

Just like Sansa and Arya, this confrontation is a long time coming. Daenerys is offended that Tyrion is thinking about her death, and takes him to task for poor short term planning with their military setbacks. Since she can’t have kids, there’s no telling who might rule after her. He’s concerned Daenerys isn’t looking at the big picture. Sandor Clegane, Beric Dondarrion, Jorah Mormont, Jon Snow, and Tormund Giantsbane in "Beyond the Wall" HBO The Lannisters Send Their RegardsĪt Dragonstone, Tyrion takes Daenerys to task for executing the Tarlys last episode. It’s not like he has a dragon, or anything… Targeting one guy is much easier than an entire army. Jon and his squad might not need to kill the entire army of the dead - they just need to take out the Night King. As Jorah and Beric note, this is a big deal. When Jon shatters a White Walker with Longclaw, the other wights fall too. Luckily, the second shakeup is a helpful one.

Since Melisandre conveniently left Westeros earlier in the season, this means resurrection is off the table as a plot point.

Unfortunately, the wounded Thoros still freezes to death in the night. Later, when the group gets stranded in the middle of a frozen lake, surrounded by the army of the dead, they huddle for warmth. After he’s attacked by a terrifying zombie polar bear, he’s weakened. Jon Snow’s expedition with his band of Merry Men obviously doesn’t go smoothly.
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Littlefinger’s scheming with the scroll aside, this conversation has been necessary and inevitable since their reunion.Īrya and Sansa in "Beyond the Wall" HBO The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors Steeped in their specific and traumatic experiences, it’s no wonder Arya and Sansa struggle to see each other’s perspectives.

For years she’s lived removed from rules. Arya has had a frontier style adolescence, growing up on the road with lawless men. She’s followed the rules and - after witnessing the corruption of those who make them - learned to bend them. The rules were wrong.” The sisters are ultimately on the same side, but Sansa has grown up in a structured society. Arya is livid that Sansa betrayed their family out of fear Sansa is frustrated that Arya’s anger shields her from understanding the nuance in her tough choices.Īs Arya recalls via a moving anecdote about Ned, “I knew what I was doing was against the rules but he was smiling so I knew it wasn’t wrong. In Winterfell, Arya confronts Sansa about the scroll she found in “Eastwatch”, in which Sansa (under duress) seemingly sided with the Lannisters in Season 1. Spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 7 episode 6, “Beyond the Wall”. Also, dragons battle White Walkers for the first time and, uh, it doesn’t go too well. “Beyond the Wall,” the sixth episode of Season 7, continues this tradition with shocking deaths and game-changing revelations. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the penultimate episode of a typical Game of Thrones season is “shit goes down o’ clock.”
