Game Of Thrones
Season 07-Episode 03
The Queen's Justice
Even Dany’s greatest triumph in this episode — she takes
Casterly Rock! — is hollow, because she was basically set up to take it
by the Lannisters, who left the Unsullied now occupying the fortress
without provisions or much of anything at all. Meanwhile, Cersei wipes
out the Tyrells and much of the rest of Dany’s fleet. The Queen of the
Seven Kingdoms is making quick work of her opponents so far, and Dany
had better start learning some lessons from all this losing quickly.
What’s odd about the episode is that it’s a bit of a
throwback to the show’s first season, when major, major battles mostly
happened offscreen, then were summarized by the characters afterward.
(In the most famous example of this, Tyrion was about to head into
battle himself before he was knocked out and missed everything.)
This happened back when the show was in budget
conservation mode — not now that it has more money than anybody else.
Granted, I probably didn’t need to see the invasions of either
Casterly Rock or Highgarden in great detail, but the show’s approach
(which is to have a few bloody images with somebody summarizing what’s
happening in voiceover) occupies a weird middle ground that doesn’t really satisfy one way or the other.
That means this episode is about evenly split between
winners and losers, too. Here are the seven winners and six losers who
made “The Queen’s Justice” just a bit of a drag.
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