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Jul 16, 2017 · With Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke. Jon organizes the North's defenses. Cersei tries to even the odds. Daenerys comes home. Arya reminds the Freys "the North remembers." Sam adapts to life in Oldtown. The Night King makes his way south.
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- Jeremy Podeswa
- 2017-07-16
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"Dragonstone" is the first episode of the seventh season of Game of Thrones. It is the sixty-first episode of the series overall. It premiered on July 16, 2017 on HBO. It was written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and directed by Jeremy Podeswa.
In the Riverlands
At the Twins, Walder Frey presides over the second feast that he has organized in a fortnight. Lord Frey has summoned every Frey who took part in the Red Wedding under the pretext of revealing his plans. Walder orders the servants to serve them wine from the Arbor but harshly tells his latest wife Kitty Frey that he is not wasting any wine on "a damn woman". Walder thanks his family for helping him to slaughter the Starks and backhandedly compliments his brood for the violent deaths of King Robb Stark, his wife Talisa Stark, their unborn child, and Lady Catelyn Stark, much to the nervous laughter of his family. However, when the Freys begin to choke from poisoned wine, Walder chides them for not killing all the Starks. Walder remarks, "Leave one wolf alive, and the sheep are never safe," as his family members die around him. "Walder" then reveals himself as a disguised Arya Stark, who has exacted vengeance on those who arranged the massacre of her mother and brother at the Red Wedding. Arya spares Walder's wife and the servants. She tells them, "The North remembers. Tell them winter came for House Frey." Later, Arya, having acquired a horse, is riding south when she stumbles upon a group of Lannister soldiers who have been sent to the Twins to keep law and order. The soldiers are singing a song and offer to share rabbit meat for dinner. When the soldiers ask why she is riding south, Arya tells them that she is traveling to King's Landing. Arya learns from the soldiers that the Great Sept of Baelor and its surroundings have been destroyed and that the Red Keep has been essentially sealed. The young soldiers insist that she join them around the campfire to eat and rest. When she asks about their adventures, the soldiers admit that they are homesick and once they left home they wished to return to their families. The young soldier offers her blackberry wine while his brother in arms asks why she is traveling south. Arya tells them that she is going to kill the Queen. Thinking that she is joking, they all burst out laughing. Arya smiles and laughs with them. Elsewhere, Sandor Clegane is riding north with the Brotherhood Without Banners, through thick snow. They decide to take shelter for the night at an abandoned home but Sandor, recognizing the house, declares it unsafe. Beric Dondarrion dismisses Sandor's unease and orders that they set up camp for the night. The men enter the house where they discover the corpses of the farmer and his daughter Sally, whom he and Arya Stark had encountered two years prior following the Red Wedding. It appears that the father killed his daughter and himself so that they would not starve to death. Sandor recalls seeing Beric at the tournament at King's Landing, and wonders aloud why Beric keeps getting resurrected, as there's nothing special about him. Beric confides that he does not know what the Lord of Light is telling him. Sandor remarks that he does not believe in divine justice, citing the fate of the farmer and his daughter. Despite Sandor's fear of flames, Thoros tells him to look into the fire. He tells him that only the fire can show him what the Lord of Light wants him to see. At first, Sandor can only see burning logs, but then, to his own shock, he sees a Wall of Ice. He also sees a castle where the Wall meets the sea, a mountain that looks like an arrowhead, and thousands of the dead marching past. Beric asks Sandor if he now believes that they are here for a reason. Later, Thoros finds Sandor burying the dead farmer and his daughter Sally in the snow. Thoros deduces that Sandor knew the dead, but Sandor admits that he doesn't. The two of them bury the bodies together, and Sandor attempts to deliver an epitaph to the Seven, but can't remember the rest of the verse. Instead, he simply tells the dead that they deserve better.
At Winterfell
At Winterfell, the King in the North Jon Snow organizes the defense of the North against the Night King and his army of the dead. He asks that all maesters start searching for dragonglass, stressing it is now more valuable than gold due to its effectiveness against the White Walkers. Jon also requests that Tormund and his people man Eastwatch-by-the-Sea as Tormund and the other wildlings were present at Hardhome and have seen the Night King and Tormund agrees to defend this castle. Jon orders for all able-bodied men and boys aged 10 to 60 in his kingdom to be trained in combat in order to defend against the encroaching threat of the White Walkers. Because having only half of the population in the North fighting the White Walkers is not enough, he also orders that every woman and girl should also be trained and equipped as well. When Robett Glover balks at the idea of arming his young granddaughter, Lady Lyanna Mormont remarks that she certainly will not remain idle and volunteers to help, giving her assurance that every girl on Bear Island will be trained alongside the boys. The words of the young lady once more remind the older lords of their place and they agree. The next order of business is the possibility of the Walkers getting past the wall; if they do, Jon notes that the first obstacles they encounter will be the castles of Last Hearth and Karhold, the seats belonging to the two Northern houses that fought alongside the Boltons. Lord Yohn Royce opines that the castles should be demolished for their lords' treachery, but Sansa Stark interjects that Last Hearth and Karhold committed no crimes and urges her half-brother to instead strip the Umbers and Karstarks of their castles as punishment for turning against the Starks. However, Jon advocates forgiveness and insists that children will not be punished for the crimes of their fathers. Despite Sansa's continued insistence, Jon insists his decision is final and she reluctantly obliges. Jon then summons Ned Umber and Alys Karstark - both of whom are children who obviously played no part in their father's betrayal and are clearly terrified of what will happen to them. He asks them to reaffirm their loyalty to House Stark. They oblige and kneel before King Jon. Jon says that the mistakes of the past don't matter anymore. Petyr Baelish watches the proceedings with a smile. In private, Jon chides Sansa for questioning his decision-making in front of the other lords and ladies. He tells Sansa that while she is his sister and she can question his decisions, doing so when he is publicly addressing the Northern lords and ladies undermines his position with them. When Sansa responds that the late Joffrey Baratheon did not tolerate dissent, Jon reassures her that he is not Joffrey. Sansa tells Jon that she knows he is nothing like Joffrey and assures Jon that he is good at leadership, but she wants him to be wiser than their late father and brother. She confides that their father sought to protect her from the harshness of reality, including swearing. Maester Wolkan then delivers a message from the newly-crowned Queen Cersei Lannister; though she is apparently not opposed to House Stark reclaiming the North from House Bolton, she demands that they submit to her authority. While Jon is preoccupied with preparing to fight the Night King, Sansa warns him not to underestimate Cersei. Later, Brienne of Tarth and Podrick Payne spar with swords. Podrick is struggling and Tormund tells him that he has long to go. Petyr and Sansa are watching Brienne and Podrick sparring. Sansa dismisses Petyr's attempts to get under her skin by stating that she is safe at Winterfell and has Brienne as her sworn shield. She retorts that she only wants peace and quiet when he prods her that she looks unhappy. Brienne, having seen what is going on with Sansa and Petyr, moves over to intervene, and Baelish scurries off. When Brienne asks why Petyr is still at Winterfell, Sansa replies that the Knights of the Vale helped to turn the tide of the Battle of the Bastards. However, Sansa is confident that she knows what Petyr wants.
