Game Of Thrones Season 7 Episode 1 Review

Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And guys, we did our premiere of season 7 of Game of Thrones and some interesting things happened. So guys, you know, as we go into our final 2 seasons of Game of Thrones, which really is only 1 season, I believe we got about 7 episodes for season 7, 6 episodes remaining for season 8, and that's it. That's a wrap. So that's a total of 13 episodes. 13 episodes generally make up one season of a TV show, but of course here we're dealing with Game of Thrones where every episode is like a movie. But even so, guys, I'm still looking at this as one solid season left of Game of Thrones. And there's a lot of story to be told that's remaining. And I just feel like, you know, coming into this first episode of the season, Dragonstone, that it followed a pattern to all the other season premieres of Game of Thrones where we kind of have this, you know, kind of this kind of fast pickup in the beginning, but then it kind of levels off and it does its thing. And normally that's, that's been fine with Game of Thrones, you know, storytelling. But I just think the stakes are too high now. I think it's too much story left to tell, too much with the White Walkers going on, too much with Jon discovering who he is. It's just too much stuff. I think to be able to wrap this up in what I see basically as one season and just have people react to that. And so that's kind of been a great concern for me, you know, with how this episode did. Now again, this was a good episode, great episode, but I just think the stakes are so high now that they need to really be moving along as quickly as possible. Going ahead and tying up stories. I feel like they should be tying up things every episode, and I just feel like they just left quite a bit open. Although we did get Arya in the beginning just go ahead and knocking the fucker out like a lot of people predicted. You know, we kind of got the return of Walder Frey here, you know, as Arya did her Faceless Man changing skills, you know. And what I want to say about that, you know, some questions have been arising about that. I mean, for some seasons now, especially this part for me, is that when Arya does this thing, or when the Faceless Men take the faces, they seem to inhabit all the properties of the person that they took. So it's more than just a face. I'm, you know, we have to assume it's some type of magic that shapes and changes their entire form like a complete shapeshifter, even though they've just taken the face. But I think what helps me to deal with that is I kind of think of it like Melisandre's ability to glamor herself. You know, like when we saw the episode with the Red Woman where she was basically— her real appearance is that of a very old woman Some believe she may be near 1,000 years old, but when she glamours herself with the charm or the necklace she uses, she appears youthful and young, you know, through some type of magic. And she actually inhabits all those properties of a young woman. She's actually physically young. So I think with the Faceless Man magic, in my mind, it kind of makes sense that the magic actually changes them completely into this person. Right, that's the only way I can explain it. But Arya is able to become Walder Frey and convince all the lords of the Freys to basically— or the lords now of Riverrun— to basically drink poison to their death. So Arya took them out, and you know, very easily and very quickly. And if— I mean, really, If Arya could do that, as an assassin, it does become quite easily and quite possible that she can just kind of march down to King's Landing and kill Cersei, possibly. So that was very interesting. You know, we got a cameo. You know, we got this cameo of the singer, performer, great singer Ed Sheeran. And people who know him, who follow his music, they know exactly who he is. He was basically portraying a Lannister guard, and I found that also quite interesting because we kind of got to see the Lannisters, just, you know, just regular guys join the Lannister army, you know, off to fight a war, just want to come home like everybody else. So we got a We get to see this complexity of the George R.R. Martin world where everybody's not good or bad. You know, it's people who are just, you know, regular people caught on the opposite ends of the war, but they're very hospitable to Arya. You know, in the scene, I don't know what's going on. I don't know if they're going to try to rape her or attack her. You know, Arya's looking at these swords and weapons like she's trying to figure out if I'm going to need these or not. But these guys are just very hospitable. They just want to go home after the war. They are missing home now. Arya makes a joke about, basically, hey, I am going to kill your queen. I am going to kill Cersei. They just laugh because of course they think she is just being humorous and various things like that. You know, but you know, obviously Arya is serious. But I guess one of my favorite scenes, you know, in this entire episode for me had to be Euron Greyjoy's arrival to King's Landing. I just liked his entire performance there. I, you know, I thought it was funny. He's like this he's a pirate and he's telling all these stories. You know, obviously there to marry Cersei, to be an ally to the Lannisters, is, you know, basically expressed by Jaime to Cersei that we have no allies, you know, we're surrounded by enemies on every side. But Euron Greyjoy, uh, uh, for me, he was the best part of this, of this episode, the most entertaining. I liked everything they did with Euron Greyjoy. I'm gonna be very interested in seeing his story. You know, his story to me was the most exciting. Now, like I said, Game of Thrones has this pattern of where they do this. They pick up and throughout the season, and they'll, you know, you'll get to kind of like maybe the middle of it, like episode 4 or 5, and you'll get, you know, some real good episodes. And then you get around 8 or 9 and you have these— well, in this case, I'm going to assume it's going to probably be like episodes 5 and 6 where they're probably going to have some super large battles. And Game of Thrones might be kind of just holding back. They might have just did that on the first episode. Maybe these next 6 episodes