The Dragon and the Wolf

It happens often that you stumble upon a great movie or great series, but I've never watched something with more interest, with more attention and with more passion than this show, and especially this episode right here.

From astonishing dragon sequences to beautiful love scenes, from revelation to elimination, from pride to wisdom, from scenery to camera work and from scoring to superb acting, this episode has it all.

This episode alone should keep us warm for the next year and a half.

In King's Landing, Daenerys, Jon Snow and Cersei have a tense meeting where they show a wight to Cersei that does not accept the proposed armistice. However, Tyrion has a private encounter with her and she changes her position. At Winterfell, Sansa brings Arya to accomplish a death penalty for murder and treason. Then Samwell has a meeting with Bran and they discuss Jon Snow's lineage. At Eastwatch, the Night King riding his dragon and the White Walker army attack the Wall.

"The Dragon and he Wolf" is another excellent episode of the Seventh Season of "Game of Thrones". The only remark is the discussion of on Jon Snow's lineage that deserved to be longer and better explained. But every segment is great and shows surprises, like Cersei and Sansa's decisions. My vote is ten.

Title (Brazil): "The Dragon and the Wolf"

After finishing its seventh season, I've reached the point where I'd name "Game of Thrones" as the best fantasy I've ever read or seen. It's also among the best television I've ever seen, period. I'd cheerfully rate this penultimate season a perfect 10.

I do understand some of the criticisms I've read from other fans. Yes, this shorter, more eventful, seven-episode arc could seem a little rushed when compared with prior seasons. And certain plot points in the last several episodes here are easy to nitpick.

But I can't give less than a perfect rating to a show that I enjoyed this much. Season 7 added great action and special effects, lots of momentum, frightening horror, and some long-awaited conclusions to story arcs that began back in Season 1. And the show still has the best dialogue of any current television show that I'm aware of, usually supported by terrific acting.

I won't say more for fear of spoilers. But I obviously loved this season.

Season 7 was a letdown for me. I became accustomed to the unpredictability, which has disappeared the moment they ran out of source material. Now it feels more like a high budget Hollywood flick, where none of its major characters are in any real danger,where everything is fan fiction and where you get the feeling everything happens and is shot purely to make merchandise from it.

(For example The fake tension at the frozen lake, where you get sad music, a shot of how defeated they are, followed with a faceshot of every character, so people would think they're in trouble, just to be saved a la deus ex machina- The way it was shot, I couldn't stop thinking of marvel's avengers)

Overall I liked some of the reunions, it had some great visual effects and beautiful scenery, but as I said, the excitement is gone; it has become yet another predictable television show that doesn't dare to make major leaps.

Negative:

Tormund should have died in the 'true north', The Littlefinger plot was a real disappointment, The fasttraveling made me motion sick, The whole capturing a whight to convince Cersei was horrible. Some scenes were just there to mislead the audience (E.g. Arya and Sansa). I literally cringed during the last 2 episodes

Positive:

The Visuals and CGI was good. Performances by most of the actors (especially the Lannister cast) was on point as usual. There were some satisfying reunions and interactions.

Overall it's worth watching, but don't expect it to be the same as previous seasons.

So much is being made of this episode, I can only humbly add my two cents worth. With all the evil at work, we are shown forces for good and an effort to salvage the world. The wight is brought to Cersei and supposedly she is going to agree to fight for the common good. I wonder if she could sell used cars. Like truly benevolent people, those who met with her take her at her word. We have an interlude where Littlefinger's reign of dishonesty is put to the test. We find that blood is thicker than water when it comes to Arya and Sansa. Jaime, who has always been a truly complex character, shows us an honorable side. Jon Snow's lineage is revealed. Being a bastard is often what paints the good with a brush of evil when one looks at classic literature. How many good bastards are there in Shakespeare? Get my drift? But in any series, we have to have a hook to get us thinking about the next episode. I have to say that the final five minutes of this episode was as powerful as anything I've ever seen in cinema, any cinema. The cinematography, music, and special effects are nonpareil. And the writing, allowing us to match up forces that must settle everything is truly pregnant. It will be hard to match what happened here, but I have faith it will all be settled in the most professional way possible.