When Brienne asks her who taught her those skills, she just answers “no one.” No love for Syrio Forel?? Sansa’s watching and she merely walks away. Little Sister has learned a lot on her journey.
Dragonstone
On Dragonstone Island, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) takes Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) to a cave filled with dragonglass, all he’ll need for White Walker killing. He also shows her some cave paintings of the Children of the Forest, living happily in harmony with the First Men, and killing White Walkers in unity. Of course, Jon didn’t carve those White Walker hieroglyphics himself, wink wink.
Still, STILL, she insists he bend the knee. He says his people won’t follow a Southern ruler (that’s for damn sure). It’s like GUYS, come on, these little power struggles are so petty when there are Climate Change White Walkers coming for you!!
Dany is SUPER miffed to hear about the whole sitch on Casterly Rock/Highgarden. She’s pissed that Tyrion’s sneaky plans have failed every time and now all her badass lady allies are dead or captured. “Our enemies? YOUR family” she barks at him. Ah, just like Thanksgiving dinner.
Jon’s advice to her—be different! Don’t melt castles and torch civilians, that’s way too Cersei-ish (wildfire).
But Dany’s frustrated, and bloodthirsty and ready for vengeance.
Later, Davos (Liam Cunningham) is giving Jon grammar lessons on less vs. fewer(those reading lessons paying off!) and creeping on Missandei (Nathalie Emmanuel). They chat about Dany, and the foreign concept of marriage and bastards on Narth, when they see a Greyjoy ship. Ah, Jon reunited with the tragic turncoat, Theon (Alfie Allen). Even he refuses to kill him, and Theon continues living the tragedy of his life. They’ve come to ask the Queen to get Yara back, but the Queen’s not there…
Highgarden
… She’s torching the Lannister army and their loot train with a horde of Dothraki and Drogon. Now this is an “Episode 9 Battle” if we’ve ever seen one, and the fact that it took us, and the Lannisters by surprise makes it all the more enjoyable. While Bronn is joshing Dickon (Tom Hooper) who is SHOOK by having had to murder his Tyrell buds, there are other problems on the horizon, namely the horde of war-crying, horse-stunting, saber-wielding Dothraki, led by Dany astride Drogon, who is just roasting Lannister soldiers left and right.
It’s chaos vs. order in this battle and chaos wins. Jaime is just completely useless. Bronn heads for the giant, dragon-killing crossbow and his horse’s leg gets chopped off in the process (give me an “Anatomy of a Scene” with GOTHorse Mistress Camilla Naprous now). He still makes it to the crossbow and starts taking aim at Dany and Drogon. It is brilliant to put Bronn behind the crossbow on this one. We don’t want Drogon to get hit, but we also like Bronn, so it’s an interesting conflict, because there are characters we like on both sides of this battle (unlike Hardhome, or Battle of the Bastards).
Bronn does get a shot off on Drogon, hitting him in the shoulder, and while Dany is trying to get the spear out of her trusty Drogon, Jaime decides to do something and charges at her. Meanwhile, Tyrion is watching this whole thing go down like “SHAKING. MY. DAMN. HEAD. BROTHER.” Jaime almost gets a full Drogon fire blast to his pretty, pretty face, but not before Bronn tackles him into the water, and Jaime, fully-armored, golden-handed, sinks slowly to the bottom. That’s the last we see of him.
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