Daenerys arrives at Dragonstone, Jon Settles into being king of the North, Arya eviscerates House frey, Cersei plans for rebellion against King’s Landing, and The Hound looks into the flames of the lord of light.
Holy shit! The season premiere of Game of thrones has arrived and did not disappoint. We’ve waited for over a year to pick up the pieces left from the season 6 finale. The episode kicks off with lord frey singing his praises to his banner men, rejoicing over the spoils of their coup in the red wedding and the retaking of River-run from the blackfish. Arya, impersonating lord frey, have the banner men drink the poison wine, obliterating house frey. Then sets off to king’s landing. Cersei starts her reign of queen of the seven kingdoms but from her decision to level half of king’s landing with wildfire, killing lords and ladies of royalty, she has enemies at all four corners of westeros vying for revenge. Jon snow is named king of north but as he wants to let the Karstarks and the Umbers keep their house and honor, Sansa tries to usurp his orders declaring they are all guilty for treason and shall be stripped of their allegiance to house stark and their castles be given to the house glover and the mormonts, but Jon swiftly declines, being the king his word is final say and shall be held in that regard. The hound is with the brothers without banners traversing the bone chilling winter where the find a house. The Hound is familiar with this house as it is the home that he and Arya were invited as guests to eat with the farmer and his daughter. He had murdered them claiming they were weak and someone else would’ve if he hadn’t. The hound asks lord Boric why has he been resurrected time and time again by the lord of light he simply says “ I don’t know but he has chosen me.” Thoros urges The hound to gaze into the fire that was ignited in the fireplace, he sees a vision, a siege on the wall where the night’s king will march to the night’s watch. Overcome with grief he buries the bodies of the farmer and his daughter. Daenerys lands on Dragonstone, she inches closer to her own manifest destiny for the iron throne as she walks through the castle pulling down the baratheon banner, and goes into the war room counsel accompanied by Tyrion.
The season premiere was impressive I was pleasantly entertained throughout although the thrills slowed down the episode made an impact any premiere should make. Come back for next week’s overview of the episode two season 7 of Game of thrones
-Daryl Robinson
