Someone better," she asks. Their silent staring at each other says it all. Meanwhile at Makeout Point.... Gendry has big hopes for a future with Arya, but Arya's got things to … © 2020 CNET, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. I strangled my cousin with my own hands just to get back to Cersei. After admitting her armor still very much has its V-plates intact, Brienne leaves the party in the hall of Winterfell. It's time for a very pressing threat: negotiating the byzantine machinations of patrilineal monarchy in a region where everyone wants to just kill the crap out of each other! Jon pledges the Northern armies to Daenerys, and they will join the Dothraki and the bulk of the Unsullied to march on King's Landing (let's move those tiles on the game board, just so we all follow along and to give some visuals to this very talky scene). Meanwhile, Jon is getting some solid backslaps for his dragon-riding skills. In the halls of Winterfell, everyone is trading stories and returning to the general busywork of trying to hook up with each other. Varys' face tells us it won't end well for her. "), Tyrion and Varys plot. (Gone are the slow-travelin' days of season 3, folks!) But Tyrion is still faithful to his badass boss. I would have murdered every man woman and child in Riverrun for Cersei. A mad man, or a king!" Remember when Cersei gave Bronn of the Blackwater a crossbow and a price on her brothers' heads and Bronn was all, "That's convenient because I like money and killing people"? C'mon guys, who's running the joint here? That's it, folks! Thanks, Sansa, you kept that secret for, like 12 minutes. Head to the official Game of Thrones Viewer’s Guide for more about the fourth episode of Season 8. The rest of the crew will sail to Dragonstone (because the VFX team have already made the CGI renders of that castle and it would be a pity to waste them). "I owe them the truth," Jon says of his sisters. We lost old favorites -- you were a good man, Theon -- and it all culminated in the most explosive ending since the Red Wedding. BASTARD.". So hectic, in fact, that someone left a very modern, very Starbucks-looking coffee cup in the middle of Winterfell's dining hall. With that, she growls the word "Dracarys" (which is High Valerian for "make dragon go now") before being beheaded by The Mountain. But nek minnit, Brienne is awake and Jaime has bounced. And then there's the fact that Daenerys is not exactly good at sharing. Fire is like a warm bath for him). There are a few options on the table and, like the puppetmasters they are, these two are going to nut it out. But once those bodies start burning, the general consensus seems to be "Hey guys, are we hungry?" Some poor sod has been up all night chopping wood for the funeral pyres so we can farewell our fallen heroes, like Theon, Ser Jorah and Beric (though I'm putting money on Beric getting torched and waking up like he was taking a cheeky nap. (If you still haven't watched that ep, then now's the time to stop reading and go and catch up on the action). "She's his AUNT!" Don't worry Brienne, I'll bring some wine over when this ep is done. "What kind of man climbs on a fucking dragon? And worse news, Euron is about to ignore the instructions on his Dragon Crossbow warranty and use it to smash some ships. Who should rule the Seven Kingdoms? Cersei is preparing to fight, and in classic supervillain form, she's filling her castle walls with innocent citizens of King's Landing to act as a human shield. "We have won the great war," Daenerys says. Speaking of... Darnerys' dragons are truly her children, as we see again in episode 4 when tragedy strikes. She wants to win this game of Musical Knife Chairs and she doesn't care who she has to kill on the way. Ice, Ice Bye-Bye. She's hateful and so am I.". cries Tormund. There's still a lot of messy stuff that still needs to go down? © 2020 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Head to official GoT blog, MakingGameofThrones.com, for articles about props, costumes, storyboards and more. Dany, just like every woman who's watched a male colleague get credit for their projects in the team all-hands meeting, rolls her eyes. Daenerys' fleet is obliterated, Missandei goes missing in the hubbub and the rest of the crew are washed up on the shores of Dragonstone, defeated. Classic Arya. Dany won't share and Jon is rightful heir. With Dany out wandering the halls of Dragonstone somewhere, Varys and Tyrion have more time to play "Would you rather" over kings and queens. as Varys rightly points out ("I try to forget"). (How someone can have so much game when they've only made out with their sister, I'll never know.) Varys reminds us that Jon has a better claim, and people are drawn to him as a war hero. Having dodged that arrow, Tyrion meets Sansa on the battlements (fresh from her debrief on Jon's family tree). So what happens to the mother of dragons? Arya taking her dagger (the very dagger that was dispatched to kill Bran all those years ago -- TWIST!) It's time for a reccy in the war room for actual postbattle talk, and Grey Worm doesn't have good news. Sounds like Game of Thrones is ready to deliver in episode 4! Head to official GoT blog, MakingGameofThrones.com, for articles about props, costumes, storyboards and more. Gendry has a sweet new last name and he wants to share it with the woman he loves. Out by the weirwood tree, Jon reveals to his sisters that he has a big family secret. Daenerys has come by Jon's room for a booty call (booty raven?) The battle of Winterfell is over, the Night King has said his last good night and everyone is ready to get back to normal life in Westeros. Speaking of... let's leave those two for now. Despite this Churchillian call to arms, Arya and Sansa are still powerfully suss on Jon's new girlfriend. Take your pink and blue helium balloons, chumps. THAT is the most badass birth reveal of the year. She tells Jon they can be together, but only if he swears to keep their Family Ties a secret. Having finished her breakfast (she loves eggs cooked over a fire), Dany decides to play her next hand, anointing Gendry as Lord Gendry of Storm's End -- ensuring she will forever have the allegiance of the folks at Storm's End and giving Gendry a good excuse to get new business cards. After one night of prebattle passion, Gendry declares his undying love for Arya and proposes marriage (we've all definitely been on that Tinder date). Varys is pro Jon, because we all know Westeros is dude soup when it comes to choosing a rightful heir. Except for Jon and Dany, who have gotten over the inconvenient disruption of wight-slaying to get back on their bullshit.