Game of Thrones season 7 premiere: Dragonstone and the Targaryens, explained

 

"Game of Thrones’ new season premiere ends with a scene fraught with import, as Daenerys Targaryen and her invasion force finally land in Westeros.

It’s a big scene in part because Dany is now setting foot on the soil of her native continent for the first time in the entire series, after six seasons’ worth of buildup. (Some book readers have been waiting for this to happen since 1996, when A Game of Thrones was first published.) But for fans who know the history George R.R. Martin wrote for the Targaryen family, there’s even more resonance in Daenerys’s specific choice of landing site: the island of Dragonstone."

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