Step Into My Shoes..

[Contains Spoilers] First of all, adbfajkdfaghfbajldvsdmbjsj, what an episode. I got to watch the leaked episode before it even aired on tv in the morning of 22nd April. It didn’t have the credit sequence so the beginning felt very abrupt and it was a good thing it started off with   Jaime Lannister’s guilt-ridden face rather than what I had thought it would start with (which is a scene at Last Hearth). The opening dialogue was what we had seen on the trailer already where Dany is berating her father’s murderer. What follows is pretty much predictable - Jaime’s intentions are questioned, Cersei’s intentions are revealed, Tyrion is made to look a fool, Brienne stands up for Jaime, Sansa vouches for Brienne’s word and voila, ser Jaime is free to fight for the Starks now. I mean, did anyone even think something else would happen? Jaime is to die in the arms of the woman he loves and it ain’t today. After Jaime is “forgiven”, sort of, for deciding to fight for the li...

[Contains Spoilers] Before I begin with the reaction, here is a little something about how I got to watching Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 1 first hand on television. If you wish to jump directly to the episode reaction, skip the next two paragraphs. My first encounter with Game of Thrones was when my then boyfriend had told me about it. He had shown me the last scene of the first season where Daenerys Targaryen (totally googled the spelling - my go to spelling is danaerys targarean) had survived the funeral pyre with her dragons hatched. He had been so hyped about it but his enthusiasm had failed to seep into me that time and my indifference to the show managed to carry me on throughout Season 1 to Season 7 (technically). In 2016, I managed to find the whole book series on sale, so I decided I'd go the print way of finding out what the hype was all about. I had had to live through some of the big spoilers though - Joffrey dies, Jon dies and is resurrected, Battl...