Game of Thrones: Dragonstone
It’s back!!! The show that beaks my heart is back!
This tweet still holds up
Drunkard Tyrion! Mopey Jon! Survivor Sansa!
Murderous Arya! Determined Dany! Conflicted Jaime! And Queen Cersei!
Maybe I’m too optimistic but I think all of these characters will survive until next season, but come S8 goodbye Cersei, Jaime and maybe Arya.
Damn, this show
S7, Episode 1, “Dragonstone”. Dany finally gets on the chessboard in a real way back at Dragonstone, the Targaryen ancestral home and Stannis’ former digs where he doubtlessly grumped and groused over every little thing. My poor, stonehearted Stannis.
Although I think it was a boilerplate episode with just getting all the characters in their places to set the path for the season, I did enjoy it because we finally get that momentum for everyone gearing up for their respective battles.
Jorah and Sam are in Oldtown at the Citadel so that likely means both gaining access to the great books for my Ser Sexy Jorah My Amore can get the cure for his greyscale.
Can you believe people didn’t recognize him in that scene? I’d know that voice and profile anywhere
I’d recognize that greyscale anywhere
~How bawse is Lady Mormont???
~Heaux Uncle Greyjoy and Cersei trying to make an effed up Love Connection.
I know I have a soft spot for Jaime because of his relationship with Brienne, but I can’t ever forget how he tried to kill Brienne, Ned and Bran. HOWEVER, man did I feel bad for him in the scene with Cersei where he’s trying to get it through her head that they have limited allies. His children: dead. His parents: dead. His relationship with his baby brother: dead. The woman he loves is power mad and is acting like their father and he knows he has stand by her even though it will very likely lead to their deaths.
Is it any wonder Nikolaj prefers to focus on Brienne and Jaime’s (non-existent) future?
Meanwhile his “baby boy” Tommen is alive and well and tarting it up on TNT’s “Will”
~In S2 Tywin amusedly states that Arya idolizes Aegon the Conqueror’s sister-wife. Now Jon points out that Sansa admires Cersei. I love that she didn’t deflect or demure from admitting that she’s learned from Cersei. She was able to see a woman stand strong in the face of adversity. She didn’t have a chance for Catelyn to demonstrate that as Catelyn went through her woes absent fro Sansa. So I love that she moved on from just being a nattering little girl who wants to birth lords and ladies and is about being in the present and surviving.
Which is why I love this little dark twisted thing she and Petyr are playing at.
As she tells Brienne she knows what he wants and what troubles Brienne is that Sansa doesn’t seem disturbed by it. I think Sansa revels in this attention, she loves this game and she likes that even though she doesn’t trust him, she likes that Littlefinger doesn’t shelter her, doesn’t hide who he is. They’re now partners in crime instead of him treating her like a bystander.
~I know George R.R Martin and fans were upset by the show not writing in Lady Stoneheart (a resurrected Catelyn Stark) but I think/hope we’ll get something better. I think Beric Dondarrion will use his final resurrection on The Hound. I think Beric sees that The Hound has changed since their encounter and that he now has remorse and wants peace and closure. Maybe The Hound finally goes up against is brother The Mountain (Zombie Mountain now) and gets killed and Beric resurrects him. Richard Dormer came to the L.A premier and has been doing press for this season so that signals to me that he’s important to the story in a significant way.