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Game of Thrones season 7 finally comes to an end after seven fantastic episodes. You are definitely missing out big time if you did not follow up on each episodes this season but never to worry, Bloggernaija is at your aid as I’ll be providing episode download links as well as a recap of each episode.
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Episode 1: "Dragonstone"
Winter comes for House Frey.
Arya poisons the Freys! Basically all of them, except the women.
At first, it looked like Walder Frey's speech is a flashback of the Red Wedding, or something similar. But as Frey continues talking about how he was responsible for brutally murdering the Starks, it gets more obvious what is happening. Especially when Arya (as Walder Frey) says, "leave one wolf alive and the sheep are never safe."
Ed Sheeran makes a cameo
Interestingly, Sheeran makes a cameo as a Lannister soldier. In the ending part of the episode, Arya runs in Sheeran and a group of Lannister soldier friends, and together, they sung, "For hands of gold are always cold, but a woman's hands are warm."
Tell you what, the song is actually from the books, and it describes Tyrion's murderous exit from King's Landing in the fourth season.
The time Arya spent with the Lannister soldiers teaches her that Lannisters can also be good people. They gave Arya food and comfort, and they laughed their hearts out about her incredibly funny joke when she replied a question about where she’s headed and she said “I’m going to kill the queen”.
The Citadel Isn’t What Sam Imagined.
These scene shows Samwell Tarly scooping so much poop that might fit into several barrels. To be frank, I felt so nauseated during this scene. This wasn’t what Sam thinks being a maester at the Citadel entails.
With the help of Gilly, Sam tries to figure out how to defeat the White Walkers. Together, they figured out that beneath Dragonstone, there's dragonglass, something which is capable of killing the White Walkers.
The Hound has a humanizing moment.
Traveling North with Thoros of Myr (with a man bun) and Beric Dondarrion, the Hound has a huge moment. They seek shelter at a home that the Hound realizes is one he robbed with Arya back in season four. The father and daughter died in their home because of starvation, and Beric Dondarrion points out that it looks like the father killed his daughter to stop her suffering.
The Hound buries their bodies with the help of Thoros. He also sees the army of the dead coming through fire, and seems to understand what this Lord of Light thing is all about.
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Episode 2: "Stormborn"
Daenerys doesn't trust Varys.
Varys betrayed her father, and then served as Master of Spies for Robert Baratheon. While doing that, he betrayed Robert as well. And he also helped facilitate the attempt on her life, with the help of Ser Jorah Mormont.
Daenerys tells Varys that she doesn't know if she can trust someone when she doesn't know where their loyalties lie. But Varys smartly responds by telling her about his background. He is not from a noble house. Like Missandei and Grey Worm, he was a slave, so he cares about the good of the people in Westeros — not just the lords. Daenerys decides to trust him.
Sam goes behind the Archmaester's back to save his former Lord Commander's son. He performs secret surgery on Jorah Mormont.
Samwell Tarly admired Lord Commander Mormont. Upon finding out Ser Jorah is his son, Sam tries to find anything he and the Archmaester can do to cure Jorah's greyscale. But the Archmaester gives up, and decides to send Jorah away to die. But Sam refuses to give up, and sneaks his way into Jorah's chamber in the middle of the night to try something he found in a book that could stop the greyscale.
Arya reunites with Hot Pie! And Nymeria.
Without the convenience of cell phones, the internet, and email, news travels slowly in Westeros. Which means that until this episode, Arya had no idea that Jon and Sansa had retaken Winterfell from the Boltons.
Thanks to her old friend Hot Pie, Arya finds out that the Battle of the Bastards was a thing that happened, and changes her plans. Instead of heading to King's Landing, which is only 200 miles away, she heads north to be reunited with her family.
Later, in the woods, a wolfpack gathers around Arya. Nymeria, her direwolf, leads the pack. Arya asks Nymeria to come North with her, but Nymeria walks away.
Euron attacks Yara's ship.
Yara and Theon are headed to Dorne with Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes. But suddenly, Euron and his fleet attack. Euron kills Obara and Nymeria Sand, and captures Yara, Ellaria, and Tyene. Euron tries to convince Theon to save Yara himself. Triggered by the sight of men being tortured, Theon seems to transform back into Reek and jumps into the ocean.
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Episode 3: "The Queen's Justice"
Jon finally meets Daenerys in Dragonstone, but it doesn't go as well as either of them planned.
