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

11. The North Remembers, The North Doesn't Forgive

When Jaime and Tyrion reunite (again), we get a nice reminder that the North generally does not like the Targaryens or the Lannisters. As Tyrion says, they remember the last time a Targaryen came up there with a dragon and his own family's history with them speaks for itself. That's why the Stark soldier spat at them and why they did nothing about it.

It was also a very obvious way of reminding us of the rift between the North and the South even in peacetime, which was doubled down upon when Sansa and Dany held private counsel. Despite them sharing niceties at first, their friction was renewed when Sansa asked for the North to be independent, which Dany clearly has no intention of doing.

While everyone is happily assuming that the story ends when someone on the "good" side sits on the Iron Throne, this was once more reiteration that the Great Game still continues even after the Night King's part in this story is done.

Also, what we were chiefly supposed to take from this exchange, beyond Sansa being an absolute queen herself, is that Dany, once again, is going to believe that people will always protect their own packs when challenged. That too is why we got her clash with Tyrion over Jaime right at the start. The show wants us to know that Dany's frame of mind is going to compromise how she views Jon (and what she assumes of his motives) when she finds out that he is a legitimate heir to the Iron Throne.

It wants us to think that she's going to think he will stick with his own family, basically.