Game Of Thrones Season 7 Episode 2 Review" Stormborn"

Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And guys, today we're going to review Game of Thrones, uh, this season 7 episode 2. I believe the title was called, uh, Stormborn. And guys, like I was saying, uh, from, uh, last week's episodes that perhaps Game of Thrones will start to pick up and start to, you know, cover a lot more material. I think we've gotten that this week. This, this episode was solid, very satisfying episode. I thought it moved along great, and I kind of also understand that, you know, Game of Thrones can't just have us going full throttle each episode that it does have to kind of, uh, you know, slow down somewhat, take a step back, and, uh, you know, so we can transition these various levels that it's going at. Uh, but I think the pacing is moving along just well. And, uh, right, you know, it's very interesting when the scene opens up, there's this bad storm raging on Dragonstone, and it's kind of a callback to how Daenerys was born. She was born in a raging storm on Dragonstone, so it's a very similar setting. And the thing about the Game of Thrones story, like I've covered before in other videos, is that these are very cyclical stories, cyclical events. And this is how a lot of, uh, you know, people of old medieval times, uh, ancient times told a lot of their stories. They never kind of had a breakout to the future. All their stories were kind of cyclical where they would always recall events from the past resurfacing. If you had a great person, a great hero, you want to look forward to a new one. You would go back to some old hero and hope that he returned. And so Game of Thrones plays on that a lot. But basically what we got going on is Daenerys is having, as the queen of what will be Westeros— she's in Westeros now— she's having her small council meeting, and they're trying to figure out what their next move is with now Tyrion as her Hand of the Queen. We got Lady Olenna, we got, uh, uh, the Sand Snake Queen, um, we have Yara of the Greyjoys, and, uh, they're not so much, uh, gelling on what's the best approach. There's a, a great, uh, concern about foreign invasion and that being a situation that will get Cersei's, or the rest of the country to rally behind Cersei. Because here it is, you're bringing in foreign invaders, take control of the country, perhaps take lands back, give them to those foreign powers that are fighting with you. So, you know, there's a concern, as you know, Tyrion brings out, that it should be done— a good portion of the war should be fought with Westerosi against Westerosi. But what I found also very interesting is that they, you know, finally Varys gets a question about his role. You know, as now Varys is sitting on the Small Council, acting as an advisor, as he had advised Daenerys' father. And Dany has quite a few questions for him regarding his role in the events of history that have played out, you know, that he hired assassins to kill her, and, and that basically he seems to be, uh, you know, not someone who would be truly at allegiance to her. And so Varys, being very smart, finally kind of gives us specifically, uh, what it is that he's after, you know, what it is that all been about. You know, we pretty much understood that in past events, what Varys was alluding to. But in this episode, he really lets us know that, hey, I'm for the people. I'm not for, you know, rule this, rule that, ruler. I'm just for the welfare of the people. That's where I stand. So, you know, so Varys gives a very satisfying answer, but Dany lets him know, you know, whatever, but, you know, good answer, but if You cross me, I'm gonna burn you. You know, just like my father, the Mad King, burned everybody. And Varys is pretty much like, well, I would expect nothing less, you know, you being the Mad Queen's daughter. But guys, yeah, this was just an awesome episode. We got so much, you know, we got these troubled rulers. They both of them are Targaryens, and they have a lot of trouble amongst their counselors, you know, about what's the best move to make, where they fit in. And it's no different with Jon, who we now know was a Targaryen as well. You know, he's always having trouble with his council in the North as the newly elected king in the North. And, uh, you know, basically, uh, you know, he's having a, uh, you know, a situation where he's trying to go to Dragonstone based on information he's received from both Dany and Samwell Tarly. And the thing is, Jon gets this information or gets this raven sent to him pretty much at the inclusion of Melisandre, who's arrived there and is welcomed by Dany because of being part of the Red Priesthood of the Lord of Light that much supported Dany in her conquests in Meereen and Yunkai and Asshai. And so Dany's, you know, grateful for that, and so she's kind of— Melisandre's pretty much at this point under her protection now. So this is all very interesting too because Melisandre is telling the importance of Jon Snow, that they need to get Jon Snow there. She feels it in her visions, although she lets him know they are not well interpreted. But it's also going to be interesting as Melisandre is asking Dany to send