Still, Tyrion’s meant to be the mastermind of the good guys – oh yes, the way the characters are assembled are fairly clear-cut groups of good guys and bad guys now – but in practice he instead appears to be the one who makes pithy comments.
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Back in season one, Viserys telling Daenerys that he’d let Drogo’s whole khalasar fuck her decisively illustrated that here was a fantasy series with more bodily fluids involved than Lord of the Rings. Perhaps it’s unfair to rag on Game of Thrones for being vulgar in this way. This joke is the first actual words spoken of the season. This naturally brings about any number of reunions, which could have been heart-warming – but the tone is set when Arya spots Jon, then immediately also spots the Hound and Gendry, giving it the feel of all her chickens coming home to roost, and then Tyrion makes a joke about balls.
Did you brace yourself? You should have, pictures of Sean Bean reminded us for the past decade.Įven the opening titles are hammering it home that this, now, is the endgame – with the model Westeros now completely wintered up, the Wall irreparably holed, and the locations whittled down to Winterfell, King’s Landing, and also Last Hearth, directly in the path of the White Walkers so highly unlikely to be appearing in the credits next week.ĭespite having already had the best part of seventy hours to get all the pieces in position, the bulk of ‘Winterfell’ is still just that – arranging all the remaining characters at one of the two main remaining locales.