Game of Thrones Screencap Breakdown: “The Dragon and the Wolf”
By Corey Smith
Another shot of the Dothraki wearing bits and pieces of Lannister armor, this time a grieve and gauntlet.
Jorah has never looked better. Remember that tattered yellow shirt he puttered around in for six straight years?
Cersei and company are looking pretty clean too. Cersei has busted out a new outfit for the occasion. It has fur. It’ll be clear why later.
After everyone takes their seat, the Hound and the Mountain square off.
The Hound is right: the Mountain is looking pretty ragged under his helmet.
The Hound peaces out to prepare for the big presentation.
And then the dragons arrive, the first time dragons have flown over King’s Landing in over a hundred years.
Drogon says hello…
….and flexes for everyone.
“Don’t mind me. I got caught in traffic. How thoughtless of me.”
Dany’s pretty sure she made an impression.
Cersei is giving her all the glower she can muster.
As the meeting begins, Euron starts to smart off. Tyrion glances at Jaime. “Yeah, good luck controlling that guy,” he says with his eyes.
After Tyrion and Jon give their opening statements, the Hound brings in his backpack.
What’s in the box, the Hound?
It’s a wight-in-the-box! I choose to believe his name was Jack. Look at Jack’s shining blue eyes.
Everyone here looks terrified except Qyburn. He’s all, “Neat.”
Lucky for Cersei, Jack is on a chain.
The Hound hacks Jack in half, further illustrating how dead he is.
Qyburn examines the hand, clearly fascinated.
The presentation continues with a pair of carefully choreographed steps. First Davos and Jon illustrate a wight’s vulnerability to fire…
…and then Jon stabs it with a dragonglass kitchen, “killing” it.
Cersei is still trying to process the WTF of it all.
Kudos to the props team for creating the wight — the skin still clinging to the skull is a great touch.
Euron pulls the “I didn’t sign up for this” card and books it back to the Iron Islands.
Cersei agrees to fight the dead, and Varys is elated. But then Jon Snow ruins the whole thing by revealing he’s bent the knee to Daenerys, which inspires Cersei to take her ball and go home.