The biggest reveal on tonight’s Game of Thrones was designed to make the audience scream at the screen
Spoilers ahead for Game of Thrones season 7 episode 5, “Eastwatch”
Game of Thrones season 7, episode 5, had a massive reveal for fans, but it wasn’t brought to you by dragons, or by Cersei’s insane battle tactics. Instead, it comes when Samwell Tarly is sitting frustrated in his library, and his partner Gilly starts practicing her reading on a book of records by the High Septon Maynard. “What’s an annulment?” she asks Sam. Her line of questioning starts out innocently enough, and then she mentions a Prince “Ragger” who had a secret ceremony in Dorne, where he set aside his lawful wife and married someone else. Sam interrupts Gilly to go off on another frustrated-about-work rant before the audience can learn any more. Poor Gilly, everyone…
