Oh, and there was so much talk of family this week that we half expected to see Vin Diesel and the Fast & Furious crew show up.Īs with A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms, there were many callbacks to the past, both subtle and obvious, including Arya's turning down newly Lord-ified Gendry's marriage proposal with the words "that's not me" (something she told her father in Season 1 when he suggested that as a lady of Winterfell, she'd marry), her catching up with The Hound and restating her business in King's Landing, Sansa going back over her past pains (and victories over same) and Bran and Tyrion talking saddles. A chunk of the episode was given over to her feeling sidelined and alone despite her great power, and that's not helped by her concern about Jon telling his family about that awkward connection between the two (not to mention it turns him into one of her biggest rivals for the Iron Throne). Suffice to say that after everything she's been through in the past and now the present, Dany will not be messing around in future.
The psychological (and physical) scars of battle are apparent in everyone, especially the likes of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, the latter of whom suffered even more loss this week in the shape of Rhaegal and, at the end, Missandei.
And so this episode, The Last Of The Starks, opened by addressing that loss head on. While the battle of Winterfell in The Long Night didn't deliver quite the main character carnage some had predicted, it certainly resulted in a lot of death.
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