The seventh season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on July 16, 2017, and is scheduled to conclude six weeks later on August 27, 2017. Unlike previous seasons that consisted of ten episodes each, the seventh season consists of only seven.Like the previous season, it largely consists of original content not found in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and also adapts material Martin revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series. The series is adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.
polygon says:-
Tyrion doesn’t waste any time before explaining the board to Daenerys, and by extension the viewer. These are the stakes: Cersei doesn’t have the numbers or the emotional support of the people, but Tyrion points out that burning Westeros before ruling it wouldn’t be a winning strategy.
We hear this sort of thing, and it’s hinted at from time to time, but we rarely see the actual damage these battles inflict on the civilians of Westeros. The Hound facing the results of his actions in the season premiere is one of the few times we actually see the fate of the common folk. They pay a different iron price.
Also, hold on, Melisandre is offering counsel to Daenerys? OK. Telling Dany to “summon Jon Snow” is good advice. Shit is heating up, especially when Dany states she expects Jon to bend the knee and honor her right to rule. We’ll see how that goes, but the King in the North sees the wisdom of linking up with a power that includes dragons that breathe fire. There is an army of very cold soldiers on the way, after all. But the show is already hinting that Cersei has a strategy in place to deal with the dragons ... even if it’s just a very large crossbow. This episode is doing a lot of heavy lifting very early.
Jorah is given no hope in terms of a cure for greyscale, and he’s basically told to feed himself a sword before he loses his mind. That’s pleasant.
USA-Today says :-
Peace never lasts, my dear.”
After last week’s disappointing and slow season premiere, Thrones is back in full form offering a bombastic battle, forward momentum and surprising returns in its second episode, “Stormborn.” And, of course, it also served viewers a delightful helping of wit and quips from the Queen of Thorns. But the pace has noticeably picked up, and for the better. The first blood has been drawn in the war between Cersei and Daenerys, Jon Snow is sailing south to meet his aunt/potential ally, Sam is doing more than cleaning bedpans, and Arya is journeying home, at last.
And while all that movement shows how much much has changed in Westeros over the past seven seasons (as Tyrion helpfully demonstrated on the big chessboard of the continent), so much of “Stormborn” was reminiscent of the events and status quo of earlier seasons, specifically Season 1, when Robert called Ned to King’s Landing and it all went wrong. Rulers in the South are demanding the bended knee from rulers in the North. Lords of great houses are assembling their armies. A Stark and a direwolf meet. Hot Pie is making hot pies.
What’s different now is that there is less time (within the narrative of the show and in the number of episodes remaining) and fewer lives to go around as the rulers of the Seven Kingdoms dance around each other. Dany doesn’t want to be Queen of the Ashes. Jon doesn’t want the North to be run over by the Night King. And Arya just wants to go back home.
But as her meeting with Nymeria showed, Arya isn’t the same person she was back in Season 1. None of them are. You can never go back home, not really. Trying to recapture the past isn’t going to help win the Great War -- the person with the power to see into the past was noticeably absent from this episode. A chronicle of the wars following the death of King Robert I will not help anyone, not unless people actually learn from all that history.
But, the characters of Game of Thrones have never been particularly good at learning from the past.
INDEPENDENT says:-
HBO has released the trailer for Game of Thrones season 7episode 3, and it looks like we're going to get another battle sequence.
Following the Greyjoys' tussle at sea in 'Stormborn', 'The Queen's Justice' will see Greyworm lead the Unsullied into battle as they try and sack Casterly Rock, the ancestral seat of House Lannister.
Judging by the trailer, it is Jaime Lannister who will lead the defence, and given Greyworm just finally got his sex scene, I fear this episode will probably mark the Unsullied leader's death.
Elsewhere in the trailer, Euron receives a hero's welcome at King's Landing after defeating his Daenerys ally siblings Yara and Theon, and King Jon and Ser Davos make it to Dragonstone where they find Dany imposingly sat on the throne.
"Cersei will be ready," Tyrion is seen telling Jon/Dany, "they know we're coming."
"The war's already begun; I've drawn first blood," Cersei declares meanwhile, as Dany vows: "I was born to rule the Seven Kingdoms and I will."
Episode 2 saw Sam treat Ser Jorah for greyscale, Daenerys test her cabinet's loyalties and Melisandre deliver a major update to the Azor Ahai theory.
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