Game Of Thrones Season 7: 9 Ups And 2 Downs From 'The Queen's Justice'

7. Euron's Reinvention Continues

Prior to Season 7 starting, Pilou Asbæk said: "The psychos I’ve encountered have so many different sides to them. So each scene I’ve done with Euron, I pick a new thing I wanna show. ‘This scene I want to be charming.’ ‘This scene I wanna be a molester.’ ‘This scene I wanna kill someone.’"

He delivered on the first in the premiere, and the last in Stormborn - his keeping of Yara as his own prisoner means the middle one is probably still to come.

Apparently for this scene, he decided he wanted to be the show's biggest jokester, while also playing wind-up merchant to Jaime Lannister. And, just like in the first two episodes, whatever he decides to be works out superbly.

His revelling in the worship from the comonfolk highlights his arrogance and sheer delight in this new role, and his comments to Jaime elicit some of the biggest laughs of the episode. Also he's quite clearly a bit mad, which makes it all the more fun.

Euron is destined to die: he's introduced too late in the game to have a significant impact on its ending, and is only being kept around for as long as he's useful to Cersei, who is very much leading him on. To that end he could be seen as an unnecessary distraction or somewhat superfluous, but it's a credit to the character's reinvention that he's completely entertaining instead, even if there is some truth to those criticisms and doubts.