Game of Thrones – 8.02 – A Knight of the
Seven Kingdoms
There is a
disagreement in Thrones fandom about what the show should be, people talking in
rooms or ice zombies and dragons. I personally enjoy a healthy dose of both and
it’s wonderful that before we’re hit with the inevitable spectacle of next
week, we’re served with this elegant and wistful episode that focuses on these
characters’ complexities. However, this doesn’t transfer so healthily in terms
of fantasy league points as this episode scraped just over half of what the
first episode got.
It’s quite
nice that this episode is titled “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”, referring to
Brienne, as that is also the name of GRRM’s chronicles about Ser Duncan the
Tall, who has been hinted in the books as an ancestor of Brienne’s. Everyone
keeps saying that people will be safe in the crypt: please, if you’re about to
face off with someone who can bring people back from the dead, sheltering
alongside a bunch of skeletons is definitely not the place to be, no matter how
brave Davos’ Shireen substitute is.
Death
predictions for next week: I think the only safe person is the Hound as it
would be narrative blue balls if he didn’t get to kill his brother. Perhaps he
will also learn to overcome his fear of fire as it’s going to save his life
against various wights. Other than him, I kinda think everyone else is fair
game, it is the final season after all. The show’s arguably been pretty
toothless since resurrecting Jon, now’s the time to get ruthless. I’m most worried about Theon, Brienne and Jaime, though. I’m fairly sure the show will want to
break our hearts so I can easily picture some of these fallen warriors getting
reanimated as wights.
Possible points of contention
Jaime and
Tyrion do not get points for encountering each other as they both knew where
each other were since they last saw each other. You may be wondering why Sansa,
Lyanna and Jon gained these points last week as Jon would have known Sansa and
Lyanna to be at Winterfell. Since he last saw them he’d been involved in a
battle elsewhere, facing uncertain death, which automatically updates his
status to “lost”. As Jaime and Tyrion hadn’t fought any battles and knew where
they were, they do not count as lost relatives.
Although
Bran is seated away from the map of armies, he can be seen looking at it during
the scene.
Jaime’s
invocation of some of the Holy Seven while knighting Brienne counts as
communicating with a deity.
During Jorah
and Lyanna’s argument, neither of them refute what the other is saying, so they
do not gain points for disagreeing with each other.
Jorah
partially withdraws Heartsbane from its scabbard, which is enough to gain him
points for doing so.
Neither “Aegon
Targaryen” nor “Jon Snow” count for false name points.
None of the
characters so far qualify for encountering the white walkers at the end of the
episode as they’re too far away.
Character Scores
Here is a
full list of the characters and their awarded points. If one of your characters
does not appear in the following lists, this is due to their absence from the
episode, for which you shall be deducted five points per character:
Group A
Bran Stark –
20 points: appears (+5), grimly
surveys map of armies (+15),
Daenerys
Targaryen – 135 points: appears (+5),
first line (+10), 4xmentions Iron Throne (+15), grimly surveys map of armies
(+15), mentions Rhaegar (+25), disagrees with relative (+10), last line (+10)
Jon Snow – 90 points: appears (+5), mentions
dragonglass (+10), mentions Valyrian steel (+10), grimly surveys map of armies
(+15), mentions Lyanna (+25), mentions Rhaegar (+25)
Group B
Arya Stark –
78 points: appears (+5), grimly
surveys map of armies (+15), drinks wine (+8), has kiss (+15), gets naked (+15),
has sex (+20)
Jaime
Lannister – 88 points: appears (+5),
first on screen (+15), grimly surveys map of armies (+15), drinks wine (+8),
disagrees with relative (+10), unsheafs sword (+10), communicates with deity (+15),
says episode title (+10)
Sansa Stark
– 27 points: appears (+5), grimly
surveys map of armies (+15), eats (+7)
Tyrion
Lannister – 73 points: appears (+5),
3xdisagrees with relative (+10), grimly surveys map of armies (+15), drinks
wine (+8), last on screen (+15)
Group C
Brienne of
Tarth – 38 points: appears (+5),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15), turns down wine (+10), drinks wine (+8)
Samwell
Tarly – 30 points: appears (+5),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15), mentions Valyrian steel (+10)
Ser Davos
Seaworth – 38 points: appears (+5),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15), turns down wine (+10), drinks wine (+8)
Ser Jorah
Mormont – 40 points: appears (+5),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15), unsheafs sword (+10), rides horse (+10)
Theon
Greyjoy – 27 points: appears (+5),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15), eats (+7)
Varys – 20 points: appears (+5), grimly surveys
map of armies (+15)
Group D
Gendry – 55 points: appears (+5), has kiss (+15),
gets naked (+15), has sex (+20)
Gilly – 5 points: appears (+5)
Missandei – 20 points: appears (+5), has kiss (+15)
Sandor
Clegane – 13 points: appears (+5),
drinks wine (+8)
Tormund
Giantsbane – 30 points: appears (+5),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15), turns down wine (+10)
Group E
Beric
Dondarrion – 28 points: appears (+5),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15), drinks wine (+8)
Dolorus Edd
– 5 points: appears (+5)
Grey Worm – 35 points: appears (+5), grimly surveys
map of armies (+15), has kiss (+15)
Lyanna
Mormont – 20 points: appears (+5),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15)
Podrick
Payne – 31 points: appears (+5),
drinks wine (+8), sings (+18)
Group F
Ghost – 5 points: appears (+5)
Group G
Lyanna Stark
– 5 points: appears (+5)
The Leaderboard
Congratulations
to AP who is this week’s points champion, gaining 1038 points, which pushes him
up to first place with a total of 1550! That was his Joker at work, quite a
gamble to use it so early on, but chances are any later on in the season, quite
a few characters might be already dead.
Check back
here next week for the results of the as yet unnamed episode 8.03, which surely
must be titled “The Long Night”?
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