Game of thrones season 7 tập 6
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Cersei Lannister didn’t so much as lift a finger from her wine glass during “Beyond the Wall.” But everything went her way regardless. Daenerys is arguing with Tyrion, the King in the North was nearly killed (again), the Stark sisters are at each other’s throats, & one of the three dragons threatening the Queen’s reign perished — not bad for staying off screen the whole hour. Let’s start with…
Dragonstone: We open with a creepy crawl heading north across Dany’s table map, stopping at the carving of The Wall. Fire crackling. The sound of ocean waves outside. Nobody is there. It’s a rather unusual shot for the show, và it was the brainchild of director Alan Taylor, who told us on Monday it serves as a visual transition taking our tale north of The Wall. Also, since this is the same room we’ll find Tyrion và Dany in later, the shot serves khổng lồ visually unify the episode’s two storylines.
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Winterfell: Has anybody ever watched game of Thrones và thought that for all the heartfelt sentiment wrapped around the Starks’ ancestral home, it’s a dreary place? All dark gray and barren and cold-looking; more lượt thích a horror movie villain’s lair than a hero’s homestead. I find myself increasingly agreeing with Cersei’s snobby assessment of Winterfell in the show’s first episode. This is not a vacation spot that would get even three stars on TripAdvisor.
Yet the castle’s Gothic vibe is serving Winterfell’s current story line well, as the two Stark sisters increasingly turn on each other thanks to Littlefinger inflaming their darkest impulses.
Arya joins Sansa on that courtyard balcony she likes to lớn hang out on & shares a warm memory of Ned Stark watching her practice archery. We can picture this in our minds and smile. But it’s just a setup before lowering the boom: Arya accuses Sansa of betraying her family with that letter Littlefinger tactfully leaked (for the record, Robb Stark saw right through Cersei’s ploy with this letter, so it didn’t have the impact Lannisters wanted). Arya also reveals she was in the crowd when their father was executed. In another tale, the sisters might have bonded over their mutual horrific memory, but not in this one.
Being the younger sister, naturally Arya threatens to tattle. She even raises the visual of Lynanna Mormont’s reaction, which would indeed be entertaining. It’s easy khổng lồ picture Lyanna being in Sansa’s place back in season 1 during that meeting at the Red Keep with Cersei, Pycelle, and Littlefinger và telling them lớn go f— themselves.
Sansa snaps out of her shock khổng lồ shoot back, “You should be on your knees thanking me. We’re standing in Winterfell again because of me…I suffered things you can never imagine. You never would have survived what I survived…Do you know how happy Cersei would be if she saw us fighting?”
If Sansa posted this on Facebook, everybody would like it. For once, our longtime fan hâm mộ favorite Arya is so very in the wrong. Though khổng lồ be fair, neither Sansa nor Arya would have survived each other’s journeys. As Arya’s portrayer Maisie Williams wisely pointed out in an yeahflashback.com interviyeahflashback.com years ago: “If Arya had gone through what Sansa has, she’d be dead. If Sansa had gone through what Arya has, she’d be dead. They’re both just good at handling what they’ve been put under.”
Despite the lô ghích of Sansa’s points, Arya refuses change her mind và remains angry and intractable. She can’t help but think: Sansa may be a capable politician, but what about her r-mails? Next: Twisted sister
Sansa meets with Littlefinger. Lord Baelish claims he doesn’t know where Arya found the letter — a surprisingly bold lie, as Sansa could debunk it from a couple different sources. The man’s barely resisting twirling his mustache.
Sansa frets about the reaction of the Stark bannermen, noting they change their allegiance annoyingly quickly (it’s season 7, Sansa, everything in GoT happens fast!). Littlefinger notes Lady Brienne would be honor-bound to lớn intercede if one of the sisters were “planning khổng lồ harm the other in any way,” planting the toxic seed in Sansa’s mind that Arya might hurt her (and Arya helps this even more later on).
One might wonder: If Littlefinger is on Team Sansa, why leak a letter that makes her look terrible? If we could ask Lord Baelish, one can imagine him gloating, “Why, that’s the brilliance of my plan!” He’s so clearly on Sansa’s side, & she’s his only ally at Winterfell, that nobody would suspect him of doing something lớn weaken her position.
