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Meanwhile, In Westeros \u2026 The Gang\u2019s All Here on Game of Thrones\u2019 Final Season Premiere [RECAP]<\/b><\/p>\n

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Finally! After more than a year and half since the season seven finale, Game of Thrones<\/em> is back for its final batch of explosive episodes.<\/p>\n

With queer characters like Renly Baratheon, Ser Loras and Oberyn Martell (and even icons like Lady Olenna and Margaery Tyrell) long gone, the show\u2019s queer relevance has disappointingly dipped just as its cultural relevance is hitting a fever pitch. A case can definitely be made that rebelling against societal expectations, defying gender norms and navigating relationships with family (by birth, adoption or choice) could be all be considered inherently queer themes, but, in the end, there are eyeballs from all across the Kinsey Scale still glued to Game of Thrones<\/em>.<\/p>\n

All that said, Winter is here, and we\u2019re going to finish out the series we started recapping back in season five.<\/p>\n

And what a start we had! The season eight finale packed so much into its super-sized runtime, there was hardly any time to digest all the reads, reunions and reveals. Let\u2019s jet-set across Westeros and catch up.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, In Winterfell \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone loves a parade, though the throngs of Dothraki and Unsullied marching through Winterfell isn\u2019t receiving the warmest welcome. (And let\u2019s be honest, if this was really a Daenerys Army Pride parade, there\u2019d be at least one float sponsored by the Iron Bank.) <\/p>\n

Folks are a bit skeptical of the Targaryen queen, despite their loyalty to Jon Snow and the Starks. Arya and Bran watch the procession, including a fun little shade session between Tyrion and Varys that felt like the Westerosi equivalent of Untucked<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Then, we get reunions aplenty. Jon sees Bran for the first time since leaving for the Night\u2019s Watch. \u201cYou\u2019re a man<\/a>!\u201d Jon exclaims seeing his little bro. \u201cAlmost \u2026\u201d Bran eerily replies. That\u2019s so Raven!<\/p>\n

Sansa catches up with her ex(still?)- husband Tyrion, whom she last saw at Joffrey\u2019s wedding. \u201cIt had its moments,\u201d Sansa says of the event, no doubt reliving Joffrey\u2019s gruesome demise. Sansa, growing more shrewd by the day, essentially tells Tyrion he\u2019s a big dumb dummy for thinking Cersei is going to send any army up to help them.<\/p>\n

Arya sees The Hound, still alive, which must\u2019ve been a surprise to her. She sees Gendry, now a sexy Sean Cody-type, which also must\u2019ve been a surprise to her. She sees Jon, which is overall just sweet. Her and her step-brother\/cousin talk about swords, but she\u2019s got a shocking lack of follow-up questions about the whole coming back from the dead thing, and he really doesn\u2019t dig too deep into whom exactly she may have used Needle on. There\u2019ll be time for that after they defeat the Night King, I guess. (No, there won\u2019t. Let\u2019s be real, Jon and Arya are not very high on my list of characters most likely to survive.)<\/p>\n

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Varys, Tyrion and Ser Davos kiki about how totes adorbs Jon and Dany look. Maybe they should get married! Aw! <\/p>\n

There is definitely some romance blooming. Dany invites Jon to hop aboard her big, hot dragon, which is not a euphemism, for a little flight around the North. Rhaegal \u2014 so named for Jon\u2019s actual birth father \u2014 doesn\u2019t eat Jon, which is a good sign. After a romantic flight, they touchdown beside a wintery waterfall and do a little smooching. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s all very tender and loving until you remember he\u2019s her nephew. Yikes. These are not our Westerosi Ross and Rachel. They\u2019re Rachel and Ross\u2019 son, Ben! Even Drogon is looking on like \u201cEw, mom, gross!\u201d <\/p>\n

For now, Jon has a pretty full plate of things to worry about. His bannermen (and bannerwomen \u2026 bannerpersons?) are uneasy about trusting a Targaryen. They want to know why he would relinquish the crown they gave him. Plus, how are they supposed to feed an entire army of Unsullied and Dothraki. Those guys<\/a> can EAT. Jon assures them he did what he had to do to keep everyone alive, and all this nonsense about thrones and crowns and titles is just details, details until they defeat the Night King.<\/p>\n

