{"id":433,"date":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2019\/05\/07\/game-of-thrones-season-7-episode-2-stormborn-recap-daeneryss-avengers-assemble\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","slug":"game-of-thrones-season-7-episode-2-stormborn-recap-daeneryss-avengers-assemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/game-of-thrones-season-7-episode-2-stormborn-recap-daeneryss-avengers-assemble\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones, season 7 episode 2, Stormborn recap: Daenerys’s avengers assemble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ed Power
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Explosions! Great groaning battle-ships! A lunatic in guy-liner! And that was just the closing five minutes. It\u2019s been a cautious start to Game of Thrones season seven. But, following further, patience-testing re-arranging of the chess pieces, episode two went out in a literal blaze of glory.
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Euron Greyjoy<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0 Captain Jack Sparrow, if Johnny Depp was slim, Scandinavian and twice as over the top \u2013 was staging a smash and grab raid on close family\/ sworn enemies Theon and Yara. Galleons piled into one another, Sand Snakes perished (was it wrong to cheer?), the thrill factor blew through the roof.
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Euron’s appearance was one of those Game of Throne moments you\u2019ll always remember seeing for the first time. One minute Yara “I\u2019ll snog anything that moves” Greyjoy (Gemma Whelan) was cuddling with Ellaria Sand (Indira Varma), the next Euron had invited himself on board via a giant spiky battering ram straight from a Medieval retelling of Mad Max. Whatever else the sociopathic seadog (Pilou Asb\u00e6k) gets up to this year he can already claim the prize for best Game of Thrones entrance ever.
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With the action came a devastating catharsis. Theon (Alfie Allen) regressed into former-person Reek and legged it overboard, leaving Yara and Ellaria to their unpleasant fate (presumably involving being presented to Cersei with big shiny bow on top). Our minds had been blown, emotions reduced to a smoking pyre.
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This is the rest of what we learned.
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Is Euron Game of Thrones\u2019s silliest villain yet? <\/strong>
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Joffrey was a loathsome wimp, Ramsay a psychopath with a bad haircut. But Euron is something far more familiar \u2013 a bonkers villain of the old school. There are no hidden depths to the new ruler of the Iron Islands, unless you count the layers of emo make-up he\u2019s mysteriously acquired this season. He just wants to kill, maim and burn \u2013\u00a0 if he can achieve all three at once, so much the merrier.
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Yet, with his latest antics, he has more than earned his place in the show\u2019s rogues\u2019s gallery. Armed with a post-apocalyptic battering ram, he ransacked Theon and Yara\u2019s fleet \u2013 as a bonus cutting down the (still annoying) Sand Snakes.
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“Give your uncle a kiss,” Euron proceeded to leer at Yara as he charged into action \u2013 an aside sure to go down as one of the season\u2019s outstanding one-liners. It was all too much for Theon, still clearly working through his time as Ramsay\u2019s crippled man-servant. Over the side the Prince of the Pyke jumped \u2013 a leap with echoes of his vault over the Winterfell battlements with Sansa. That had been the moment Reek was reborn as Theon once again. But who was he now? Also \u2013 is Yara Euron\u2019s prisoner or has he merely slit her throat?
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All is far from sunny in Dragonstone. <\/strong>
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Daenerys\u2019s return to the family seat and place of her birth, was not quite the jubilee she had anticipated. In a draughty castle, she gravely surveyed a raging storm.
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Where were the approving crowds, the Targaryen loyalists ready to sweep her back to power?
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That the Mother of Dragons (Emilia Clarke) was determined to bring the people onside rather than burn Westeros to the ground with her dragons was testament to her sense of right and wrong (a moral compass that hasn\u2019t always pointed in the correct direction) But that isn\u2019t to suggest she has gone soft and Varys (Conleth Hill), aka most Machiavellian soul in Westeros, bore the brunt of her suspicions.
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He was a Robert supporter who\u2019d turned on the Baratheons \u2013 what was to stop him similarly deserting Daenerys in the event of a more desirable candidate present themselves?
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“You wish to know where my loyalties lie\u2026with the people,” said the former Master of Whisperers \u2013 who hadn\u2019t sounded this single-minded since bunging Tyrion into that wine crate at the start of season five. This was enough to keep Daenerys onside \u2013 but was the show laying groundwork for violent disagreements to come?
