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Game of Thrones review: Season 7, Episode 2

Siena Yates
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24 Jul, 2017 02:35 AM3 mins to read

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      SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 7, Episode 2: Stormborn. Do not read if you haven't seen the episode.

      After last week left Thrones fans underwhelmed by a lack of action, this week saw everything go up in flames.

      While all eyes were on the Starks or Danaerys, the deaths that came this week took us by surprise.

      Most notably for us, Kiwi star Keisha Castle-Hughes finally reappeared in the show only to meet a bloody, gory death at the tip of Euron Greyjoy's spear.

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      We told you not to sleep on Euron - this guy is 100% shaking things up. The first move Dany made (after far too much deliberating and "I'm the boss"-ing) was thwarted by Euron's fleet after Yara, Theon and the Sand Snakes assumed they'd have an easy run taking out Cersei's surrounding cities.

      Euron flew into the battle with a manic grin, cutting people down and being spattered in blood like a far more hardcore Jack Sparrow. The Sand Snakes - who had just been below deck bragging about their skills - took on Euron and couldn't even manage that, with Nymeria also meeting her bloody end and Tyene and Ellaria taken captive - presumably Euron's previously promised gift to Cersei as they did, after all, murder Cersei's daughter.

      It was an oddly abrupt farewell to the fierce women of Dorne, and one that's even more annoying given Ellaria and Yara were getting super cosy before Euron ruined everything (mad props to Ellaria's "a foreign invasion is underway" double entendre).

      But most importantly, Euron took Yara hostage with a knife to her throat and challenged Theon to save his sister. But instead, he reverted back to Reek and literally jumped ship leaving his sister to an unknown (but almost definitely awful) fate.

      Here's hoping it's a fake out and Theon will come back to save the day, but also I really don't like the way Euron said "give your uncle a kiss" to Yara. #PrayForYara.

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      Meanwhile, around the rest of Westeros:

      • Melisandre has joined Team Dany, but only to unite them with Team Stark, which is happening. Jon is off to Dragonstone and while he's gone, he's leaving the North to Queen Sansa. Finally.

      • Missandei and Grey Worm finally got some sexy time. Only for him to then run off into war to take Casterly Rock.

      • Sam is still doing the grunt work at the Citadel, but he breaks the rules to help Ser Jorah despite the fact that performing the only known treatment for greyscale is forbidden. The Thrones creators then delighted in pulling another Poo Soup moment on us, cutting from Sam cutting into Jorah's oozing flesh to someone cutting into a meat pie. Thanks GoT, we can never have pie again now.

      • And finally, Arya ran into her old pal Hot Pie who told her Jon is in control of Winterfell in the North, so she can finally head home - which she did immediately. That Stark reunion is just another week away!
      There was also a brief, shining moment where it looked like Nymeria was back, but she rejected Arya's pleas to go north with her. Turns out Nymeria knows the Stark motto: The North remembers. And the North does not take too kindly to being chased into the woods and abandoned. Fingers crossed she'll be back soon.

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