We start with
The Twins: Wait, when is this scene taking place?
Is this a flashback to the Red Wedding?
Is Walder Frey still alive somehow?
Credit: Helen Sloan/HBO
How long were you fooled?
Not very, I suspect.
You’re all seasonedGoTpros at this point, right?
All it takes is serving one terrible feast, and your Yelp reviews never recover.
Thronessmash-cuts to the credits.
If that isn’tGoTfor you, not sure what is.
Arya has leveled up her murderousness once again and we cheer.
Yet also wonder: We learned from reading Harry Potter that murder tears the soul apart.
Is this murder making Arya into somebody we might not love as much?
Actress Maisie Williams wonders about this in our interview this week.
This is one of my favorite scenes in the episode despite Sheeran, who felt out of place.
Sheeran’s appearance is the closest theGoThas felt to having a contemporary Special Guest Star Cameo moment.
Fans on Twitter were itching for Arya to kill him.
Still, Sheeran’s impact was brief.
Will she kill them like the Freys?
Again, it raises the question of how far Arya will go.
This is a breaking news alert for us.
Jaime looks disturbed at her new James Bond villain decor as she lists her enemies.
Can you imagine if Cersei had dragons instead of Dany?
She’d just roast everybody so nobody would be left alive to threaten her.
Cersei has one in mind, but Jaime’s not going to like it.
(No, George R.R.
I’m very curious to hear the reactions to his physical and personality makeover.
I’m a fan.
Euron wastes no time.
The man’s totally showing up next time in a fedora.
He amusingly insults Jaime’s lack of hand and suggests Cersei kill her brother.
Euron declares he’s willing to do some work on speculation, saying he’ll bring Cersei a gift.
The Lannisters are cool with this.
They have nothing to lose.
What will this gift be, we wonder?
Next: Sansa, you’re spoiling it, you’re spoiling everything!
She presses the issue, making Jon look weak.
“So there’s no punishment for treason and no reward for loyalty” is a devastating line.
Remember what happened to Fredo.
I wonder if Lyanna Mormont will have playdates with them.
Littlefinger watches a fuming Sansa during this.
Join me and we’ll rule Westeros as husband and his inappropriately aged wife!
Jon mopes up to Sansa and they have a very natural-feeling chat about his verdict.
His leadership is both progressive and traditional.
Arming women and sending Wildlings to man The Wall is revolutionary thinking for this country.
Yet his handling of the traitors feels like classic Ned Stark.
Both Ramsay and Cersei annihilate any perceived enemies.
Still, Jon could have avoided all this if he spoke to Sansa about his decision in advance.
Meanwhile, Baelish sidles up to Sansa, trying to play on her fears and aspirations.
“Why aren’t you happy?”
She’s totally onto him and doesn’t want to hear it.
Next: MasterChef
The Citadel: Hope you didn’t have soup for dinner!
It all opens with a unique sequence forThrones.
But this ain’t Hogwarts, and the maester is not Dumbledore."
Sam steals a key and begins his studies.
If only he had an invisibility cloak and a Marauders Map, this would be a cinch.
When you think about where the other characters are, this move has all sorts of intriguing potential outcomes.
Jorah wants to know if Daenerys has arrived in Westeros yet.
He’s also probably wondering who she’s dating.
It’s also not clear why Jorah is there.
Yes, of course, been seeking treatment for his greyscale.
Later, Broadbent’s maester explains the perspective of his organization on world events.
They apparently keep themselves removed from world affairs, which is pretty monastic for quasi-scientists.
You would think they’d want to be useful.
That sounds like potential foreshadowing, with echoes of Potter once again.
Remember that line inSorcerer’s Stone?
“As long as Dumbledore is around, Harry, you’re safe.”
Who predicted theGame of Thronesseason 7 opener would have a major callback to the poor farmer from season 4?
We don’t know what happened to Gendry but we totally get closure onthatguy!
Arya really hated The Hound for this.
But the farmer and his daughter are long dead, having killed themselves to avoid starving.
Is their fate the Hound’s fault?
He sure didn’t help.
It’s impossible to know if this outcome would have happened anyway.
The Hound has come a long way from the man we met in season 4.
He sees those bodies in the corner and wonders if that could possibly be true.
Dragonstone: One of the cool elements of this episode is how many different scene tones we get.
There’s the mass murder surprise of the cold open.
And here is something entirely different: an almost wordless visual feast.
The lingering of this sequence drives home, without dialogue, how momentous this is for her character.
From the very first time we met Dany, she’s wanted to return home.
I do wonder why nobody has taken up residence here after Stannis left.
We also get a preview of Dany’s rad new throne room full of dark dragon-scale detail.
Oh, we so shall!
We promised before that season 7 has a faster pace than previous years.
