Last week, we talked about the prospect of long-separated characters reuniting in Game of Thrones Season 7. If recent SPOILERS are any indication, we may also get to see important characters who’ve never met before interact for the first time. Which strangers do we want to see meet up next year, and why? Read our pics, tell us yours, and vote in our poll!
DAN: I’d love to see what Daenerys and Melisandre would make of each other. In fact, I’d love to put Melisandre in a room with any number of characters and see what she’d make of them. Would she see a great destiny in Tyrion that his father and sister missed? Would she appreciate Sam for his unique gifts? Would Bran and his greenseeing abilities freak her the hell out? She’s a woman of supernatural insights, and I think it’d be fascinating to get her takes on everyone.
But I’m by far most interested in her meeting Daenerys. Melisandre devoted years of her life trying to help Stannis take the Iron Throne, believing him to be the Lord of Light’s chosen champion. She killed children for him. What would happen when she meets a warrior queen who can literally walk through fire, and who surrounds herself with beasts that breathe the stuff? Melisandre is always talking about fire, and here’s someone who seems like its chosen representative on earth. Would Melisandre smack herself in the forehead and wonder how she could have gotten it so wrong? Would she be overcome with guilt for backing the wrong man, and doing unspeakable things in his name? Or would she sense danger in Daenerys?
True, I can’t see how they’d link up. Melisandre seems pretty devoted to Jon Snow. But he’s cut her loose. The flames might have something to say about a woman with dragons, and if she hears about Daenerys I can see her heading south to pledge herself to a new master.
It’s hard to know the mind of a woman who’s been alive for hundreds of years. I hope she lives along enough to give us all a piece of it.
SARAH: My heart is telling me Bran and Jaime, but my mind is telling me that they’ve already met and life isn’t fair. Speaking of Jaime, who fancies watching him square off against Tormund in an intense yet passive-aggressive battle to win Brienne’s heart? That’s a new pairing we can all get behind.
The new pairing I’m most looking forward to seeing is that of Jon Snow and Lord Varys. The reason I’m looking forward to this meeting is because I’m convinced that Varys knows who Jon’s real parents are, and his testimony might serve as a more solid form of proof to the world than Bran’s vision of the past. Varys was already in the Mad King’s employ when Rhaegar and Lyanna were shacked up in the Tower of Joy. He also has more spies in Westeros than I have freckles, and I’m ginger. Furthermore, I find it hard to believe that an important woman like Lyanna Stark made it through a full-term pregnancy, surrounded by guards and attendants, and nobody talked. If anyone was going to find out about it, Varys would be the man.
For Varys to keep Jon’s parentage a secret for this long makes sense. We know that he was always hoping for a Targaryen restoration, so he wouldn’t have risked the life of a Targaryen’s baby by telling Robert Baratheon the truth. Secondly, whatever plans he may or may not have been cooking up in regards Jon’s eventual usefulness, they would have been scuppered when Jon joined the Night’s Watch. Even if he had been legitimized before birth by marriage or decree, no man who has taken his vows can leave the Night’s Watch and stay within the law. Varys probably wasn’t assuming that Jon would get murdered and find the one loophole available: resurrection.
Snow or Targaryen, with Jon off the table, Varys had every reason to put him out of his mind. Now, Jon is free, and King in the North to boot. If my suspicions that Jon isn’t a bastard at all are correct, his claim—not that he’d want the throne at all—would take precedence over the Mother of Too Many Titles, and who knows what people would think of that? It might even worry Daenerys for a time, and I love it when her nose gets put out of joint, so this would be highly amusing for me.
COREY: This was such an easy choice I’m surprised no one has picked. Recent spoiler reports have placed two of my favorite actors (alive) in the same scene, and I could not be more excited. Yes, Liam Cunningham and Peter Dinklage have been spotted together filming a scene, which might be my favorite thing about Season 7 that we know so far. Cunningham and Dinklage are easily the two best actors remaining on the show, the heavyweights so to speak, and it will be a join to see them act off of one another.
The type of pain and fury that Cunningham was able to channel when confronting Melisandre in the Season 6 finale “The Winds of Winter” was the type of scene every actor dreams of for their highlight reel. Cunningham thundered away at Melisandre with the type of ferocity we rarely see, and made the audience feel his pain at Shireen’s death. Likewise with Peter Dinklage, who’s performance each season just seems to get better and better. That scene in Season 6 where Dinklage freed Daenerys’ dragons was all the more impressive considering he was acting against a pair of tennis balls standing in for the dragons.
