Review of game of thrones season 8 episode 1
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At least now that the slavers have laid siege, Tyrion might not have to justify his seven-years-of-slavery compromise to Daenerys, who typically abhors compromise on the issue of slavery. Meereen is also feeling a bit blurry lately. Tonight’s episode told us that the Lord of Light’s minions had unified the city, with little rationale given for “why”-was there not a religion there before? We also saw that the slavers had strongly declined the deal Tyrion offered them, sans any mention of forewarning-what were Varys’s little birds doing before he left? The most charitable interpretation of this latest development imagines Tyrion as an audience surrogate, blindly holding to certain modern-seeming ideals in a land ruled by very different values. Viewers have no choice but to view the latest happenings in Braavos with some bewilderment-the information needed to make what’s happened fully comprehensible just isn’t there. Weiss are simply ripping this portion of Arya’s story from the kind of airport-paperback thriller George R.R. But it’s also possible showrunners David Benioff and D.B.
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It’s possible the aforementioned wild theories (investigate at your risk) could explain how Arya was allowed to get into the temple’s inner sanctum and threaten Jaqen H’ghar, a man who until now has seemed the most unthreatenable person in the realm. The Waif then let herself be lured into her target’s lair, where she was promptly defaced. Yet tonight’s episode kept her raging-incompetent routine going, with the nameless assassin gloating like a Bond villain upon thwacking Arya’s hostess (which, bafflingly, happened only after Arya awoke from a drugged sleep). Recently, wild theories that have flown around the internet regarding the House of Black and White plotline in part because it seems hard to believe that the Waif is really as reckless as she seems on screen. It turned out, though, that the terrifying assassins guild Arya had offended wasn’t actually all that terrifying. Their fleeting moments of bonding were poignant, but much like Tyrion’s later talk of starting a vineyard, the wandering Stark’s professed goal of seeing the West side of Westeros made me nervous: Thrones isn’t a show where people get to imagine happy endings long before dying.
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The motif of mothers’ fierce loyalty to their kids would recur through the night, including when Crane took in the wounded Arya as if she were her own child. The episode opened with Lady Crane giving Tonys-worthy treatment to the same feelings that Lena Headey has earned Emmy nominations for portraying. The hour had its twists, but, frustratingly, they resulted from circumstances the viewers have never had a chance to fully understand.
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But tonight’s series of unspectacular confrontations sometimes just felt like stalling or shoddy plotting. Perhaps these relatively unwarlike developments made for a necessary pendulum backswing after the previous episode’s pacifist massacre. And Tommen thwarted Cersei’s big plans to resolve her predicaments via combat, except for when it came to that poor missionary in the Red Keep courtyard. A battle for Meereen commenced, but barely. Jaime’s siege of Riverrun ended peacefully, save for the slaying of the Blackfish-which, again, happened off-screen.
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The Hound only took compromised vengeance against the men who massacred his friends. Arya’s climactic duel with the Waif happened off-screen. Just take a tally of aborted or strangely muted fights that took place.