History Recap / GameOfThronesS7E5Eastwatch

** The two Goldcloaks that extort Davos [[DropTheHammer get an up-close meeting with Gendry's warhammer]].

* DropTheHammer: Gendry's gotten pretty good with that warhammer of his.

Along '''The Street of Steel''', Davos walks through the market to a blacksmith's shop, where he finds... Gendry, plying his trade, though Davos jokes he thought Gendry might still rowing. Gendry asks Davos if he isn't worried, but Davos notes that he hasn't been seen in Flea Bottom in years, and the odds of his being recognized are low. Gendry thanks Davos for his good advice, saying that no one who comes to his shop ever even gives him a second look, since he's beneath their notice; no one would ever think one of Robert's surviving bastards had actually ''stayed'' in King's Landing. Davos warns him this arrangement might not last, but Gendry only says he's ready to drop everything and accompany Davos, and apparently has been for some time. Davos tries to impress the seriousness of their situation on him, but Gendry tells him that he's hated making arms for the people who killed his father and was waiting for this day; Davos notes if that's the way he feels, he should bring a sword, but Gendry instead picks up a warhammer like his father wielded. They make it back to the boat but Tyrion is nowhere to be seen, then two Goldcloaks show up. Davos turns on his old smuggler's charm and manages to bribe them, but then they ask what he's hauling. Gendry tenses up, but Davos calls them over, flipping the canvas over to both hide Gendry's hammer and reveal two bowls of fermented crab, claiming that brothels use it as an aphrodisiac to increase their profits. He offers some to them, and urges them to the nearest whorehouse, but as the laughing men turn to leave, here comes Tyrion down from the path. He barges past them, but they are instantly suspicious and head after him. Davos tries to run interference but the men ignore him, noting Tyrion's distinctive facial scar (apparently they were on the payroll in the aftermath of the Purple Wedding and his trial). He offers them more gold, and when they turn to face him, Gendry smashes both their heads in with his hammer. Davos introduces Gendry to Tyrion, and the three push the boat back into the surf to leave.

Tormund opens the Eastwatch gate and what is now almost certainly the most talented team of fighters assembled in Westeros (final roll call: [[ProdigalHero Jon]], [[DentedIron Jorah]], [[BoisterousBruiser Tormund]], [[TheIdealist Beric]], [[EnsembleDarkHorse Gendry]], [[DrunkenMaster Thoros]], and [[TheDeterminator The Hound]]) head out into the snow.

Tormund opens the Eastwatch gate and what is now almost certainly the most talented team of fighters assembled in Westeros (final roll call: [[ProdigalHero Jon]], [[DentedIron Jorah]], [[BoisterousBruiser Tormund]], [[TheIdealist Beric]], [[EnsembleDarkHorse Gendry]], [[DrunkenMaster Thoros]], and [[Determinator The Hound]]) head out into the snow.

Tormund opens the Eastwatch gate and what is now almost certainly the most talented team of fighters assembled in Westeros (final roll call: Jon, Jorah, Tormund, Beric, Gendry, Thoros, and The Hound) head out into the snow.

Tormund opens the Eastwatch gate and the group head out into the snow.

* InsaneTrollLogic: The archmaesters on seeing a sealed envelope sent from the North by Bran Stark latch on to a crazy UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory that this is a ploy by the Dragon Queen to weaken them and they all look quite proud to come up with this. The idea that the Dragon Queen, who the maesters know just incinerated the Tarlys (the interim Wardens of the Reach, the region of Oldtown and the Citadel), would resort to such a convoluted plan makes Sam scoff in disbelief, especially when it involves magic north of the wall.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Not quite innocent, since Arya's accusation is still harsh. But when she notes that Sansa is staying in Ned and Catelyn's room she accuses Sansa of wanting to live fancily and in fine surroundings. Sansa bristles at this, likely because she hasn't forgotten the fact that Ramsay raped her in that same room, and that she would probably prefer being in any other room of the house if she could.

* RantInducingSlight: The maesters' callous dismissal of the threat presented by the Night King, along with having to copy all of High Septon Maynard's ''extremely'' detailed journals, sends Sam into one.

* AdultFear:
** Randyll Tarly does not take his favorite son volunteering to die with him very well.
** When Cersei tells Jaime she's pregnant, we see a flurry of emotions on his face, and the unmistakable look of someone who knows they cannot win the war and their child will be marked for death if they lose.
** Right after Jon learns his little siblings Bran and Arya are alive and at home, he is appropriately freaked out because this same raven ''also'' tells him that [[OhCrap the Army of the Dead are dangerously approaching the northern fringes of human territory]], prompting Jon to insist he needs to go home.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Gilly was illiterate for most of her life, and only learned to read when Shireen taught her (in-story) a year or so ago. As such, she still doesn't have a full grasp of how combined vowels work, and mispronounces "Rhaegar" as "Rag-ar". In any case, Sam's frustration with the maesters cause him to miss Gilly's finding but if she'd said it correctly, he may have noticed.

* NotSoDifferent: Tyrion points out to Varys that what Dany did is no different from any other king asking someone to bend the knee. Dany points out to Jon when the latter expresses concern that she killed many soldiers, that he killed thousands when he retook Winterfell from the Boltons. Likewise, Tyrion himself confronts the fact that ''he'' burned people with wildfire, including Davos's own son.

** Subverted. Cersei is unwilling to believe Tyrion is innocent of killing Joffrey at first, since that would require admitting her mistakes, but she caves when Jaime points out Olenna had far greater motivation to elevate Tommen to the throne and kill Joffrey than Tyrion:

* RealityEnsues:
** Both Bronn and Jaime quickly come to the conclusion that even with Dany's political allies killed and/or captured, Dany still has a lopsided advantage in the ensuing war; both the fact that the Dothraki are superior fighters to their remaining soldiers and her [[WeaponOfMassDestruction three dragons]] being {{Game Breaker}}s.
** Ever since Ned's betrayal and death, Arya has spent the entire series focusing on destroying her and her family's enemies and those who she believes will become one when she sees a chance. So the moment she hears unpleasant things being said about any of her relatives (in this case, Jon), she plans to resort to her [[MurderIsTheBestSolution usual solution]]. Sansa calls her out on this.
** The meeting at Eastwatch is much more awkward and tense than you'd hope because they're nearly a dozen desperate men from wildly disparate backgrounds attempting to find common ground. So instead of immediately coming together in an Avengers-esque team-up for the greater good, they bicker about past wrongs, with Tormund and Jorah about to come to blows over the crimes of their relatives against the other.

* OnlyOneAllowedToKillYou: Bronn's stated (though probably not entirely serious) reason for saving Jaime's life -- until Jaime pays him what he owes him, no one gets to kill him except Bronn himself.

* AscendedMeme: Davos, upon meeting up with [[TheBusCameBack Gendry]] again, mentions how hard of a time he had finding him, joking that he started to assume that he was still rowing. This was a long-time fandom InJoke for why Gendry hadn't been in the past three seasons of the show. It was so popular that all of the cast themselves, ''including'' actor Joe Dempsie (Gendry), frequently quoted it the past three years.