'Game of Thrones' Season 8, Episode 2 review: 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'
By Alyssa Rosenberg Alyssa Rosenberg Opinion writer covering culture Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 21 at 11:23 PM Note: I’m reviewing “Game of Thrones” from the perspective of someone who has read all of George R.R. Martin’s novels, while my colleague David Malitz, who hasn’t read the books, will be writing straight recaps. His write-up of episode 2, “The Rightful Queen,” will appear at The Post’s Style Blog.
The events of “The Rightful Queen” are, in a technical sense, a prelude to the epic clash that will come in next week’s episode, rather than the stuff of legends. No one is going to write a song about the knighting of Brienne of Tarth or the deflowering of Arya Stark . The only thing legendary about Jon Snow’s revelation of his true parentage to Daenerys Targaryen is his sense of bad timing. But the thing is, legends often miss the point.
Like Theon Greyjoy , who has grown enough to offer his services first to his sister and now to Sansa, Jaime is now man enough to serve under a woman, and to give her the rank she’s long deserved but been denied by tradition. Like Tyrion , Jaime can see their sister, Cersei, for what she is — and to recognize that their shared last name is no longer enough to make Cersei his lodestar. This man, who once declared that “There are no other men like me. Only me,” is now like everyone else.
And while most of the humanity on display in “The Rightful Queen” is loving and lovely, there is one character for whom it’s not. Dany is most human in this episode not when she’s telling Ser Jorah that his transgressions are in the past, nor when she’s trying to improve her relationship with Sansa, but when her brittleness and rigidity are in full bloom.
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