Games Of Thrones Season 7: What 'Eastwatch' Really Means

3. The Annulment And Sam's Departure

As with all of the best, complexly written episodes of Game Of Thrones, 'Eastwatch' dropped a massive detail almost off-hand that confirmed a huge fan theory.

As Sam and Gilly sat reading in the Citadel, and Sam uncharacteristically lost his temper with his partner, Gilly unwittingly read out the details of a marriage annulment of Prince "Raggar", which Sam completely missed. Why wouldn't he? It means precisely nothing to anyone unaware of Jon's true bloody status.

That tiny detail means that Jon Snow is not a bastard, but is a true Targaryen as his parents were actually legally married and that he's rightful heir to the Iron Throne. And meanwhile Sam misses it because he's fixating on thousands of sh*ts. To be fair to him, he has reason to be haunted by poop after the start of this season.

And with that, he suddenly also decides to up and leave the Citadel, where ponderous inaction seems to be the order of the day, even in the face of "proof" of the Night King's army.

Incidentally, where exactly is Sam going now? He says he's sick of reading about the feats of better men, but he can't surely be planning on going North to fight on the front-lines. He might have an uncanny knack for coming across key skills and information (mostly through acts of defiance or by accident), but put him in a battle and he's surely dead meat.