At the Wall
Beyond the Wall, a column of White Walkers riding undead horses leads a horde of wights through a snowstorm. Their numbers include at least three undead Giants. Meanwhile, Bran Stark and Meera Reed reach the gate beneath Castle Black. They are greeted by the Acting Lord Commander Eddison Tollett and several armed Black Brothers. Edd asks if they are Wildlings, but Meera introduces herself and Bran. When Edd asks them to verify their identities, Bran responds by "recognizing" Edd from the conflicts at the Fist of the First Men and Hardhome, observing that he has seen the army of the dead. Edd decides to bring the two of them inside, glancing nervously at the increasingly hostile lands beyond the Wall.
Firsts
•Ned Umber •Alys Karstark •Archmaester Ebrose •Eddie •Geoff •Theo
Deaths
•Frey knight •Stevron Frey •Ryger Rivers •Weyland •Farmer (confirmed fate) •Sally (confirmed fate) •Many Frey men
Starring
•Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister •Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Ser Jaime Lannister •Lena Headey as Queen Cersei Lannister •Emilia Clarke as Queen Daenerys Targaryen •Kit Harington as King Jon Snow •Aidan Gillen as Lord Petyr Baelish •Liam Cunningham as Ser Davos Seaworth •Sophie Turner as Lady Sansa Stark •Maisie Williams as Arya Stark •Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei •Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth •Conleth Hill as Lord Varys •John Bradley as Samwell Tarly •Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark •Hannah Murray as Gilly •Kristofer Hivju as Tormund •Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane •with Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont
Guest starring
•Jim Broadbent as Archmaester Ebrose •Pilou Asbæk as King Euron Greyjoy •David Bradley as Arya Stark (disguised as Lord Walder Frey) •Anton Lesser as Qyburn •Richard Dormer as Lord Beric Dondarrion •Paul Kaye as Thoros •Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm •Ellie Kendrick as Meera Reed •Ben Crompton as Lord Commander Eddison Tollett •Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as Ser Gregor Clegane •Tim McInnerny as Lord Robett Glover •Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne •Rupert Vansittart as Lord Yohn Royce •Bella Ramsey as Lady Lyanna Mormont •Richard Rycroft as Maester Wolkan •Lucy Hayes as Lady Kitty Frey •Ed Sheeran as Eddie •Thomas Turgoose as Geoff •William Postlethwaite as Theo •Megan Parkinson as Lady Alys Karstark •Harry Grasby as Lord Ned Umber •Vladimír Furdík as the Night King •Neil Fingleton as a giant wight •Ian Whyte as a giant wight •Paul Ward as a poisoned Frey •Brendan Morrissey as a Frey Lord •Eamonn Draper as a sick maester •William Nevan Wilson as Sam •James Robert Wilson as Sam •Kate Dempsey as a serving girl
Uncredited
•Bobby Marno as a Night's Watchman •Brendan McGivern as a Night's Watchman •Gerald McMullan as a Night's Watchman •Seán McGillicuddy as a Lannister Soldier •Jim Stanes as the map painter
Arya Stark: (disguised as Walder Frey) "Leave one wolf alive...and the sheep are never safe."
Arya Stark: "Tell them the North remembers. Tell them winter came for House Frey."
Sansa Stark: "You have to be smarter than father. You need to be smarter than Robb. I loved them, I miss them, but they made stupid mistakes and they both lost their heads for it."
Sandor Clegane: "It's my fucking luck I wind up with a band of fire worshipers."
Cersei Lannister: "Daenerys Targaryen has chosen Tyrion to be her Hand. Right now, they're sailing across the Narrow Sea, hoping to take back her father's throne. Our little brother...the one you love so much. The one you set free. The one who murdered our father, and our firstborn son. Now, he stands beside our enemies and gives them counsel. He's out there, somewhere, at the head of an armada. Where will they land?"
Jaime Lannister: "Dragonstone. They have deep water ports for their ships. Stannis left the castle unoccupied and that's where she was born.
