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

2. SO MUCH Dead Meat Setting Up (Also Does Sansa LIKE Theon?!)

While this episode was really well written and incredibly successful in making us re-engage with the characters in a way that Season 7 mostly failed (and I am not one of those who thinks that season was particularly disappointing), it also served another purpose. This was HBO giving us lots of adorable puppy moments before episode 3 is essentially just a series of heart-breaking puppy stomps.

Seriously, if episode one was about heart-warming reunions, episode two was about reminding us what pretty much every character in the firing line will lose or why we'll miss them. Gendry and Arya are now a thing. The Mormonts are the last of their kind. The Hound is hilarious. Jaime, Brienne and Tormund are delightful and all entwined together. Grey Worm and Missandei have a future planned. It was like the show was trying to mark every single one of them for death.

And you know what, the hardest thing to accept is that they probably blood well are.

There was even a hint that Sansa might have some sort of elevated affection for Theon. That look she gave him was about as loaded as they come, after all, and they do have history. Weird history, yes, but that's not stopped any other romantic trysts.