Jon Snow to come there, and Jon, who now has the Hand of the King and Davos Seaworth, to come there with their past history. With Melisandre and her past deeds when those surface about her burning children at the stake. You know, will this be something Dany's going to be on board with? Because Dany, as we know, has been very much against injustice, whether it be slavery. And I just don't know if this is going to sit well for Dany, if she's going to take a position against Melisandre. Much like Jon Snow and Davos did, unless it just comes to the point where they just feel like she's going to be so useful, in which, in a sense, she is. She knows a lot about what's going on. She's needed. She knows what's the next move to make in this battle with death, with the storm that's coming. So Melisandre may not be able to be a person that they can just get rid of. So Jon wants to leave against the council of the North, and we get Littlefinger. We get Littlefinger still at it. He's taunting Jon, "Hey, if it wasn't for me, you'd be dead on that battlefield." And now we know Littlefinger to be— even though he's telling the truth in this situation, but we do know Littlefinger to be a very selfish character. You know, he's— there is no altruism in him, you know, saving Jon Snow on that battlefield during the Battle of the Bastards, that this was pretty much just yet another movement on the chessboard, you know, either to try to secure the North or gain Sansa. As he's saying that now, he's basically telling Jon, hey, I love your sister like I loved your mom. So he's basically letting Jon Snow know, hey, this is what I want. I want your sister. And that's why we get to understand why I was wondering why Jon Snow was choking Littlefinger. And all these various thoughts came in my head. I was wrong on my prediction about, or at least my thought process about it. But with him being down in the crypts like that, as we saw previews, I just kept thinking, why would Littlefinger want to meet Jon Snow down in the crypts unless it was a specific reason why they want to show a scene like that with him down in the crypts? And I was very much under the impression that Littlefinger, you know, through his communication network and spies and various things, had somehow come to the revelation that Jon Snow was— well, there was a great chance was basically, you know, the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. But also very interesting, the contrast in that situation. And Littlefinger, you know, it's kind of coming up now that maybe Littlefinger is may be the father of Robin Arryn, who is thought to be Jon Arryn's son, but he could actually be Littlefinger's son because we know about the relationship with Lysa and Littlefinger, that Lysa became pregnant. But what we also know was that Littlefinger actually served John Arryn, uh, you know, uh, as a type of treasurer, you know, in the Vale. And it was from that he was able to move up, being so good with moving money, to the Red Keep and to the capital. So that's very interesting that he had the opportunity to, uh, probably father Elijah's child, who would not be a true heir to the Vale. Could yet be another scheme to that, but I only mention that to say that with someone like Littlefinger, he maybe have already in a great sense put the pieces together that the abduction between Rhaegar and Lyanna could have produced a child someplace, and that that child may still be out there somewhere. So very interesting. I wouldn't put it past Littlefinger at all. You know, we get Arya, and Arya runs into an old friend. I believe his name is Hot Pie or something like that. You know, he's one of her comrades from season 3 who, you know, cooks pies at this inn. You know, when she stops by to see him, and she's letting him know that she's headed to the capital, and he gives her some very important information she wasn't aware of, and that is that Jon Snow had not only become Lord Commander, but then he went on to become the King of the North. And this has pretty much, you know, put Arya's plans off, at least for now, as she has a home to go back to. She was always very fond of Jon. She wants to see Jon. And on her way back we get this very interesting scene where of course she encounters Nymeria, one of the direwolves. And there's been a little confusion about that scene as I've looked at that scene. And she kept saying, it's not you, Nymeria, it's not you. And there's confusion in that when she's saying, is it not you, does that mean that it's a different direwolf? Which would kind of be ridiculous to introduce an entire different sets of direwolves. It wouldn't make any sense for the scene. So, you know, basically what makes a lot more sense is that what Arya is saying is that, uh, basically Nymeria is out in the wild. She's leading her own wolf pack. She seems to be the leader of her own pack of wolves, and this is her world now. This is who she is now. She's not coming back to Winterfell with Arya to live that life. of, uh, you know, in this, uh, in, in the human world, and it's an unfree world. She's a wild wolf now. She's on a break, much like how Arya is said to take after the wildness of Lyanna Stark. So that was all a very