General
•The soundtrack playing over the credits is a rendition of Daenerys's theme. On the official soundtrack release it is titled "Shall We Begin?" •As of the end of Season 6, all plotlines have surpassed the current novels in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, though the TV series has also drastically changed several of them. Season 6 surpassed the novels on some plotlines when it began, such as Jon Snow's, but others were holdovers from prior books (the Ironborn and Riverrun subplots). Whatever the case, from this point onwards, no one can know with certainty if any characters will survive from one episode to the next. •The title sequence is notably different now that no storylines take place outside of Westeros. The production team explained that there are actually formal rules for it, the first of which is that they are required to show four locations: King's Landing, Winterfell, the Wall, and "wherever Daenerys is" at the moment. Daenerys's travels far to the east explicitly helped show just how vast their fictional world is, i.e. the Dothraki or Slaver's Bay, that it's bigger than just the continent of Westeros. The Season 7 title just focuses on Westeros itself. Another rule was that they physically only have so much time for the camera to move around, so they can only show a limited number of locations in each (never more than six so far). Moreover, they only make specific title animations for locations which they know will be recurring, to justify the time and expense in creating it (they never made an animation for Volantis or Runestone). Now that Oldtown is a major recurring location for Samwell's storyline, they introduced a new title animation for it starting in this episode. •The new Costumes of many characters in Season 7 have shifted to darker colors. The reason behind this is simple: the costuming department felt that because "winter" has officially descended across Westeros, characters should now be wearing dark colors i.e. the time for wearing brighter colors would have been Renly's camp in Season 2 when they were "the knights of summer". •Most remaining storylines reappear in this episode. As the showrunners have noted, so many characters are meeting each other again - after scattering in intervening seasons - that they don't need to compete for as much time or take an episode off, i.e. Tyrion is with Daenerys now. Dorne and Olenna Tyrell do not appear but are mentioned. Yara and Theon, despite being part of Daenerys's faction now, also do not appear, but are mentioned. The Daenerys storyline actually only briefly appears at the end of the episode with hardly any dialogue, as a lead-in to when it will be given focus in the next episode. •Despite Season 7 shifting to a summer premiere, instead of a spring premiere as in past seasons, it still achieved record high viewership numbers: 16.1 million people, in the first full day after it premiered. According to Nielsen figures, about 10.1 million people watched it live on the HBO TV channel, while the rest watched it over streaming services or on DVR. This surpasses the previous series-high record set by the Season 6 finale, which was watched by 8.89 million people on HBO's TV channel. The Game of Thrones TV series already surpassed the viewership highs of prior HBO series True Blood and The Sopranos to become the most-watched HBO series of all time back in Season 4. According to internet reports, the episode was also illegally downloaded via torrent over 90 million times in the first three days since it premiered (possibly a much higher number). •This episode's premiere also broke site visit record numbers for Game of Thrones Wiki, with 4.2 million. The last time a premiere broke even 1 million was the Season 5 premiere (1.1 million) - the Season 6 premiere was somewhat lower at 0.713 million (perhaps due to various controversial or negatively received parts of Season 5, or even some reviews that announced they would stop watching the show if Jon Snow stayed dead). This episode's 4.2 million record also makes it the third-highest Game of Thrones Wiki traffic of all time, surpassed only by Season 6's "The Door" (the episode that Hodor died) which was the first to reach 4.8 million site hits, and of course the Season 6 finale "The Winds of Winter", which jumped to 9.1 million site hits (possibly due to the reveal of Jon Snow's real parentage).
In the Riverlands
•According to Dan Weiss in the Inside the Episode video for this episode, Arya's massacre of House Frey was not originally going to be the cold open scene for this episode and Season 7. As Weiss said, they were so impressed with actor David Bradley's performance that they reshuffled the scene out of its original order to go first (i.e. Bradley gives little affectations to his performance to hint that he's really Arya pretending to be Walder). The ripple effect from reshuffling the scene may have affected others (see notes on "Oldtown" below). •Writer Bryan Cogman confirmed in a subsequent interview that the slow panning shot of the army of the dead that starts Bran Stark's scene was going to be the original cold open. Cogman also felt that it was a good idea to start with the Frey massacre because it served to bookend the subplots from Season 6 and wrap them up, transitioning into the new storylines in Season 7 (after the Frey and Bolton storylines finished). •The expensive fine wine that Walder/Arya serves to the assembled Freys is stated to be Arbor gold, in dialogue. In the books, Arbor gold is broadly held to be the finest wine in all of Westeros, with a very sweet flavor. It is produced on the Arbor, the large off-shore island/region ruled by House Redwyne (Olenna Tyrell's family). Characters have actually mentioned fine "Arbor wine" since Season 1, but this episode is the first time that its full formal name has been used. Given its quality, it is a very expensive wine, normally only drunk by kings and great lords (Cersei starts drinking it heavily in later books). Smallfolk rarely even see it. Indeed, it is joked that a commoner would sell his infant firstborn son for a cask of fine Arbor gold. •"Walder" also remarks that it isn't that awful "Dornish" wine. Dornish Red is the other very expensive and high-quality fine wine in Westeros, produced in Dorne, flavored with spices and with a very sour taste. It is somewhat exotic and foreign to people in the rest of Westeros, but many great lords have developed a taste for it as fancy import (characters like Renly Baratheon have mentioned enjoying a fine Dornish wine since Season 1). Conversely, Oberyn Martell remarked in Season 4 that he brought his own fine Dornish wine with him from home because he can't stand the stuff they serve at the royal court (i.e. he thinks Arbor Gold is too sweet and bland). There's some debate in-universe about which is the best wine, but largely it comes down to personal taste: those who prefer a sweet white wine prefer Arbor Gold, while those who want an exotic spicy and sour red wine prefer Dornish Red. •This isn't the first time that actor Tim McInnerny (Lord Robett Glover) has appeared in a TV episode in which an entire noble court full of people was killed with poisoned wine - albeit this time not in the same storyline his character is in. A similar scenario occurred in the final episode of The Black Adder, in which McInnerny's character, Lord Percy Percy, supplied poisoned wine to the six assassins of the Black Seal and killed them all (one of them portrayed by Patrick Malahide), but accidentally poisoned the entire vat that led to the death of Blackadder, his family and the entire royal court; Percy and Baldrick were the only survivors, bursting into the court only seconds after the poisoning and shouting to everyone not to drink the wine. •In the Season 6 finale, the official Lannister house words were spoken aloud for the first time: "Hear Me Roar!", to which the Freys responded with a toast of "We Stand Together!" - the motto of House Frey actually hasn't appeared in the current novels, and this is apparently the first