That leaves Game of Thrones with two choices. (Just look at this rundown of alternate ideas about the very, very heavily-telegraphed truth about Jon Snow's parentage.) When this many minds are working this hard to predict what might come next, theyвЂ™re going to figure everything out-and when the answers seem too easy, the Reddit hive-mind just starts working on more complicated ones.

ThereвЂ™s a reason so many fans have embraced far-out theories like Bran being the Night King. The sense of inevitability is a problem that extends to the episode as a whole, which reveals nothing that hadnвЂ™t already been sleuthed out months ago (and IвЂ™m not just talking about how everything about Season Seven leaked back in November 2016).

But haven't we all been expecting this schism since Jaime revealed his well-concealed heroic streak to Brienne of Tarth? But do either of them say anything we donвЂ™t know already, via subtext or history or the seven seasons weвЂ™ve spent learning to understand how they think? The moment when Jaime finally abandons Cersei is rich with seven seasons of well-earned history. ItвЂ™s a joy to watch characters like Cersei and Tyrion (and actors as good as Lena Headey and Peter Dinklage) sharing the same room again. Maybe the biggest challenge Game of Thrones faces is that we know it too well.

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