The Spoils of War ended with Jaime running to kill Daenerys.
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Infidel assets, explained IS's leader in Germany, were ghanima, or spoils of war.
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For ISIS fighters (referred to here as Daesh), such are the spoils of war.
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What we're watching play out aren't just the spoils of war or its incitement.
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The following contains spoilers from Game of Thrones season 7, episode 4, "The Spoils of War"… Jaime Lannister faced off against the Mother of Dragons during Game of Thrones' latest episode, "The Spoils of War" — and he was nearly incinerated as a result.
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"The Spoils of War" left all our favorite characters in the literal heat of battle.
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MVP for "The Spoils of War": Arya Stark Finest Moment: Battling Brienne in the yard.
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"The Spoils of War" is the kind of episode Game of Thrones fans live for.
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Last night's episode, "The Spoils of War," offers the chance for us to interpret Dany's dragon's differently.
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Sunday night's Game Of Thrones episode, "The Spoils Of War," was particularly jam-packed with Big Moments.
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Our bodies are not the 'spoils of war'... a trophy to be collected to fuel your ego.
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These were spoils of war, taken punitively after a well-documented historical battle, and put in the Trocadéro.
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They brutally violate Fidelma and her unborn child, viewing her and her baby as the spoils of war.
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Islamic State's inclination to codify its system of rule extended to what it called the spoils of war.
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In "The Spoils of War," Dany leads her Dothraki horde in an an assault against a Lannister supply convoy.
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Did you watch Game of Thrones last night and see how insanely good episode 4, "Spoils of War" was?
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First things first: The latest episode of Game of Thrones, "The Spoils of War," was straight-up lit, literally.
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Star India, one of HBO's international distributors, claimed responsibility after Episode 4, "The Spoils of War," prematurely appeared online.
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It implies that most such treasures were taken "by theft, looting, spoils [of war], trickery and sales under duress".
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GoT's fourth episode "The Spoils of War," which airs this Sunday, will only be 50 minutes long, Entertainment Weekly reports.
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If you spoiled "The Spoils of War" for yourself earlier this week, I'm not angry with you, I'm just disappointed.
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In the episode "Spoils of War," Jon Snow led Daenerys Targaryen into the dragonglass cave beneath Dany's home in Dragonstone.
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The episode, titled "The Spoils of War," is the fourth in the show's seventh season, and will air this Sunday.
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In Game of Thrones season 7, episode 4, "The Spoils of War," a particular dagger makes a reappearance after six seasons.
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The battle at the heart of "The Spoils of War" was by and large the most unforgettable scene of Season 7.
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With that in mind, here are 11 winners and no losers from "The Spoils of War" — because we're all winners here.
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But the battle in "The Spoils of War" would have been five times more powerful if it had ended with his death.
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During last week's episode "The Spoils of War," Bronn saved Jaime Lannister from a certain flaming death, by plunging him into the water.
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How do you differentiate a battle-heavy episode like 'The Spoils of War' with something like 'Eastwatch,' which is a lot of setup?
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How much of what we see in the battle in "The Spoils of War" is practical effects, and how much is CGI and compositing?
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In "Spoils of War," you set a huge group of stuntmen on fire, but they could be relatively anonymous and shot from a distance.
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In season seven's fourth episode, "The Spoils of War" (which marked the halfway point of the season), the tide against Cersei began to shift.
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The deal between the former foes undergirded the German invasion of Poland and a division of the spoils of war between Berlin and Moscow.
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Even for Game of Thrones, the moment in "The Spoils of War" when Daenerys swept onto the battlefield astride a dragon was particularly spectacular.
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"The Spoils of War," ironically got spoiled for many this week when a banal mistake by an HBO distribution partner led to its leaking online.
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Large black holes gouge the city's roads, grimly exposing the underground tunnel system ISIS operatives built to evade detection, shield their weapons and spoils of war.
