Knee-Jerk Reactions to “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”: Five Best and Worst Moments

Bonus Valyrian Steel Moment: Sing me a song of Jenny of Oldstones. This was a beautiful song, hauntingly sung; the lyrics drip with meaning that will surely be discussed ad infinitum the rest of this week and forever. What impressed us about this sequence, beyond Pod’s nice singing voice, is the montage playing underneath. It’s the standard kind of sequence we’d expect, but it’s emotionally packed.

Game of Thrones cashes in on all the time and effort we’ve spent getting to know these characters so well: from Sam, Gilly and Little Sam to Sansa and Theon to Arya and Gendry to Missandei and Grey Worm to the lone disinherited knight Jorah, these brief moments of calm shared with these people in the quiet before the storm is priceless.

Wrap it up and put a Bloody Bow on it: You can feel it, right? In “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” you can feel Game of Thrones, all 10 years worth of it, sucking in one, long, deep breath before the great battle begins. In this hour, it delivered huge paybacks for our emotional investment in its many characters. Watch this episode as many times as you can before next Sunday, because we all know some of these characters won’t make it out of that episode alive. The story it about to plunge into agony, loss and sadness, but right now, we’re singing.

What did you guys think? After next week’s “Episode 803,” we’re halfway through the final season. What?

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