Game of Thrones Goes Beyond the Wall—and Believability

Sunday night's penultimate episode of season 7 of Game of Thrones took us "Beyond the Wall" and, per some critics, beyond the realm of believability. 

For those willing to load up on spoilers, read on for more on the action north and south of the wall and what it means.

  • Relations between Sansa and Arya deteriorated even further, leading to a chilly and somewhat chilling encounter between the two in Arya's room. While looking for a potentially damning scroll, Sansa stumbles upon Arya's bag and pulls out two faces. The Verge looks at whose faces they may have originally been.
  • Bowled over by the episode? At the Atlantic, David Sims has a lot of bones to pick with it. He brands it a "fairly insulting episode, one that piled frustrating, illogical twists atop a plot (Jon Snow’s quest beyond the wall) that already felt tenuous." As for the confrontation between the sisters, he sees Arya's "sudden irrationality ... just eye-rollingly one-dimensional." His fleshed out take is here.

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