You see, Littlefinger is all about fulfilling his vision board — which we imagine is covered with pictures of Sansa, the Iron Throne, và fancy nyeahflashback.com tunics. Littlefinger wants lớn push Sansa into seizing more power. He’s been saying she needs to bởi vì this lớn keep herself safe, playing on her past trauma và fears of being captured or killed. But until now this season, she’s been ignoring him & making him feel useless. He also wants Sansa trusting only him. Arya is dangerous & doesn’t trust him at all, so he worries Arya will eventually turn Sansa against him. Plus the lords at Winterfell are mulling pushing for Sansa lớn take charge instead of Jon. I think what’s going on here is that Littlefinger hopes if Sansa feels threatened enough, physically & politically, she might seize more power lớn feel safe, perhaps even kill Arya, and pull Lord Baelish closer lớn her side.
Later, Sansa receives a letter asking her lớn attend a summit with the Lannisters. We assume this is the meeting Dany và Jon Snow are setting up to lớn try khổng lồ prove the existence of the Army of the Dead. Sansa is like: No. Way. In. Hell. Lady Stark will never put herself in a position of trusting the Lannisters again. Still, it’s probably good that Lynanna Mormont doesn’t know about this decision either; the kid would mock Sansa mercilessly.
Instead, Sansa wants to send Brienne khổng lồ represent the interests of House Stark, which also suggests she can’t be all that worried about being alone with Arya. Brienne is more concerned about leaving her alone with Littlefinger, but Sansa thinks she can handle him and rather coldly dismisses her. C’mon, Sansa, we’re on your side in this episode; don’t be mean to lớn Brienne. (Readers below pointed out that perhaps Sansa is sending Brienne away so she won’t interfere with her plans for Arya, which is an intriguing — and rather devious — interpretation; Littlefinger would be proud).
One more scene at Winterfell before we get to the really fun stuff with Jon Snow battling everything and playing handsies with Daenerys: Sansa searches Arya’s room for the letter và instead finds some of Arya’s creepy Faceless Men masks. Sansa is freaked: What kind of creepy psychopath has my sister become? & why vì Bran, Jon, và Arya all get to vị magic stuff & I don’t?
Arya catches her & behaves so menacingly she’s like a teenage Hannibal Lecter, even going so far as khổng lồ threaten lớn cut off her sister’s face (!). Arya needs some therapy, or some time at the Winterfell spa chăm sóc sức khỏe và làm đẹp day, or something. She does land a great line, however: “The world just doesn’t let girls decide what they’re going lớn be.” Next: The Polar Distress
Beyond the Wall: Where are all the travel scenes? complain some GoT season 7 critics. Well, here ya go — some good ol’-fashioned walking and talking, just like an episode of The West Wing if it were shot on a gorgeous glacier in Iceland.
We get some jaw-dropping shots of the icy winter wonderland as Jon Snow và company trek north without any Gore-tex or even thermal underwear while having a series of brief chats:
— Jon and Beric bond over being resurrected & the existential angst that goes along with that. “What’s the point in serving a god when none of us knows what he wants?” Jon asks. I realize that Beric has a really cool voice; I want him lớn narrate audiobooks.
— Gendry is razzed by the older men for complaining about Melisandre’s bondage rituals. The Hound is not a man you can ever complain to, & he introduces American GoT fans lớn the British term “whinging”: “Your lips are moving và you’re complaining about something. That’s whinging.
— Jon has a chat with Ser Jorah and even offers him his father’s sword, Longclaw (Jorah’s father was the former Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch who was killed in the Craster’s cabin mutiny). Ser Jorah refuses. They’re two noble men being all noble. If I were Jon, I would hope Ser Jorah would take the sword because walking for miles in the snow while carrying a giant piece of steel on the side of your hip must be brutal.
— Tormund tries lớn brag to lớn The Hound about Brienne & says he wants to lớn make “great big monster” babies with her. The Hound doesn’t buy Tormund’s attempt to pass off Brienne as his giả Canadian girlfriend.
— Tormund gives Jon some grief about not bending the knee, echoing Daenerys by noting pride shouldn’t get in the way of making smart alliances. Jon keeps halting his walk in mid-conversation khổng lồ have a meaningful moment with somebody, và I keep imagining the entire group behind him having khổng lồ stop and wait awkwardly while he finishes.
