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This episode probably took the longest to make, too. There were a lot of complaints about the extras being asked to stay over time when they were shooting at this location.
The show seems to be mixing prophecy and history. The cave drawings depicted the Battle for the Dawn, when the Night's Watch was formed. There is a story about a small group of 12 men, a horse and a dog, who went north to find the Children, but only 1 made it to them. Then they formed an alliance and beat the Walkers, sending them into retreat. The story is also called "the last hero", and we may be seeing it reenacted on the show. Aside form the cave drawings, the book Gillie is reading in one of the preseason trailers is open to the page of the story about the last hero. Also the shot of them north of the wall had what looked like 12 men in a circle. There is a horse and the dog could either be The Hound or Ghost. The prophecy says something like this would happen again to win the present war.
Another interesting bit is the spiral thingy was one of the first things they showed in the cave, and is also the same pattern the body parts were arranged in during the pilot episode. The showrunners said at the time that they chose that pattern to show the Walkers are intelligent, but it could be a marker to show it's time to raise an army and go to war.
I don't think they were poisoned, but they have 3 or 4 sets of barbs on the end, so it will cause more damage trying to yank it out. Drogon may have to lay down for a while after this one.
I liked the negotiation scene she had with Tywin over the marriage of Cersei and Loras. 2 legends on screen together.
The showrunners also said it in "behind the episode" that the Tyrells would be no match for the full Lannister army. What they wanted to do with those scenes was show that everything played out according to Tyrion's expectations all the way up to the point where it went horribly wrong. This was meant to be a surprise both for Dany's side and for the audience. What they showed in the promos made it look like Dany would have no problem conquering Westeros, but after seeing the full episodes, it appears the playing field is more even.
Olenna told Dany if she wants to survive, she should ignore clever men and be a dragon. Olenna went along with Tyrion's plan and it got her killed. This sets Dany up in the coming episodes to go with her advice and be a dragon.
Yeah, they are waiting on the long night, which happens on the real Earth at the poles for several months. But in the world of ice and fire, it varies, and could last a generation.
They've done battles this way in the past, usually when it was obvious what the outcome would be. I read somewhere that the same location was used for both Casterly Rock and Highgarden, the interiors were in different parts of the castle. If that's the case, it has an open field on one side and the sea on the other, so they may not have had time to fully stage both battles using the same field.
[spoiler]The reason she reacts like that is because she was sold into slavery there, and to her it was not the beautiful land of palm trees and butterflies. But she was being tactful in not correcting him.[/spoiler]
He can also help convince Dany of the white walkers if he goes there and Jorah is there too.
I really liked the couple of scenes with him and Varys, and hope they have another before the end.
They also need Podrick
Yeah, he believes that now, but outside influences could gradually make him believe the opposite, that she and Euron are conspiring to kill him or otherwise push him out. But it won't be true, she would really still love him. That's the setup for a classical tragedy, and fitting for her to be killed by someone (the only one) she loves.
Sam the Slayer, he can kill White Walkers using a shiny rock he dug up. He can cure the most infectious deadly diseases in Westeros with nothing but a shot of rum and an instruction manual. But he is ultimately defeated, due to extreme fear of paper mites.
They don't want to get their skull crushed in a back alley for talking smack abut the queen.
Also, Roose Bolton was poisoned by his enemies.
Dany doesn't need the bank (or at least she didn't before the start of season 7), but I give about a 0% chance Cersei pays them. So the bank will offer support to Dany as a consequence.
If you're interested, there are some videos (official and unofficial) you can probably find on youtube that explain the connections between the fictional world in the books and the real one, including interviews with the author. He is also a big fan of Lord of the Rings, and talks about how it influenced his own work.
They are afraid of the sea because the horses can't drink the water.
The geography and people in this world are often loosely based on real history. Westeros is like a mashup of the UK, western Europe, Scandinavia. Parts of Essos resemble the Mediterranean. Sothyros could be like a mashup of Africa and the Caribbean, but it hasn't yet been featured in the show. The Starks and Lannisters were based on the Yorks and Lancasters. Most of the royalty featured in the show were based on combinations of famous/infamous kings and queens of Europe. The Wildlings north of the wall are like a mixture of Scottish and Vikings.
No one knows what is west of Westeros, but if something is there, I bet Arya will find it.
He's the last Baratheon, even if he's a bastard. Dany could make him legit and give him Storm's End. The guy he worked for knew how to forge Valyrian steel weapons and made the Widow's Wail and Oathkeeper swords, so I'm guessing Gendry learned it, too.
Well they are good for scaring people who thought dragons were the size of cats before they went extinct.
I think we learn more about Dany's money situation in the coming episodes, and it turns out to be better than expected.
He wanted Casterly Rock because he knew it would hurt Cersei and Jaime to take away their home. Their father drilled that kind of thinking in them, and Tyrion knew what happened when he thought Robb Stark was going to attack there- they moved most of the Lannister soldiers there to defend it and Robb attacked somewhere else. Except this time Jaime swallowed his pride enough to let them take it. Something Tyrion did not expect.