Game of Thrones, season 7 episode 5, “Eastwatch” review: Bombshells and Surprise reunions.
After the last week’s stupendous
episode of full dragon apocalypse, this episode was full of bombshells,
surprise reunions and revelations, Jaime is alive! This episode carries a lot
of unexpected and surprising events, returning of some old characters and
formation of one badass team of seven psychopaths.
In the last week’s vanquishing of
Lannister army, Jaime and Boron survived. Jaime rushed to the Westeros and told
Cersei about the war against the gigantic Dragon and unorthodox Dothraki army.
He also informed about the scorpion (spear shooter) being ineffective against
the dragon. They also lost one of their most loyal ally, Randyll Tarly and his
son Dickon as they were executed by the dragon fire, rest of their banner men “Bend their knees” for the one true
queen. This makes Tyrion and Varys uncomfortable such that they thought of the
mad king’s inheritance in his daughter.
On the other part of seven kingdoms, in Winterfell, Bran is playing with his unnatural powers and saw a vision of army of the dead marching towards South. He send ravens to Archmaester Ebrose and aware him about the army of dead. In meantime, Sam was serving to the Archmaester and listen about the script about the dead army from the Winterfell. He claims about the unnatural powers of Brandon Stark and said he is the only person who survived beyond the wall. But despite Sam’s entreaties, the maesters prefers to prevaricate. This makes Sam frustrated; he walks out enraged and as the review title described: Surprising and full of Bombshells, Gilly was at the edge to open the undisclosed secret of Rhaegar Targaryen’s secret marriage to Lyanna Stark (mother of Jon Snow), but Sam completely ignored her and decide to leave the Oldtown.
In the Dragonstone, Jon also
receives a raven from the Winterfell, which addressed him about home coming of
Arya and the dead marching towards south. This threatens the small council of
the Danny, but here comes the hand of the queen with the cunning plan after
another coming unstuck, suggested to kidnap a white walker and present it to
Cersei as a proof of the threat marching towards south. To fill up this into
Cersei’s ear, Tyrion smuggled to Westeros by Ser Davos, where he has a sneaky
meet up with his exiled brother Jaime, where he gets told all about the night
king and the army of dead. What a plan!
Cersei already knows about the meeting
with little dwarf, she drops the bigger bombshell! She is pregnant with Jaime’s
child. She also ends the scene with whispering “Never betray me again”.
While all this is going on, Ser
Davos makes his way to recruit the help of wild card Gendry, King Robert
Baratheon’s surviving heir straight from the season three. Ser Davos tracked
down him in Fleabottom, where he was grouchily tending his blacksmith’s forge. Ser
Davos offering him to fight with king in the north Jon Snow and he undoubtedly
agreed, acquiring his impressive war hammer soon to take part in the kidnapping
of walker with Jon Snow. Their banter-filled introduction weaves worryingly
close to the Game of Thrones fan-fiction.
Somewhere in the Winterfell,
Arya reckons her ninja training, starts following Littlefinger around, but she
is unaware of Littlefinger leading her directly where he wants her to find-the
letter Sansa sent to Rob all the way back in season one. Sansa was forced into
writing this letter. Arya with her outstanding ninja skills managed to get that
letter as Baelish wants to let her know. Apparently Littlefinger have successfully
grown the seeds of suspiciousness in between the Stark sisters, troubling times
ahead for house Stark. The last few weeks he was on the back foot but
Littlefinger spinning himself out of trouble again.
At the Eastwatch, we see the
assembling of fan-favourite characters as Jon, Jorah, Hound, Tormund, Gendry,
Thoros and Beric Dondarrion all set out to go and catch a walker from the north
of the wall to take back and show everyone in south. When all these men
gathered, it seems like they are not convinced to go together although they are
heading in same direction, but Jon convinced them very smartly and created a so
called suicide squad of fan
–favourite characters. It will be very enthralling to watch the next episode,
how king in the north captures a white walker. The preview for the forthcoming
episode looks to be one action-packed thriller.
So
what do we think about this episode?
As the last episode was full of
fire massacre and slaughter-fest, this episode was low on action but was flying
high in revelations department. Cersei’s
pregnancy was really surprising; it’s like filling the fuel in the fire, as
both Jaime and Cersei didn’t take defeat terribly well and makes Jaime by her
side as he was starting to question his sister’s decisions. Besides that, we
cannot ignore Gilli’s reading about Rhaegar’s secret marriage with Lyanna Stark
which was completely snubbed by Sam, but it was a huge disclosure as now we
know that Jon is not a bastard of Rhaegar’s, but a true Targaryen.
In this season, the
evil-politics was completely missing, but from this episode we see the
moriarty-esque level of Littlefinger back on track, as he grows mistrust
between Stark Sisters. It was also good to see Gendry back after 34 episodes,
Jon Snow in the Eastwatch assembling fan-favourite characters for an epic
battle and an endearing moment between Jon and Drogon.
Final
Verdict: this episode gave us the feeling of classic Game of thrones
fiction, bombshells, and surprising reunions and finally we see white walkers
in the story line in this season and their existence, although it is also very
disheartening that only two episodes are left in this season.
It will be interesting to see
how the band of seven unusual characters fight the whole army of the dead and
whether they make it out of the fight alive or
Beric has to call the lord of light for some help.
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