'Game Of Thrones' Season 7, Episode 3: 'I've Brought Ice And Fire Together'
Be honest: You were waiting for that two-shot. We all were.
The previews, the promos, they showed you Dany on the Dragonstone throne, they showed you Jon and Davos gazing up at it, and the only way this episode could have spent more time keeping them sep-a-rate-ed was if its Director of Photography were Dexter Holland.
Cruel, is what it was. Postponing joy like that. Denying us what it knew we wanted.
But then she steps down from the throne. And walks toward him, monologuing all the way. She finally she steps into a two-shot, and for the first time they share the screen. Boom: The thing we this show has always been about — Ice and Fire — finally happens. It's here. At last!
But.
It doesn't happen like you want it to. They don't click. It's kind of like when you invite your one friend out to drinks and you also invite your other friend, because they have the same sense of humor, and you know they'll get along — it's not a set-up, exactly, you just think they both would really, you know, each other — but then one of them says something snide about a TV show that it turns out the other one maintains one of the reddit boards for, and they spend the rest of the evening sniping at one another. But you're not dispirited. You've seen enough rom-coms to know this could still count as a meet-cute. You hold
