Game Of Thrones Season 8 Breakdown: What 'Winterfell' REALLY Means

7. Arya's Weapon (And Love?)

The episode is pock-marked with reunions, with Arya enjoying the lion's share as she meets Jon once more and then Gendry and The Hound in one fell swoop. Her reunion with Jon is loaded with the fact that he recognises a change in her (that's why he asks if she's used Needle and then no-sells her response) and then trusts her enough to admit he died and came back, but it's her reunion with Gendry that will have got hearts fluttering.

After navigating a deliciously withering line from The Hound (what else were you expecting, a hug?!), Arya sees her old friend and they flirt outrageously while she pretends to be above all that sort of nonsense. Something is blossoming there, nonetheless, but it has to take a backseat to Gendry's new powers since he can literally forge Dragonglass.

He's now so important to defeating the White Walkers that he's definitely going to die soon. Brilliant. But not before he makes Arya the weapon she requests of him, whose schematics seem to suggest a long bow with a dagger at one end (the Catspaw Dagger?) and Dragonglass at the other, which can come apart into two smaller weapons. The weapon has been hinted at as being a "showstopper" of a weapon and "absolutely phenomenal" by Thrones weapons master Tommy Dunne (via Vanity Fair) so expect big things.

Seems like we're going to see her actually getting to use the bow skills she learned at the House Of Black And White after all. But yeah, Gendry just made himself as Dead Meat as Thoros was because of his ability to bring people back from the dead. The minute you're THAT useful, you're doomed.