Someone whose name Arya struck off her list without killing, Sandor Clegane aka The Hound, continued his search for redemption with the Brotherhood Without Banners. Once at Winterfell, Brienne of Tarth agreed to train with Arya, clearly impressed by her proficiency with a sword. They had a moment, and went their separate ways.
On her way home, Arya encountered her direwolf Nymeria, who’d been living wild since being sent away to protect her from Cersei’s wrath in season one.
Next on Arya’s to-murder list was Queen Cersei, but on hearing (from Hot Pie! Hot Pie lives!) that Jon had reclaimed Winterfell from the Boltons, she diverted her journey to King’s Landing and instead headed North. She left only Frey’s young bride to tell the tale, telling her to spread the message “the North remembers.” In the season seven premiere, she used her Faceless Men magic to disguise herself as the deceased Walder Frey and fatally poison his entire family in revenge for their collusion with the Lannisters at the Red Wedding. Despite Littlefinger’s machinations, the Stark siblings ended the season united, recognising that “the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”Īrya’s kill-list, which currently features: Cersei Lannister, Gregor Clegane, Ilyn Payne, Melisandre, and Beric Dondarrion, was what brought her back to Westeros. Littlefinger’s throat was cut by Arya using the very dagger with which Bran was almost killed. With Bran’s help though, the sisters saw through Baelish’s plot and turned the tables by executing him for the murder of their aunt. He plotted to turn Sansa and Arya against one another, encouraging Sansa to see her little sister as a threat, and leading Arya to believe Sansa was a Lannister sympathiser who wanted to usurp Jon’s crown. Littlefinger’s scheming earned him no rewards in season seven. That includes the moment Littlefinger drew a knife on Ned Stark, the murder of Lysa Arryn and every whispered conversation the brothel owner ever had. When Petyr Baelish, still at Winterfell following his decisive role in the Battle of the Bastards, tried to curry favour with the Stark heir by gifting Bran the dagger used in the season one assassination attempt on his life, the Three-Eyed-Raven was wise to his shenanigans. Sansa proved herself a talented ruler, skilled at strategy and planning sensibly ahead for the long winter like a true Northerner.Ĭrucially, Bran also knew all about Littlefinger’s many lies and schemes. They came back to find Sansa installed in their parents’ former chamber and acting as regent for Jon Snow, the absent King in the North.
First Bran, then Arya Stark returned to their family seat after separate long and perilous journeys. In the North, Winterfell welcomed home two errant children. It was episode 4, “The Spoils Of War.” And episode 6 “Beyond The Wall.” And a little bit episode 7 “The Dragon And The Wolf.” The point being that the battle spectacle and dragon-based fireworks were spread out over seven episodes featuring reunions between long-separated characters, the reappearance of old faces, and newly forged alliances. Genius.įiguratively though, there was an episode nine in season seven. Three episodes shorter than the previous runs, the seventh season solved the show’s annual ‘how to top last year’s massive episode nine’ problem by simply not having one.
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You arrived, secretly fitted all your characters with invisible jet packs so they could zip around whole continents as if they were just popping to the shops, and then in the flap of a dragon’s wing, you were gone. Game Of Thrones Season 7, we hardly knew you.