interesting scene, very interesting scene. You know, we got, we got, uh, Sam down at the Dale. You know, as I mentioned earlier, Samwell had let basically Jon knows that he should be headed to Dragonstone because of a mine full of dragonglass. It's just mounds of it underneath Dragonstone, and they need to mine it. They need to make weapons of it to have weapons against the White Walkers and, and destiny. But Samwell is also encountering Jorah Mormont. And Jorah's greyscale spreading so bad now that procedures, as we learned, that some of which have worked on— had worked on Shireen earlier on to stop her spread— wasn't working on— wasn't going to be able to work, believed by the Meisters, on Jorah. But Sam being the guy he is Uh, you know, gonna try to find a way, if any way is possible. It finds that he can't— surgical procedure on Jorah Mormont, and which he removes the greyscale and treats it by scalpel. And, uh, the crazy thing was happening with Game of Thrones, you know, is they keep doing these scenes with Tarly where he's making soup And then they're comparing that to these chamber pots of fecal matter at the same time. Now they have him in these very disgusting scenes where he's doing surgery on Jorah Mormont, removing pus. And then you've got, uh, the tavern inn eating dishes that look like pus. And that's just very disgusting. I don't understand, uh, you know, why Game of Thrones thinks that's all very necessary. Uh, you know, maybe because they've got so much, uh, you know, uh, you know, some people negative feedback on a lot of nude scenes and maybe, uh, objectification of women or, or what have you. Maybe now they just decided they're gonna do this to death. But didn't like any of those scenes. I thought they were pointless. They could have just took that out of there. But I, I, I, I, I do like the idea that George built of this greyscale, and he might— can return to that as she ordered him to return cured with no greyscale. Um, uh, speaking of Samwell Tarly, we also got his father Randall Tarly at the capital, and Cersei is still scrambling for allies, and she's basically trying to get him to turn against Lady Olenna, who of course we know is his liege lord. And we know from this scene around the tar to be not only probably one of the best skilled warriors, best military commanders in Westeros at this point, but also a very honorable person, as he's letting Jaime know as they're trying to basically offer up, you know, advantages and gives to him if he comes to their side. He's saying all these things about how he knew Lady Olenna since he was a child, and that, you know, this would be very, you know, hard to do. But being so honorable, I think Randyll understands that the king or the queen, the crown outranks liege lords in the order, and that he can turn against Lady Olenna in that case. So I think they will have the Tarly army on their side in this war. And Cersei, things are starting to turn for Cersei. You know, we also got Cersei working on this secret weapon to fight the dragons. Now, a lot of tip-offs we got, a lot of people believe— I'm not gonna say what they believed that it was, or, you know, you know what what it was going to be, because I don't know if they might try to use that later, which I don't think, because we're down to the last. It seems clear they're going with— it's going to be this great, uh, uh, uh, crossbow artillery weapon, you know, very big one that apparently, uh, Qyburn has figured out how to bring— build this gigantic one That does look like it could easily destroy a dragon. And so more than likely, some of these dragons are going to go down with this thing. We saw Drogon get injured pretty bad with a, with a spear, and he had to rest up. And this thing looks like it can possibly just kill, uh, dragons, especially if, uh, they're, they're positioned right and they can got a good aim. Look like they would have a pretty good range as well. So they've done their research. And so Cersei, where she originally looked like she probably didn't have much of a chance, things are really changing. The tides are changing for Cersei. And you know, that's where we also get this jump to the Greyjoy fleet being smashed by Euron Greyjoy while they're sailing. And you know what I want to say about Euron Greyjoy boy in that scene. As I said in my, in the last review, Euron was my favorite part about last week's episode, and again, he's part of my favorite part about this week's episode. I really like what they're doing with Euron. And, you know, book readers know that this Euron is, when it can compare to the other Euron from the books, this Euron is kind of like a saint. Uh, the, the book Euron was much much worse. But this Euron is starting to catch up with book Euron. But I also want to say a few things just quickly out there to book readers. There are some interesting things that happen. You know, we know in Game of Thrones, the TV show, they sometimes combine the book characters with other characters and also other storylines. And what we got with Euron to me looks like a cross between Euron and Victarion Greyjoy. Victarion Greyjoy was another uncle of Theon and Yara's, or Asha in the book. But anyways, he carried this