Dany and Jorah go to thank Sam for all his awesome work curing Jorah of Greyscale. Sam is happy to help, but while he has the queen\u2019s ear, perhaps this is a good time to ask for a pardon for overdue library fees on a few books he borrowed from the Citadel and also for stealing a Valyrian steel sword from his dad, Lord Tarly.<\/p>\n

Tarly? Was that Tarly, you said? Dany is taken aback. See, Sam, funny story, ran into your dad with the Loot Train and, wouldn\u2019t you know, he just would not bend the knee. So, and this is a funny story, really, Dany just had no other choice than to have her dragon burn him alive. Lol!<\/p>\n

Now, Sam had a complicated with his dad anyway. Plus, he\u2019s still got that (hot) brother Dickon! <\/p>\n

Ooh \u2026 about that. Yikes. He also wouldn\u2019t bend the knee, and, this is awkward, he got burned up too!<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Arya pays a visit to Gendry, the Tony Stark of Westeros, to ask him to craft her a weapon. What is it? What\u2019s it for? Who knows! <\/p>\n

Sam finds Jon Snow just chillin\u2019 in the tombs. Maybe eager to spoil Dany\u2019s good time, Sam spills the beans to Jon about his true parentage. He is the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen. That makes him legit half-Stark, half-Targaryen, and, since Lyanna and Rhaegar were married in secret, he has more of a claim to the throne than Daenerys. <\/p>\n

This complicates things, obviously. First, he\u2019s been making sexytimes with his aunt, which is a no-no. (It\u2019s less of a no-no in Westeros, but still.) Sam posits to Jon that he was willing to forgo his claim to the crown to save everyone. Would Dany do the same? Jon obviously values justice, but is Dany in it for power? Revenge?<\/p>\n

While everyone else is preparing for war or having sweet reunions, Bran has been sitting outside like a total creep, telling folks he was waiting for an old friend. Turns out, the friend he\u2019s been waiting for was none other than Jaime Lannister.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, In King\u2019s Landing \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Euron, the sexy pirate uncle of Yara and Theon, has brought Sexy Pete Holmes from the Golden Company mercenary army to Cersei. She\u2019s a bit disappointed with the lack of elephants, but not enough to deny Euron\u2019s request for a little thank you sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Things are getting horny<\/a> all over King\u2019s Landing. While Cersei is making sexytimes with Euron, Bronn is trying to get it on with a few of Westeros\u2019 finest whores. In sidles Qyburn (someone needs to put a bell on him or something). He tells Bronn that Cersei wants him to murder Jaime and Tyrion using the crossbow Tyrion killed Tywin with. Poetic!<\/p>\n

Also, while Euron was busy sailing his schooner into Cersei\u2019s Rebecca<\/a>, Theon sneaks aboard one of his ships, kills the men<\/a> (including It\u2019s Always Sunny In Philadelphia<\/a><\/em>\u2018s Rob McElhenney and <\/a>Silicon Valley<\/a><\/em>\u2018s Martin Starr<\/a>) and springs his sister Yara free. They take a few ships back to the Iron Islands, which Yara reminds us will be a great place to retreat from Wights if things don\u2019t go great up North. I\u2019M SURE THAT WON\u2019T BE IMPORTANT LATER.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s obvious Theon wants to fight alongside Jon and the Starks, and Yara gives him her blessing to do so.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, in the Last Hearth \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

In one of the Northern lands, our friends Tormund, Dolorous Edd, Beric Dondarrion and a few other survivors from the fallen Wall have made their way to a seemingly abandoned camp. The Night King has beat them there, and he left them a little present: a turned little boy<\/a> is staked to the wall surrounded by mangled body parts. His artPOP could mean anything!<\/p>\n

But in this case the message is clear: He\u2019s gonna kill everybody.<\/p>\n

What did you think of the premiere? Leave your wildest theories in the comments? <\/p>\n

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