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It’s hard to say if Cersei is an evil genius or just a hot mess, which kind of reminds me of another not-super-appropriate chief executive, but let’s not talk politics, shall we? On the one hand, she’ll never pull a Jon Snow and fall prey to mushy pleas for “unity.” On the other, if her big priority is sending Bronn to dispatch Tyrion and Jaime on the off chance they don’t get slaughtered by the Armies of the Dead, does that really qualify as keeping your eye on the prize? Also, maybe don’t send the guy who repeatedly saved the life of one brother and taught the other how to become a one-handed fighting machine to assassinate them, if you want the job done right? And if you are going to do so, maybe don’t interrupt said guy when he’s in the middle of a sexual foursome? I mean, what do I know about commissioning assassinations, but it all seemed dashed-off, unworthy of Cersei’s best work.Ĭlearly, Cersei’s big-picture play is to hang back in King’s Landing to either make a last stand against the zombies or take on whatever combination of Jon, Daenerys, Tyrion, Sansa, Arya, Bran, et al remains.
(She sure does drink a lot of wine, but if she doesn’t care about humanity, can we expect her to care about obstetrical best practices?) And she has Euron’s bodily fluids as a potentially legitimizing paternity for her latest all-Lannister bun in the oven- if indeed she is still pregnant. She has ships, 20,000 solders, 2,000 horses, and no elephants, alas, which feels like the kind of detail that’s going to come up again at some future date. Her fake pledge to help Jon and Dany is just a smokescreen for the rear-guard action she’s planning with her Iron Bank funds and the fleet of Euron Greyjoy, current holder of the Douchiest Villain in Westeros title inaugurated by Joffrey way back in Season One. When Qyburn tells her that the armies of the dead have melted the wall and begun marching south, she greets the news with a terse and nihilistic “Good.” Neither her close encounter with that chained-up wight nor her alleged pregnancy has made a dent in her misanthropy. So what is up with the Lannisters anyway? Jaime may be leading his loyalists to help, but Cersei’s pledge of assistance was pure mischief. So Sansa is right to keep one eye on her power-hungry rivals (and frequently fuzzy-headed half-brother) even as she prepares for a war that Jon, Tyrion, and most of the others can’t see beyond.
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But that leaves three full episodes, all in the 80-minute range, to come after the battle is fought.
That will presumably pit the human armies led by Jon and Dany against the army of the dead led by the Night’s King.
We know that the entirety of episode three will be taken up by an epic battle scene. And always, always putting the North’s interests above your own! So you have to earn their respect the way Jon did, by submitting yourself first to an entire childhood’s worth of bullying and then, ideally, by being betrayed, stabbed through the heart, and brought back to life by a witch. They’re “stubborn as goats,” Ser Davos reminds us. Daenerys, for her part, didn’t get the memo that you never wear white after Labor Day in the North, and you can’t just expect the locals to bow down at the first sight of your pet dragons. Sansa, Arya, Lyanna Mormont, and even little Lord Umber are all vocally concerned that he unmanned himself-and, by extension, the entire North-by giving up his crown and bending the knee to Daenerys. As the Unsullied make their virgin march through Winterfell, everyone from Tyrion and Varys to Bronn can’t stop cracking eunuch jokes, but the real subject is Jon Snow. The first one-semi-problematically but, hey, this is Game of Thrones we’re talking about, folks-is castration. Yes, this was a crowd-pleasing let’s-get-the-band-back-together-and-push-the-plot-forward-an-inch-or-two episode, but it also had themes. I’ll be honest: the thought of returning to recapping this show after a two-year hiatus had me as anxious as Jaime Lannister eyeing Bran under the tower of Winterfell, but this episode gave us so much to cheer for, ooh and ahh over, and even LOL at, that my nervousness vanished faster than Cersei’s purity pledge. Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? Or, if not fun precisely, then satisfying and even exciting. This post contains spoilers for season 8, episode 1 of Game of Thrones, “Winterfell.”
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