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Jon Snow (Kit Harington) has boffed his aunt!
The moody heartthrob did more than kneel for his queen. He hopped into bed with her. The chilling season finale of “Game of Thrones” included one hot love scene, between the naked Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), as they finally — OK, it only took one episode — admitted their attraction to each other and Snow knocked on the door of her royal chamber.
Snow, of course, doesn’t know yet that he is a legitimate Targaryen — and the heir to the Iron Throne. That will most likely happen in the series’ final six episodes, which will air next year. But the information was confirmed in a brief scene between Samwell Tarly (John Bradley) and Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright). In Three-Eyed Raven mode, Bran had a vision of the marriage ceremony between Snow’s parents, Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark.
The episode, “The Dragon and the Wolf,” also delivered the stunning destruction of the Wall by the Night King. Riding the blue fire-breathing dragon Viserion, the Night King (Vladimir Furdik) obliterated the wall separating the living and the dead, sending Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) and Beric Dondarrion (Richard Dormer) running for their lives. The march on Westeros has begun.
The danger posed by the advance of the Army of the Dead filled the bulk of the episode, with a grand summit meeting held at King’s Landing between Daenerys and her followers and Cersei (Lena Headey). Snow tried to explain the enormity of the problem to the Mad Queen, by having the Hound (Rory McCann) release one of the captured white walkers from a wooden crate. In a surreal, “Walking Dead” moment, the nasty skeleton crawled on the floor, lashing out at the repulsed, freaked-out Cersei, and she seemed to get it, offering to call a truce with “the silver-haired bitch,” as she refers to Daenerys, if only Snow would return to the North and refuse to take sides. Like the good Boy Scout that he is, Snow refused to do that, pledging his loyalty to the Mother of Dragons. Mighty displeased, Cersei stomped off.
A tense negotiation followed between Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) and his sister. Her disdain for him was palpable and you almost thought she was going to have him killed on the spot for weakening the House of Lannister by killing their father several seasons ago. But Tyrion’s diplomatic skills finally came in handy and he seemed to sway Cersei into standing united with House Targaryen against the Army of the Dead.
While some viewers thought this would be the episode where Jaime killed Cersei — or vice versa — it was not to be. The end, though, came in Winterfell for the odious Littlefinger (Aidan Gillen), who tried to turn Sansa (Sophie Turner) against her younger sister, Arya (Maisie Williams). Together, the Stark sisters turned on Littlefinger, reciting a list of his crimes in front of the Winterfell court. He pleaded for mercy but his death sentence was already written. Arya slit his throat and he bled out on the stone floor. With his death, Sansa has vanquished all of her male oppressors.