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Shortly after receiving the report, President Macron agreed to immediately return 26 previously requested statues that were taken as spoils of war from Benin in 1892.
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But, three of the newest photos from upcoming fourth episode "The Spoils Of War" remind us not every reunion this season can be a happy one.
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Ironically, the major character most deeply affected by the climactic battle in "The Spoils of War" may be the one who wasn't even on the battlefield.
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The decline of the militant group has given rise to another evil: human trafficking networks that thrive on the spoils of war, the displaced and the desperate.
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Unrelated to the initial hack, another breach of cybersecurity resulted in "The Spoils of War" being posted on Reddit days before the episode was set to air.
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And most recently, he shot "The Spoils of War," episode 27 of season 7, where Daenerys takes her dragons into battle in Westeros for the first time.
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However, another moment occurred during "The Spoils Of War" that may foretell even bigger consequences, and it was between Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington).
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It's a bit like Jaime's play at the end of "The Spoils of War" when he foolishly charged Daenerys — we can end the whole thing right here.
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The actor praised, naturally, the massive Dothraki and dragons battle in episode 4, "The Spoils of War," which showed his former character's tribe in an epic war.
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And "Spoils Of War," when the military man is confronted by dragons on the battlefield for the first time, may stand as Thrones' best-ever Jaime episode.
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"In a certain sense, redistricting is the spoils of war," said Samuel Wang, a professor of neuroscience and molecular biology at Princeton, who runs the Princeton project.
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But only during the final scene of "Spoils of War" did we truly get to see just how incredible Rhaegal, Viserion, and Drogon have grown up to be.
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The episode, Season 7, episode four, entitled "The Spoils of War," appeared on the subreddit r/freefolk, a popular Game of Thrones discussion board that is not moderated.
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Most roleplaying games ride low with the spoils of war, owing to a preoccupation with shooting, looting, and conquest—historically inauspicious activities whenever they've had designs on race.
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Matt Shakman, director of "The Spoils of War," noted that the fight scene between Arya and Brienne is the culmination of all Arya's years of training and experience.
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In a certain city market, I was told, the spoils of war show up for sale: refrigerators, pipes, chandeliers, all looted from towns recently reclaimed by the military.
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It's hard not to talk about the centerpiece battle in "Spoils of War," but plenty of other important moments did play out during Season 7's fourth episode.
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"The women were seen as the spoils of war and the soldiers violated their bodies in order to destroy the social fabric of the Maya Q'eqchi' community," she said.
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We'll see how all of these running threads continue to twine in and out of each other when Game of Thrones returns next week, in "The Spoils of War."
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Mr. Duterte used his annual address to Congress last year to demand the United States return the bells, saying they were "spoils of war" from another period of history.
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Finally, sell him an AK-47 or a self-published e-book called Day Bang: How to Casually Pick Up Girls During the Day, and reap the spoils of war.
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The reveals and reversals of "Spoils of War" proved Game of Thrones had the power to delight our eyes more than before, and send our pulses racing faster than ever.
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Many soldiers returned with Nazi artifacts like swastika-emblazoned armbands, helmets, or medals from the Third Reich; spoils of war stolen as reminders of the battles they had just fought.
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It's a kind of cosmic joke that Game of Thrones' latest episode was titled "The Spoils of War," because it was indeed spoiled, leaking out two days ahead of schedule.
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There are just three hours to go in Season 7 after Sunday night's fourth episode, "Spoils of War," and it's now possible to imagine an ending for this whole mess.
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So if you have a huge stunt sequence, like in "Spoils of War," you go through with the head of the stunt department and break down their responsibilities for a sequence.
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Adorned in gold and slathered in ox blood, they rode past adoring throngs to the temple of Jupiter, showcasing the human and material spoils of war and basking in near-divinity.
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Season 7, Episode 4: "The Spoils of War" Jaime and the Lannisters finally learn just how big of a threat Dany is when she rides her dragon into a battle against them.
