In the episode’s second act, Dany is fed up with Tyrion’s advice, and she doesn’t appear in the episode again until she’s descending upon the Lannister forces. That Tyrion and Cersei think alike - that it’s better to be smart and rule than to be loved and valiant - makes sense, since that seems to be the Lannister way. She’s become a major villain, but she’s also shrewd, and has been very successful in acquiring and holding onto power. It’s fascinating that Game of Thrones is making this distinction, because the latter is how we think of Cersei. The scene underlines Dany’s dilemma: whether to be an honorable queen who inspires - the kind of queen that Dany wants to be and has been - versus a “smart” queen who holds onto power. He doesn’t want her risking her life fighting with her army. The second is to keep herself safe, and allow her warriors to fight her battles for her. The first is to minimize casualties in war, and not spill the blood of innocent people. Tyrion presented Dany with two guidelines. And in response, he told her that his strategy, and the need to hold back, is what will make her a “smart” queen. In the wake of these setbacks, Dany was faced with the frustration of knowing she might have been able to do something to help her allies - namely, by riding in with her dragons to save the day - and asked Tyrion if the blunders he’s led her into are the result of him going up against his own family. Tyrion Lannister, who has given Dany plenty of sage advice in her quest for the Iron Throne, has accidentally led her astray with his battle strategies, which have seen her allies get picked off one by one: Yara Greyjoy was captured and her fleet decimated the savage Olenna Tyrell was unprepared for an attack on Highgarden (Tyrion advised Dany’s forces to take what turned out to be a mostly abandoned Casterly Rock) and is now dead and Ellaria Sand is watching her last living daughter die and rot in Cersei’s basement. Since Dany and her crew first landed at Dragonstone, they’ve been trying to play a strategic game but have been embarrassingly bad at it. Dany got tired of holding back her dragons while her allies were defeated The episode ended with her dragon wounded by one of the Lannister army’s scorpions (those giant dragon-killing crossbows).Īs we turn the corner on this short season (there are now only three episodes left!), Game of Thrones has really turned up the volume on the Targaryen-Lannister war and made a massive finale feel inevitable.
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Jaime now knows what the full force of Targaryen wrath looks like.ĭany has come face to face with her enemies, and hurt them gravely - but not without one of her dragons being injured. (I would probably pay to see the sequence in an IMAX theater.) But the battle was also a triumph in terms of what it achieved in storytelling.Ĭersei Lannister’s strategic march on Highgarden, which just last week saw her notch a major win against Dany, has suddenly become a failure. The battle was beautiful, bloody, and chaotic - a spectacular production success that felt like watching an action movie.
All the while, Dany’s Boeing-sized dragon tore through the sky and scorched the earth, torching everything in its path. Dothraki scythes became smiles dripping with the blood of the Lannisters’ allies. On Sunday night, Game of Thrones gave us the most satisfying and stimulating moment of this short seventh season so far: At the end of “The Spoils of War,” Daenerys Targaryen and Jaime Lannister’s armies came face to face with one another in a blazing fight. Major spoilers follow for Game of Thrones season seven, episode four, “The Spoils of War.”
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