With the world of Westeros shrinking, it was a night of reunions both bitter and sweet on “Game of Thrones” Season 7, episode 4. With the battle for the Iron Throne in full swing, some decisive moves needed to be made, and the end result was one of the most thrilling, albeit short, episodes of the series with “The Spoils of War.
The episode actually began in rather understated fashion, focusing on the latest reunion of the Stark children, and drawing attention to the changes that they have undergone in their efforts to survive over the last six seasons. Arya, for example, showed off her assassin skills after a meeting with her sister Sansa, which proved both tender and tentative.
The same sense of melancholy hung over Arya’s encounter with her brother, Bran, whose transformation into a mystic seer has left him bearing scant resemblance to the boy who existed when the show began. All that pretty much melted away in the huge battle that closed the episode, as Daenerys led her Dothraki warriors into combat against the rival forces under Jaime Lannister. Daenerys rode in on one of her dragons, unleashing sprays of fire that decimated the opposing army.
On a side note, the ongoing negotiations between Jon Snow and Daenerys also produced one of the more amusing moments, with Snow’s aide Davos (Liam Cunningham) observing that he perceived Snow might have a romantic interest in her – something for which there’s little time, Snow noted, what with the fate of their world hanging in the balance.
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