all come to an end this episode considering I've truly hated the build-upwardly to this moment. I think that he was great for a while, but he circumstantially fell into a identify where he was holding the story back. Littlefinger was only beat at his own game a couple of times. Earlier this season nosotros saw Bran recite his line almost anarchy being a ladder. Littlfinger'south reaction was priceless, and seeing him beat at his own game was then satisfying. It was even more satisfying to see that Sansa, Arya, and Bran have come up together every bit a pack to betrayal Littlefinger, It made then much sense for Arya to finally kill him, and information technology was a sigh of relief for everyone who had stopped caring about the drama in Winterfell.

Nosotros saw Cersei confront Tyrion's alien opinions and sides, but nosotros also saw her having the same boxing with Jaime. Almost of us have sort of thought that the Cersei-Jaime relationship would cease with Jamie plunging a sword into Cersei'due south heart subsequently realizing that she'south too evil to continue living, merely it doesn't look like nosotros're going to get that quite yet. Again, I love the route the show is taking with Cersei showing that she is playing her own game, and she is becoming increasingly more difficult to trust, even for Jaime. This is the aspect of the show that I cruel in dear with. Who is tricking who? Who can take hold of who off-guard? Unfortunately for Cersei it looks similar Jaime has finally realized that she is too involved in her ain game. Jaime has go one of my favorite characters, and so I'1000 glad to see that he's headed due north. I wish he would take swung by Bronn's place and picked him upwardly on his way, but I'll hold off on that hope until adjacent season because I don't come across whatsoever reason for Bronn to stay in the S and eventually fight the dragons, simply as he swore not to do after saving Jaime.

Another moment nosotros've been waiting for finally happened when Sam and Bran revealed, in words and exposition, that Jon is the true-built-in son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. It's no surprise, merely it's nice to meet it revealed in words. I've also been wondering if there would be whatsoever way to prove that Jon was actually the true-built-in son of Rhaegar because I causeless that Bran was the only 1 who knew. I don't run across anyone assertive Bran and Jon if they decided to tell everyone, but the reveal that Sam was actually listening to Gilly patched that right up. Every time Sam has been on-screen this season, he has revealed something of import, and this time he reveals proof that Jon Snow is actually the true-born son of Rhaegar and Lyanna, then I like the consistency on the show'southward part. I also dear how it cuts seamlessly between the wedding and Jon and Dany on the boat. Information technology might exist weird as it's revealed in dialogue that Jon and Dany are nephew and aunt, but it makes sense and parallels everything that has brought the Targaryen family to where they currently are. I have to mention that I love that Jon's real name is Aegon. We've seen Daenerys proper name her dragons after those she loved, and now we learn that Jon has been named after the homo who brought the Targaryens to prominence, and then information technology's a bloodline of tradition. And I'd like to requite a special shout out to Bran for finally being useful. For a guy who knows everything, he sure likes to sit back and say zip. He finally said what needed to be said, and I assume he was the 1 who brought nigh of Littlefinger's crimes out. Thanks for speaking up.

Finally, the episode concluded exactly how I thought it would end. I expected it to end with the wall coming down every bit the Night Rex'southward dragon "dracrysed" all over it. Nevertheless, it looked fantastic, and the Night Rex riding Viserion was one of the coolest sequences of the entire series. I'one thousand going to assume Tormund is yet alive because Game of Thrones isn't a bear witness for off-screen deaths, and someone has to get word to Winterfell that the Dark Male monarch is coming ever so slowly, but the expressionless really showed their ability and numbers in beautiful wide-shots, and I idea it was the perfect way to end this season.

Overall, I actually loved this episode. It might be the best episode of the flavour, and it's finally a culmination of everything nosotros've been waiting for. I don't think that it held many surprises, simply I recall that everything it presented was shown besides as it could have been, and this was a fantastic finale. It was, to me, the perfect mesh of a classic Game of Thrones political-thriller and the new dragon spectacles mixed with family drama and a death that has been seasons in the making. Information technology'south going to be a tough yr, or maybe even longer, to look without Game of Thrones, but I retrieve that this season payed off most of our expectations pretty well. It probably deserved ten episodes (three of which should take independent the events of episode 6), just I'll settle for what might take been the most ballsy season of television history.

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