time that any house motto was revealed in the TV series before the books. It wasn't directly confirmed that this is the Frey motto, though this episode reinforces it when the Freys toast again - though this time they just say "Stand Together!", leaving it a bit unclear. •Given that Arya Stark's storyline has surpassed the novels it is unknown if she will kill off most of House Frey in this fashion. There are several dozen major Frey characters and the TV show understandably condensed them into a few composite characters. It is hinted that the Brotherhood Without Banners is actually planning an attack on some of the Freys, and Arya may or may not aid them in the future. •There was some concern from reports on this episode that Arya killed all the male Freys, even the innocent ones and children. The actual episode dialogue, however, does not strictly state this: Arya (as Walder) explicitly says that she invited all of the important Freys who matter to Walder ("Every Frey that means a damn") - i.e. if there are younger Frey sons that had nothing to do with the Red Wedding she didn't invite them. On top of this, the TV show never established that there were "good" younger Frey sons, i.e. in the books, Olyvar Frey loyally served Robb Stark as his squire - so loyally that the lead Freys didn't trust him and sent him away from the Twins (alongside his brother Perwyn and nephew Alesander, for the same reason) before the Red Wedding. Given that the TV show didn't introduce them, it didn't have to expend time explaining how Arya spared the innocent ones. •It isn't overtly stated how Arya found out which Freys were directly involved in the Red Wedding, and which ones were not involved and innocent. She does say the previous feast when she killed Walder was a fortnight ago, and she was disguised as a servant girl at the Twins for an unspecified amount of time before that: presumably she just asked around and investigated with the other castle servants for a while to figure out which Freys she should kill. •If Arya was going to kill every male relative of House Frey, she'd have even killed her infant first cousin, son of her uncle Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey - and thus make herself a kinslayer. •It is unclear who the new head of House Frey is at this point, if any. There are still female Freys and rule would pass to them if there are no male heirs (though it is implied Arya didn't kill them all down to the last baby son). The Freys are a very large family and the books strongly imply that after old Lord Walder dies, the various internal factions of the family's different branches (by Walder's different wives) are going to turn on each other in a fratricidal bloodbath. This involved over a dozen Frey characters, which the TV show has understandably not introduced. •The question arises about Edmure Tully's fate. In the Season 6 finale, Lord Walder said he was a prisoner in the Twins' own dungeon, but Arya made no attempt to free him. It's possible that the dungeon was too well guarded. Another possibility is that, in the novels, the Freys later send Edmure away to Casterly Rock for long-term imprisonment, so he might just no longer be at the Twins - i.e. when Jaime himself left along with his Lannister army, they might have just taken Edmure with them. •Kitty Frey, Lord Walder's new wife, returns again in this episode. She has no book counterpart, because in the novels Catelyn Stark slit the throat of one of Walder's grandsons; the TV version condensed this so that Catelyn killed his current and eighth wife, Joyeuse Frey. •As noted in the King's Landing storyline, the Lannisters are running low on soldiers, after losing so many due to attrition in Joffrey's wars. The Lannister soldiers that Arya encounters seem to be green conscripts who just left home, are worried about their families, and aren't wary of strangers. A hint at how the Lannisters are scrapping the bottom of the barrel for manpower. •When Arya meets the friendly Lannister conscripts, her dialogue can't express it aloud, but it appears that she was assessing whether she should kill them or not - but then stopped because they act amiably, offering to share their meal with her. The camera pans around from her POV to note that they left all their swords piled up out of reach - indicating that she realizes she could probably kill most of them with Needle before they can defend themselves. In her overt dialogue, she repeatedly tries to decline their offer to share their meal, because she contemplates killing them, and once she accepts their invitation - she will be forbidden of harming them due to the guest right (which she respects, in contrast to the Freys). After they repeatedly show her hospitality, hand her a cooked rabbit and outright call her their "guest", however, she visibly relents, realizing she cannot kill friendly people who never did her (or her family, as far as she knows) any ill, just because they serve the Lannisters. •Popular contemporary musician Ed Sheeran cameos in this episode as the Lannister soldier singing a song around their campfire. Fantasy fans will remember him for singing the end credits song for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. •Showrunner David Benioff explained that they gave Sheeran the cameo because Arya actress Maisie Williams is a big fan of his, and they'd actually been trying to give him a cameo for several years now (it wasn't just a snap decision this year). Benioff said, "We knew that Maisie was a big fan of Ed Sheeran and for years we've been trying to get him on the show so we can surprise Maisie. This year we finally did it." •Sheeran's presence brings up a production issue: most actors aren't also trained musicians and singers, so the TV show has actually cut out several major songs that appear in the novels. For example, the wildlings have an important song in the books called The Last of the Giants, which sums up a lot of their mental state about how their world is ending. The TV production team originally intended to have Ygritte sing it at some point, but actress Rose Leslie was so terrified of singing on-camera that she politely refused. Similarly, in Season 2, Sophie Turner said that what she was most afraid of filming that year wasn't any of Joffrey's torments, battles, or the riot scene, but the brief moment when she had to sing the Mother's hymn, because she isn't a professional singer. A few actors on the show were also professional singers, specifically Jerome Flynn (Bronn) and Kerry Ingram (Shireen Baratheon), so at various points the TV show had them perform songs that other characters do in the novels. Given how reluctant actors with no singing experience are to sing on-camera, in several respects the only guaranteed way to incorporate these book-songs into the TV show is to have professional singers make cameo appearances to sing them. Indeed, in similar fashion, in Season 3, the lead Bolton soldier singing "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" was a cameo by professional musician Gary Lightbody. •Ed Sheeran deleted his Twitter account a day after this episode aired, as he was being harassed by viewers who felt it was a needless celebrity cameo. Many professional reviews argued against this, citing that it was only a minor cameo, and a cameo by a professional musician was a way to get much-missed songs from the books into the TV show - moreover, many admonished that irate fans should take up such criticisms with the showrunners and director if they disagreed with it, not by launching personal attacks against a musician who happily responded to a request for a cameo by the producers. •The song that Ed Sheeran's character sings is from the books. A minstrel called Symon Silvertongue came up with it to mockingly hint that he knew Tyrion Lannister was continuing his affair with the whore Shae even though his father told him to break it off - brazenly trying to blackmail him. Tyrion offered Symon a large sum of money to keep his mouth shut, but Symon got greedy and tried to get more and