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Season 7 Episode 4 "The Spoils of War" - "Book readers"
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December2012 wrote: »Do you think Jaime is definitely dead? I think so, but himself thinks Bronn can save him again
Nah, he still has to kill Cersei
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Dracarys mo'fos.
That episode was a delight from beginning to end.
I loved the Winterfell scenes. They served as the perfect reintroduction for Arya into a more familiar world for her, as well as give us a decent bit of time with Brienne and Pod. Also, it was nice to get some more insight into 'Not Bran' and his relationship with the remaining Stark children.
The guards at the Winterfell gate, they may have been a little "Oh no you're not" in their reaction to Arya showing up, but it was all believable for me given that the world thought that Arya Stark was dead. I was only afraid that Arya, while waiting on them to tell Sansa of her arrival, was going to leave. She was looking around the much-changed Winterfell courtyard, and I thought that they were swaying towards Arya realising that Winterfell is her past, and have her take off for Kings Landing where her future is.
But no, thankfully she didn't abscond in that fashion. We've had those near-misses with the Stark children almost crossing paths in previous seasons, it's far too late for any of that teasing now. After this episode, ten episodes now remain in total of Game of Thrones. There is a sense of finality on the horizon, a sense of maturing, and I got that from all of those Winterfell scenes.
Arya was always the Stark who (felt she) had to shout the loudest to get a bit more attention or to be taken seriously among her other siblings. We even saw it in Sansa's reaction down in the crypt this episode when Arya first told her about her kill list. Sansa LOLed and almost said "That's cute".
However, going by Bran's comments on Arya's list in front of Sansa, as well as Arya's schooling of Brienne with one hand in the courtyard, the seriousness and presence of Arya Stark was there for all to see and feel by the end of the Winterfell scenes. Sansa looked on as she learned a lot about her sister in that courtyard scene.
Either that, or it could have been a moment of realisation for Sansa - "My younger brother can look into the past and inhabit the body of more or less any living creature he chooses. My older brother was brought back from the dead by the will of a God and is King in the North. F*cking Arya is some kind of mysterious trained assassin and could have carved Brienne of Tarth inside-out there if she wanted to. I'm...Littlefinger's crush." :pac:
Seriously though, the Stark children (including Jonno) are a formidable, weathered, hardened group now. Potentially Westeros' own Justice League of sorts. Sansa is very much part of that, and could be the non-supernatural Batman-type character which centres the group of high-powered members. They have all of that, but Sansa has actual hard-lived experience of the Game. Which is important and something the rest don't have.
Elsewhere in Winterfell - Littlefinger is lying his scrawny ass off to Bran about the origins of that dagger and I wonder if this will be the thread which unravels Littlefinger. He seemed to be quite taken aback and let his mask slip when Bran said to him dead-eyed "Chaos is a ladder". That seemed to signal the end of Littlefinger thinking that he could pull his act with Bran.
- Meera to Bran: "You died in that cave." Yes, Bran did
As for the final battle: The utter horror from the Lannister soldiers when they realised what was closing in on them was so well done. We went from Jaime, Bronn and Dickon (ahaha! - good man Bronn) just shooting the breeze and their men doing similar in a safe environment, to Dothraki, Drogon, Dany, Dracarys and death from above in about two minutes.
If 'Hardhomme' showed us the powering potential of the the Night King and Ice, 'The Spoils of War' was its equivalent for the dragons and Fire.
The realisation as a viewer/reader that the Dothraki were charging on a Westerosi plain against a Lannister army with Dany and Drogon soaring above, that was goosebumps inducing. When I realised what was happening, I really didn't think the show had the budget mid-season to portray the devastation I imagined happening. In those following minutes, I have to say that the show lived up my imagination. It really was a field of fire.
We didn't have Miguel Sapochnik directing this episode, but it was good to see some of the techniques used in 'Battle of the Bastards' reemployed here. Most notably the tracking shot of Bronn through the battle. It was a horrific scene and you really got a sense of the terror at hand.
Drogon and the dragons being vulnerable to attack is a big thing. Up until now, they just seemed to be such an overpowering asset. Although I don't want to see any of the three dragons get killed, it is good to see that Dany has to be careful and can't just ride in, reigning down fire willy-nilly.
Jaime - He may be a "fúcking idiot", but can you blame him? He got a shot at the enemy and he had to take it. To take that shot, he dashed towards a pissed-off behemoth of a dragon. Yes, he may be an idiot, but he is a bad-ass, brave idiot. I'm surprised he was able to move so quick with those massive balls of titanium he's carrying.
Given the way the episode finished, you'd have to imagine that Jaime will be captured and become a prisoner of Dany's. Jaime faced consequences for letting Tyrion escape execution in Kings Landing before, I wonder will their roles be reversed on Dragonstone in an upcoming episode. Never mind a Tyrion and Jaime reunion, I'd be excited to see a Tyrion and Bronn reunion. Bronn travelled alongside Tyrion first, and if the price is right, he might do it again. That could lead to a lot of Kings Landing intel for Dany.
One final thought for now - Did anyone else think that Dany was getting a bit...amorous towards Jon down in the cave? I thought she was going to hit him with a marriage proposal. I wouldn't rule that out from happening, even if it is revealed that they are cousins. The show/books have spent some time normalising us to the concept of incest through Jaime/Cersei, plus the Targaryen penchant for it has been documented. Jon would be torn with the idea of course, until Sam ravenchats him from the Citadel saying "It's cool, all your clan used to do it, plough away".
Anyway, a Top 5 episode for me, looking forward to watching it again in a few days.0 -
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In the absence of Ser Jorah, and the way Tyrion's strategic moves have fallen flat, I have no problem understanding how Dany would ask anyone and everyone for advice at this point.Jaycee Proud Klutz wrote: »Why was Dany asking Jon what to do after she got the bad news? That really looked like a moment where she was finally going to take charge and show a ruthless streak, and they completely ruined the scene by getting her to ask the rebellious stranger from the North who she's known for about two weeks for advice. They can have as many bloody battle scenes as they want but when that sort of nonsensical sh*te is happening in nearly every episode I have to feel a little let down..
So both Tyrion and Jon independently gave Dany the same good advice: she can't go using her dragons to attack cities and civilians, which might win her the war but leave only ashes to rule afterwards. But she's finally figured out that she can legitimately use them to attack enemy soldiers in the field. Some of those Lannister troops are going to return to King's Landing or their villages, and tell of what happened out there. The dragons of legend are real after all. :eek:
I have to compliment the producers on how they handled Arya's return to Winterfell. After Sansa's shock at the changes in Bran, is she being set up for more grief? It remains to be seen. When they split up, Arya wasn't much more than an annoying little brat who got Sansa's direwolf killed.From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut
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