Game
of Thrones – 7.03 – The Queen’s Justice
Despite being a shorter order of
episodes this year, it feels like the content of this season will equate to or
exceed what would be contained in a typical ten episode season. The pace of
this episode in particular was very swift. The resolution of character arcs was
also exactingly perfect. Both of the poisoned Lannister children were avenged
with poison, (though who knows what’s going to happen with Ellaria). This focus
on ensuring character deaths are layered with meaning makes me feel positive
about the fates of sure-to-die characters like Cersei and Melisandre. Since
veering from the book a lot of the character deaths have felt poetically
righteous: Ramsay eaten by the dogs he used on his victims, High Sparrow blown
up in a church, Nymeria killed by her whip, Obara killed by her spear, Walder
Frey’s throat getting slit after having Cat’s throat get slit. It makes me very
curious as to how Ser Gregor will go out.
Just want to recognise Tyrion as the
MVP of the episode, guiding Jon and Dany into a respectful relationship. Only
ten episodes left! Don’t want them to waste time squabbling over who’s monarch
of where.
Also want to recognise Tycho Nestoris
for being the highest scoring character in Group I after just one episode….shame
not a single person picked him!
I enjoyed Davos mentioning that Narth
is known for its butterflies, which explains why Natalie Emmanuel’s sigil in
the opening credits is a butterfly, I had always wondered.
There’s a lot to unpack from this
episode that I haven’t mentioned: Euron taunting Jaime, Littlefinger’s speech,
Jorah’s healing. These episodes are getting so dense!
Points were up this week, thanks to
several successful battles, lots of blood relatives reuniting and some newbies
encountering dragons for the first time. Have a look and see how you did!
Possible
points of contention
Davos and Jon get points for
encountering all three dragons.
Daenerys and Jon both receive points
for encountering a previously lost blood relative. I’ll let you figure out why.
I’m going to allow the courtyard at
Winterfell to count as a garden, giving Littlefinger and Sansa points for
walking around a garden plotting. Yonn doesn’t get points as he doesn’t appear
to plot at any point, just answer Sansa.
Tyrion’s brilliant monologue over the
storming of Casterly Rock unfortunately runs at 2m45s, so no monologue points
for him.
Olenna macabrely recites a line from
the poem The Rains of Castermere, but that didn’t count to me as singing, so no
singing points for her.
Jaime pours wine for himself but doesn’t
drink any in the scene and leaves a full glass, which gives him points for
turning down wine.
Jaime gains last on screen points as
well as Olenna. The rules of being seen last on screen mean that you need to
feature in the last shot, not the last frame (this also counts for being first
on screen). As the last shot includes Jamie walking out of frame, he gets
points.
I’m deducting points from Olenna and
Tyene for dying this week as I’m fairly certain that we won’t see them alive
again. If they aren’t dead in the next episodes, I will add the points back.
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 – Main Characters
Bran Stark – 85 points: appears (+5),
crosses the Wall (+50), reunites with previously lost blood relative (+30)
Cersei
Lannister – 138 points: appears (+5),
makes inspiring speech (+20), monologues for over three minutes (+30), kills
someone (-10), 2 x has kiss (+15), has sex (+20), gets naked (+15), drinks wine
(+8), comments on Lannisters paying their debts (+20)
Daenerys
Targaryen – 115 points: appears (+5),
encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), mentions dragonglass (+10), grimly
surveys map of armies (+15), mentions Rhaegar (+25), 2 x mentions Iron Throne
(+15)
Jaime
Lannister – 153 points: appears (+5),
drinks wine (+8), has kiss (+15), has sex (+20), gets naked (+15), leads army
into battle (+25), rides horse (+10), wins battle (+40), turns down wine (+10),
last on screen (+15) kills someone (-10)
Jon Snow – 140 points: appears (+5),
first on screen (+15), visits Dragonstone (+15), travels by boat (+15), 3 x encounters
dragon (+20), encounters previously lost blood relative (+30)
Sansa Stark – 50 points: appears (+5),
walks around garden plotting (+15), reunites with previously lost blood
relative (+30)
Tyrion
Lannister – 55 points: appears (+5),
first on screen (+15), first line (+10), mentions obsidian (+10), grimly surveys
map of armies (+15)
Group B – Supporting Mains
Petyr
Baelish – 20 points: appears (+5),
walks around garden plotting (+15)
Samwell
Tarly – 5 points: appears (+5)
Ser Davos
Seaworth – 125 points: appears (+5),
first on screen (+15), visits Dragonstone (+15), travels by boat (+15), 3 x
encounters dragon (+20), mentions Iron Throne (+15)
Theon
Greyjoy – 20 points: appears (+5),
travels by boat (+15)
Varys – 20 points: appears (+5),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15)
Group C – Rest of the Mains
Ellaria Sand – 20 points: appears (+5),
visits Kings Landing (+15)
Melisandre – 20 points: appears (+5),
mentions Iron Throne (+15)
Missandei – 35 points: appears (+5),
first on screen (+15), grimly surveys map of armies (+15)
Ser Bronn – 20 points: appears (+5),
rides horse (+15)
Group D – Side Characters
Grey Worm – 90 points: appears (+5),
travels by boat (+15), visits Casterly Rock (+25), leads army into battle (+25),
2 x kills (-10), wins battle (+40)
Meera Reed – 55 points: appears (+5),
crosses the Wall (+50)
Olenna
Tyrell – 8 points: appears (+5), says
C word (+10), drinks wine (+8), gets poisoned (-10), last line (+10), last on
screen (+15), dies (-30)
Yara Greyjoy – 20 points: appears (+5),
visits Kings Landing (+15)
Group E – Side Characters to the Side Characters
Euron
Greyjoy – 115 points: appears (+5), rides
horse (+15), visits Kings Landing (+15), travels by boat (+15) leads army into
battle (+25), wins battle (+40)
Randyll
Tarly – 20 points: appears (+5),
rides horse (+15)
Tyene Sand – -5 points: appears (+5),
visits Kings Landing (+15), has kiss (+15), gets poisoned (-10), dies (-30)
Yohn Royce – 5 points: appears (+5)
Group F – Weirdos
Qyburn – 5 points: appears (+5)
Ser Gregor
Clegane – 5 points: appears (+5)
Group G – Animals
Drogon – 5 points: appears (+5)
Rhaegal – 5 points: appears (+5)
Viserion – 5 points: appears (+5)
Group H – Dead but not Forgotten
None of
these characters were in this episode.
Group I – Are these fuckers coming
back?
Ser Jorah
Mormont – 5 points: appears (+5)
Tycho
Nestoris – 80 points: appears (+5), crosses
Narrow Sea (+50), visits King’s Landing (+15), turns down wine (+10)
The
Leaderboard
Players can see their scores by
consulting their initials in the table below. Congratulations to KC for being
this week’s points champion and congrats to DP for holding on to the top spot
for another week!
Coincidentally, those were the only
players to pick episode 3 as their Joker episode, so not surprising that they’re
in 1st and 2nd place. 8 players, including myself have
picked next week’s episode as their Joker so we may be looking at a very
different leaderboard next week!
See you then for “7.04 – The Spoils of
War”...
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