Daenerys expected Jon to bend the knee. And Jon expected Daenerys to offer her help to fight the White Walkers immediately. But unfortunately, the two are both incredibly stubborn, which is obviously a trait they share because they are related.
With the help of Tyrion Lannister, the two come to an agreement: Daenerys will let Jon make weapons out of the dragonglass at Dragonstone because it can destroy White Walkers.
Melisandre leaves Westeros.
In a move that was surprisingly responsible, Melisandre tells Varys that she's leaving Westeros for Volantis, rather than cause a stir upon Jon and Davos's arrival. She says she'll be back, and we think she will be sometime in season eight.
Euron brings his gift to Cersei: Ellaria and Tyene Sand. Cersei gets her revenge.
Cersei locks Ellaria and Tyene in a dungeon, and gives them a long monologue while wearing a lipstick color we've never seen her wear before. Cersei poisons Tyene with a kiss, the same manner Ellaria killed Myrcella. Cersei keeps Ellaria alive in the same dungeon, forcing her to watch her daughter slowly die and watch her corpse rot.
Sam cures greyscale!
The Archmaaester appeared angered by the disobedience of Sam when he treated Ser Jorah Mormont but later praises him for performing such difficult procedure.
Jaime and his Lannister army take Highgarden. On Cersei's orders, he poisons Olenna Tyrell who confesses to killing Joffrey.
This was an unexpected move, because Cersei and Jaime basically abandoned their home of Casterly Roc so Cersei could take down Olenna Tyrell.
Cersei wants to wipe out all of her enemies, and Olenna was one of the weakest. Jaime poisons her, and lets her know that he talked Cersei out of giving her a more brutal death.
But Olenna is a clever woman, and wouldn't go down without having a shining moment. Before she dies, she tells Jaime that she was the one who poisoned Joffrey, and tells him to make sure Cersei knows it.
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Episode 4: "The Spoils of War"
Cersei makes deal with the Iron Bank.
Cersei promises Tycho Nestoris that all of the crown's debt will be paid once the gold arrives from Highgarden. He promises her that he will support her as soon as the gold arrives.
Daenerys forms an alliance with Jon Snow.
Jon takes Daenerys to see the dragonglass at Dragonstone, so she gets to see it before they start making weapons.
In the caves where the dragonglass is, there are ancient carvings by the Children of the Forest that shows them uniting with the First Men to defeat White Walkers. This gets Daenerys to agree to help Jon Snow in the North if he bends the knee.
Daenerys attacks the Lannister army.
Just outside of King's Landing, on their way back from Highgarden, Jaime and Bronn hear something and it doesn't sounds good. They prepare for battle, and see a hoard of Dothraki coming their way. The Lannister army goes in pretty confident until they see Daenerys riding Drogon, breathing fire where she sees fit.
The Loot Train burns away as Drogon breathes fire everywhere.
Jaime sees an opportunity to attack Daenarys and pursues it but Drogo, who was injured and angered at the same time breathes fire on him, but Bronn jumps in at the last minute and they end up underwater.
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Episode 5: "Eastwatch'
Daenerys mames Drogon burn Randyll and Dickon Tarly alive for refusing to bend the knee.
Daenerys tells the survivors of the Loot Train Battle that they can bend the knee to her or die. But Randyll and Dickon Tarly are too stubborn to surrender, despite their fluctuating loyalties.
Her decision does not go well with Tyrion as he opposes it.
Snow makes Drogon his friend! And Jorah Mormont comes to Dragonstone to help his Khaleesi.
Drogon's new friend is Jon Snow. This definitely tells us that the Targaryen blood runs in him.
Ser Jorah Mormont returns to service his Khaleesi, greyscale free.
Bronn masterminds a secret meeting between Jaime and Tyrion.
Tyrion and Jaime sees each other in close contact for the first since Tyrion killed their father, Tywin. But Tyrion needs Jaime to convince Cersei that the threat of the White Walkers is actually real, and they need to come together if they are going to defeat them.
Davos brings Gendry back, shows off his smuggling skills.
Davos smuggles Tyrion into King's Landing so he can meet with Jaime. In doing so, we get to see the smuggler side of Davos. He also picks up Gendry, Robert Baratheon's bastard son. Gendry very willingly joins Davos on the journey back to Dragonstone, and proudly introduces himself to Jon Snow and shows off his skills with his war hammer by saving Tyrion.
Cersei refuses to surrender to Daenerys, and tells Jaime she is pregnant before threatening him.
