Carice Van Outen’s Melisandre has magical powers, too, and it’ll be interesting to see how much the television adaptation is willing to use them. The show has clearly got the confidence to ramp up more of its heavy genre elements now, and the thought of big dragons in a few weeks’ time is a welcome one. Game of Thrones Season 8: Predictions and Theories Expect to see the wolves, here doing their best to put the fear into Jaime Lannister, making a return, too. The dragons weren’t the only CG characters on show, either. Her strategy is clearly to bide her time, and with good reason. She’s in a weak position at the moment, but has the small matter of her baby dragons, who might not be ready to fight now, but their moment will surely come. Linked to Stannis, we also got to spend welcome time with new cast additions, particularly Liam Cunningham and Carice van Houten (we’re coming to the latter in a minute).Īs we got to catch up with the faces from season one, the one to watch seems to be Daenerys.
Not that you needed further proof, but the land of Dragonstone has been added to the map in the opening credits. The episode spent a good proportion dealing with peoples’ differing claims to power, and Stannis is certainly gearing up for a run at the iron throne. And we’re back to the fact that The North Remembers was in part an overview of where we’d got to at the end of season one, with a few pointers as to where season two is set to go.Īt the centre of it all, there’s that battle for the throne. Most characters, though, struggled for much space in the episode, albeit for good reasons. She’s one of many simmering subplots at work. Sansa shows a spark of ingenuity there, but she’s most certainly in a very uncomfortable place, although we don’t get to spend much time with her in this episode. When we meet him very early on in The North Remembers, he’s as down to earth and kind as he was last time we met him, only persuaded not to allow someone to pretty literally drink themselves to death by the intervention of Stark’s daughter, Sansa. Joffrey might have questionable parentage, which isn’t quite the secret he’d like, but it’s not bothering him much at the moment. Jack Gleeson’s portrayal of the character was and is, at times, utterly terrifying. You’re welcome to tell him that to his face though if you want. As such, it took us around the various parts of the world of Westeros, and outlined most people’s position.Īs things stand, though, when the episode starts and finishes, it’s the deeply unsettling and clearly power-flushed young King Joffrey who sits on the iron throne, even though – as was made clear last season – he’s not really supposed to (and the apparent rightful heir, Stannis, is now very much on the horizon).
The ramifications particularly of the killing of Ned Stark last season are still being felt (although the other Starks are split at the moment), and whilst we’re beyond the point of battle lines being drawn, this new episode was careful about arranging its pieces around the board.
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