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game of thrones season 7 episode 5 beginswith jaime washing ashore like aragorn in two towers, but instead of a sexy dream elfto wake him, he’s got bronn – “listen to me, cunt”. bronn points out the obvious – the lannisterscan’t beat daenerys with her three dragons, so jaime goes to cersei and says they can’twin this war. but cersei won’t surrender. she says there’s too much bad blood to makepeace – cersei won’t forgive tyrion for killing her father tywin, dany won’t forgivejaime for killing her father aerys, and cersei refuses to let go of the iron throne.

tyrion lannister walks through the ashes ofhis family’s army – he seems to feel some regret. then again, tyrion did promise cersei thatone day he’d turn her joy to ashes . perhaps that day has come – tyrion turned cersei’spower to dust. the lannister army was also the pride of tyrion’shated father tywin . maybe tyrion feels some satisfaction wiping the last trace of hisfather’s legacy. daenerys tells the surviving lannisters thatshe’s not there to burn or murder, and then she murders randyll and dickon by burningthem in front of their men. tyrion’s worried that this sends mixed messages.

good leaders sometimes have to kill disloyallords – robb and jon both did. but burning a father and son alive remindspeople of dany’s father mad aerys, who killed rickard and brandon stark. it’s a delicate balance between being astrong leader and looking like a terrible tyrant, especially with the memory of aeryshanging over you. dany talks about making the world better,and breaking the wheel – a metaphor for stopping the cycle of conflict in westeros, and changing the political system – somehow. it’s not really clear what kind of changesdany wants to make. remember, this is her first day on the westerosimainland.

she’s a stranger to this country, she doesn’tknow its problems – so how can she hope to reshape society for the better? look at what she did in meereen – she cameto a foreign city, destroyed its social structure, banned slavery, made herself queen, and triedto make everything fair. and – it was a disaster. the sons of the harpy revolted, the slaversattacked in force, and dany ended up leaving with daario in charge. since we haven’t heard any updates fromdaario’s democratic republic of the bay of dragons lately, it’s probably fair toassume things have turned bad in meereen – just

like they did in astapor and yunkai . thepoint is – dany’s speech may be good political rhetoric. but we know ruling westeros won’t be sosimple. dany returns to dragonstone, and jon has amoment with her dragon drogon. in the books, it’s hinted that dragons tendto be more friendly to people who have targaryen blood – so maybe drogon is nice to jon becausejon is the son of rhaegar targaryen. then again, the dragons were also cool withtyrion, and he’s not a targaryen – probably – so this might not necessarily mean a wholelot. dany asks again about jon’s death, and jonavoids the question again.

dany’s gonna have to find out about jon’sresurrection sometime. she’s had magical rebirth or two herself,so she’d probably understand. dany and jon are fire and ice, and sometimethey gotta recognise it. they’re interrupted by the arrival of jorah,now healed of his greyscale. dany and jorah have a long and complex history. dany exiled jorah in season 4 for reportingon her to varys. he returned to her briefly in season 5 butshe didn’t forgive him for a while, they reunited in season 6, but jorah had greyscaleso he went got cured, and now, he’s back once again.

jorah loves dany, and in the books, this comesoff as creepy – dany’s a teenager, and jorah’s this fugly middle-aged man who hitson her cause she looks like his ex-wife . but, still, jorah has stayed loyal to dany longerthan anyone else has. they’ve been through a lot together, sodany wants him by her side. in the north, bran uses his magic powers totake control of a bunch of ravens. he flies them over the wall and looks at thearmy of the dead, until the night king seems to break bran’s control. if the night king can break bran’s controlof ravens, could bran break the night king’s control of these zombies?

just deactivate the whole army of the deadat once? that’d be handy. but we still don’t know how this magic works. it does seem that bran and the night kinguse a similar kind of magic. which might suggest that this human who becamethe night king years ago was originally a greenseer, like bran and bloodraven. in the books, bran sees a vision of the bonesof other dreamers impaled on ice – maybe the other white walkers were originally greenseerswho turned to the icy dark side of old gods magic under night king darth vader…

or something. after all this time, the walkers are stillsuper mysterious, so it’ll be awesome to find out more about what they are and whatthey want. bran sees that the walkers are marching oneastwatch, the easternmost castle on the wall. emphasis on the wall – eastwatch is behindit, and the wall is protected with magic which apparently stops the dead getting through– so they prolly can’t just bash down the gate with an undead giant. how, then, will the walkers pass the wall? in the opening credits of past episodes, theocean by the wall has looked frozen-over,

so some people think they could maybe justwalk around atop the sea, or maybe do an underwater pirates of the caribbean thing. it probably would have been easier, though,for the dead to go west instead. cause to the west, the wall ends, and there’sa bridge across a gorge. why not cross there? the walkers must have some special plan toget past eastwatch. so bran sends out letters to warn everyone. down at the citadel, the maesters want tosee evidence before they freak out about magic zombies.

