It’s interesting how these exact same circumstances could have been played for urgency - THERE ARE FREAKING ZOMBIES COMING! - and instead the episode went for earnest reflection and, as with the first episode, I was able to excuse a pacing that invited dour melancholy because I loved so many of the individual interactions. With that said, looking at reactions online in the immediate aftermath of the episode, a lot of the folks who were critical of the season premiere’s relatively relaxed pace were much more in favor of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.” How did it sit with you? And why do you think this episode may have worked well for people who were turned off by the premiere?ĭaniel Fienberg: It’s funny, because I spent a lot of the episode pondering whether I could have trimmed 15 minutes from the premiere and 10 minutes from this second episode to form one 85-minute premiere that might have achieved a combination of place-setting (since that’s mostly what the premiere was) and looming disaster (since that’s mostly what the second episode was) that might have been equally, or possibly more, satisfying with even more efficiency. Not a single death this week, which might be a first a rarity, at the least.
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Josh Wigler: We’re almost two full hours removed from Bran Stark’s declaration that inspired your “Winterfell” review: “We don’t have time for all this!” And yet, we’re now on the other side of yet another final season installment defined more by quiet character moments than the fire and blood many fans crave. 'Game of Thrones' Final Season Podcast: Looking Ahead Toward the Winterfell War Read the first edition of Before the Storm here. Did the final season’s second episode all but guarantee death for Grey Worm (Jacob Anderson), for instance, due to his promise to protect Missandei (Nathalie Emmanuel) in the future? How worried should the audience be for Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) following her moment of intimacy with Gendry (Joe Dempsie)? Read on for their thoughts on those subject and more, as Wigler and Fienberg do their best to see what’s coming next in the much hyped battle episode. This week, Wigler and Fienberg take one last look back at “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” written by Bryan Cogman, featuring some of the happiest and most peaceful moments in the HBO drama’s entire run - all before the doom and gloom of the coming Winterfell war.
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Enter: Before the Storm, a weekly column wherein The Hollywood Reporter‘s Westeros guru Josh Wigler and THR‘s chief TV critic Daniel Fienberg put on their Valyrian foil hats and muse aloud about the next steps of the story.
Game of Thrones season 8 episode 3 airs April 29 on Hotstar in India.As Game of Thrones rushes toward the finish line, time is running out for predictions about how David Benioff and Dan Weiss’ fantasy epic will end. Daenerys then says to Jon in a different shot: “The dead are already here,” which suggests they have breached the walls of Winterfell.īrienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie), who's leading the left flank as we learned in episode 2, then shouts towards the end of the trailer: “Stand your ground!” Instead, we see Arya running from an unseen force, Sandor “The Hound” Clegane (Rory McCann) and Beric Dondarrion (Richard Dormer), a dragon shrouded in darkness, Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) arming himself with a fire-tipped bow and arrow, and Jon drawing his sword. “The Night King is coming,” Jon says, though there's no shot of the Night King. Some prepared for the worst, others fearful of it.
It's followed by glimpses of Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington), Samwell Tarly (John Bradley), Sansa and Arya (Maisie Williams), Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham), Varys (Conleth Hill), Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), and Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen), all looking super tense.