It’s been a cold two years without “Game of Thrones”, but the show finally returned to HBO Sunday night with the season premiere, “Winterfell.”
From Jon Snow’s return to the North with Daenerys by his side to Cersei’s obsession with poisoning everyone, the GOT premiere was worth the wait. The premiere was well received and Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long kicked off his weekly recap of the series for Sports Illustrated on Monday, providing his thoughts on the episode.
Long provided a pretty good read and opened his recap with the same flair for the dramatic that he presents to his fans on a daily basis via social media.
Since that day the world’s favorite fantasy epic has been in a holding pattern.in a holding pattern. We went from the Night King saddling an undead Dragon spewing blue flames on a towering wall of ice to a full stop. In my line of work, the only parallel would be the dichotomy between the utterly satisfying and pressure-packed chaos of a Super Bowl run and the uncomfortable stillness that follows.
It’d be like Tony Montana’s goons alerting him that Scarface’s decisive home invasion was actually a false alarm, right after he emerged from his desk covered in white powder and expecting him to turn in for the night. The adrenaline rush that was Season 7 left a world of fans hanging from a 595-day cliff. Characters frozen in time for 20 months came to life again, and for 54 minutes Sunday night, the world and Twitter at-large stood still. We’d already seen one fan favorite come back from the dead on Sunday afternoon, but judging by my timeline, even Tiger takes a backseat to Jon Snow (he did it first).
The premiere was well received and viewers, including one star Eagles guard, took to Twitter to share their reactions to all the best moments in the final season’s premiere.
