Full spoilers for Game of Thrones: Season 7 "Eastwatch" continue below.
"Thought you might still be rowing."
With the most fan-service line of the night, Davos Seaworth helped Game of Thrones fans welcome Gendry, the long-missing, still-rowing bastard son of Robert Baratheon, back into the fold. While he's here to be the hammer-wielding part of the dream team Jon Snow is taking ranging north of the Wall, his returned presence back to the show is of marked importance.
First, as was underlined multiple times in "Eastwatch," Jon and Gendry are in many ways the new versions of Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon. Game of Thrones: Season 7 has done nothing if not call back to just how much has changed over the past seven seasons, and seeing these two characters meet in the flesh -- one leaner, and one shorter than the men that came before them -- is very much reminiscent of the close bond between Ned and Robert. It's even more moving when you think about the fact these men are both bastards, which they surely will find kinship over (even if Jon might not really be a bastard after all).
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"Thought you might still be rowing."
With the most fan-service line of the night, Davos Seaworth helped Game of Thrones fans welcome Gendry, the long-missing, still-rowing bastard son of Robert Baratheon, back into the fold. While he's here to be the hammer-wielding part of the dream team Jon Snow is taking ranging north of the Wall, his returned presence back to the show is of marked importance.
First, as was underlined multiple times in "Eastwatch," Jon and Gendry are in many ways the new versions of Ned Stark and Robert Baratheon. Game of Thrones: Season 7 has done nothing if not call back to just how much has changed over the past seven seasons, and seeing these two characters meet in the flesh -- one leaner, and one shorter than the men that came before them -- is very much reminiscent of the close bond between Ned and Robert. It's even more moving when you think about the fact these men are both bastards, which they surely will find kinship over (even if Jon might not really be a bastard after all).
Continue reading…
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