![]() Who will be the victor – and what ghastly fate will the loser suffer? With Lord Baelish (Aidan Gillen) stirring the pot and Arya increasingly resembling a vengeful sociopath, this case of sisterly strife has a few twists left. But Sansa, survivor of King's Landing, marriage to Ramsay and Littlefinger’s pervy glares, didn’t wilt easily and wondered why Arya, likewise a witness to Ned’s beheading, had not herself done more. That was the lesson learned by Sansa (Sophie Turner) as her relationship with Arya (Maisie Williams) hit the rocks in earnest.Īrmed with the incriminating letter Sansa had written under duress as prisoner of the Lannisters, Arya accused the Lady of Winterfell of complicity in their father’s murder (if only she could have got to the point more quickly and spared us that monologue about archery practice). Never rifle through the satchel of a shape-shifting assassin – you’ll inevitably end up staring at the rubbery visage of the recently slain head of House Frey and wondering just who you are sharing a castle with. Nonetheless, as Drogon and chums dive-bombed the legions of the deceased, the dark delights of The Red Wedding and Ned Stark’s beheading never felt further away.įorget Dragons v The Night King – Sansa against Arya was the week’s truly epic struggle As eye-ball searing extravaganza, Beyond the Wall unquestionably scored full marks (with bonus points for that incredible zombie bear). They arrived at the climax of a 70-minute penultimate episode that had more in common with Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings adaptations than with the dagger-in-the-back Game of Thrones of yore. Could we get back to the more juicy business of skulduggery, betrayal and over-sexed Machiavellianism?īut now the dragons were hot and bothered all over again. Some viewers will have felt that was quite enough fire and ashes for the moment. Just two episodes ago GoT treated us to a glimpse of the dragon apocalypse with Daenerys’ sortie against the Lannisters. Yet as Drogon and siblings blitzed the Night King’s minions, it was worth considering whether this was also the moment jaw-dropping spectacle tipped into empty bombast. After years of teasing, with Beyond the Wall the HBO juggernaut finally made good on its implied promise to one day pitch flame-snorting dragons against ice zombies – to predictably breathtaking (and budget-busting) effect. The transition of Game of Thrones from gutter-dirty medieval caper to traditional fantasy epic is complete.
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