His partnering with the wildlings still remains one of the few reasons that anyone has Winterfell to hole up in for a Last Stand of the Living. Picking bold and unpopular stances time and again, he often made the correct choice. And if this doesn’t give a warning flash to Jon it should.ĭuring the fifth season, Jon cut a striking figure as the Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch. While everyone smirked at how Sansa would receive news that Jon Snow bent the knee in season 7, it turns out she might be the most begrudgingly open-minded. In the most charitable Northerner’s gaze, he and Daenerys arrive as a romantic pairing with all the fanfare of William and Mary’s “Glorious Revolution” in English history to a cynic, he traded in his crown to be this Silver Queen’s paramour. At the end of the day, Jon Snow looking proud (and maybe faintly concerned) on his horse by Daenerys does not seem to be a king or even a warden. It’s a fascinating prospect that we all knew was coming, but tonight, rather unexpectedly, made for better conflict than the threat of the Army of the Dead or whatever the hell was going on with Euron Greyjoy and Cersei Lannister in the capital. The million-Gold Dragon question tonight, at least for any character meeting Daenerys for the first time, is “why would Jon Snow bend the knee to the Dragon Queen?” Still, there is another reason Arya is “lurking” about as Sansa describes she wants to be sure this is the same Jon Snow she so unconditionally loved. She wants to see Jon with unjudging eyes in their presence. But in retrospect, it makes perfect sense: Arya would not wish to share her intimate reunion with her favorite brother before all of the North (or what’s left of it) like half-gone Bran Stark did a few moments later. Now he rides right past, with his head held high and his beloved queen by his side.
The look of disappointment on her face is striking there after Jon Snow fails to recognize the little sister he once adored. When I first watched this moment, I questioned the logic of Arya standing alone among the smallfolk of Winterfell’s meager streets. In season 1, it was Arya and Bran Stark both jockeying for position to marvel at the fat king and his beautiful wife, but tonight Arya Stark stands out in the open and in a decidedly more unimpressed posture. This is best juxtaposed by who the kid ends up running by. She is technically arriving as their newly anointed Queen and definitely their ally, and yet her reception is far colder than any received by Robert Baratheon eight long seasons ago. So if tonight is meant to be a faint reverberation of season 1, perhaps then it should be no surprise that the all-too brief hour was stronger whenever it was back inside the walls of the Starks’ ancestral home.Īye, the true opening of season 8 is of a child desperately trying to sneak a glimpse of Queen Daenerys’ procession into Winterfell. Hence tonight’s premiere can really be divided between the events which occur in Winterfell and the events that occur outside of it. We really only visit three models during this opening, and one of them-dear Last Hearth, a home occupied for centuries by House Umber-is sure to be missing next week. The Wall lies smashed, and therefore all locations not immediately impacted by that disaster prove irrelevant. This intent to begin drawing a curtain across the world is announced in the most visibly altered opening credits in Game of Thrones’ history.
Presumably by the time the Dead arrive at Winterfell, the show will be downright claustrophobic. Once a show that premiered with a vaguely dizzying amount of names in the locations of Winterfell, King’s Landing, and Essos, now even the latter continent has vanished in tonight’s echo of the series’ first episode.
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Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire.” Yet now as we have finished the first of just six short chapters comprising Game of Thrones season 8, it is unavoidable to note how small and intimate the series is becoming. Once a universe of seeming infinite scope and complexity, the lands of Westeros and Essos took on a constantly expanding quality for the first five seasons of Game of Thrones-and they continue to grow larger still within the pages of George R.R. So too does that appear to be the case with gargantuan television extravaganzas. Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 1Īs the end draws nigh for each of us, it is said the world appears to shrink until there is nothing left. This Game of Thrones review contains spoilers.
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