Game Of Thrones Season 7 Finale: 9 Ups And 2 Downs From 'The Dragon And The Wolf'

2. The Dragon And The Wolf

With this episode title it always seemed likely we'd get a Rhaegar Targaryen flashback, and The Dragon and the Wolf didn't disappoint in showing the eponymous couple.

Like with last year's Tower of Joy reveal it's seen through Bran's eyes, who narrates the sequence parallel to Jon and Daenerys having sex.

Again, like with Tower of Joy, the wedding of Rhaegar (with some excellent casting, given how similar to Viserys he looks) and Lyanna is a beautiful scene that allows us to see a pivotal moment in recent Westeros history (and for its future, too). It confirms that Rhaegar and Lyanna were in love, married, and that Jon's real name is Aegon Targaryen.

It totally flips the accepted history of Robert's Rebellion on its head, and gives us another key detail in that 20-years-in-the-making reveal. It's a touching, emotional moment, and weirdly works well with the incest love scene. It'd have been nice to get an even longer scene with Rhaegar and Lyanna, and probably better without Bran's narration, but what we did receive was still immensely satisfying.

As for Jon's real name, it's quite odd that Rhaegar would have two children called Aegon Targaryen. He was a man driven by prophecy though, so perhaps thought Aegon was what the Prince That Was Promised had to be called, or else Lyanna went with the name thinking it'd be a nice touch without really caring that one already existed. It could also be setting Jon up as the show's take on Aegon from the books, who is one of the (allegedly) big characters they've left out, but that feels like a stretch at this point.