Game
of Thrones – 7.05 – Eastwatch
Are you ready for the biggest winning
episode of the season? This episode contained a massive amount of content for
gaining points: seven characters crossing the Wall and being the last on
screen, eight relatives reuniting after war, boating all over Westeros,
pregnancy, Bran having a vision and Gendry finally gaining a glut of points for
the seven players that chose him. This episode awarded 1645 points, beating the
previous top scorer Dragonstone (1326 points).
I greatly enjoyed how much happened in
the episode, how where we are at the beginning of the episode is nowhere near
where we are at the end of the episode. I couldn’t believe we were getting
Tyrion returning to King’s Landing this episode. I’m really enjoying the pace.
The plan to catch a wight and bring it
to King’s Landing is a logical idea. My guess is that this wight won’t be a
random, but one of the seven marching through the gate is going to die and get
reanimated by the Night King. This particular wight, having a key role in a
plotline, would get featured more than any of the other wight actors, so I can
see the show getting one of their featured actors to play reanimated dead. Who
could it be?
Highly unlikely
Jon Snow – surrounded by plot armour,
potential romance, dragon taming, no chance of him dying again
It could happen
Tormund – his death would be a blow but
he’s the only wildling with a name left, so it’s unlikely they’ll bump him off
and bring in a new actor who can speak for all the wildlings.
Gendry – he would be in the next column
if not for the actor being featured in the opening credits. Important actors
like Dame Diana Rigg and Jim Broadbent haven’t even got their name in the
opening credits. I feel that if he was about to get killed, they wouldn’t have gone
to the trouble of featuring him as a regular.
Ser Jorah – it would be very cruel to
survive becoming a Stone Man to become an Ice Man. While it would be
emotionally devastating, I feel Ser Jorah is not going to die until he sees
Daenerys on the throne.
I’d be worried about these guys
Beric – I’m certain there will be a
point where he gets killed, but Thoros will bring him back mid battle at least
once. I wonder how the Night King will react to that…
Thoros – As one of the few people that
can bring people back from the dead, I can see the show wanting to get rid of
that plot convenience, and raise the stakes by eliminating him and his
resurrection powers.
The Hound – The frontrunner for me. My
reasoning behind this is that this mission is about bringing a reanimated body
back to King’s Landing for Cersei: from a storytelling perspective, it would be
most effective for the wight to be someone Cersei knows, and even more than
that, someone we know Cersei knows. Cersei is likely to know Beric, Thoros, Ser
Jorah and possibly even Gendry, but while they may not have ever interacted,
Cersei and the Hound have definitely been in several scenes together all
through seasons one and two. I foresee The Hound dying a hero’s death, and
getting reanimated as a wight in the next episode. In the finale, he’ll get
manacled and brought to King’s Landing and displayed to Cersei, Qyburn and of
course the other reanimated dead Clegane brother. At that point, he will
rampage and destroy his brother, and potentially kill Cersei too (she has been
prophesised to meet her death at the hands of a “little brother”. Most believe
it will be Jaime or Tyrion, but Sandor is also a “little brother”). That’s my
theory, guys!
Possible
points of contention
As mentioned in last week’s post, Jaime
gains points for coming back from the status of being questionably dead.
Bronn makes the first noise, but Jaime
has the first line, meaning both get points for having the first line of the
episode
Bran in raven form gains points for
encountering the Night King, but does not gain points for encountering the
wights. The reason being that the wights while conscious of the ravens probably
aren’t conscious of Bran. The Night King seems to be aware of Bran’s presence
through the raven, so while Bran “encounters” the Night King from the Godswood,
but not the wights.
Both Cersei and Jaime are awarded
points for getting pregnant. While there is no concrete proof that Cersei is
telling the truth, I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt.
Daenerys and Jon, Jaime and Tyrion plus
Cersei, and Drogon and Rhaegal plus Viserion all gain points for encountering
their relatives after the battle. When a character goes into battle, their
status becomes “lost” for the purposes of awarding points. Therefore any
character departing their relatives to participate in a battle gains points for
reuniting with them after the battle. As Randyll and Dickon were in the same
battle, Randyll does not gain points for encountering Dickon.
Jon, having encountered Drogon in
episode 3, gains encounters dragon points again for this more intimate session.
In addition to Drogon gaining points
for encountering Rhaegal and Viserion after the battle, he also gains
“encounters dragon” points, as do they.
Jon gains points for giving an
inspiring speech due to the one he gives Daenerys in the Dragonstone war room.
Jaime, Bronn and Tyrion gain points for
encountering the skeleton of the dragon Balerion.
Ser Davos travels by boat three times
this episode, to Kings Landing, to Dragonstone, and to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. He
gets points for each time.
Gendry, having last been seen in the
show on Dragonstone, is found in King’s Landing. For this, he gains “visits
King’s Landing” points.