more; finally, Tyrion lost his patience and ordered Bronn to kill Symon. Bronn disposed of the corpse by selling it to a pot-shop that makes bowls of brown out of "all kinds of meat". The song has added irony, as ultimately, Tyrion murdered Shae by strangling her to death with his chain of office as Hand of the King - a necklace made of stylized interlocking gold hands. •The Lannister conscripts Arya encounters mention wanting to see King's Landing, but now Cersei's guards aren't letting anyone within one mile of the Red Keep, the Great Sept of Baelor was blown up, and the Dragonpit is a ruin. This marks the first mention of the Dragonpit in a live-action episode (the Histories & Lore featurettes have mentioned it in prior seasons), suggesting that it will be a major location later this season. King's Landing was built around three large hills, and these three structures were built at the top of each. The Dragonpit is at the top of Rhaenys's Hill, above Flea Bottom. It has actually been in ruins for around 170 years, since it collapsed in riots during the Dance of the Dragons. •One of the Lannister soldiers says that King's Landing at this point is filled with people who would kill you to sell your hide for just two coppers. Copper pennies are the lowest denomination of the gold dragon used in Westeros, and a good-sized loaf of bread is worth around three coppers. •Beric Dondarrion mentions that he first met Sandor Clegane at "that Tournament" - actually, this was the Tourney of the Hand which was held during Season 1. The parts of the tournament seen on-screen were condensed due to time and budget limitations: Sandor was present but wasn't shown participating (though he did fight off his brother Gregor to defend Loras Tyrell). In the books, Beric and Thoros participated in the tournament as well - as did many of the other knights that Eddard Stark sent out to find Gregor Clegane. They formed the original core of the Brotherhood Without Banners. Beric appeared in the TV show but not at the tournament, simply played by a stand-in when Ned sent him to the Riverlands. In the book version of the tourney, Sandor actually beat Jaime Lannister. Sandor apparently encountered Beric and Thoros off-screen in the TV version. •Sandor and Arya encountered Sally and her father on their farm back in Season 4 episode 3 "Breaker of Chains". They gave Sandor and Arya food and shelter, but Sandor broke Guest right by then beating up and robbing the man of his remaining silver. At the time, he rationalized that so many bandits were roaming the countryside from the war that there was no way they'd survive until winter anyway, but it would help Sandor and Arya flee the area. Of course, that does not justify or excuses Sandor's cruel deed: just because it seems someone has low chances of survival - it does not give anyone the right to harm him. •When Thoros suggests the abandoned farm might have some ale that was hidden away, Sandor despondently says that it does not, without checking - a call-back that he already knows, because back in "Breaker of Chains", he asked Sally's father if he had any ale and he said he didn't. •Sandor's final appearance in the episode digging graves for Sally and her father is apparently a reference to his appearance as a gravedigger in the books, under different circumstances: Brienne of Tarth didn't fight Sandor in the books (they never encounter), instead he was left mortally injured after fighting Polliver and the Tickler, after which Arya left him for dead. Some time later in the fourth novel, however, Brienne and Podrick came across a monastery where refugees from the war were seeking shelter, and saw a very large and hooded man with a limp digging graves for the fallen. Their interaction with the Elder Brother heavily implied that the gravedigger was in fact Sandor: the Elder Brother said that he found him near death and nursed him, but it was too late, and the Hound died in his arms. It is unclear whether Sandor actually died, or perhaps the Elder Brother was speaking metaphorically - that Sandor's violent past died, and he found peace at the monastery. •Sandor and Arya encountered Sally and her father's farm not long after they started heading south from the Twins after the Red Wedding - now, Sandor and the Brotherhood arrive there while heading north. Meanwhile, Arya just left the Twins and is heading south again. It is possible that they might cross paths soon. Back in "Breaker of Chains", around the same time Sandor first encountered this farm, he remarked to Arya that they were near Fairmarket, which is on the Blue Fork of the Trident. •It is unclear why it is snowing more heavily in Sandor's scenes south of the Twins, but not particularly hard in Arya's scenes slightly farther north at the Twins (one could argue that the Twins are closer to the swamps of the Neck, so there may be some regional lake effect retaining heat - either that or Sandor's scenes aren't chronologically in sync with Arya's). •It seems strange that the Hound can see visions in flames, though he is not a red priest, nor even a worshiper of the Lord of Light. In the books, Melisandre tells Davos that everyone can see visions in flames ("any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice at play"), but the interpretation is a totally different manner. Even she incorrectly interpreted a vision at least once (a vision of a girl she thought to be Arya, but turned to be Alys Karstark). •The arrowhead-shaped mountain, which the Hound sees in his vision, is the one from Bran's vision about the creation of the first White Walker ("The Door"), though the climate is different in either of the visions.
At Winterfell
•Episode writer Bryan Cogman gave an interview after "Stormborn" premiered in which he explained Sansa Stark's council. He disagrees with the notion that Sansa can be described as attempting to "undermine" Jon in any way and makes the case that both Sansa and Jon have valid points. See Cogman's quote on this issue in the notes section for the next episode, "Stormborn". •Both Jon and Sansa have equally valid points about how to deal with the families of defeated enemies: whether to show mercy, as the remaining members of the Umbers and Karstark families are innocent of their relatives' crimes - or to take the family's lands from these remaining family members as punishment to prevent future disloyalty. Both have points about loyalty and punishment with pros and cons for each argument. Similarly, Arya didn't wipe out all of House Frey and she spared the wives and children as innocents. At the same time, as with Jon's decision, this decision comes with pros and cons: mercy may earn favour with the remaining family members or risk the opportunity that they may seek vengeance later on. This is a major moral question treated in the books and very much left an open question - related to the core questions of the series about the nature of "power" and "loyalty". As in the real-life Wars of the Roses in medieval England which inspired the novels, there are examples of both families offered mercy who became loyal supporters, and families offered mercy who responded with betrayal to get revenge. Sansa isn't acting on blind vengeance, but directly points out that their father and their brother both tried to be honorable instead of pragmatic, and it got them killed. •Specifically, Ned Stark offered Cersei mercy by warning her to flee Westeros with her children before he told Robert about her incest, but Cersei and Joffrey responded to his mercy by betraying him to his death. Conversely, Joffrey's decision to not show Ned mercy but kill him was also a mistake, because it irrevocably turned the entire North against him in open revolt, forcing the Lannisters to divide their forces on to fronts when they needed to focus on fighting the Baratheons to the south, and it nearly cost them the throne. •In the novels, Tywin Lannister himself - an expert politician - held the belief that a ruler should extend mercy to those who surrender, even though he believes in ruthlessly crushing