Game Of Thrones Season 8 Breakdown: What 'A Knight Of Seven Kingdoms' REALLY Means

5. Brienne Is Knighted...

...And the crowd goes wild. Especially Tormund.

This entire episode was about fierce and often defiant feminine identity. From Sansa and Dany's meeting to Arya proving to Gendry that she is a worthy fighter and then the young Northern girl (designed to get Ser Davos right in the feels by being a Shereen clone) and Lyanna Mormont telling Ser Jorah she won't run away and hide, it's all writ large across the episode. And then there's the bloody brilliant moment when Lady Brienne is given what's rightfully hers by Jaime and becomes Ser Brienne, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

As Tormund so eloquently put it "f*ck tradition", because Brienne deserves to be knighted as much as any of the show's remaining knights. She is dutiful, honourable and magnificent and her knighting here fits with the idea of Dany's reign being a means to "break the wheel." That wasn't just a statement of wanting to lead, it was her defiant rallying cry against the established patriarchy and its stuffy traditions. And Gods bless that group of outsiders and losers in Winterfell's belly for doing something to at least break one of the wheel's spokes.