So with respect to the other actors on the show, many of whom aren’t too shabby, I cannot wait to see Dinklage and Cunningham act off of one another. Hopefully their scenes involve some sort of weight, as opposed to casual conversation. Either way, I will settle just for seeing these two amazing actors in one scene, and pray Thrones producers are smart enough to give the pair something meaty to chew on.
Image via HBO
KATIE: I have to agree with Corey on this one. Cunningham and Dinklage are both strong, enigmatic presences on the show, not to mention their characters’ interaction would pack a real punch. Davos and Tyrion are strategists in their own ways. Davos is more blunt and no-nonsense, whereas Tyrion often uses his cleverness to conceal his true motives. After growing up with the likes of Cersei, who can blame the guy? You’ve got to play your cards close to the chest in King’s Landing. Meanwhile, Davos takes the more “ain’t nobody got time for that” approach. And more often than not, he’s right. It’s time to get down to business and defeat the Huns White Walkers already.
These men may have different styles, but they’re equally effective. They’ve both played adviser to major players while being just as important themselves. I’m not sure if they’re more likely to clash or have some synergy, but the process of finding out is sure to be a good one. Of course, we can’t forget that Tyrion organized the use of wildfire during the Battle of the Blackwater in Season 2, killing Davos’ son in the process. Whether or not Davos is familiar with that detail is unknown. He might not be keen on aligning with a Lannister regardless, unless Tyrion’s patricide and consequent self-exile counts in his favor.
Davos may be too pragmatic to let a personal grudge get in the way of their mission, but we all saw how he faced down Melisandre once he learned the truth of Shireen’s death. We can only imagine his reaction if he learns who was behind his own son’s. But, as he did with Melisandre post-Battle of the Bastards, Davos might wait until the battle is done before he puts Tyrion on the stand.
The possibilities are many and varied, and I’m getting whiplash from considering every angle.
ANI: How did no one pick Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen?
No, really, how Too obvious? Who cares. it’s the meeting of Ice and Fire everyone wants. It’s the moment that plot enthusiasts and romantically inclined alike are waiting on. Theirs will be the Song of Ice and Fire. The question is: love at first site? Or do they clash as only those opposites can do?
Personally, I’m pushing for the romantic angle. When Rhaegar saw Lyanna at the Tourney at Harrenhal type thing. We know that Jon Snow loves himself some kissed by fire women. How will he feel when he meets one who is the fire? And we know that Dany has at this point resigned herself to a marriage of politics, and everything else is just noise. Will that change if Snow’s hair blows her fire hotter?
And how do they defeat the Night’s King? Will there be dragon riding lessons? Will one fly above and the other ride below? This IS the moment we’re all waiting for, no matter how much I want to see Dany and Arya size each other up, or Sansa and Dany dance around each other in conversation, or Dany to take Cersei down with a single cutting remark. Because in the end, the Battle of Winter is coming, and the forces have to join up to be ready.
RAZOR: After the latest round of Season 7 spoilers, I am jonesing to see Gendry and Daenerys interact. Imagine for one moment that Daenerys is wanting to win the people of Westeros to her side. She definitely needs the support of the Stormlands and Storm’s End, the ancestral seat of House Baratheon. What better way to do this, than to legitimize the sole surviving bastard of Robert Baratheon…in fact, he’s the last living Baratheon that we know of (on the show).
Gendry, with his strong resemblance to a young Robert Baratheon, would be easily recognizable to the Lords of the Stormlands and would be the perfect installed ruler by Dany’s regime, in order to give her the support she needs. Of course, we don’t know this will happen, but if Gendry is going to help save Davos and Tyrion from the Gold Cloaks at King’s Landing, then it would make perfect sense for him to be presented to the Dragon Queen. And, what better way to solidify an alliance, than by making amends with the family of The Usurper, Robert Baratheon. This would go a long way to showing the people of Westeros that Daenerys Targaryen is an even-handed queen, and not at all like her father, the Mad King, Aerys.
Notes on the poll:
- The poll only includes major characters. Smaller players like Thoros of Myr and Edmure Tully, for example, do not appear. However, there is an “Other” option if you want to include them.
- Just because two characters haven’t shared a scene together doesn’t mean they haven’t met. Cersei never had a scene with Bran, for example, but they were at Winterfell at the same time, so they could have met. Likewise, Davos and Sam were at Castle Black together, while Brienne and Tyrion were both at King’s Landing for Joffrey’s wedding, etc. None of those pairings are options—the poll only includes pairings that have had no chance of occurring.
- You can choose up to three options.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/10/21/small-council-new-pairings-characters-want-see-season-7/
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