Have you ever experienced so many deaths in a single hour? Margaery, Loras, the High Sparrow and everyone else in the Sept of Baelor. Tommen. Walder Frey.All that before we even got to epicly see Daenerys’ and her super army or before the truth of Jon’s true parentage revealed or Queen Cersei ascending to the throne. Let’s be real we’re all quivering at the thought of the future of our kingdom.
The episode started in King’s Landing, Cersei, Tommen, Margaery and the High Sparrow get dressed for the big trials that will take place that day in the Sept of Baelor for the so called treasons Loras and Cersei have committed. One of Qyburn’s sparrows arrives at Gran Maester Pycelle’s chambers and whispers something in his ear.
At the trial Loras Tyrell, confesses to his crimes: “All of them. I lay with other men, including the traitor Renly Baratheon,” he says, before kneeling before the holy man and saying that his only remaining wish “is to devote my life to The Seven” — aka abandoning the Tyrell name and his claims on Highgarden, and leading a life of celibacy. So while Margaery and her father look on, the faith militant’s symbol is carved into Loras’ forehead. “The faith is the way, father,” Marg says, holding her dad back when he tries to interfere.
Back at the Red Keep, Cersei is pouring wine, putting on jewelry and being her normal fabulous self not giving a damn about literally everyone, go figure. However, when Tommen prepares to leave to witness the trials, The Mountain “Clegane” blocks his way. Why? Stay tuned for this fun one. Poor old Pycelle being lured into Qyburn’s creepy lair and murdered by a knife-wielding flock of feral little sparrows while the faux maester talks about doing away with the old to make way for the new. And when yet another kiddo lures Lancel (the creepy Lannister cousin we met early on in the season)— who was sent to retrieve Cersei — down under the city and then stabs him near a giant cache of wildfire, it’s clear that Mad Queen Cersei is a go.
Later on, she gets her payback moment when she captures Septa Unella, ties her on to a bed and repeats the words “Confess,” while pouring wine onto the face of the septa who shouted “Shame!” during her walk of atonement. THIS is the reason why you just love to hate Cersei. “You’re not going to die today. You’re not going to die for quite a while,” the queen tells the Septa as she requests for The Mountain “Clegane” to enter the room and prepares to exit. “Your gods have forsaken you. This is your god now.” And then, because the queen knows how to make an exit, she chants, “Shame! Shame! Shame!” while closing the door on the nun’s horrified screams due to some probably horrific things The Mountain does to her.
Tommen who watches the entire thing unfold from his bedroom window, takes off his crown, steps into his window, and leaps to his death. Let me remind you that all of this happens within the first 15 minutes of the show. Only Game of Thrones could pull off a stunt like this.
Remember Bran? Bran’s off doing some sorcery stuff seeing into the past and being all three-eyed raven-y. Bran sees into the past and returns to the Tower of Joy with a young Ned Stark on his way up to see his sister Lyanna covered in blood on her bed. From what we can see she is or has given birth. During her final moments, Lyanna whispers to Ned “If Robert finds out, he’ll kill him. You know he will.” And she makes him promise her to keep the baby boy safe. Now for everyone who didn’t read the books, fan theories, or honestly anything related to Game of Thrones we’ll break the secret to you. Jon is a Targaryen. Shocker right? How you ask? Well Lyanna Stark was supposedly married to Robert Baratheon but was kidnapped by Rhaegar Targaryen. Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark had a child and his magnificent name was Jon Snow. Ned Stark promised Lyanna that he would never reveal his true parentage in order to keep him safe. Well Ned Stark’s dead and there’s no telling if the secret will stay a secret.
Going back to what’s left of King’s Landing. Jaime who has just returned from Riverrun, comes back to a no longer there sept and his sister/love Cersei as the newly appointed queen next to her advisor Qyburn and guard The Mountain.
The episode ends with Daenerys and her Ironborne navy — with Tyrion, The Greyjoys and her now larger than life dragons —setting sail for Westeros ready to restore the Iron Throne back to the Targaryens.
Game of Thrones Season 7 has yet a set air date but is said to premiere late summer of 2017 with 7 episodes.
“We all need to leave, now!” Margaery tells everyone at the sept, having figured out that if the Queen and Tommen aren’t there, there’s probably a very good reason for it. Smart little cookie she is. Unfortunately the faith militant wouldn’t allow anyone to leave. Underneath the sept, Lancel crawls toward candles lying in pools of green, highly flammable substance but can’t put them out in time. And as the completely epic moment unfolds along with the epic music, the wildfire ignites and the building blows — with the breeze ruffling Cersei’s short hair from where she watches at the Red Keep. That moment was worth the wait right?