They enter a blizzard and see something ahead. A threat. A zombie polar bear! This is something the GoT team have wanted to lớn get into the show for years. The gang form a circle, back to back, coming together now that they’re under threat. The resulting attack, staged by director Alan Taylor, plays a bit lượt thích a shark attack on dry land.
They fight the bear, setting it ablaze. Except the toughest talker of all of them freezes in the face of danger. The Hound, khổng lồ use a Watership Down term, once again goes tharn when facing the threat of fire. I like that none of the men give him grief about this afterward. Thoros, whom The Hound once mocked for his top knot, jumps in and saves The Hound’s life but is mortally wounded. The bear also serves a purpose that pays off later: Showing that it’s not just humans that can be raised from the dead. Next: The Wight Stuff
Later: They spot some wights and a trắng Walker and attack. The trắng Walker is killed by Jon’s Valyrian steel sword. The wights the trắng Walker “turned” also disintegrate. So this is a rather key addition to the Army of the Dead canon. They’re like ice zombie vampires, kind of?
The captured wight screams lượt thích a wounded baby T-Rex, & we know trouble is coming in response. Jon orders Gendry to return lớn Eastwatch and send a raven to Daenerys letting her know they’re in trouble. It’s a pretty tenuous chain of events that needs to go exactly right for this move khổng lồ pay off: Jon and his men need khổng lồ survive long enough for Gendry lớn get back khổng lồ Eastwatch and send a raven lớn Dragonstone, & then for Dany to fly lớn the rescue và then find them. But it’s all very exciting, so we go with it.
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Gendry runs & runs. He eventually collapses at the Eastwatch gate. All that cardio from three years of rowing has clearly paid off.
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Dragonstone interlude: Dany is worried about Jon Snow & trying to lớn pretend lượt thích she’s not worried about Jon Snow. These men and their bold heroics, she gripes, when she’s as bold and heroic as any of them.
Tyrion suggests Dany is hot for Snow. “He’s too little for me,” she replies to lớn exactly the wrong person. It’s an honest point, though. Jon Snow is 5’8,” which on dating apps would mean he’d face a ton of rejection despite being the King in the North with great hair (Tinder is the only place more brutal than Westeros).
Their conversation goes downhill from there once they start talking about Tyrion’s family. We love the tantalizing prospect of Dany meeting Cersei, & they debate laying traps. Tyrion points out that fear is all Cersei has và that Dany needs khổng lồ bring more lớn the table, once again nettling her for killing the Tarlys (he’s got lớn let this go; the execution was a fair move).
The Hand of the Queen then pushes his luck even further by bringing up a succession plan — who should rule if she were khổng lồ die? Dany doesn’t want to even talk this until after she wears the crown. She’s focused on victory; planning for failure is not something she wants in her head.
Still, this topic raised a red flag for me. Season 7 is very tightly plotted, and the show’s writers rarely drop anything into a conversation without a specific reason. Why is succession suddenly being discussed? Daenerys is often in danger, but this is the first moment in the history of game of Thrones that made me really worry her. Whether foreshadowing or red herring, we shall see.
Later, Dany and Tyrion receive that urgent message from Gendry. I assume Dany is super excited lớn have a reason to wear her awesome long queen snowtrooper winter-wear ensemble.
She readies herself to mount up and ride into battle, preparing khổng lồ go full triple rồng for the last time. “The most important person in the world can’t fly off of to lớn the most dangerous place in the world,” Tyrion says. But the man’s forgetting: She’s not only the most important person, she’s also the most dangerous. Daenerys is the one who knocks.
Beyond the Wall: Jon Snow runs like mad from the wights. He’s a great action-scene runner, almost Tom Cruise-level.
The group flee khổng lồ a rock formation in the middle of the frozen lake. The wights start to converge on their position but fall through the ice. The weight of an individual isn’t enough to lớn break the ice, but the weight of a group of wights is. So the wights stop their advance, surrounding them. The Night King arrives and sees Jon. Hey, it’s you again!