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After Ed Sheeran, it was time for a surprise cameo from the Lady in Red
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Sensitive souls are still haunted by the ginger halfling\u2019s shock appearance last week. Now came another divisive figure with a reputation for making children scream in terror. Exiled by Jon Snow, the Red Woman (Carice van Houten) had fetched up on Daenerys\u2019s doorstep.<\/p>\n

She was here at the behest of the Great God of Plot Devices. “I believe you have a role to play\u2026as does the King in the North, Jon Snow,” said Melisandre, a spectacularly unsubtle hint that the Mother of Dragons and the lord of Winterfell might find common cause.
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“If he does rule the north, he’ll make an excellent ally,” chimed Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), with equal lack of artfulness.\u00a0 A Daenerys\u2013Jon alliance has admittedly long been on the cards \u2013 but did Game of Thrones have to spell it out so clunkily? Let\u2019s hope the series rediscovers its flair of understatement as the season continues.
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Will Jon Snow bend the knee to the Mother of Dragons? <\/strong>
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Daenerys is very much up for an alliance with Jon Snow \u2013 albeit on her terms. In Winterfell, Sansa \u2013\u00a0 in her new position as Jon’s neurotic frenemy \u2013 warned of a possible Targaryen trap. An alternative perspective was offered by Ser Davos.
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Dragons breath fire \u2013 and fire destroys Walkers. The logic appealed to Snow \u2013 but is he risking all by agreeing to a face-to-face meeting with the Mother of Dragons?
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One thing he definitely isn\u2019t sitting on the fence about is Littlefinger\u2019s baleful influence on Sansa (Sophie Turner). The King in the North understandably lost his cool after Lord Baelish (Aidan Gillen) confessed to pervy uncle feelings for Sansa.
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Eeeugh. What big brother wouldn\u2019t have lashed out as precisely as Jon had?
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Is Game of Thrones trying to make us lose our dinner? <\/strong>
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After last week\u2019s bed-pan rhapsody, it was back to Oldtown for further gross-out visual humour. As Ser Jorah (Iain Glen) chomped on a leather strap, Sam (John Bradley-West) merrily hacked at his Greyscale infection \u2013 an excuse for Game of Thrones to delight our senses with the crunch of splintering skin and the wet pop of diseased flesh. The final hilarious flourish came with a cut to a chap chomping a pie. Cheers Game of Thrones \u2013 it\u2019s going be years before we can even think about Cornish Pasty for lunch.
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The episode felt like the Game of Thrones version of the Avengers <\/strong>
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Enemies of Cersei\u2026 assemble! Under the same roof were gathered Daenerys, Olenna Tyrell (Diana Rigg), Ellaria Sand (pre-Euron Greyjoy run-in), Yara and Theon and Tyrion Lannister. Opinions differed as to the smartest way of conquering the Seven Kingdoms. Olenna and Ellaria were of the “torch first, ask questions later” school \u2013 but Daenerys and Tyrion had a more subtle plan. The Lannisters would be neutralised via a smash and grab raid by the Unsullied on the House’s seat at Casterly Rock. Cunning! But the machinations were in truth an afterthought. The thrill was seeing all of these great players gathered around a table together, nattering as if they\u2019d been best mates forever.
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It\u2019s been an understated season for Cersei (Lena Hea
\ndey) thus far. Mostly the show has asked her to prance around in black robes and look quietly gaga.\u00a0 However, this week we had a glimpse of what she\u2019s planning by way of encore after destroying the Sept of Balor last year. In the bowels of the Red Keep Qyburn (Anton Lesser) and the boys in r \u2019n d had worked up a prototype giant crossbow \u2013 perfect for shooting pesky dragons from the sky.\u00a0 Surrounded by enemies, with even Jaime doubting her, you wanted to applaud Cersei for always having a trick up her sleeve \u2013 “trick” in this case being the largest projectile weapon the Seven Kingdoms have yet witnessed. Is it wrong to root for her?
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Will Arya stop trying to kill everyone now?<\/strong>
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“Jon Snow came down from Castle Black with a Wildling army and won the Battle of the Bastards \u2013 he’s King in the North now.” Hot Pie\u2019s newsflash was just the excuse Arya (Maisie Williams) needed to abandon Operation Kill Everyone (next on the list was Cersei Lannister) and instead set course for Winterfell.<\/p>\n

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The first of what will presumably be many tearful reunions followed as she reconnected with beloved Direwolf Nymeria. Alas, the primordial pooch wasn\u2019t interested in a long-term get together. But she at least persuaded her fellow peckish predators to forbear from ripping Arya to pieces. By Game of Thrones standards, this constituted a properly heart-warming moment.
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Culled from www.telegraph.co.uk<\/a> <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n