Davos calls Gendry “Clovis” gaining him
points for using a false name.
Davos does not appear to go back for
the bribe he’d given to the two goldcloaks and is deducted points for parting
with money.
Tyrion gives Jorah a coin, meaning he
is deducted points for parting with money.
It’s not clear what Thoros is drinking
from his flask, but I’ve decided it’s most likely wine, giving him “drinks
wine” points.
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
Arya Stark – 5 points: appears (+5)
Bran Stark – 85 points: appears (+5), has
vision (+40), encounters White Walker (+40)
Cersei
Lannister – 70 points: appears (+5), reunites
with previously lost blood relative (+30), gets pregnant (+20), has kiss (+15)
Daenerys
Targaryen – 80 points: appears (+5),
visits Dragonstone (+15), reunites with previously lost blood relative (+30),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15), gets kissed (+15)
Jaime
Lannister – 185 points: appears (+5),
comes back from the dead (+45), first on screen (+15), first line (+10), visits
King’s Landing (+15), 2 X reunites with previously lost blood relative (+30),
encounters dragon (+20), has kiss (+15)
Jon Snow – 190 points: appears (+5),
encounters dragon (+20), reunites with previously lost blood relative (+30),
says episode title (+10), grimly surveys map of armies (+15), makes inspiring
speech (+20), travels by boat (+15), last line (+10), crosses the Wall (+50),
last on screen (+15)
Sansa Stark – 5 points: appears (+5)
Tyrion
Lannister – 133 points: appears (+5),
drinks wine (+8), grimly surveys map of armies (+15), 2 x travels by boat (+15),
visits King’s Landing (+15), reunites with previously lost blood relative (+30),
encounters dragon (+20), visits Dragonstone (+15), parts with money (-5)
Group B – Supporting Mains
Petyr
Baelish – 5 points: appears (+5)
Samwell
Tarly – 18 points: appears (+5),
studies a book (+13)
Ser Davos
Seaworth – 100 points: appears (+5),
grimly surveys map of armies (+15), 3 x travels by boat (+15), visits King’s Landing
(+15), uses false name (+10), parts with money (-5), visits Dragonstone (+15)
Varys – 28 points: appears (+5),
drinks wine (+8), grimly surveys map of armies (+15)
Group C – Rest of the Mains
Gilly – 43 points: appears (+5),
studies a book (+13), mentions Rhaegar (+25)
Sandor
Clegane – 70 points: appears (+5),
crosses the Wall (+50), last on screen (+15)
Ser Bronn – 75 points: appears (+5), first
on screen (+15), first line (+10), says C word (+10), visits King’s Landing
(+15), encounters dragon (+20)
Tormund
Giantsbane – 70 points: appears (+5),
crosses the Wall (+50), last on screen (+15)
Group D – Side Characters
Beric
Dondarrion – 70 points: appears (+5), crosses
the Wall (+50), last on screen (+15)
Group E – Side Characters to the Side
Characters
Randyll
Tarly – -10 points: appears (+5), gets
killed by a dragon (+15), dies (-30)
Robett
Glover – 5 points: appears (+5)
Thoros of
Myr – 78 points: appears (+5),
crosses the Wall (+50), drinks wine (+8), last on screen (+15)
Yohn Royce – 5 points: appears (+5)
Group F – Weirdos
Qyburn – 5 points: appears (+5)
The Night
King – 55 points: appears (+5),
appears in vision (+40), rides horse (+10)
Group G – Animals
Drogon – 100 points: appears (+5), 2 x
kills (-10), visits Dragonstone (+15), 2 x encounters previously lost blood
relative (+30), 2 x encounters dragon (+20)
Rhaegal – 55 points: appears (+5),
encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), encounters dragon (+20)
Viserion – 55 points: appears (+5),
encounters previously lost blood relative (+30), encounters dragon (+20)
Group H – Dead but not Forgotten
Yet again,
these guys sat out the episode.
Group I – Are these fuckers coming
back?
Gendry – 110 points: appears (+5), visits
King’s Landing (+15), 2 x kills (-10), 2 x travels by boat (+15), visits
Dragonstone (+15), crosses the Wall (+50), last on screen (+15)
Ser Jorah
Mormont – 130 points: appears (+5), visits
Dragonstone (+15), grimly surveys map of armies (+15), travels by boat (+15),
has kiss (+15), crosses the Wall (+50), last on screen (+15)
The
Leaderboard
Players can see their scores by
consulting their initials in the table below. Our points champion this week is
SM, who not only gained a four-figure sum of points but shot up nine places straight
to the top of the board! Also want to give a little mention of congrats to JH for
leapfrogging up the board 11 places. Spectacular!
Check back next week for “7.06 – Beyond the Wall”!
