Game of thrones beyond the wall tier list
And both are likely to be dead idiots before Jon comes home. And, since the pair of them took a walk with know-it-all Bran, they worked this whole thing out as a plot to pull Littlefinger into making some definitive betrayal so Arya could could let Needle waterdance all over his heart.īut, man. I’m still hanging onto a slim thread that, having seen her sister sparring with Brienne, Sansa realized that Arya was adequate to defend them both. Granted, Littlefinger had just recommended that Sansa hang tight with Brienne, so maybe Sansa took this to mean that Brienne was actually Littlefinger’s tool and someone she needed to push away … but if so, then Sansa is much, much more stupid than I previously believed. However, after this episode it’s very hard to hang onto the belief that this plotline is anything more than both Arya and Sansa displaying an astounding lack of sense and preparing to dice each other while Littlefinger licks his lips in the wings.Ībout the only thing that seemed to make it possible that there was still more than the obvious afoot was when Sansa deliberately sent her protector Brienne away. Last week I was desperately hoping that the apparent antagonism that Arya was displaying for her temporarily-ruling sister Sansa was all part of a trap that the two siblings had set for the show’s Machiavelli wanna-be, Littlefinger. In the case of “Beyond the Wall,” we skip down to Dragonstone for a couple of conversations, and pay some short visits to Winterfell, but the rest of the time is spent exactly where the title implies-up in the frozen North of the North. Many of Game of Throne’s “big” episodes share the trait of being small in the number of storylines they actually address. And finally, Season 6 brought what might be the best small scale combat ever filmed with “The Battle of the Bastards.” That’s when people found out that Game of Thrones was serious with Season 1’s “Baelor.” In Season 2, Tyrion proved that he could be a hero-and pay a hero’s price-in “Blackwater.” Robb Stark, the first character to carry the banner of “The King in the North” heard the awful music in Season 3’s “The Rains of Castlemere.” After a long buildup, the Wildlings and the Night’s Watch came to epic battle in Season 4 with “The Watchers on the Wall.” In Season 5, “A Dance of Dragons” looked to be different, with no big battle but instead the heartbreaking end of Princess Shireen as Stannis Baratheon makes the most dreadful choice of the entire series-but the episode gets a last-minute boost of spectacule as Daenerys mounts the half-grown Drogon for the first time.
In previous ten-episodes-is-really-not-that-much seasons, it was episode nine that provided the heart-wrenching, the wince-inducing, and the jaw-dropping. Like the tradition of loading the penultimate episode of each season with action that provides both a coda to the season going out, and a clue on where things will go in the season to come. After seven seasons, some things about Game of Thrones have moved from the category of habit to tradition.