What a defeated ending to an episode that starts out so promisingly! It started off with Dany finding new allies, and more allies pledging to her cause, and ended up with two major new allies incapacitated.
The 2017 San Diego Comic-Con, the biggest and most popular fan convention in the world, mecca to pop culture geeks everywhere, happened this past weekend, and film and TV studios have been busy dropping new footage and peeks at their upcoming shows. There's actually still one more day to go, but the major film and TV panels are done with, so I'll get down to the news that I'm most excited about.
Here we go again. A new Game of Thrones season begins -- the second-last time it will do so as we near the end. And so resumes my weekly instant reaction posts.
We have finally reached the end, and boy, what a finale!
The biggest, most expensive battle to be filmed for a TV show -- one that has been building for the last three seasons ever since the Red Wedding and Roose Bolton's betrayal -- finally came to fruition this episode, and it played out almost exactly as expected.
This week, I am switching up the format of this recap by talking about the various plots individually, instead of reacting to each scene as it happens. So many things happened in this episode, but it feels like they were stitched together more messily than usual, so my reactions were incoherently all over the place.
This episode marks the return of another character we thought long dead, as well as the introduction of a spitfire. (Hello, young lady!) Can we take it to mean that the show will bring back more people from the dead? So far, three people who died/we thought died have made their return this season. Can Ned Stark come back next (*not* as a white walker)? I miss him so. :'( And his children need him to rally the North. Imagine what a blindside that would be! Even bigger than the "is Jon Snow dead" conspiracy that the showrunners unsuccessfully tried to maintain last year. Just suggesting.
This week's episode felt like a filler episode: moving pieces along and catching everybody up on what the minor characters are doing before they get to the really important parts. Next week's should be full of heart-pounding excitement/heartache then.
Once again, I caught wind of tragic things happening from my ever-so-reliable Facebook feed (and other sources). Due to choice words being used, I could even guess who these tragic things will happen to. But I couldn't imagine how heartbreaking it would be. :'-O "Hold the door!"
This was a fairly pleasant episode overall. Reunions happened, Dany delivered a fiery judgment on some sexist rapist Khals, and Jon agreed to fight that other bastard Ramsay. And Theon made his way back to Pyke without Ramsay capturing him again, so that's a win!
