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Game of Thrones Season 7 Recap
The seventh season of Game of Thrones premiered on July 16, 2017, and ended in August 27, 2017. That feels like that was decades ago! If you can’t remember what happened in season 7 and want a fresh recap continue reading and watch the video below [Warning Spoilers Ahead]. A special thanks to the Man of Recaps for allowing us to use his videos on our site! Please watch more of his videos and subscribe to his channel.
Winter is Here! A quick written synopsis of season 7 Game of Thrones.
Daenerys is at the edge of Westeros in Dragonstone with her army of Unsullied and Dothraki soldiers and three dragons. They decide to try and recruit Jon Snow as an ally for the battle of the Iron Throne.
Jon Snow, is back with his remaining family in Winterfell, but travels to meet Daenerys at Dragonstone to meet with her but also to request dragon glass, a material used to kill the White Walkers. The pair grow close as they plan how best to defeat Cersei and the White Walkers. As they hatch a plan, Tyrion advises Dany to avoid killing civilians in King’s Landing with her dragons and instead urges her to target the Lannister home Casterly Rock. On the seas the Greyjoy fleet would sail to Dorne to mobilise Ellaria’s Dornish troops, and the Unsullied would take the Lannister castle.
Cersei considers a marriage proposal from Euron Greyjoy and offers him a chance to prove himself by defeating the incoming invaders. Yara and her army are defeated at sea by Euron.
Meanwhile, battles erupt between Dothraki cavalry and the Lannister battalions, led by Jaime. Dany’s strongest dragon Drogon is injured by a specially designed ballista during the attack.
Having seen the dragon, Jaime warns Cersei of Danys’s power. Jon and Dany decide to call a truce with Cersei and head north of the Wall to capture a White Walker. Jon succumbs to the Night King’s trap and requires saving by Dany. In the process, they capture a Walker but lose the dragon Viserion, who falls under the Night King’s spell.
Jon and Danyhead to King’s Landing to discuss teaming up with Cersei to defeat the Walker army. They bring their captured White Walker to convince her. Jon, Dany and Tyrion head back to Winterfell after the meeting. Snow and Dany become intimate, on a boat, its a meme.
Arya and Sansa are reunited with Bran at Winterfell but tensions between the sisters emerge and are exploited by Littlefinger. His duplicity is exposed when Bran reveals it was Littlefinger who killed Jon Arryn — the murder that instigated the entire game of thrones. Sansa has him executed. Bran also learns of Jon’s true heritage — he is not in fact Ned Stark’s bastard but a Targaryen with a legitimate claim to the Iron Throne.
The Night King and the White Walkers destroy the Wall with the help of newly revived Wight Viserion who spews ice-fire to destroy the wall. Winter and War is here!
It’s true that it’s hard to keep up with all the characters, but thanks to George R. R. Martin that character list gets smaller and smaller every season/book.
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