Sorry this is a bit late, I got very sick last weekend, decided to wait on going to the doctor until Wednesday and what with one thing and another things got lost in the shuffle.

So after watching it the first time I was less disappointed with this episode than the episode proceeding it, (the pacing is slowed down and it finally feels like an episode of GoT), but the finale cemented the idea for me that this was merely a set-up season. I miss the thrills this show used to invoke. Sure, cool shit happened, but it wasn’t handled all that well. So I’m rewatching the episode and we’ll see how I feel by the end of this review. I’m hoping the year off will allow GoT to come back feeling fresh and the quality back to where it was in the last couple episodes of Season 6.

We start with more cock talk between Jamie and Bronn on the walls of King’s Landing as Dany’s troops arrive. Then they talk about Tyrion and his magic cock. Then we got to the dragon pit. Sidenote: but they switched out the armor on Cersei’s guards and the Mountain to be pure black with silver ringlets. You can’t see the soldiers faces anymore. They look a lot more like non-human goblins or Storm Troopers now. Can I just say that’s awesome, they’ve been consistently changing things about court slightly to make Cersei come off just a little bit more like the Wicked Witch of the West each episode.

Then the Hound and the Mountain talked and it was kinda dumb. Dany arrives and Tyrion gets to beginning and then Euron interrupts for no reason. Honestly the writing on what should have been a truly epic scene feels kind of like a first draft. Like all the beats are there, it’s just what they’re saying that’s wrong. Like the line “we are a group of people who do not like each other.” That line is pretty on the nose. The cut off nose, hey oh…

They pull out the wight and Jon kills it. I really thought they were going to bring this through the city and rally the people of King’s Landing for the fight, but I guess we should just waste this one that a major character and a dragon died for cause fuck it why not. Then Euron is like, “I’m out, yo!” Cersei’s like “hells no, we’re outsky.”

So Tyrion goes to talk with his sister. Tyrion and she have it out and Tyrion dares her to have him killed. He apologizes for killing Tywin. Cut back to the dragon pit, Jon and Dany flirt, I guess, based on how the episode ends. Cersei returns and agrees to the truce, and claims she’s going to stand with Dany and the others. The group returns to Dragonstone and decide how they are going to go North. Jon suggests sailing to White Harbor with Dany, so that he can give her his wolf. Oh, God, she’s his aunt and they actually fucked. I mean I can make jokes about it all I want but I somehow didn’t actually expect it to happen because it’s so random and gross.

Theon and Jon talk. Jon forgives him for the things he can forgive him for and tells him, “he’s a Greyjoy and a Stark.” I absolutely love this scene. I didn’t look away to write anything once during it. And then the scene outside where Theon gets in a fist fight trying to convince the men to come with him to save Yara. That was just the best. It was so satisfying after all this time to see Theon standing on his own, changed by his ordeal, but more himself than ever he was.

Littlefinger tries to manipulate Sansa again. Sansa summons Arya to the court room before turning the table of Littlefinger and having him executed. Arya slits his throat with the same dagger he brought the world down with. It was awesome seeing Littlefinger taken down but I think all of this plot needed to happen in the same episode. It became too obvious what was going to happen. Also the set up scenes for this needed a rewrite but so did the rest of the season. Littlefinger’s death scene was great though. And well deserved.

Cersei and Jamie break up after she reveals Euron left to go get the Golden Company from Essos. Winter falls on King’s Landing. Samwell arrives at Winterfell and talks with Bran about Jon being Dany’s nephew over the scene where they fuck. God damn it Game of Thrones. They did confirm the second half of R+L=J. It wasn’t much of a surprise unless you exclusively watch the show and don’t pay attention to fan theories but still was cool.

Arya and Sansa talked on the battlements the way she and Jon did last year. The Night King rode an ice dragon and took down the Wall. I know I’ve been predicting this for years and I should be so excited it finally happened but I kinda wish they had walked around the Wall, like the ocean was frozen and they just walk around the Wall. I think that would have been so hilarious. The White Walkers are just like “fuck it, why would we need to attack the Wall?” So yeah, over all I think this season was the weakest but I think it’s setting up for a good final season. I want to do a Season 8 predictions soon and I want to do a Twin Peaks: The Return review as well. No more GoT though for two years. Withdrawal…

Well anyway, take it easy…