This post contains spoilers for Game Of Thrones Season 7 Episode 6 “Beyond The Wall”.
Game Of Thrones went “Beyond The Wall” for the penultimate episode of this season (our review here). Of course, most of the reactions people shared on social media were about The Night King spearing Viserion the dragon (video here) and then turning a freakin’ dragon into a member of his undead army. But there were other big moments, like Benjen Stark returning after a long absence and– oh, that escalated quickly.
Before we get into reactions from this episode, we’d like to highlight a great joke we missed before about Lady Olenna’s badass exit in “The Queen’s Justice.”
https://twitter.com/DanuelFetizanan/status/897483498990092288
As for Sunday’s episode, “Beyond The Wall,” people were making comparisons to the differences in dragon-slaying prowess:
#GameOfThrones
You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about pic.twitter.com/AbLuNQFVqC— GoT Things (@GoTthings_) August 21, 2017
And some people on Twitter remembered there was also Stark family drama in this episode:
https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/899438777092931584
tfw the last person forgot to clear their browsing history pic.twitter.com/8DKsppEQ1D
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 21, 2017
But back to the mission beyond the wall…
Love that Tormund is trying to pass off Brienne as his fake Canadian girlfriend on @GameOfThrones
— James Hibberd (@JamesHibberd) August 21, 2017
I want an entire spinoff series that's just Tormund Giantsbane and The Hound living in an apartment together. #GameOfThrones #WinterIsHere
— filmaroni (@filmaroni) August 21, 2017
And then there was an undead polar bear. On fire. So that’s a new thing for anxious people to worry about.
This is the most violent Coca-Cola commercial I've ever seen.#GameofThrones #NoConfederate pic.twitter.com/Zd38obiRLy
— Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) August 21, 2017
Clegane expresses my thoughts on tonight's pulse-pounding, heart-stopping, filled-with-shit-I-always-wished-for episode of @GameOfThrones. pic.twitter.com/kuVojnZdrk
— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) August 21, 2017
If anything, Beric doesn't set his sword on fire enough.
— Josh Kurp (@JoshKurp) August 21, 2017
And things were looking bleak.
https://twitter.com/BreakingRad/status/899447214111547396
https://twitter.com/aIfiealIen/status/899448049080119296
https://twitter.com/eesabp/status/899443598743134208
But thankfully they’ve unlocked fast travel this season (because f*ck geography), so their call for help arrived just in time.
It use to take an entire season for people to go one place to another on #GameOfThrones. Now it takes 10 minutes. 😂
— Ronald Isley (@yoyotrav) August 21, 2017
I swear the ravens come with the overnight shipping option. #GameOfThrones
— Tito’s n Soda. 🇻🇮 (@ViSneakerBoy) August 21, 2017
Leaked image of the raven used to send Dany the SOS #ThronesYall pic.twitter.com/krtzsDULaO
— Dana 🐝 (@thebee110) August 21, 2017
And so the real battle began. At the outset of the dragons vs. White Walkers scene, before things turned tragic, some were saying it’s about time they used the dragons.
Why didn't they just bring a dragon in the first place.
— 16 years of song a day (@songadaymann) August 21, 2017
We quickly learned why they maybe shouldn’t have brought dragons in the first place:
https://twitter.com/NotAnosss/status/899449419162034176
Lmfao #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/brCrk9e6aj
— Ronald Isley (@yoyotrav) August 21, 2017
https://twitter.com/KofieYeboah/status/899451415206219776
https://twitter.com/_RickyMinaj/status/899450447815200769
Bummer of a birthmark, Viserion.#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/PNQsCTpjWi
— Erik Tanouye (@toyns) August 21, 2017
Night King just straight up stole the first pick in the draft. #gameofthrones
— Keir (@Keir11) August 21, 2017
https://twitter.com/HennyOmega/status/899454582077706241
https://twitter.com/casspa/status/899456363386023936
We should have seen it coming:
Seems like dragons kind of suck at dodging things. #GameOfThrones
— Erik Tanouye (@toyns) August 21, 2017
https://twitter.com/fivefifths/status/899462435106680832
https://twitter.com/TylerHook/status/899455509639680000
But that doesn’t make it hurt any less (and yes, we know it wasn’t from the books).
https://twitter.com/theDellenator/status/899456939817676800
Dany should have listened to Tyrion’s advice in this totally real, definitely unaltered video.
#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/oq9qJZR5dV
— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) August 21, 2017