It’s not about who cracks first it’s about who cracks first in front of others.
And they’re showing their weaknesses.įrom the point of view of each side’s enemies, however, these cracks are invisible. These bonds are all relatively new, or newly reforged.
And we saw Cersei threaten Jaime at the end of last week’s episode. Tyrion and Dany spar over whether her actions last episode were more brutal than necessary, and Tyrion argues convincingly that it’s important to see things from your enemy’s point of view - because that’s how you beat them. HBOīut then, no one is showing a unified front. This schism helps Cersei, just as Sansa claimed, but it’s not like Sansa was comfortable being quiet when she saw issues with Jon’s leadership. Arya doesn’t quite trust Sansa’s motives, and the younger sister knows how powerful - and dangerous - that letter would be if shown to the “right” people. No one has seen it but Bran, and he’s barely human anymore.Īrya and Sansa have both been forced to grow up very quickly, under brutal circumstances, but the same patterns re-establish themselves now that they’re together. Nor has Sansa seen Arya’s training and revenge on their enemies. It’s easy to be hard on Arya for her reaction to Littlefinger’s setup from last week, but Arya hasn’t been able to see Sansa’s transformation in the same way we have. The White Walkers have a weapon that can do more than hurt the dragons for a bit it can kill them. The problem with riding mythical creatures into combat to see other mythical creatures is that you can never be sure about the power you’re about to witness. Daenerys would rescue our heroes at the expense of some redshirts I couldn’t name to save my life. Westeros’ fast-travel system would kick in. Once that situation was set up, the rest basically wrote itself.Ī raven would be sent to Dragonstone. It was easy to predict how this would play out once we saw our Suicide Squad from last week marooned on a piece of rock, surrounded on all sides by the White Walkers, with Gendry busting ass to get back to the Wall. Game of Thrones doesn’t work if it looks like one side has too much of an advantage, and Daenerys had three big advantages. Something had to give, and we’re running out of episodes. Tyrion was right about the risks Daenerys was willing to take - she has put everything on the line for questionable gains in the past - and he couldn’t keep repeating those warnings without something happening to justify them. And now I know,” Daenerys tells Jon at the end of the episode.