![]() Arya confronted Sansa about her role in getting their father killed back in season one, and later threatened to remove Sansa’s face and wear it around as her own. In Winterfell, Sansa (Sophie Turner) and Arya (Maisie Williams) brought their simmering feud dangerously close to a full-on boil. Let’s begin with the worst news, at least as far as it pertains to disappointing plot developments. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.'Game of Thrones': How the Deadly "Beyond the Wall" Sets Up the Season 7 Finale ![]() Up next: The overwhelming importance of that final shot and our grade for the episode Arya’s heightening heel turn may be a way to let some of that spookiness into Winterfell, and if it also affects Sansa’s willingness to heed Cersei’s call to King’s Landing, it’ll serve an extra story purpose as well. By repeatedly insisting on the magnitude of the fight against the army of the Night’s King, there was inevitably going to come a time where rivalries among humans, even among family members, would be dwarfed by comparison. Littlefinger is doing his best to drive a wedge into the Arya/Sansa relationship, but the dagger-aided drawing room confrontation shows that Arya’s lack of trust is slowly assuming a mind of its own.Ĭredit the series for recognizing the corner it’s painted itself into over the course of Season 7. Like the unsuspecting family member in a zombie movie that gets bitten but doesn’t tell anyone, Arya is rapidly transforming into the force for familial unrest that the Stark enemies would kill for. But the dread of the undead spills over into the Stark sister infighting. With a perfect storm of less-than-desirable circumstances facing humanity, it almost seems quaint to pull back and focus on the interpersonal drama between family infighting. Read More: ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Series Will Be ‘Recognizable as a Past Event’ to Readers, Says Screenwriter What’s more terrifying than, on top of everything else, having the very air you breathe seemingly conspiring to destroy you from the outside in? Back at Winterfell, Sansa is once again left to juggle the considerations of men sworn to Jon, all while considering how the encroaching season would be a huge drag on morale. Gendry nearly meets a tragic end with a frozen fate, collapsing like Pheidippides upon returning to Eastwatch. Thoros succumbs to the cold while trapped on their rocky refuge. Winter is decidedly here and it nearly claims as many beloved characters as sword-wielding skeletons. Even before then, the zombie polar bear that gave Thoros, Beric’s trusted priest, his fatal wound was Westeros’ version of a loosed T-Rex running roughshod over the wintery north.īut another major enemy is the weather itself. Tormund’s near-death plunge into the water seemed like he was destined for a Quint-like end, only with Harryhausen-ish skeletons dragging him into the water rather than a giant shark. When the Hound’s idle rock-tossing gives one jawless column of bones the idea that his fellow fighters can charge the high ground, that sword dragging across the ice might as well be Freddy Kreuger’s claws scraping the sides of the wall as he approaches his prey. It’s there that what seemed at the end of “Eastwatch” like a heist movie/hero squad quest quickly descends into that distinct horror showcase. Sensing the volume of the oncoming hoards, the group retreats across a frozen lake, watching their enemies spill into a newly formed moat around the humans’ tiny stronghold. ![]() But not having the luxury to double-tap the lone surviving enemy combatant, the wriggling walker unleashes a demonic shriek that summons a few thousand of his closest friends. Initially victorious over a small band of White Walker and wight scouts, their intended goal of capturing an enemy starts out going according to plan. We’ve seen legions of the undead traversing these snow-swept mountain landscapes, but finally seeing them in battle against Jon’s north-of-the-wall superteam puts into sharp focus the true danger of what they’re up against. The quickest way “Beyond the Wall” builds this tension is by repeatedly invoking the enemy. Read More: ‘Game of Thrones’ Review: ‘Eastwatch’ Shows Off an Expanded World That May Doom Everyone The Best 30 LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now 'The Vow, Part Two' Trailer: NXIVM Founder Keith Raniere Goes on Trialįrom 'Reality Bites' to 'Fatal Attraction,' Keep Track of All the Upcoming Film-to-TV Adaptations 'House of the Dragon' Star Olivia Cooke Was Told to Play Her Character Like a Trump Supporter
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