open enemies (i.e. by co-planning the Red Wedding, an utterly dishonorable violation of Guest right), and has no qualms about killing babies, children, and even destroying entire houses. After the Red Wedding, most of the Riverlords (who weren't at the massacre) beg to surrender now that the war is clearly lost: Joffrey foolishly wants to massacre them all, but Tywin waves him aside by saying, "When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet" (A Storm of Swords, Tyrion VI). This is entirely for the pragmatic purpose that if you massacre anyone who tries to surrender to you, before long, no one will try to surrender to you again, but all of your enemies will fight to the death. •Ramsay Bolton runs into a similar problem in the North: he flays alive so many enemies who surrender to him in good faith that there reaches a point when no one will ever surrender to him again, and Stark loyalists would rather fight to the death, making his position more tenuous. •Similarly, Robb executed Rickard Karstark for dishonorably murdering two unarmed boy prisoners, even though this was politically disastrous because it cost him the Karstark army (while his position has already greatly deteriorated). The TV show removed some of the criticisms characters make about Robb in later books, that he was a great military leader but made a lot of bad political choices that got him and all of his men killed. Nor does the episode present this as Sansa harshly criticizing her father and Robb out of disloyalty - the dialogue she is given stresses that she loved them, but they made mistakes that got them killed. These criticisms of Ned and Robb are things that have been fueling debates among the book fandom for nearly twenty years, and are not an invention of the TV series to somehow make Sansa seem disloyal to their memory. •This episode confirms that Harald Karstark died during the Battle of the Bastards. This wasn't depicted on-screen and his fate was left ambiguous until now. •Alys Karstark first appears in this episode: she has a much bigger role in the novels but it was heavily condensed for the TV series. In the books, she is the center of a subplot involving House Karstark, which chronologically happened during Stannis's campaign in the North. Alys is by right the new heir to House Karstark, but her father's uncle Arnolf Karstark wants to usurp her position, so he sides with the Lannisters and Boltons. Arnolf joins Stannis's march, but intends to betray him mid-battle, and to force Alys to marry his own son to claim rule through her. Alys learns of their treacherous plans, however, and flees to the Wall to seek the aid of Jon Snow. Jon immediately sends Tycho Nestoris to warn Stannis of the traitor in his host (which he does in time), and arranges for Alys to voluntarily marry Sigorn son of Styr, the new Magnar of the Thenns, so she can't be forced to marry Arnolf's son, also giving Alys the opportunity to challenge Arnolf's claim as she will have her new husband's army behind her. •In the books, due to the Karstarks being younger cousins of the main Stark line, Alys actually closely resembles Arya. Alys first meets Jon and Robb at Winterfell when they were children. She is said to have a long face and dark hair like Arya. The TV version of the character does portray her with the same long face, but with auburn hair, somewhat like Sansa (even though Sansa's auburn hair is explicitly from her mother Catelyn Tully, and isn't a Stark feature). Thus TV-Alys's physical appearance is a mix of features from both Arya and Sansa, perhaps to greater stress that they are relatives when she shared a scene with Sansa in this episode. •In the novels, Alys is the daughter of Lord Rickard Karstark, but the Game of Thrones Viewer's Guide confirms that in the TV continuity she is the daughter of Harald Karstark - who was himself a condensation character. In the books, Rickard has three sons and daughter Alys: sons Torrhen and Eddard Karstark are killed during the war, while Harrion is taken prisoner. The TV version apparently wanted to avoid having another character named "Eddard", so instead Harrion was mentioned as dying during Season 3 (and Torrhen died on-screen in Season 2). The third Karstark brother wasn't named until Season 6, when "Harald Karstark" appeared. In the books, Harrion is still a Lannister prisoner and it is uncertain if he is alive. Robb believed that Harrion would turn against him due to his father's death, but it is Rickard's greedy uncle Arnolf wants to usurp control by marrying off Alys to his own son. The TV version basically condensed Harrion and Arnolf into one character, "Harald" - Harrion being the third son, and Arnolf the one willing to betray the Starks to fight for the Boltons (and on top of this Harrion traded names with his brother Eddard). Thus while Alys is Harrion/Harald's sister in the books, she is his daughter in the TV series. •In the books, Alys Karstark is upset that Jon's half-brother Robb executed her father Rickard and still doesn't think it was the right decision, asking Jon if there is a blood feud between them. Jon assures her that there is no feud between them, as he is sworn to the Watch now and explains that a man must put past allegiances aside when he takes the black. Alys explains that she is seeking Jon's protection as he is a son of Ned Stark and begs him, in his father's name, to help her. Jon shelters Alys and assists her as much as he can. It is yet to be seen whether TV-Alys will continue resenting the Starks for her father's death or will make peace with them. •Alys Karstark is only the third female head of a major vassal House to have any speaking lines in the TV series. There were many more female heads of major Houses in the novels, but most were cut out - and some were even gender-swapped into male characters, who nonetheless do have on-screen speaking roles (i.e. Lord Cerwyn, who had scenes with Lyanna Mormont in he Season 6 finale, was actually a woman in the books). As of this episode, Lyanna Mormont is the only recurring female head of a major noble House with speaking lines. The first to appear was Lady Anya Waynwood in Season 4, but she was only in one episode. The promo video for the next episode after this shows Alys at Winterfell council scenes again, making her only the second recurring female head of a major House with speaking lines. This is for the major vassal Houses, not the Great Houses, in which (due to plot mechanics) Daenerys Targaryen is the only woman who inherited her claim to rule by hereditary right. Lysa Arryn ruled as a regent for her son, as did Cersei for Joffrey and Tommen, and later Ellaria Sand seized power in a coup (which didn't happen in the books) as did Cersei when she directly seized the Iron Throne. While Westeros does have a system of inheritance based on male-preference primogeniture (except in Dorne), it is still not uncommon for women to inherit power (sometimes there are just no sons, or they die). Each of the Seven Kingdoms has at least one female ruler in it in the books at this time. See "Differences in adaptation/Status of women". •Due to Lyanna Mormont and Alys Karstark both being at the Winterfell council here (though not exchanging dialogue), this episode marks the first time that any scene in the TV series has had two female heads of major houses in a scene at the same time. Specifically, women who formally inherited rule in their own right. •Yara Greyjoy did have a scene with Daenerys in the Season 6 finale, though this is a bit of a grey area as she's the leader of her faction of the Ironborn, has currently fled her home territory, and the Ironborn actually practice kingsmoot elections instead of direct inheritance. •This episode also introduces the new head of House Umber, "Ned Umber". His Game of Thrones Viewer's Guide entry states that he is Smalljon Umber's son and that he is currently ten years old. No character exists by this name in the novels - though "Eddard/Ned" is a common name in the North, in part because many Northern Houses named their children