which in the real world would be very reasonable– but in fantasy, sceptics are wrong. the maesters mention other prophets from thepast, like jenny of oldstones. jenny was a mysterious common woman who marrieda targaryen prince bout fifty years ago. jenny was friends with a witch now known as“the ghost of high heart”, who said that the prince that was promised, or azor ahai,would be born of the line of aerys and rhaella – which means that either daenerys or joncould be the hero to save the world – looks like jenny was probably right. the maesters also mention a guy called lodos. three hundred years ago, when the targaryenstook the iron islands, lodos claimed he was

the son of the drowned god, and that krakenswould rise up to destroy aegon’s fleet. that didn’t happen, and lodos led a masssuicide. but in the books krakens have been seen recently, and it’s looking like book-euron might just turn himself some kinda cthulu, so maybeeven lodos was onto something. point is, both of the archmaesters’ examplesof prophecy being wrong might actually have elements of truth – but they still don’tbelieve in white walkers. this frustrates sam so much that he abandonshis dream of becoming a maester, steals some books, and heads north to somehow help inthe war for the dawn. he presumably brings the sword heartsbanewith him – sam’s father randyll won’t

be needing it any more. there’s not much love lost between randylland sam – but dickon seemed alright, so sam might mourn the loss of his brother. before sam leaves though, gilly quietly dropsthe biggest revelation in the season. she reads in a book that a septon annulledthe marriage of prince ‘ragger’ and married him to someone else in a secret ceremony indorne . what this means is that prince rhaegar targaryen – daenerys’ older brother – setaside his marriage to elia martell and secretly married lyanna stark, who gave birth to jonsnow in dorne. fans have speculated for years that somethinglike this had happened, cause this means that

jon snow is not really a bastard. he’s the legitimate child of prince rhaegar,making him the legitimate heir of king aerys, meaning jon snow should be king of westeros. this complicates the situation with jon’saunt daenerys, who also claims the throne. no one in the story knows all of this though– so we’ll have to wait until bran or someone figures it out. at dragonstone, tyrion and varys worry thatdany might become a bad ruler like her father aerys – and varys doesn’t quite know whatto do about this. varys used to seem so powerful.

a secretive schemer, spymaster and spider,who knew everything and made everyone his puppet . but now that he’s revealed hishand, and made his loyalties clear, varys is just a bald guy in a dressing gown hopingfor the best. he did always say that power is an illusion. jon and dany and tyrion work out a plan. jon will lead a team beyond the wall to capturea zombie, and bring it down to king’s landing to show cersei, so that cersei will help themor at least not attack them or something when they go back north to fight the dead. and this plan is… bad. it’s a huge risk to king jon, and he’sthe guy uniting the north and the wildlings

and daenerys. and if they succeed in catching a zombie,there’s no guarantee it’ll stay animated on the long journey south. it might rot, or get out of range of the walkers’magic, or just stop moving. even if all that works, all they’d achieveis to show cersei a zombie. why would she be impressed, when she’s alreadygot a zombie, the mountain. one zombie doesn’t prove the threat of thearmy of the dead. even if cersei does believe it, does anyonereally think cersei would make peace with her enemies for the sake of the greater good?

even if she does, what will her help be worth? dany just roasted a lannister army, how manymen can cersei have left? how useful will soldiers be against the armyof the dead anyway? the best way to beat the dead would surelybe dany’s dragons – why not fly up and burn them all now? or if you just want to capture a zombie, whynot swoop down with a dragon and just grab one? the answer, of course, is the same reasonthe eagles don’t fly frodo to mount doom. it’d be too easy, and too quick.

but part of what makes game of thrones special,and different to fantasies like lord of the rings, is that behind all the dragons andzombies, there’s usually a strong logic to the plot. people make decisions that make sense. and this convoluted, dangerous, probably pointlessplan – does not make sense. at winterfell, the lords of the north andthe vale speak in support of sansa. it almost sounds like they want to declareher their queen , when only last season they declared jon their king. before that, they mostly supported the boltons,and before that robb stark.

seems they can’t go a season without wantingto switch sides. arya accuses sansa of undermining jon, andwanting power for herself. sansa tries to be reasonable, but arya justwon’t listen. it makes sense that arya doesn’t get thepolitics – she’s spent seasons training with assassins, not learning diplomacy. but this seems rooted in something deeperfor arya. she criticises sansa for loving pretty thingsand feeling superior , which connects to the jealousy and resentment arya had for sansagrowing up – over how sansa was perfect and pretty, while arya never fit.

maybe the real reason for arya’s aggressionis all this old anger. whatever the reason, littlefinger sees anopportunity. he manipulates arya into finding the old letterthat cersei made sansa write supporting king joffrey and condemning the starks. this wasn’t really sansa’s fault – shewas just a kid, she had no real choice. but this might work as a way for petyr toisolate sansa from the rest of her family – to create chaos and division which hecan use to gain more influence. this is some classic petyr baelish evil scheming,and in the short term, it much just work. but in the long term, sansa can just explainhow she was forced to write the letter, arya

can figure out that petyr misled her, andbran can reveal he’s magically seen every evil thing that petyr’s ever done. so littlefinger’s fucked – but at leasthe gets one last lurk in. tyrion and davos arrive at king’s landing,and davos mentions the death of his son matthos in season 2. davos has a wife and kids back home, and heoften thinks about them in the books . but while everyone else complains about theirpersonal drama all the time, davos usually keeps things to himself, and carries on hisduty. but he remembers his friends.