battle axe, he wore this pretty crazy armor, and Euron seems to be fulfilling the Victarion role. Victarion is not featured You know, it's easier instead of having all these characters on the screen, just make Victarion and Euron the same person. Now what I would have liked to have seen through this battle is Euron, like in the books, getting injured, losing one of his eyes. Because in the books he only has one eye and they call him the Crow's Eye. So I would have liked to see maybe in the battle him lose that eye and this be the explanation as how he lost it. But Euron is just destroying Yara's fleet. And I don't know what this means because I don't know, this definitely was an epic battle, but I'm not sure how much damage was done. I think it could have been quite a lot. You know, we could be talking like a third of Dany's army already lost, you know, at sea here, you know, with so much of them going out this way to fight this war with the Dornish and things like that. So you you know, this, this could be a big blow. This could definitely be part of the gift Euron promised Cersei. He's killed two of the Sand Snakes. He's taken Sand Snake Queen and Tyene Sand Snake hostage, which I— which no doubt I believe is going to be used as part of one of the gifts to Cersei to avenged, to get revenge for a Marcella's death. You know, as Tyrion kind of had this back and forth with, uh, you know, the Sand Snakes about this. But what I found very interesting is Tyrion was very still, uh, uh, contained, disciplined about, you you know, what needs to happen. You know, he showed a lot of control in that manner. He definitely would make a good counselor, hand of the queen. But at the same time, his closeness to, uh, you know, his nieces and nephews— and I think I would have liked to see Tyrion react a little bit more, uh, you know, uh, it's what happened to Myrcella, especially with him being responsible for sending Myrcella for Dorne, which no doubt I know Cersei will blame him for, possibly Jaime as Jaime's turned against his side. But also, and speaking about reactions real quick, Theon's reaction to when Euron captures Yara, and that part I'm a little bit Concern. I guess I didn't like it because what I'm seeing with Theon is a similar thing I saw with Sansa Stark, where she would go through these developments of being in these very victimized weak states, the coming out of them, and then go back in them. And, uh, you know, whereas, uh, I, I understand that in a show like Game of Thrones, it has this very realistic feel. You know, we know that when people are victims of abuse and things like this, that their transition to get better and to change is not on some, you know, steady rise. That, or that it— they have ups and downs with this, that their PTSD comes back. And we kind of got to see that, I think, with Sansa and Theon throughout the story. But, you know, whereas we understand that in real life, I don't think this works well in TV. I think it's more annoying when it's done in TV, although it's more realistic. It's very annoying because we got to kind of just keep, you know, seeing these same stories told over over and over again. I've seen Theon be weak for about 3 seasons now, 4 seasons now, because he became weak in this season. And I didn't want to see that. I would have rather just they killed off Theon, you know, in that scene with him trying to make his last dish for— or either Yara get killed and Theon badly wounded, and then gonna— he's gonna take over the Greyjoys. I don't want to see several episodes of Theon being weak again, so I didn't like that part, guys. I didn't like— although I think it is more realistic for Theon to continue to have bouts with so much abuse, for him to just, you know, get up and be through, rid of it altogether wouldn't make sense. But we did see him already show he wasn't a coward, risk his very own life by getting Sansa out of Winterfell. So why keep telling this story over and over again? I didn't like that part. But, uh, this is pretty much how the episode ends. Euron has a great prize to take back to Cersei. Uh, Arya's at Winterfell. Jon's had— they've had this meeting with Dany. Uh, Littlefinger is, is, is in Winterfell with Sansa. So he has Sansa to himself, she has the people of Winterfell, so, or the North. So we don't know what's going to come of that. But, uh, Littlefinger know he has to work very quickly now, you know, to get things moving how he wants. So anyway, guys, uh, like this episode. This episode was just so satisfying. Awesome episode. Uh, I hope you all guys liked it. 2. A lot better than last week. I hope this episode coming up is just as good. Maybe we'll get some Bran trying to get to Jon as well, but of course Jon's off, gonna be off at Dragonstone. This information to Sansa, perhaps Arya, and that would be, that would be quite interesting. But it also will be quite interesting because that might make Jon ineligible to be King of the North, and Sansa may have to still take over as queen if it comes out revealed he's a Targaryen. So anyway, guys, that's my review. Guys, if you liked it, don't forget to like and subscribe. Watching on Steemit, don't forget to upvote. And until next time, take care.