after the Starks out of respect - indeed, the third son of Rickard Stark in the novels was named "Eddard Karstark", not "Harald Karstark" as in the TV show. This isn't a very drastic invention because the Umber family tree actually hasn't been fully set out in the novels: it is vaguely mentioned that Greatjon Umber has multiple sons and multiple daughters, but their names haven't been given except for Smalljon, who is plausibly old enough to have children of his own, it just hasn't been mentioned. The subplots involving Greatjon's uncles Mors and Hother were not introduced in the TV series. Thus there were several unnamed Umbers in the books barely mentioned in passing. •"Ned Umber" is one of the few characters in the TV series who shares a name with another character. When Martin wrote the A Song of Ice and Fire novels he wanted to write without restrictions such as a rule for TV writing about not re-using first names, but he felt this was unrealistic in a setting like Westeros which spans an entire continent. The TV adaptation, with some validity, argued that this worked in Martin's books but would be too confusing in a TV series again, so it avoided re-using names whenever possible. One of the more prominent examples is that "Robert Arryn" was renamed to "Robin Arryn", even though in the books he's directly named after King Robert Baratheon (though in both versions most people just call him by his nickname "Sweetrobin"). Last season, Lyanna Mormont was one of the first characters to actually break this restriction, given that it is somewhat of a plot point that she is named after Ned's sister Lyanna Stark out of respect. Given that "Ned Umber" is an invented or composite character not from the books, the TV writers didn't have to use the name "Ned" again - it seems they very deliberately broke their own restriction for a second time, to emphasize that the Umbers are still northerners and over a broad historical scale were more often than not loyal followers of Ned and House Stark. •The introduction of Alys Karstark and Ned Umber, along with seeing Lyanna Mormont in the same scene (along with Ned's children Jon and Sansa), visually raises a point that it more fully explained in the novels: the North has taken such heavy losses in the War of the Five Kings by now (particularly the Red Wedding and the betrayals of the Boltons) that multiple Houses are led by younger sons and brothers, and even daughters. Jon's insistence that they need to train everyone from 10 to 60 who can hold a sword, male or female, also touches on this point: the North is running low on adult men of fighting age. The books go into more detail that the new armies scraped up to resist the rule of the Boltons are mostly old men and green boys. •Lord Robett Glover says he isn't sure if he wants his granddaughter being trained to fight: last season he mentioned having children. Robett Glover actually does have children in the books but they are small children themselves, not old enough to produce grandchildren for him. •It isn't said when Jon intends to do with House Bolton's ancestral castle, the Dreadfort, or the considerably sized lands in the North that the Boltons directly ruled over. He doesn't award them to the wildlings. Instead, Jon asks Tormund and his people to man one of the Wall's remaining castles, to which Tormund agrees (these remaining wildlings are supplemented with lands in the Gift to the south, as he explained in Season 5). In the books, Jon started re-garrisoning abandoned castles on the Wall with both wildlings and Night's Watchmen when he was still Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, before the mutiny against him. •Lord Glover reacts with visible disgust when Tormund jokes about the irony that for centuries the Night's Watch kept the wildlings from passing through the Wall, but now the wildlings will basically be the Night's Watch guarding the Wall. The Northerners had been fighting the wildlings for generations so there is still some uneasiness around them. In the fifth book, Bowen Marsh and other members of the Watch disapprove of the idea, and not just by facial expressions: Marsh tells Jon bluntly it is "nothing less than treason". •The specific details of how the Vale forces are interacting with the North now haven't been specifically addressed: apparently, the Vale joined Jon's new Kingdom of the North, but without the next book in the series yet this is difficult to clarify. •Jon Snow tells Tormund to personally go to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, the easternmost castle on the Wall where it reaches the ocean, because the army of the dead last gathered at Hardhome (also on the east coast), and Eastwatch is the closest castle to Hardhome by an overland route. In Sandor Clegane's storyline, he also has a vision of Eastwatch while staring into the flames, saying he sees the eastern end of the Wall at the sea. Eastwatch-by-the-Sea has actually been mentioned since Season 1, and about half a dozen times in various episodes across the past six seasons. As it is at the end of the Wall, it is the main port for the Night's Watch - the actual ships are mostly unmanned and tied up by this generation, but it has a harbor that visiting ships can land at. At the beginning of Season 2, for example, Tyrion took great joy in exiling Janos Slynt to the Wall, and announcing that he was sending Slynt there directly on a ship headed for Eastwatch-by-the-Sea (in "The Night Lands"). The western end of the Wall doesn't end at the ocean, it ends in a massive gorge in the mountains, making it much more difficult for any force north of the Wall to try to get around. If the White Walkers aren't going to try to pass over or through the Wall, but somehow go around it, Eastwatch is their clear option. •Jon's statement in dialogue that Eastwatch-by-the-Sea is the closest castle to Hardhome in the east brings up a major plot hole which occurred in Season 5: after the Massacre at Hardhome, Jon and the surviving wildlings fled Hardhome by ship in episode 5.8. When next seen in episode 5.9 "The Dance of Dragons", their ships had disappeared without explanation, and they directly approached the gates of Castle Black - which is in the exact middle of the continent. If they left by ship, they would have just sailed back to the southern side of the Wall at Eastwatch (which is where Jon's fleet left from in the first place). If for some unexplained reason they had to abandon their fleet and land on the east coast (from storms, etc.), Jon and the wildlings would still walk back to the Wall on the shortest overland route - which is to Eastwatch, not Castle Black farther west. The simple answer appears to be that the TV writers forgot to account for this when they invented the entire battle sequence of Jon going to Hardhome - the mission to Hardhome happens off-screen in the books and doesn't involve Jon Snow. Most of the wildlings didn't retreat to Hardhome in the books; they stayed in the forest near Castle Black, until Jon negotiated with them and they came through the gate. On top of this the writers apparently wanted to retain a dramatic moment of Alliser Thorne hesitating to open the gates to Jon and the wildlings at Castle Black - which is what would have happened if Jon's story hadn't been changed so that he sailed to Hardhome. This episode just openly admits that there was no reason for Jon and the wildlings to return to Castle Black on foot: even if they lost their ships somehow, it states now that the closest castle to Hardhome is Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. •Jon remarks to Sansa that their father Ned said everything someone prefaces a statement with before saying the word "but" is horseshit. This is a call-back to Season 1's "Lord Snow", when Ned's brother Benjen Stark said the same thing to Tyrion Lannister (that Ned said nothing before the word "but" really matters). •Jon also directly recounts his father's rules on the responsibilities of ruling that he and Robb lived by: "The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword". •In