Despite the fact that Cersei has never fought a battle herself, and has not seen the destruction of a dragon with her own eyes, she has zero interest in giving up in the war against Daenerys. Even though Jaime, who is visibly shaken at what he's seen, attempts to convince her otherwise. Jaime also tells Cersei that Olenna Tyrell killed Joffrey. She struggles to believe it's true, because she thinks Tyrion is a monster just like their father did.
Cersei tells Jaime she's pregnant. It's his, and she will tell everyone in Westeros that he's the father.
When Jaime tells her about his meeting with Tyrion she says, "never betray me again," which is definitely a threat.
Arya is suspicious of Littlefinger, and questions Sansa's leadership.
First, Arya witnesses the lords of the North and the Vale complain to Sansa that their king is not in Winterfell. He's busy! Doing really important things! How can they not know this?
Arya basically suggests to Sansa that she should threaten to behead any men who betray Jon, but Sansa's not having it. Then we see Arya following Littlefinger around. She sneaks into his room and finds a message in his mattress. It's a message written by Sansa (but actually by Cersei) when she was a captive in King's Landing, asking Robb to bend the knee to King Joffrey.
The maesters don't take the White Walker threat seriously, so Sam leaves The Citadel. And Gilly, despite getting talked over by Sam, unknowingly makes a huge revelation.
Although Sam tries to argue that the maesters should take the message of the White Walker threat from Winterfell seriously, they say they need to look into it more. After stealing some books, Sam, Gilly, and little Sam, Gilly’s son all leave The Citadel.
Before they leave, Gilly reads about annulments in a book. She discovers that someone named Rhaegar annulled a marriage and married another woman. Sam talks over her before they could think on this harder, but this is definitely Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark.--Jon Snow's parents.
Jon Snow leads a team of misfits to fight the dead north of the Wall.
Jon once again unites a group of people who kind of hate each other but have a common enemy: The Hound, Jorah Mormont, Tormund, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, and Gendry. Davos is sort of part of the group, but since he's not confident in his fighting skills, he stays at Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
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Episode 6: "Beyond the Wall"
Jon Snow, Tormund Giantsbane, The Hound, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Gendry, and Jorah Mormont try to capture a wight.
The Team catches a wight but loses Thoros of Myr, who gets bitten by the White Walker bear and freezes to death during the long stand-off. Beric uses his flaming sword to burn his body so he doesn't turn into a wight.
Before the showdown with the wights, Jon Snow sends Gendry back to Eastwatch so he could send a raven to Daenerys.
Jon kills a White Walker with Longclaw, and most of the wights surrounding them die, too.
Jon kills a White Walker with Longclaw, and with the killing blow all wight they're fighting instantly die except one which is captured immediately. This shows that a single White Walker when killed dies with every dead they brought back.
The Stark sisters just can't get along, and are too stubborn to realize that Littlefinger is playing them.
Littlefinger can't stop adding steps to his ladder of chaos, and he's adds a big one by causing the Stark sisters to turn on each other. Arya can't get over the fact that Sansa, while a child in captivity, wrote a letter asking Robb to bend the knee to her "beloved" Joffrey.
Arya is so stubborn that she doesn't give a chance for Sansa to explain herself. And Sansa is is so insulted by Arya's anger that she doesn't even try to.
Daenerys flys with two of her dragons beyond the wall to help Jon Snow.
Tyrion doesn't recommend this. He thinks it's too risky, especially considering the Lannister army shot arrows at her before and she doesn't have armor or a succession plan. But Daenerys insists that she take the journey. She needs somewhere new to show off her new coat!
The next time we see Daenerys, she appears riding Drogon with Rhaegal and Viserion at her side breathing fire on the army of the dead surrounding Jon Snow and his companions. She saves everyone but Jon Snow, who seemingly sacrifices himself for the team so they can make a quicker escape without risking any more dragon lives.
The Night King kills Viserion.
Uncle Benjen makes a brief and final appearance.
After Jon Snow pulls himself out of the water, the wights go after him. But out of nowhere, someone on a horse swoops in and saves Jon.
It's Uncle Benjen! Benjen gives Jon his horse, and sacrifices himself so his nephew can escape.
Jon bends the knee to Daenerys, just not physically.
Weak and in bed, Jon calls Daenerys his queen. Viserion's death at the hands of the Night King has driven Daenerys to ally with Jon and defeat of the guy who killed her dragon.