are going to be epic, you know, with the large-scale battles. And maybe next year, season 8 is going to just go full blast. I can believe that because They spent a lot of money and we haven't seen a whole lot yet. So I'm confident that these episodes are going to pick up real good. We're going to get a great show. But anyway, you know, we understand that Euron Greyjoy, he wants to marry Cersei. He wants to, I guess, rule alongside with her. And he's saying he's going to go off and bring her a gift. Now some people have some speculations about what that gift may be. I was kind of tipped off in some earlier shots and scenes about Game of Thrones about what exactly Euron Greyjoy is doing, and I'm not gonna say what that is, but exactly to give it away. But what I will say is the gift he's bringing Cersei is going to be a gift that she really appreciates. You know, so he's gonna really bring her a great gift. And you know, this guy's taunting Jaime, and you know, because obviously he's aware of the, you know, of the, you know, the rumors about the incestual relationship between Jaime and Cersei. So he's taunting her, and, or Jaime rather, and you know, and because he wants to now, you know, be, you know, Cersei's suitor. So yeah, very, very interesting stuff. We, you know, we also got, you know, we got Bran, you know, actually getting into the Wall. Now, it's been a lot of concerns about Bran making it to the Wall with the Night's King after, you know, after him. And can now the Night's King enter beyond the Wall due to the fact that He was able to do that and break the magic at the Three-Eyed Raven's compound there. And so that's a concern that may happen. But we know we also got to see in the opening shots the army of the dead, you know, marching forward. And they have giants, they have reanimated giants. And that's kind of interesting because that's a question never really came up, like, and we had never saw that, like Were there giants as part of these dead giants? Were they reanimated? Were they ever part of the Night King's army or the White Walkers' army? And we get to see they are, so that's going to make it even harder. We got several of these giants they gotta fight. So that's going to be real tough to deal with. And you know, we also got to see the Hound. You know, we got to see the Hound. Now accepting that, that they're telling the truth. People like Beric Dondarrion. Now, it shouldn't have been really hard, I don't think, for the Hound to kind of figure these out anyway, that they were, you know, basically telling the truth about everything that was going on, because he had himself killed Beric Dondarrion, and Beric Dondarrion was brought back, and, you know, the Hound basically trying to question Beric Dondarrion about why it is that he's so special, because he doesn't think he's special at all. And Beric Dondarrion is agreeing with him that he's not really special, but obviously the Lord of Light sees something in him, and now he sees something in the Hound because he's allowing the Hound to see really what they're up against. And so that's very interesting what's going on with the Hound. Beric Dondarrion and Thoros of Myr and their fight with the White Walkers. And of course, we know they're going to join up with Jon Snow and they're all going to fight together. They are all part of the same cause now, so that's going to be interesting to see their team-up in dealing with all these White Walkers. And finally, we get— we basically get Daenerys arriving at Dragonstone, and we've been seeing Dragonstone for several seasons now, but we we've never seen Dragonstone like this. You know, Dragonstone might be one of the coolest castles for me because I like, you know, very organic castles. There's something that looks alive about how they've done Dragonstone. You know, all the dragon carvings, you know, its layout, its location. There's something very interesting about Dragonstone A lot of it we didn't get to see when it was under Stannis' control, perhaps due to budget constraints. With the episodes of Stannis Baratheon, him being a Baratheon and the Baratheon hatred for the Targaryens, I'm glad that Stannis didn't decide— the Baratheons didn't decide to destroy Dragonstone, or at least try to deface some of the dragon imagery and various things like that, because I really do think it's a very beautiful castle. And I just like everything about it. And we get Daenerys arriving home. She was there as a child, whisked off during the Robert's Rebellion. Rebellion and the siege of the Red Keep. And I don't know how much of it she remembers, if anything at all, because she's such a young— I don't think she remembers anything at all. But she comes home like she's— she— you could tell it feels like home for her, you know, like it's something very familiar somehow to her. And I like the final scene where she goes into the ready room or the, or the map room where they have the big table that, if memory serves me correctly, that Aegon the Conqueror had carved himself to conquer Westeros. And so that table is a very, very important heirloom to Daenerys that she's going to use now in her conquering Westeros like her ancestor did. And then she ends the scene with Sansa. We began, and I liked all of that. I liked all of that, guys. I really enjoyed— this was a— in a normal Game of Thrones, uh, season review, this would have been an A+ episode. I would have gave this 5 stars. But the reason I can't get this episode 5 stars is because I just believe at this point the stakes are too high. It's too much story to tell. This, uh, dragging the stories out like we do in regular episodes when we got several seasons ahead of us to tell a story. Those days are over, guys. We're technically in our final episode, and to tell— and I can see this all ending bittersweet, as George R.R. Martin says, because I just feel it's going to be a lot of things unresolved. There's going to be a lot of characters we're not going to have a lot of time to really delve into because it's just not enough time left to tell this complicated story. But, uh, anyway guys, all in all, enjoyed the episode. Let me know if you like this episode, um, tell me what your favorite parts were. Uh, guys, if you like content like this, don't forget to like, subscribe, and until next time, take care.