The men talk through their options as Thoros dies & gets cremated by his own booze. No more resurrections for Beric, who suggests they just make an attempt lớn kill the Night King. It’s a bit lượt thích Jaime’s play at the kết thúc of “The Spoils of War” when he foolishly charged Daenerys — we can kết thúc the whole thing right here. Next: Exit the dragon
The Hound tries kicking the captured wight. He does this to lớn make it scream and lure the wights across the thin ice. Smart idea, but it doesn’t work. He then throws rocks at the wights, which is a rather dumb idea — by having that heavy rock hit the ice in front of the wight, the zombie realizes the ice isn’t that thin after all, or perhaps it has frozen further, and starts a procession across. The Hound’s “oh, I done scryeahflashback.comed up” reaction is priceless, but man, it’s the second time he’s fumbled on this mission.
Anonymous grey shirts get killed. I’m itching lớn play as Beric with his flaming sword, and totally X+Square+RT these wights. There’s a harrowing moment when Tormund gets dragged toward a hole in the ice. Once again, things are looking bleak for Jon Snow. And once again, he’s lucky there’s a capable woman who cares about him out there to help him.
It’s Daenerys to lớn the rescue, her dragons cooking the wights. I want her to lớn turn all three of them at once on the Night King and roast his arrogant big-nosed face. But she doesn’t know who the Night King is & is intent on rescuing the group — which she could vì if Jon would stop fighting & run away from the action for once. C’mon, let’s go!
The Night King has a spear. He aims like a javelin-throwing Olympian bringing winter lớn the summer games. He lets it fly và scores a direct hit on Viserion, và the dragon bleeds fire, falling into the frozen lake. Wow. The Night King just took out a dragon. It’s a brutal, ugly demise too. The visual effects are just … incredible … flawless. Most movies don’t look anywhere near this good. And it’s great to have director Taylor back in the GoT world. Và when the Night King clams gets a second spear, the suspense of this sequence flies through the roof.
Jon Snow falls through the broken ice. It’s an intense scene as the other heroes climb onto a rồng (which has lớn be so weird — what is The Hound thinking right now?) & Dany takes flight, barely missing the second ice-and-magic spear.
Jon climbs out of the water, as we knyeahflashback.com he would. We’re not falling for Jon Snow almost dying anymore. (A sharp viyeahflashback.comer online pointed out the eyes on the wolf’s head on Longclaw seemed to mở cửa when he came back out, which is freaky, but perhaps a trick of the light?) Who thought rồng No. 2, Rhaegal, was going to lớn circle around và Jon was going to mount up? I sure did. Instead, it’s Save-y McSaverson Uncle Benjen lớn the rescue. He puts Jon on his horse & then gets swamped by wights. It’s a rather contorted bit of plotting lớn avoid Jon simply getting on a rồng with the others, which makes me wonder if the show is saving Jon mounting up for some other time…for some other reason…
Later, the Night King has Viserion dragged out of the lake by giant chains. The chains are from the Army of the Dead’s…um…okay, I got nothing for this. Look, the white Walkers found some chains, all right? The Night King touches the dragon, and we wait. His eyes turn blue. Of course, it’s the dragon named after Dany’s brother that went bad.
Boat: Jon made it back khổng lồ Eastwatch & then was put on Dany’s boat. When he’s stripped of his shirt, Dany sees Jon’s stab wounds, showing he really did take a dagger in the heart. More importantly, she sees the King in the North is totally ripped.
“I’m so sorry, I wish he’d never gone,” Jon says ultra sincerely & takes her hand. It does seem like a rather poor trade — a dead guy for a dragon — but given the wight’s potential khổng lồ change the war in Westeros, perhaps not.
Jon thanks her, calling her “Dany.” He’s trying out the nickname used by author George R.R. Martin and GoT recappers everywhere who get weary of spelling out “Daenerys.” She’s not a fan hâm mộ of that name as it reminds her of her brother (which is an interesting subject khổng lồ bring up given what just happened to Viserion).
Instead, Jon goes ahead and gives her the commitment she’s been longing for: He calls Dany his queen, saying he’ll bend the knee and his bannermen will just have to get on board with it. She’s deeply touched và says, surprisingly, “I hope I deserve it” — this is a rare moment of Dany sounding vulnerable and uncertain. Emotionally, it’s a side of her she didn’t really show khổng lồ Daario.
