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On the enormous interactive Westeros map Stannis left behind, Dany sees two Monopoly pieces shaped like lions and says, “Ah, not so many lions.” This is how war councils happen to this day, I assume. She’s already decided Westeros “doesn’t feel like home,” because of all the rain, and probably because of the fact that she has yet to see a single living person that she didn’t bring with her. This is the ‘game of thrones’ you know and love: sex and murderĮpisode 2 opens with a thunderstorm on Dragonstone that has Daenerys in a funk. Not just for our young lovers (who we’ll come back to), but for a whole mess of murder.

Thank goodness, because this episode really delivered on the premise of “rated TV-MA for graphic violence and strong sexual content,” and we have a ton of points to give out. There, we did it, our serious discussion for the week. Please don’t say “You are my weakness,” to people! That’s not a good compliment! And we all deserve better in a world where ice zombies and magical fire pirates are possible. In the excitement of yelling “fire and blood!” at my MacBook every Sunday night, I often forget how deeply, serially sad this show is.Īnyway, what I really want is for no one to use any of Grey Worm or Missandei’s come-on tactics for personal use, or ever again on a television program.

I hope we’re not witnessing this long-delayed gratification for G+M solely as a prelude to one of their deaths being imbued with some extra pathos. Even more particularly, it’s tragic given that “Stormborn” is the 11th episode written by Bryan Cogman, whose most famous work on this show so far was the season 5 episode “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken,” depicting Sansa Stark’s wedding night with Ramsay Bolton. That’s pretty tragic in its own way, and particularly in the context of this episode. This is the first consensual, romantic sex depicted on Game of Thrones since April 2013, which is remarkable for a show known in some circles as tacky high-fantasy erotica. But I’m happy these two kids finally got it together long enough to take it all off. Grey Worm comparing the feeling of being in love with Missandei with a child’s fear of snakes or the ocean was a clumsy rhetorical choice on his part, and Missandei’s “I want to see you, please” made me want to throw myself off a building. And so this week’s sex scene between Grey Worm and Missandei was both touching and embarrassing. I’m going to address something right now, and then we’re not going to talk about it again for the rest of our lives: it is strange to watch the men tasked with writing Game of Thrones attempt to write intimacy that is not twisted in some way.

Download game of thrones season 7 episode 2