Games Of Thrones Season 7: What 'Eastwatch' Really Means

15. Jaime And Bronn Live - OBVIOUSLY

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After the most ridiculously unnecessary cliff-hanger in Game Of Thrones history, the start of the episode established that both Jaime and Bronn were revealed to be fine, if a little moist. In the end, Bronn fished Jaime out of the drink, and they simply went home, making this whole little sub-plot seem a little... superfluous.

It also looks like a twist on the set-up: the way the episode ended, you would have assumed that Bronn and Jaime would end up in captivity or trapped behind enemy lines for a while to set up Jaime meeting Tyrion and the brothers talking about Cersei's descent into madness or something. But it turned out not to be, and we're instead supposed to believe that Dany was able to move basically her entire army away from the battlefield before they came up for air...

So why bother with it? Well, crucially, their encounter with Dany's dragon and the Dothraki inspired fear in Jaime and Bronn, which is not a small point. They are the most fearsome warriors on Cersei's side, and Bronn basically retired on the spot (seemingly willing to give up his desire for a castle), while Jaime was shook to his core. They had to come face to face with death, via Jaime's Leeroy Jenkins impression for that really to ring true.

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