game of thrones season 7 episode 2 discussion

The final battle was utterly mesmerizing. And I mean awesome in its true sense awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, epic and glorious. I'm not sure I've ever witnessed such cool dragons in any TV show or movie before. One thing Game of Thrones has done incredibly well this season is make dragons really awesome. The cinematography and action were all spectacular. A hopeless battle given the lack of fire at their disposal, until.ĭrogon swooping in.gouts of flame erupting through the enemy ranks, shattering the ice.the tide of battle suddenly shifting. Jon Snow and Jorah back to back as the enemies swarmed around them. The Hound wielding Gendry's hammer, crushing skull after skull. Even just the shots of the snow-swept land beyond the Wall were beautiful.īeyond the fantastic conversations between the Magnificent Seven, this evening's spectacle was its saving grace. I do think there were some great moments in this journey into the dead land. At the same time, given how silly this whole plan was I'm not sure I want any of our heroes to die executing it. 'No, just the drunkest,' Thoros replies.Īll the extras die, because of course they do, but only Thoros of Myr is lost among our main heroes, despite overwhelming odds and at least a couple of near death experiences. 'I thought you were the bravest man I'd ever seen,' he says. Jorah telling Thoros how he saw him storm through the breach in the Iron Islands during Robert and Eddard's quashing of the Greyjoy rebellion. Some of this dialogue deepens our sense of world and scope and time. Jorah refuses to take back Longclaw, having forfeited that right when he brought shame to House Mormont by selling slaves and going into exile.

Beric tells him of death, the true enemy, who you can never defeat but must still always fight. Indeed, all these scraps of dialogue between the Magnificent Seven are wonderful-almost as if the vast bulk of quality writing was top-loaded into the first third of the episode. Sandor accuses him of 'whinging' which is pretty hilarious.

Gendry wins the medal for most-teased of the evening. Later, when it looked almost certain that Tormund would be our second casualty of the night, it's the Hound who saves him. The Brienne exchange was laugh-out-loud funny. I loved how Tormund poked and prodded at the Hound, who cursed him back with his typical snarling impatience. I loved all the dialogue between these rugged warriors.

They all very nearly die, but in the end escape mostly unscathed. Instead we get a bunch of our favorite characters heading north beyond the Wall to execute the most atrociously stupid plan anyone could have possibly conceived. Earlier this week, I wrote about the lore of 'the last hero' and how Jon Snow and his merry band could be fulfilling something of a prophecy this week. Unfortunately, that theory was a dead end.

Game of thrones season 7 episode 2 discussion