AND YET WE GET NO FULL FRONTAL WEENACTION, HBO. (To say nothing of the more metaphorical member moments. Oh and SPEAKING OF DICKS (my favorite segue always), “The Dragon and The Wolf” might as well have been renamed “The Dick and The Cock” for all the jokes and mentions and references and moments dongs had this episode. Because Jaime knows there’s no winning against the dead, not when those who once fought beside you (or worse, were your enemies), end up fighting against you with nothing so fragile as life to stop them.
Both Tyrion and Jaime really called Cersei’s bluff this episode, and it’s thrilling to think that Jaime might actually end up on the right side of all of this.Especially after he saw that dead thing not die—or maybe he was just horrified by Qyburn’s hard-on for the dead thing. The whole scene was one of the strongest Thrones has had in ages, and felt more like the older episodes of the series than anything else this season. So all the scary stories are real, so what? Let the monsters fight and then we rule.Such ignorance has always been Cersei’s favorite sort of emotional maneuvering, but it ultimately hurts her in the end. Instead of seeing how she and hers could be very quickly lost to this threat, she decided inaction was the way to go. Not only did she set up a secret “betrayal” from Euron as cover for his trip to Essos to bring the Golden Company over (thanks to those Iron Bank loans she’s been seeding), she lost her last true ally, Jaime, when she admitted she never planned to send any of the Lannister troops north to help Dany and Jon re-murder a bunch of undead. You know you do)! And, of course, once everyone was there, Cersei really Cersei’d out. And Brienne and Jaime (which broke my heart because COME ON YOU KNOW YOU LOVE HER, J. But truly, this scene, while helpful for plot momentum, was all about the tiny moments and reunions and interactions.First: Pod (and his third leg) and Tyrion! Also: Bronn and Tyrion! (Any time Tyrion reunites with anyone, really.) And The Hound and Brienne, talking about how badass and strong Arya is, no less! The Hound and The Mountain! ( SANS CLEGANEBOWL). Jon reacted exactly how he would: disgusted by big city living while Dany seemed nonplussed.
First thing’s first: the meet-up heard ’round the world! After seasons being apart, or never having met, the three ostensible heads of Westeros— Cersei, Jon Snow, and Dany—met up to convince everyone at King’s Landing that a truce was needed in order to fight the real war against the army of the dead.
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