Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6 “Beyond the Wall” Post Episode Recap and Review

Finally i have something to listen to while i game

Robb needed Grey Wind to bite off Lord Umber's fingers to keep the North in line

I'd like to see LF shatter like a white walker if Arya stabs him

If you had a bunch of wights take down the dragon Joe would cry it was too much like World War Z

I'm pretty sure small is in reference to Jon's birth

The same reason Dario isn't a fit consort

Apparently Joe wants the upcoming books to be spoiled in the show.

You'll be happy there is still meat on the bone when/if they come out.

Why pick it when you can battle it all?

Calm down Cersei

Know your lore

They used chains to drag ice blocks to build the wall

Put your hoods up?

Yes let's make it even harder to tell who's who

I'm sorry Joe didn't like the episode, but I think he is exaggerating. The problems with this episode (illogical plot, lack of George RR's guidance) are the same with the problems of this entire season. If he hates this episode, why doesn't he hate S07 Ep2? It's completely illogical that Daenerys doesn't launch a full assault with all her forces on the red keep in episode 2. The only real reason she doesn't attack is the show runners want to stretch GOT to 8 seasons, so they were stalling. This writing in episode 7 was better than any episode this season.

Did anyone else notice how good the cinematography was this ep?

Sansa reminded me of when she used to be all like "Let's be ladies, sit next to the queen and eat lemon cakes."

Carmine defending Sansa's character arc is the best thing I've heard all week ❤️

Thank you for another great recap!!!

Did you guys notice it went from 10 guys to a magic 13?

Does anyone else feel like Tyrion is playing Dany? I mean the bad battle plans which places Dany at a disadvantage, asking he about her successors, suggesting going to go get a wight to show cersi?? To me it seems like Tyrion has been trying to get rid of all of Dany's allies. That's why he didn't want her to go rescue Jon, because he wanted them to die. So then the set up could be Dany gets imprisoned or killed. I fully expect her entire army to get bombarded with wildfire bombs and have scorpion bolts targeted on both dragons as soon as they show up, game over for dany… thanks to Tyrion. And he was just asking who she wanted to succeed her just so he knew what other threats there were so they could target them too. Just a theory, I just hate to think all that shit happend and went badly just cause Tyrion "underestimated" things.

Very smart coat Danny has on….. Where is ghost?

Is the Night King taking his time because he knows he cannot cross the wall? Maybe he is waiting for an opportunity to see if Bran slips up again, so he can touch him.

+Phil TheIssuesGuy RE: Making sense of the dumbest plot since the Sand Snakes – capturing a Wight to convince Cersei… CERSEI!

Jon surviving and being "reborn" from the lake is a fulfillment of the Azor Ahai prophecy. Everyone, rightfully so, is hung up how ridiculous this mission of in-westerous bastards was. Consider: the visions to the mountain shaped like an arrow, at the place where the Night King was created, Bran giving just enough info to tell Jon where to go even though Bran knows all… There is a much greater purpose to going there with all these main characters than to capture a Wight, even though none of the viewers or characters know.

We have to look at the actual result. (1) We get the 3rd head of the dragon: Night King (ice), Danny (fire), Jon (ice and fire) (2) We get Jon being reborn, surviving the ice water and cold, because he's a Wight of the Lord of Light (3) We get the champion, as Jon kills another White Walker, and the revelation that if you kill the WW, the Wights it controls cease to be animated. The champion now has all the knowledge he needs (dragonglass,
valyrian steel, fire, kill the WW and you kill the Wights…etc) to defeat the Night King (4) Danny sees Jon as her champion, and we solidify their relationship to make whoopie (5) Danny is supposedly barren, unable to give birth, her womb stone… were she to get prego from Jon, it would be a stone dragon – again fulfillment of the Azor Ahai prophecy. (6) The Night King now has a way to get over The Wall, and a champion is now more important than ever.

So while the stated premise for this mission impossible is so painfully idiotic – in the context of Azor Ahai, it makes a lot of sense. P.S. If the Night King can skinchange into Viserion, which is how they control the Wights, and dead bears, horses, and giants (oh my)… then so can Bran. "But you will fly."

Dragons burn shit. It''s what they do. What do you expect them to do? Dany is supposed to stop using them as weapons so as not to repeat herself? You will see more of it, so prepare to be disappointed again i guess. i personally can't get enough of it, i found this one even more impressive to watch than the caravan attack. We've been waiting for dragons to burn the dead for years, well here is was. I had to dry my eyes after that scene.

Tyrion will be a dragon-rider alongside Daenerys in the final battle; Jon Snow (Aegon Targaryen) is a better swordsman and will fight on the ground.

"A very small man can cast a very large shadow" — Varys

So my daughter walked in on this at the beginning…she is 15. For reference, i have shown both my teens (I have a 17 yo too.) all the battle scenes from GOT because they are cool. She was unimpressed totally. And she also wanted to know how the heck did they manage to get that dragon out of the water with just undead zombies. It was not a good episode for action, either. It seemed like recycled material in some parts.

Good point with the dragon glass, Joe. Why didn't they carry any?

Oh, and also did you see Longclaw's eye maybe possibly open when Jon was climbing out of the water?

https://twitter.com/mandeep_ashiya/status/899473320365531137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.storypick.com%2Fjon-snow-longclaw-episode-six%2F

Oh! and did you see the interview where one of the directors agreed that the timeline made no sense?

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-people-behind-game-of-thrones-admit-this-weeks-resc-1798304996?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Also, I guess we know what happened to Tyrion's Blackwater chain!

With Jon fucking around so much instead of fucking getting on the dragon, I wanted it to be 'his dragon' that died. Make him pay the price for wanting to play the hero some more instead of gto. Granted, that may also come from the fact that I really don't want Jon to ride a dragon anyhow because I think if he does that, Ghost is toast (unless someone tapes him to a dragon in battle).
Granted, given that his name sake died from burning gold, it was a cool visual for Viserion with the gold scales to burst aflame.

Why didn't they just let Jorah fall? Or do we have to have another wasted scene of yet another cringy friend zone goodbye…the payoffs I expected didn't happen. Quite disappointed with the story this season…too rushed.D and D should have been replaced 2 seasons ago..when they got tired of it.

I'm on Joes side. Weakest episode ever. Gendry fast as The Flash, ravens fast as WhatsApp and dragons fast as jets. Jon going on a rampage instead of flying away or killing the Night's King with dragon fire. And where did the wights get those massive chains from ??????

Sansa needs to die next episode

Another plot hole I found is that they should have walked over the ice and kill the team of people in the middle immediately.

The leaders have the power to create ice and lower the temperature to the point of turning off fire, even create weapons made of ice that are hard enough to act like steel. Why didn't they do that with the lake so that the zombies could walk over it?

An wasn't arya tere serving tywin food when him an Lil finger were conspiring to kill Robb I think her an Sansa are playin Lil finger

#SlowZombies

I agree Season 5 is the lowest scoring season for me

I actually thought that the banter was the worst part of the episode. Had they cut it down a bit that would have given more screen time to Arya/Sansa or Dany/Jon conversation and stories. They maybe wouldn't have felt as rushed.

Jacob here, I am looking forward to cheers. wondering if you will cover all episodes. I am at the end of season 4.