Game Of Thrones fans it would be easy for me to talk about one of the earlier seasons of the show and even easier for me to talk about the final season of the show. However I thought i'd talk about an episode from the seventh season of the show simply because I don't see people talking about this season at all which I don't really get since in my opinion this is a very underrated season and so here is my review of the season 7 premiere "Dragonstone" enjoy Game Of Thrones and TV show fans.
The plot of the episode is Jon and Sansa have a slight falling , Arya is proceeding south to kill the queen when she meets some soldiers who might change her mind and after seven long years Daenerys finally returns home. I know that this summery is pretty bad but in my defence reviewing a single episode of a show is always hard especially one where the story goes back several years , as for what I thought about this story it was really good and it did keep me invested all throughout the episode as any good story should do.
Starring in this episode is Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister. Also starring in the episode is Lena Headey as Queen Cersei Lannister , Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen , Kit Harington as Jon Snow , Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark , Maisie Williams as Arya Stark , in his final appearance in the show the great David Bradley as Walder Frey , Bella Ramsey as Lady Lyanna Mormont , Jim Broadbent as Archmaester Ebrose and I wish I was making this up Ed Sheeran as Eddie.
In terms of what I thought about the acting in the episode I thought that it was honestly really good which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone at this point. Since the show is known for having great acting even in seasons that aren't that good and episodes that aren't that good the acting in them is always top notch which as i've said is the same thing here every actor including Ed Sheeran deliver a great performance in my opinion.
Now incase your wondering how I knew that the character that Ed Sheeran play's is called Eddie it's because I checked it on the official fandom page for this episode which does have him listed as being called Eddie. It's honestly a pretty weird cameo as well because unlike all of the other musician cameos that they've had on the show they put alot of focus into making sure that you know it's Ed Sheeran which to me at least takes you out of the show and out the story it's not a bad cameo but they didn't need to make sure that you knew who it was.
As mentioned this is the last episode to feature David Bradley as Walder Frey and what i liked about his death is that it actually ties back into Arya's story. Which was honestly something that the writers of this episode David Benioff & D.B. Weiss didn't have to do at all it was a nice little touch that reminds us that Arya is not only still out for revenge but also remembers everything that happened that night and will stop at nothing to make sure that those who committed the crime will pay for it with there very lives.
Speaking of Arya outside of a few scenes she's not in this episode that much which I don't really get why they did that. Since they could have spent alot of time letting us know what she was going to be up to this season or developing her character a little bit more but no they only have her in I think it was two scenes while one of them does add to her story the other one i'm not kidding is only there so that Maisie Williams could meet one of her favourite singers.
I kind of liked what they did with Cersei in this episode since they took the time to show a more strategic side to the character. This was honestly something that they didn't have to do but it's something that i'm glad was added into the episode since it makes her seem more in control of the situation my issue is that this kind of development has come a little to late in the game and so to throw it in here just seems like they had nothing for the character to do for the next two seasons.
This episode is just under an hour long I think the final running time for the episode is fifty eight minuets or something like that. Which to me feels about right since all this episode is is setting up things for the current season and the following season but at the same time there are characters like Jon and Arya who suffer because the episode is busy setting things up that it's not giving them anything to do in this episode.
I freaking loved the ending of this episode and i'm not just saying that because i'm a fan of Daenerys i;m saying it because it's such a great way to end the episode. All it is is a series of shots Daenerys and her crew walking through the now abandoned Dragonstone until they finally reach the throne room where Daenerys walks up the steps turns around and simply says "Shall We Begin?" that right there is such a good way to end the episode it's great visual story telling since there's no dialog at all until the very end of that sequence.
Overall this is honestly a really good and well written episode in my opinion and is in my opinion one of the better episodes of the show. that said tho this episode does have some issues alot of which i've discussed in this very review but to me those issues apart from alot of focus on Ed Sheeran during his appearance don't take away from the story infact some of them add to the story as such this episode get an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
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