the Inside the Episode video, Benioff clarifies that Jon isn't exactly wrong for being more concerned about the Night King than Cersei to the south, acknowledging Jon is correct that even when the Lannisters were at full strength it would have been difficult for them to send a full sized army into the North itself (which no one has done, throughout history) - and Benioff also acknowledges that even if the Lannisters once had the strength to send armies to invade the North, they certainly don't anymore. Geography is on the Stark's side, as no large army has ever managed to force overland passage past the swamps of the Neck or Moat Cailin while it was fully manned. At the same time, Benioff also says that Sansa is correct to worry that just because Cersei can't send an army doesn't mean she still won't try something to harm the Starks. Sansa knows Cersei, knows that she really is petty and crazy enough to strike out at people she feels have slighted her even when it would harm her long term position (i.e. sending assassins, harming the Starks' allies elsewhere, something). Case in point, even Olenna Tyrell was stunned when Cersei engineered the arrest of Margaery in Season 5, catching her totally by surprise - because it made no sense: Cersei needed the Tyrells for their soldiers, food supplies, and money for the debt crisis, but Cersei nonetheless shortsightedly lashed out at them. •Maester Wolkan is now serving the Starks, despite being the maester for Winterfell under the Boltons (apparently replacing Maester Luwin, who died at the end of Season 2). Maesters swear vows of political neutrality and serve whoever the current ruler of the castle they're stationed at is, even if it changes hands in war. On top of this, Wolkan was visibly terrified of Ramsay, so there is no reason that he wouldn't faithfully serve the Starks as well, or that Jon would see a need to punish him (Jon is well aware that maesters are politically neutral and Wolkan had no choice). Back in Season 2, for example, Maester Luwin continued to serve under Theon after he captured the castle from the Starks. •The letter that Jon and Sansa receive from Cersei essentially proves Roose Bolton's constant warnings to Ramsay that the Lannisters, following Tywin's death, would most probably not provide them with any help in the case of a Northern uprising in retaliation for their role in the Red Wedding. Instead of sending a Lannister army to retake the North from the Starks and install one of their own loyal Houses, Cersei appears content to allow House Stark to serve as the Wardens of the North once again as long as Jon bends the knee. •As pointed out by Michele Clapton, Sansa Stark's new costume has semi-circular embroidery on the chest to evoke fish-scales, for her mother Catelyn of House Tully. Tully costumes, as seen with Brynden and her uncle Edmure, feature armor with a more prominent fish-scale design motif. •Brienne of Tarth's storyline is drastically diverging from the novels by this point. In the novel series, after Brienne left King's Landing (corresponding to the start of Season 4), she continued to travel around the Riverlands on foot with Podrick Payne searching fruitlessly for Sansa and Arya, far away from their actual locations, without encountering either of them, and without getting involved in the siege of Riverrun either. Her storyline ended on a cliffhanger confrontation with the Brotherhood Without Banners which also involved Jaime Lannister at the end of the fifth novel. Anything Brienne does beyond this point is apparently an invention of the TV series. •Brienne traveling to Winterfell and the Wall in Seasons 5 and 6, and meeting Sansa, was purely an invention of the TV series. Then in the second half of Season 6, the TV series brought back Jaime's subplot at the siege of Riverrun (which takes place throughout the second half of the fourth novel - the TV series instead invented the subplot of sending him to Dorne, while in the novels that mission was given to Ser Balon Swann). Brienne then encountered Jaime at Riverrun - while this did not happen as such in the novels they did meet again in the Riverlands under different circumstances. Brienne returning to Winterfell once again afterwards may not happen in the unreleased novels. •Given that Brienne never went to the Wall in the novels, Tormund being attracted to her in Season 6 was an invention of the TV series. It does somewhat match the point that the wildlings actually respect Warrior women (who they call spear wives) - in contrast with how Brienne is seen as a target of mockery in the courts of southern Westeros. •Surprisingly given how prominently it appeared, director Daniel Sackheim said in an interview with TV Guide that he thought the amorous looks Tormund was giving Brienne in Season 6 were so subtle he feared fans didn't notice: "I wasn't even sure that when I delivered the episode it was really clear. It was like a fun little bit, but I wasn't sure it was really clear that he had these amorous feelings for Brienne. I'm always amazed what fans pick up." The first time that Tormund gives an impressed look at Brienne when they were in the mess hall at Castle Black was just a brief note in that script, but the production team liked it so much they invented more scenes of it. •Brienne and Lord Yohn Royce from the Vale both appear at the council scene in Winterfell, though Brienne doesn't say anything during it. Back in Season 2, Brienne actually killed Lord Yohn's son, Robar Royce, one of the other members of Renly Baratheon's Kingsguard along with her. When the magical Shadow creature killed Renly, the other two guards burst into the tent and blamed Catelyn Stark, so Brienne killed them to defend her. This is switched around from the books, in which Loras Tyrell killed the two Kingsguard who were standing outside Renly's tent - and in a red rage, bereaved that they had failed to defend their king (and the love of his life). Afterwards, however, guilt over killing both of them weighed heavily upon Loras (one of the reasons that, in the books, he joined Joffrey's Kingsguard, in part to absolve himself in his own mind). The TV episode didn't actually identify Robar by name, however, and it is unclear if - in the confusion surrounding Renly's death - Lord Yohn is supposed to know that Brienne killed one of his sons (or if that was explicitly supposed to be his son, or if the writers lost track of this).
•The episode contains influences from the following chapter of A Storm of Swords:
•Chapter 78, Sam V: A king gives orders to mine dragonglass, for making weapons against the White Walkers.
•The episode contains influences from the following chapters of A Feast for Crows:
•Prologue: The novice Pate goes through drudgery work at the Citadel, and recounts some experiences with Archmaester Ebrose.
•Chapter 5, Samwell I: Sam reads old records about dragonglass.
•Chapter 17, Cersei IV: Cersei considers forming an alliance with the ironborn, in view of the shortage of naval forces. She names a roguish captain sexually attracted to her as the head of the royal navy.
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"Dragonstone" is the first episode of the seventh season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 61st overall. The seventh season premiere, the episode was written by series creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Jeremy Podeswa. It first aired on July 16, 2017.
Jul 16, 2017 · "Dragonstone" is the first episode of the seventh season of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 61st overall. The episode was written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and directed by Jeremy Podeswa. It aired on July 16, 2017,[1] and had 10.11 million viewers.[2]
Jul 16, 2017 · Season 7. Ep 1. Dragonstone. TVMA. July 16, 2017. 58 min. 8.5 (54,277) Game of Thrones season 7 episode 1, titled "Dragonstone," marks the return of the highly anticipated series. This season premieres with action and suspense that picks up right where the previous season ended.
