I just want to say, this show is really starting to show itself as a TV show, now that ti’s well surpassed the books. Yes, there were pulls from the books, however out of order they may have occurred, but now there is definitely a lot of “showey” things going on. For example, a happenstance gathering of hero characters. There is also a LOT of time compression, which wasn’t quite as using in the earlier episodes.
I only really bring up the time thing because it was sort of brought up. Sam mentioned that it had been years since he had seen Bran. Which means a lot more time has passed than really shown.
On the whole, this was a very talky set up the future episode. Jaime is clearly more and more disturbed by Cersei’s actions. Though she kind of regains his trust by claiming to be pregnant with his child, though I feel like that’s probably a lie. Tyrion still seems to have some doubts about Dany, after she has her dragon toast Randall Tarley and his son. Tyrion seems to get over it a bit, and through Davos and Bronn, Jaime and Tyrion have a little meet up at the request of Daenerys. Dany wants to discuss a truce to allow them to fight off the army of the dead currently marching down from the North. As part of this meeting, Jon is going to lead a group to capture one of the dead army soldiers in order to show proof that the army is real.
This is where the “happenstance” gathering of heroes come into play. Now cured of his Grayscale, Ser Jorah returns to Dragonstone and joins Jon’s band. Davos, while dropping Tyrion off for his meeting heads into Flea Bottom and recruits Gendry, who is no longer rowing, who joins the crew. After they arrive at Eastwatch, they pick up Tormund Giantsbane who is leading the Wildlings at Eastwatch along with a couple of prisoners they had in a cell, Sandor Clegane and Berric Dondarrion.
All of these random folks around the world, all brought together conveniently to form a nice little hero party of warriors. Also Gendry looks a hell of a lot like Christian Bale now.
There is also something up with Littlefinger. But then, Littlefinger is always up to no good.
There’s only two episodes left. I imagine the next episode will deal primarily with capturing the zombie soldier. And probably a bit of whatever Arya caught Littlefinger doing. The last episode of the season will be the meeting between Cersei and Dany, and Cersei trying to pull some betrayal because she is a stupid bitch. This will all set up the final season with the battle against the army of the dead and whomever ends up on the throne.
Oh and Gilly and Sam came across and blew off a little bit about Rehgar Targarion having his marriage annulled and being remarried in a secret ceremony. Because someone realized that it doesn’t matter if Jon is the son of Rehgar and Lyanna Stark, he would still be a bastard with no claim to anything.
