Far from being cowed by her impending death, Olenna uses her last minutes of life to finally reveal to Jaime that she was responsible for the death of his son. Having captured the indomitable Olenna Tyrell, Jaime grants her a merciful death rather than return her to his ruthless sister. Still, there are several great moments in this early episode. The episode also features a surprise Lannister victory over the Highgarden armies, which is shown a bit too quickly to hold the dramatic impact such a huge turn of events deserved. "The Queen's Justice” sees Dany and Jon meet for the first time, leading to an unexpectedly tense exchange between two powerful rulers with mutual goals. Defying everything we know about the two characters up until this point just to spring a finale plot twist is one of the clumsiest writing decisions in the show to date. The scene in which Sansa and Arya show that they were only acting like they were, for some reason, going to murder each other in order to set up Littlefinger is among the worst of the season. Worst Moment: Sansa And Arya's Littlefinger Plot Is Revealed Pairing the reveal with a scene of him having sex with his aunt is as hilarious as it is shocking. Confirming Jon's stakes-changing parentage is a huge moment. It also happened to coincide with the long theorized revelation that they're also related. From Cersei's faked alliance with Jon and Dany to the arrival of the White Walkers-and their undead dragon-at the quickly-destroyed Wall, the show ended on a cliffhanger that's making the continued wait for Season 8 very difficult.īest Moment: Dany And Jon, Together At Last (Ew)ĭany and Jon's romance had to become reality at some point and, in this episode, it did. Season finale "The Dragon and the Wolf” is packed with surprises. Arya's anger at finding the letter Sansa was coerced to write after their father's death, urging Robb to stop his rebellion, is one of the worst moments in a bad plotline. It's important for one of the finale's plot twists that Arya and Sansa find themselves at odds after their initial reunion, but the script never fully justifies why the two sisters are so willing to distrust one another. Worst Moment: Arya Finds Sansa's Traitorous Letter Fortunately, "Eastwatch” requires a scene in which brothers Jaime and Tyrion meet in secret, allowing for a tense moment carried not by action or plot revelations, but great dialogue and acting. The rapid pace of Season 7 didn't leave much room for the kind of quiet character interactions that make up many of Game of Thrones' best moments. A few good moments don't make up for an hour of television that plays out more like a lavishly produced Wikipedia summary than interesting drama. "Beyond the Wall” discards any consideration for even the faintest realism for the sake of a cheapened surprise moment: Dany arriving with her dragons just as Jon and his comrades are about to be overtaken by the White Walkers.Īn episode mostly focused on moving various pieces into position for plot developments to come, "Eastwatch” doesn't have much to recommend it. The movement of armies-their speed in getting from place to place-has a great impact on the strategies of the world's warring factions. Geography is important to Game of Thrones. Regardless of anything else, the appearance of an undead polar bear in the middle of a snowstorm is a great, frightening scene. Messy and rushed, this episode doesn't end well for anyone involved, fictional characters or viewers.īest Moment: The Undead Polar Bear In The Storm Things, of course, go awry, and we end up watching characters inexplicably warp across great distances in order to facilitate a showdown in which one of Dany's dragons is lost to the White Walkers. The penultimate episode of the season is mostly taken up with Jon and friends' strange decision to trek into the frozen north in order to retrieve a "living” wight that can be presented as evidence of the looming threat to naysayers at King's Landing.
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