Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 2 Review

Episode 2 kicks off Daenerys roasting Varys on his shady alliance record, but Varis deals with it in Varys fashion and uses his language and wit to swear his alliegence to her as well as promising to be an honest servant.

Melisandre arrives at Dragonstone and tries to explain to Daenerys what is to come. She informs them of Jon Snow being crowned King in the North and Tyrion vouches on his behalf. Daenerys decides to send a raven to Jon requesting his presence to bend the knee. And Melisandre also speaks of prophecy that involves both Daenerys and Jon! Finally!

Cersei pleads her case to the rest of the lords in the South, the most important one being Randyll Tarley, Sam’s unpleasant father. The interesting part is that he’s pledged to house Tyrell, which is currently fighting alongside Daenarys and against the crown. When Jaime tries to persuade Tarley to back the Queen, he gets shut down hard.

We finally get to see Jorah this episode and the greyscale has spread a perceivably incurable amount since the last time we saw him. Sam realizes that Jorah is a Mormont and becomes much more interested in helping him, on account that Jorah’s father was Lord Commander when Jon and Sam joined the Night’s Watch.

Cersei and her mad scientist Qyburn are somewhere underground in King’s Landing, walking around some massive Dragon skeletons that Robert Baratheon had moved out of the Throne room. Unfortunately, Qyburn has designed a super-charged arrow that will easily pierce through and kill a dragon. If this isn’t foreshadowing a dragon death this season, I don’t know what else will.

We again see Daenrys at her map-table, this time joined by all the leaders of her allied houses. Ellaria, Ollena, and Yara and Theon surround the table alongside Varis and Tyrion. The three women bump heads with Daenrys’ battle plans and try to pressure her into being more aggressive. Instead, with Tyrion’s council, reveals her plans to send the Unsullied to take Casterly Rock, while the rest of the forces, minus the Dothraki, attack the Capital around King’s Landing and trap Cersei in. Solid plan, but it all can’t be easy for our Dragon Queen.

Ollena has a great one-on-one conversation with Daenerys, where she puts down some knowledge, and we’ll have to wait and see if Daenarys picks it up. “Are you a sheep? No, you’re a dragon. Be a DRAGON.”

I loved the emotion from the Greyworm and Missandei scene, and love their chemistry on screen. Was wondering when they were going to get intimate, and I was a little confused about how it was going to technically work considering he’s missing some key parts. But clearly Missandei finds out what Greyworm is capable of! Go Greyworm!

And our boy Sam, once again, has to do the dirty work. This time it came at the painful expense of Jorah. Sam is attempting to cut and peel all of Jorah’s greyscale off his body, despite being directly ordered not to, as it’s a forbidden practice deemed too dangerous. Glad we didn’t have to sit through the whole body peeling. Fingers crossed the pain was worth it!

Arya stops by where Hot Pie works, the fat boy that hung out with her and Gendry a few seasons back. They exchange a few insignificant lines of dialogue, before he informs Arya that Jon Snow is King in the North. May have been the single best part of the episode for me, to see her reaction and then decide to head North to Winterfell. Last review I was talking about how disappointed I was that she was heading to King’s Landing. STARK REUNION!!!!!

Speaking of a Stark reunion, Jon isn’t really helping me out as he decides to leave to Dragonstone to meet Daenerys. But let’s not downplay this, because this is HUGE. To finally have these two in the same room is monumental, and Jon left Sansa in charge of the North while he’s gone, and rightfully so. The Northern houses are not happy with Jon leaving the North to meet with a Targeryn, but he made a solid argument about needing her help in the war to come. Also, bonus points for Jon choking out Littlefinger in the crypt. I hate that snake bastard. And he’s going to try to prey on Sansa while Jon’s gone. Good thing we have Brienne of Tarth.

Arya and Nymeria reunion!!! I was so happy to see Arya face to face with her Direwolf again, after their last heartbreaking departure. But it was even sadder to see that neither of them were the same creatures they were since they last saw each other. Life took them both on different journeys and we can’t expect her to fall in line and be Arya’s pet. Plus, Arya can defend herself well enough these days. It was a solid goodbye, but I feel that Nymeria will still manage to show up in Arya’s time of greatest need. The “that’s not you” line that she says to Nymeria as she walks away with her pack, is in reference to a line Arya speaks early in season 1. Ned is talking to Arya about growing up to become a lady, and Arya says “that’s not me.” This just plays on what they were expected to become and what they actually became.

Finally, we get the battle on the sea between Euron and Daenerys’ forces. Just as Ellaria and Yara are about to get it on, they’re attacked and boarded by Euron and his forces. I think the show has officially established Euron as a true threat and savage, as he was cutting people down brutally, one after another, with his massive axe. 2 of Ellaria’s 3 daughters are brutally murdered by Euroin himself, before Ellaria and Yara are captured alive. Goodbye Theon, and hello Reek, AGAIN. Just as I was really getting around to forgiving him, he turns into Reek before our eyes and jumps off the boat, leaving his sister in the hands of a psychopath. Daenerys suffers her first true defeat, and I bet money Yara and Ellaria are going to be the gifts that he presents to Cersei next episode.

Next week we should get the battle at Casterly Rock, Arya arriving at Winterfell, and Jon and Daenerys meeting, among other thing. We didn’t get any Bran or Hound this episode, hoping for more of their stories next week!