Major spoilers ahead for “Game of Thrones” Season 7 premiere, “Dragonstone.”
There’s a definite moment of tension in the Season 7 premiere of ‘Game of Thrones’ when Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) comes across a group of Lannister soldiers.
She’s been essentially running from Lannisters for six seasons and has made a point of taking down the whole family — and all that cross her — so when she decides to sit down with the soldiers for a meal, you, as an audience member, have to wonder where it’s going to go. Are those men going to end up dead?
However, Jeremy Podeswa, the director of the episode, said the scene was not to move the plot forward or give the youngest Stark daughter a chance to show off her assassination skills after dealing with the Freys.