Game of Thrones Screencap Breakdown: “The Queen’s Justice”
By Corey Smith
Jon and crew enter the throne room on Dragonstone. Great overhead shot above.
Entering the throne room, Jon seems just as stunned as when he saw Drogon moments before. Maybe he’s never seen a blonde woman?
Missandei goes all in when reading Dany’s titles, putting a little more oomph into them than usual.
“This is Jon.” Thank you, Ser Davos.
Dany wants Jon Snow to bend the knee and swear fealty to her. She hammers this point home from the jump.
Naturally, she surprised when Jon is like “Yeah, no.”
As a corrective, Dany rants for a minute about oaths Jon’s half-ancestors made hundreds of years ago.
Jon, firing back, brings up the Mad King burning Jon’s grandfather, and this meeting isn’t going very well. He looks rather stunned when Dany apologizes on behalf of her dead dad.
All this time, Tyrion is taking in the proceedings, wondering when he’ll have to break up the knife fight.
Tyrion takes in the proceedings, which are not going well.
Then, Jon drops the bomb: he’s not here to swear fealty but rather to seek Dany’s help with the army of the dead.
These reaction shots are priceless:
Rather than engage seriously with Jon’s claim about zombies, Dany puts on her game face and gives an impassioned speech about all the difficult crap she’s been through.
We have a stand-off:
Davos counters with a list of terrible things that Jon has been through, but stops short of explaining the whole died-and-came-back-to-life thing.
Notice how much closer everyone seems in the wide shot below vs where they were spaced when the scene began.
Varys arrives with some rather bad news, and our meeting is coming to an abrupt end.
Davos and Jon are dismissed to their rooms, and the the remaining characters spread out again.
The topic of conversation is the destruction of the Greyjoy fleet. Cut to…
Poor Theon, looking like Jack Dawson before Rose pushed him off that door.
Luckily for Theon, some of his homeboys are here to pull him out of the sea.
The captain of this particular ship looks immediately suspicious, and soon figures out that Theon must have abandoned Yara to Euron’s devices.
The news does not go over well with the crew, who literally step over Theon rather than help him up.
Again, poor Theon…