Though we came for the promised spectacle – that brief glimpse of White Walkers – we stayed for the Borgian intrigue and dynastic squabbles, and it’s the human drama that’s defined the show despite the promise of the inhuman often just out of sight. Imagine getting all of that in between Bran Stark climbing a wall and Ned sharing a tender moment with his missus. Icy zombies lurch out of the snow in pursuit of Samwell Tarly (James Bradley), a giant turns to regard Jon Snow (Kit Harington) with feral disdain, and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke)’s pet dragons, now the size of foxes, their spines darker and more murderous, dive for fish and toast them in mid-air. ![]() It feels less like an impossibly long time since Game Of Thrones first durrr-durrr-DUR-DUR-DUR-DURred onto our screens in a cloud of Yorkshire and incest, but not so much that we perhaps realise just how far we’ve all come, both audience and show.
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