Game of Thrones Season 7 - Episode 1

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SPOILERS ALERT

THIS THREAD IS FOR DISCUSSION OF SEASON 7, EPISODE 1 "DRAGONSTONE"

Come and discuss the eagerly awaited Season 7 opening episode airing July 17th at 2am UK time! Don't read the thread if you want to avoid spoilers from Season 7 but also Seasons 1-6

HBO description of the episode: Jon (Kit Harington) organizes the defense of the North. Cersei (Lena Headey) tries to even the odds. Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) comes home

Please avoid discussing leaks and production details for Seasons 7 and 8 but speculate away on what we have learnt from the new episode and what it might mean for the rest of the Season and the ultimate winner(s) of the Game of Thrones

Or the hilariousness of Gendry and Ser Davos reminiscing about being raised in the same neighbourhood. 😂😂😂

Jonah was in exile for 20 years. Didn't turn him bloody Danish!

Wasn't he eaten by a whale? Welsh maybe? 😂

What happened ti Robyn? Is he in the books much beyond where we see him in the series? Can he pick up where Ramsay left off in evilness?

I too fancied Euron....

Robb also had a northern accent. Apparently it's because Sean Bean when he was cast point blank refused to do an accent so his 'sons' had to sound like him.

I guess the Stark girls were raised by their southern mother hence the different accent... 😊

I have a question, might be a bit stupid but I'll ask it anyway.
Religion has been a theme all the way through all the series'.
Brandon is linked with the Old Gods, Cersei has just murdered a large number of followers of the Seven New Gods, and Melisandre et al have had lots of input with their God.
So will There be some Devine retribution for Cersei nuking the Great Sept?
Where will Brandon and Melisandre's God's clash?
Or am I just making it more complicated that it already is?
Any expert opinion?

They're all over the place with accents.
Didn't the Baratheon brothers all have different accents?

Sam is a Southern noble's son and yet sounds as northern as Jon.
Same with Davos who was born and bred in Kings Landing.

Don't they have cockneys in Westeros?

Obvs I won't hear a word against the rather appealing Sandor but I do often wonder what his accent is supposed to be. I'm sure it's not his fault and he's just doing what the voice coach says... whatever that may be!

The Old Gods clearly have some magic power as manifested by Bran's magic mcguffins and some Godswood stuff in the book but not the by show. And the Lord of Light has got a lot of mojo obvs. And the spooky priests in Essos and the faceless men.

But the Seven, aka the New Gods, have been chiefly distinguished by the fact that they have lovely prayers and lots of followers but bugger all actual miraculous power. It would be kind of cool if they suddenly entered the fray (like the Great God Om at the end of Small Gods).

MyOtherProfile I think Sandor's accent is the Westerlands. It is a sort of badly concealed Glaswegian.

It seems to be less and less concealed as the seasons go on.

The bit with the vision in the flames....I found it a bit comical. I kept expecting Beric to go "really? You see all that?" and Sandor to go "Of course not, ya daft cunt! It's just a fuckin' fiya!"

Winifred, I don't think we've seen the drowned god have any sort of power either?

I think (and maybe totally wrong) that there is no divine retribution in GoT, as all religions are phoney in there. Magic however is real.

I love the actor who plays Euron, although Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is much better.

Has anyone else watched Emergency Awesome's YouTube videos lately? He is convinced that Euron's special gift will be Ellaria Sand and that Dany's fleet will be smashed to even the odds.

What do we think about the fire wight theory and Jon's chances of having children?

Elspeth I was thinking that too!

Still epic - but the dialogue and pacing were a bit clunky. I loved the guy who plays Euron when he was in Borgen (he had a heartbreaking story)he seemed a really good actor but is awful in GOT, total pantomime villain! The Iron Born are notorious for not making anything - they just steal what they need (even Jamie said this during the episode) so how come his followers built a massive fleet in record time or had others do it - where did the money come from? I thought the Iron Born were poor and rag taggle.

Totally forgot the Essos lot and the Drowned God (just like my school reports always said 'I must pay attention!').
And Jon told Melisandre that he saw nothing when he was dead, much to her disappointment.
Thanks for the replies, just a little hope for some Divine retribution on Cersei, but human retribution will be just as good. I hope she doesn't get killed off though, just be left alone and powerless.

Ed Sheeran has deleted his Twitter account because the reaction to his cameo was so bad....

"followers built a massive fleet in record time"

...on an island with no trees!

We know Dany can't have children so her dynastic claim is looking as strong as Cersei's.

I'm surprised there's so much discussion on accents coming from a tiny country (the uk) with such diverse accents my own dm is a Georgie and df Irish yet I've been raised in the SE England.
As for religion I guess it's a representation of RL, the way we have Christianity and Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism etc.

Geordie not Georgie!

Aww, poor Ed

Yamayo Dany probably can have children.

Faded On the Westeros website there used to be loads of threads about who should marry / snog / whatever in GoT. The Cersei / Euron coupling was considered divine retribution, as Euron is a vile abuser. I would not wish Euron / domestic abuse on anyone though. Cersei was abused by Robert as well.

Waves at sunshine. My DS is Geordie.

I have to say, I wonder about the fact that we didn't see The Hound's visions too. Was he 'seeing' what he wanted them to think he saw? It was an unusual move for them to make - we are usually party to the visions.