First Big Holy S— Moment of ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7 Has Fans Freaking Out

“Stormborn,” the second episode of the show’s seventh season, pulled a fantastic, and heartbreaking bait and switch on fans

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Lest you think the show is getting soft in its old age, “Game of Thrones” proved tonight that seven seasons in, it can still shock the hell out of viewers.

The show’s 50 minutes were spent giving an incredibly satisfying amount of fan service, like Arya’s reunion with Nymeria, the oral consummation of the romance between Missandei and Grey Worm, what looks like the long-awaited meeting between Jon Snow and Daenerys, Samwell Tarly’s war on greyscale, Jon Snow dissing the hell out of Littlefinger, Cersei Lanniser going full-Trump, and much much more.

And then in the last 10 minutes, everything went to hell.

Daenerys was dealt a severe blow when her fleet of ships commanded by Yara Greyjoy was utterly destroyed by her uncle, Euron. Also several seemingly-pivotal characters were killed, Theon showed that once a Reek, always a Reek, and Euron is bringing two VERY important captives back to Queen Cersei.

Read the full detailed recap here.

Suffice to say, what looked like an impending slam dunk victory for Daenerys (at least as long as she isn’t interested in scorching the earth) suddenly because fully up in the air. It wasn’t the Red Wedding, but it certainly reminded people that the show they’re watching is, well, the show they’re watching.

Unsurprisingly, Twitter freaked out over it all, from Grey Worm and Missandei, to Theon’s [SPOILER], to Arya Stark and her beloved dire wolf, and more. See a sampling below.

https://twitter.com/ChefResha/status/889306500468002820

https://twitter.com/kennonmckinney/status/889308402530340864

https://twitter.com/Bebesauri0/status/889307007622279168

Also #RIP Sand Snakes:

https://twitter.com/JHenwick/status/889314474892550148

To be honest though, this about sums up how we’re feeling:

Ross A. Lincoln

Ross joined TheWrap as a news editor in 2017; he was previously associate editor at Deadline from 2015-2017, and before that comics editor at The Escapist, and features editor at Game Front. As a writer, in addition to TheWrap his bylines can be found at Deadline, Box Office, The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, The…

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