Game Of Thrones Season 7: 10 Ups And 2 Downs From 'The Spoils Of War'

1. Field. Of. Fire.

Wow.

We've been teased this huge dragonriding moment for some time now, and yet nothing could've prepared us for just how epic this sequence was.

Daenerys flies in over the top of her Dothraki army, says "Dracarys", and the rest goes down in Game of Thrones history. This is the best dragon scene we've had on the show to date, and it was absolutely horrifying.

This isn't the spoils, but instead the true horrors of war (or at least, any war that includes a giant fire-breathing dragon). We see men set alight, hear the anguished screams, and everything below turns to ash, as Daenerys set about mirroring her ancestor Aegon.

Some of the shots here are stunning - Drogon flying over the heads of the Dothraki, and skimming the water with his reflection underneath are the two that come to mind immediately - and it's a display of power at once thrilling, awe-inspiring, and terrible.

Drogon might be breathing fire, but there's little time for us to breathe at all, and all there is to do is watch: eyes wide, mouths even wider, heart-racing, as - roughly around 300 years later - history repeats itself (a big theme of the series, and this season in particular), and we get Field of Fire 2.