In this scene, Daenerys also sees Jon's scars from when he got stabbed in the heart. So now she probably knows that he was literally willing to take a knife through the heart for his people.
The Night King pulls Viserion out of ice water and brings him back to "life."
The Night King brings Viserion back to "life" after the wights pull him from the lake, making the army of the dead an even bigger threat.
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Episode 7: "The Dragon and the Wolf"
A large gathering, more like a symposium gather in King's Landing to see the captured wight.
Tyrion leads his group of heroes into the dragon pit of King's Landing, where they're to meet Cersei to discuss a truce and introduce her to an undead wight.
Cersei has a look of terror on her face as the wight gets within inches of her, and everyone else who's never seen them before does as well. Except for Qyburn, who looks at it with an interesting, curious look.
Jon Snow stupidly tells Cersei that he will stay loyal to Daenerys, no matter what.
The Hound threatens what's left of his brother, The Mountain.
In the dragon pit, The Hound immediately goes up to The Mountain. He notices his creepy zombie eyes and says, "You're even uglier than me now. What did they do to you?" Then he says, "You know who's coming for you,"
Tyrion has a chilling scene with Cersei.
Even though it would likely end with his death, Tyrion meets with Cersei alone in an attempt to make up for Jon Snow's stupidity. He basically begs her to have zombie The Mountain kill him, but she won't give the order.
He apologizes for the deaths of her children, Myrcella and Tommen, who he loved. And even apologizes for murdering their father, Tywin.
Tyrion also realizes that Cersei's fear is because she's pregnant. She rubs her belly in front of him, causing him to figure it out. After their conversation, Cersei comes back and says she will help fight the dead, and will bring all of her men to Winterfell.
Jon and Theon have a conversation. Theon tells Jon that he has to part ways to go save his sister, Jon kind of forgives him for his betrayal of the Stark family. Jon says, "You're a Greyjoy and a Stark.".
The Stark children trick the ultimate creep, Littlefinger, into his own trial and execution.
Sansa, with the help of Littlefinger, arranges for Arya to answer for her "crimes" against Sansa.
Instead, this is all a well planned façade by Sansa, Arya, and Bran to execute Littlefinger for his many, many crimes that led to tragedy in the Stark family. Sansa reveals Littlefinger's murder of Jon and Lysa Arryn, and Bran confirms his betrayal of Ned and Catelyn Stark with his Three-eyed Raven gift.
Arya slits Littlefinger's throat with his own dagger.
Jaime finally, finally abandons Cersei when she reveals she lied to everyone.
Cersei tells Jaime that she lied to Jon Snow, Tyrion, and Daenerys — she doesn't plan to help them fight the dead, and never planned to. She has the Iron Bank on her side, and has Euron in Essos getting some paid soldiers. But paid soldiers isn’t gonna protect her against dragons and zombies.
Jaime, perhaps inspired by his conversation with Brienne earlier in the episode in which she screams "F--- loyalty!" at him, finally abandons his sister. The next we see him, he's riding a horse alone in the snow, because winter has officially come to the South.
Sam arrives in Winterfell and delivers important information to Bran.
Bran tells Sam he's the Three-eyed Raven. And Sam says "Oh! I don't know what that means."
Bran tells Sam that he must tell Jon that his true parents are Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. Bran says Jon’s real name is Jon Sand.
But Sam puts together the little, but very important, nugget of information that Gilly found in the High Septon's diary. That's the revelation that Jon is actually not a bastard, because Rhaegar and Lyanna were married. Bran then witnesses the wedding ceremony with his powers. So Jon's real name is Aegon Targaryen, and he's the legitimate heir to the Iron Throne.
Approaching the final part of the episode, we see Daenarys and Jon make love, the true weight of their actions unknown to each other. They are actually aunt and nephew. That is another incestuous relationship on the go.
Meanwhile, Tyrion looks towards the door in which Daenarys and Jon were in from hallway outside.
The Night King comes to Eastwatch on his zombie dragon and destroys part of the wall with jets of blue flame.
The Night King and his army finally make it to the Wall. Bran wargs into ravens and observes this happening. The army attacks Eastwatch, zombie Viserion arrives and blasts blue fire with the Night King on his back that takes down the Wall on Eastwatch.
Tormund Giantsbane and Beric Dondarrion survive the attack as they make it to the side of the Wall that did not collapse, but we never can tell what will happen in the eight and final season.
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