It was Littlefinger who started this whole mess between the Starks and the Lannisters when he killed Jon Arryn and had Lysa write a note to Catelyn claiming that it was the Lannisters who did it. The best scene of the entire night was one that was seven seasons in the making: the justice of Littlefinger. Question is: Will he tell the others of Cersei’s plans or will he keep his sister’s confidence? It seems to be a hard habit for him to break. (It probably helps that Brienne scolded him on the subject, too.) Cersei claims she will kill him before she lets him go, but she’s not that far gone yet, and Jaime rides for Winterfell. He gave his word that he would join the fight, and he intends to. It’s the last straw for Jaime, who is more similar to Jon Snow than Jon may think: he, too, believes in the power of a promise, despite his “Oathbreaker” moniker. While the North and Dany fight for the lives of every living person in Westeros and beyond, Cersei is using that time to bolster her position. The Iron Bank has helped secure her an army of mercenaries from Essos, one that Euron Greyjoy has gone to collect under the guise of heading back to the safety of the Iron Isles. Cersei has never put her faith in the power of camaraderie. It’s the mature decision, one that might have even won her some points in the subsequent battle for the throne, should Team Living come out of this one on top. After her convo with Tyrion, she agrees to pledge her troops to fight alongside Dany’s in the battle of the living vs.
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Now, it seems to be down to one: her unborn child.Īt first, when Cersei sees the wight Team Dany brought back from beyond The Wall, she seems willing to make the pragmatic decision. As she explains to Tyrion in their one-on-one meeting (that somehow doesn’t end with him dead), she has never cared about the world she has only ever cared about the people who matter to her. If anyone thought this would be an easy sell, then they obviously haven’t been paying attention to Cersei for the last few seasons. Aside from Sansa, Arya, and Littlefinger, basically every character whose name you actually remember was in King’s Landing as part of the meeting Tyrion has organized to convince Cersei that she needs to back the frak off while the Dany helps the North battle the ice zombie army. Seven episodes into Season 7, and it’s still a novelty to see most of the Game of Thrones cast together in one place after so many seasons of them scattered across Westeros and beyond. Here’s everything that went down in “The Dragon and the Wolf”… But it also has dragons and six seasons of carefully-constructed plot and characterization, which really does put it ahead of the game.
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Game of Thrones may have built its reputation on the unthinkable murder of its main characters, but, seven seasons in, it’s playing by the same rules as most other TV shows. This was particularly true of the Season 7 finale, which was arguably the best episode of this entire, paint-by-numbers season, even if all of the epic things that happened in its 79-minute runtime were things were events the audience already knew was coming. It didn’t make for particularly narratively ambitious TV, but it sure was entertaining. In the end, it was enough to watch the storylines we’ve been following for six prior seasons converge, tangle, and hit all of their inevitable, long-awaited story beats. Season 7 added almost nothing new to its many storylines in terms of nuance, twist, or complexity, but it didn’t really need to.
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What to do with a season of television that wasn’t particularly well-written, but was endlessly satisfying? So much of the quality of Game of Thrones Season 7 relied on the narrative infrastructure the show had already built.