Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 2, “Stormborn” is out and the plot thickens. What were the 5 biggest moments from last night’s episode? This is a spoilerific article. You’ve been warned!

1. Setting Up Jon Snow’s Meeting With Daenerys

At last! Daenerys is finally made aware of Jon Snow, the King in the North. The beginning of episode 2 sees Melisandre arrive at Dragonstone. She relays the plight the North faces with the threat of the White Walkers, and counsels Daenerys to summon Jon Snow to forge an alliance. After a brief discussion with Tyrion who supports the move, a raven is dispatched to Winterfell, and Jon receives it in the same episode. Whether or not both parties can see eye to eye (and if Jon’s true heritage comes to light) remains to be seen. But this is a power play that’s got us excited.

2. Cersei Has A Way To Kill The Dragons

Word has also reached Kings Landing that Daenerys and her army has arrived. During a hearing between the Queen and her closest allies, the one thing on everyone’s lips are the three dragons. Aegon the conqueror also had three dragons with him when he took over Westeros. Can they be stopped? Apparently, they can. Later in the episode, Cersei is taken beneath the city and is shown a weapon – an enlarged ballista with arrows that can definitely mortally harm dragons.

3. Sam Tarly Is Jorah Mormont’s Last Hope

In Episode 1, we found out that Jorah is in the citadel, and is severely affected by the greyscale sickness. When Sam discovers Jorah’s identity, he takes special interest in discovering a way to treat the ousted knight. It’s a great scene between Sam and Jorah when Sam explains how he was with Jorah’s father when he passed. After sneaking into Jorah’s containment cell late at night, Sam starts the treatment procedure, and we’ll have to wait until next week to find out if it works.

4. Arya Is Heading Back North

In a brief scene towards mid episode, Arya returns to the inn where her old friend Hot Pie is still alive and serving, well, pie. The two share updates and Hot Pie tells her that Jon is now King of the North and Winterfell is free of the Boltons. With new hope and having finally heard good news about her family in a long, long time, Arya sets forth for her home in the north. What she doesn’t know is that Jon has already departed for Dragonstone. Therefore, she’s bound to run into Sansa, who’ve she’s not heard from in ages as well.

5. Theon Abandons Ship (Literally)

The final minutes of the Episode 2 is a glorious battle at sea. Euron Greyjoy intercepts his nephew’s fleet that’s heading to Dorne to fetch an army at Daenerys’s command. The battle claims a few casualties, with two out of the three Dornish princesses are killed by Euron. At the climax of the battle Euron confronts Yara and overpowers her, putting his weapon to her throat calling to Theon to come rescue her. In a fit of cowardice brought forward by his inner “Reek”, Theon jumps off the ship into the sea instead of freeing his sister.

Game of Thrones S7 Episode 2 moves the plot along at a frightening pace, setting up the pieces nicely for future episodes. We now know that Jon and Daenerys have an appointment, and cannot wait to see how that transpires. Bring on episode 3!

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After a long wait, Game of Thrones is finally back, and the first episode of season 7 is everything we expected it to be. Last night’s episode was all about catching up with the main players of the major houses in Westeros. There were some great set-up scenes that’s got us watering in the mouth for future episodes. Needless to say, this entire posts and future ones are going to be spoilerific. You have been warned. Here are the 5 biggest moments from Game of Thrones S7E1:

1. Arya’s Ruthless Streak Continues

The youngest of the Stark girls is having a couple of ruthless seasons. Toward the end of last season, we know Arya is out for blood. Everything she’s learned from Braavos about being a faceless assassin is paying off. She’s already taken out Walder Frey, and at the beginning of this episode she uses that to come full circle. Consider it payback in cold blood (literally), for the Freys have done to her family during the Red Wedding.

With her mask on impersonating Walder Frey, she gathers the entire House’s bannermen and family members. A rousing speech ensues, before she makes them drink the wine that ultmiately kills them. It’s a morale boosting scene for fans of House Stark, and a great way to start the episode.

2. John & Sansa’s Differences In Ruling

Back in the North, the rest of House Stark are gathering momentum. Jon and Sansa are rallying the Northern houses to their cause. The interesting moment came during an awkward stand-off between the two. Jon wants to rule with pride and tradition, a characteristic shared with Ned Stark. He refuses to punish the heirs to House Umber and Karstarks, who’s fathers betrayed Jon when they stood by Ramsay Bolton. Sansa on the other hand, insists their castles be awarded to other Houses who fought for him, not against. While the sibblings still remain close, this could be an indication that there could be future rifts incoming. This could put the North in a potential civil war. Littlefinger is still around, but we still don’t know his endgame, although Sansa apparently does.

3. Cersei’s Losing The Plot

Towards the middle of the episode, we do see the queen of mean herself, Cersei Lannister in Kings Landing. There was a good five minutes of exposition where Cersei explains to Jaime what her plan was to get allies. At this point, she’s borderline paranoid about losing the throne and it shows. She’s completely losing it and shows no remorse whatsoever when confronted about the death of her children. She invites the usurper of the throne to House Greyjoy and asks him for a favor.

4. Ed Sheran & The Hound

The shocking moment of the episode did not involve a high profile death. Instead, it was the surprising cameo of superstar singer Ed Sheeran, making his Game of Thrones debut. In a scene where Arya passes by a Gold Cloak encampment, singing can be heard and it’s non other than Ed himself. He has a few lines of dialogue but nothing too complicated. Will he be featured on the official soundtrack and has he composed a track that we are yet to hear?

Sandor Clegane is also back, continuing his journey with the Brotherhood Without Banners. This part of the episode shows us that The Lord of Light is real, and has opened The Hound’s eyes to the true threat in the North.

5. Daenarys Has Arrived

And the final big moment of the episode came towards the very end, and of course, it involves the Queen of Dragons. Daenerys Targaryen finally arrives to claim her childhood heritage, Dragonstone. Her armada of ships carrying her enterouge (Tyrion et al) are briefly shown. There was a hair raising moment at the very end as she speaks one line of intent to Tyrion. The game begins.

Overall, a solid first episode to start season seven of Game of Thrones. What will be the 5 biggest moments on next week’s episode? Stay tuned.

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