davos goes and meets with gendry, the bastardson of king robert who was last seen rowing in season 3 after melisandre tried to burnhim. gendry wields a warhammer, just like his fatherdid, decorated with the stag of his house. it looks like gendry identifies with his father’sfamily, the baratheons – maybe after the war is won, he’ll rule the baratheon seatof storm’s end – since every other baratheon is dead. as the son of king robert, though, gendrycould also potentially have a claim on the iron throne – which, as davos says, complicatesthe situation with jon and dany. meanwhile, tyrion goes to meet jaime.

tyrion tries to justify his killing of theirfather tywin, but jaime doesn’t want to hear it, and threatens to kill tyrion. the brothers’ relationship in the booksis even worse – they parted on bad terms, with tyrion lying and saying he killed joffrey. so their reunion in the books might be a lotdarker. anyway tyrion gets to the point and asks jaimeto convince cersei to peacefully meet with dany and jon. on the way out, davos and co. have some troublewith gold cloaks. it really was a big risk coming here in broaddaylight with the recognisable imp – they

all could easily have been caught and killedby cersei. but gendry solves their problems with hishammer, and they get away. jaime reveals to cersei that he met tyrion,and cersei reveals to jaime she already knew, and allowed it to happen. which is pretty surprising. cersei hates and fears tyrion more than anyoneelse in the world. you’d think she’d take the chance to killhim . but apparently, cersei’s decided she needs to make peace with daenerys to beather in the long run. cersei tells jaime that she’s pregnant,and the twins share an emotional moment, which

cersei immediately exploits to tell jaimeto never betray her . so this is some classic emotional manipulation from cersei, usinga tender moment for strategic gain. but there’s probably also some sincerityhere. cersei’s pregnancy might help explain whycersei went from wanting to fight to the death to wanting peace within one episode. she has a child to protect now. but the pregnancy also raises questions. maggy the frog predicted that cersei wouldhave three children – a fourth child would go against that prophecy.

in the show, cersei did have a short-livedbaby with robert , so maybe that number’s out the window anyway. but it still would be weird if cersei hadanother child. maybe she’ll die before it’s born – butif the valonqar theory is true and jaime kills cersei, would he kill his own unborn childalong with his twin? this baby raises the stakes. at dragonstone, jon meets gendry. gendry’s father robert, and jon’s supposedfather ned were close friends, and their bond inspires a friendship between gendry and jon.

gendry’s keen to join the fight againstthe dead, which is a little surprising given he has no experience with white walkers orthe north – but gendry has seen some mystical shit, what with beric and the red witch, soit’s plausible enough he believes in the dead – if it gives him something to swingat. tyrion farewells jorah, and hints at theirrocky past – remember that one time jorah dwarfnapped tyrion? and dany farewells jorah for the umpteenthtime – maybe the last time. and finally dany farewells jon with a longinggaze. it’d save a lot of hassle if these guysjust admitted that they wanna bone, cause

a marriage alliance between dany and jon wouldbe hugely powerful – it’d clear up the problem of their competing claims on the throne– they could rule together as king and queen. chuck gendry in there for a threesome, andyou’d solve the whole succession crisis in one go. but might have to leave that for the fanfic. at eastwatch, jon forms the greatest squadof warriors westeros has ever seen. there’s jon snow – the white wolf, theresurrected king in the north. gendry, “the bull”, bastard son of kingrobert. thoros – the “red wizard” of myr, andberic dondarrion – the lightning lord, six

times reborn. there’s jorah mormont, ser friendzone, survivorof greyscale. tormund giantsbane, “husband to bears”,“mead-king of ruddy hall” . and sandor clegane – the hound, gravedigger, eaterof chicken. it’s an amazing team, which ordinarily wouldbe impossible. cause these guys are knights and wildlings,northerners and southerners, followers of the old gods and of r’hllor – there’sa lot of bad blood. gendry was sold to melisandre by thoros andberic. beric was killed by the hound then resurrected.

tormund’s people were hunted and killedby jorah’s father jeor moment. any other time, these guys would be enemies. but because of the threat of the dead, noneof these grudges matter any more . which kind of says it all about this new season. there’s no time for the complexity, thehistory, or the logistics – the story is hurtling towards its climax. there is something lost when the show movesso fast – but it is fucken fun to watch. the heroes step beyond the wall to face thenight. this scene when cersei made sansa write aletter against the starks is a really interesting

chapter of the game of thrones books. it shows how naã¯ve and trusting sansa oncewas, and how manipulative cersei is, using love to assure loyalty – just like she doeswith jaime this episode. you can listen to this chapter on audiobookfor free today with our sponsor audible – by signing up for a trial at audible.com/asx. you get a free audiobook to keep even if youcancel the trial, and it helps out this channel. so sign up at the link below. thanks for watching. thanks to translators for translating captions,and thanks to patrons kara schutter, valentin

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