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In Season 7, Episode 4, "The Spoils of War," Missandei had a moment alone with Daenerys and asked if she'd heard from the Unsullied after they were ordered to storm Casterly Rock.
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Nearly a third of "The Spoils of War" was devoted to a massive face-off between Jaime Lannister and his army, and Daenerys Targaryen, her Dothraki hordes, and one very large dragon.
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The network and series has fallen victim to a couple major breaches of security, most recently resulting in the fourth episode, "Spoils of War" being leaked early thanks to hackers in India.
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The first was that being a general was one of the fastest routes to riches; a conquering army could seize the spoils of war (and distribute them to consolidate a general's power).
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An AFP report said four were arrested Monday in Mumbai for leaking the popular HBO show's fourth episode, "The Spoils of War," from the current season before it aired on Aug. 6.
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That's a lot to go down in a relatively short period of time, and from the looks of the latest episode teaser, "The Spoils of War" is going to keep up the exciting pace.
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After the "dragon-induced Armageddon" of last week's Game of Thrones episode, "The Spoils of War," it was inevitable that the follow-up was going to be comparatively smaller and more down to earth.
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And indeed, the Bran scenes in "The Spoils of War" are just the latest reminder of how much the character has been changed by his transformation into the new "Three-Eyed Raven" last season.
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Jay Z understood that there was a vicious dynamic being set in motion, and for him to truly enjoy the spoils of war, he would have to become invincible to the repercussions of the game.
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Last week's Game of Thrones episode "The Spoils of War" showed the middle Stark child returning home to Winterfell and sparring with the valiant Brienne of Tarth, holding her own against Westeros' baddest female knight.
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Most Game Of Thrones fans left latest episode "The Spoils Of War" at least a little worried Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) had been killed off of the series, which is famous for murdering favorites.
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It is hard to imagine that Iraq would be more stable today, or the United States would be any more welcome, if Washington had seized what Mr. Trump called the "spoils" of war for itself.
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And from the looks of that dragonglass cave in "The Spoils of War," and the way Bran keeps going back to the weirwood tree in Winterfell, that mythology is growing more relevant by the week.
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As Deadspin notes, the 24-year-old star had a chance to show off his arm in "The Spoils of War," when he valiantly repped the Lannisters during the aforementioned battle and threw a massive spear.
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Before the battle in "The Spoils of War," during a seemingly innocuous conversation with Iron Banker Tycho Nestoris, Cersei offhandedly mentioned her desire to beef up her armies and navies, including making "overtures" to the Golden Company.
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After the spectacular dragon battle of "The Spoils of War," this week's episode of Game of Thrones, "Eastwatch," paused to take a breath and set things up for what looks to be the show's next big conflict.
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In conjunction with past rhetoric about seizing Iraq's oil as spoils of war, these oblique hints of another Western invasion of the country are raising eyebrows in the Badr Organization—as is the candidate's Islamophobic political rhetoric.
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The Stark family reunion on Sunday's episode of Game of Thrones, "The Spoils of War," was emotional for many fans who waited seven long years to see Arya, Sansa, and Bran together in the same place once again.
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We're not sure about you, but ever since we got a taste of that sweet, sweet dragon combat in Game of Thrones episode 4, "The Spoils of War," we can't stop itching for more fire and blood action.
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They are loosely guarded by Syrian Kurdish forces (aka Syrian Democratic Forces) who served as America's tip of the spear in the destruction of the Islamic caliphate and who are now unfairly saddled with these dangerous spoils of war.
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So when things got a little ... hot ... this week during "The Spoils of War," you could forgive us for imagining that "Lannister soldier" had been called down to help guard the wagon train of treasure heading to King's Landing.
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The following post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones' latest episode, "The Spoils of War" Noah Syndergaard hasn't thrown a pitch for the New York Mets since April, but his arm looked plenty strong during Sunday's Game of Thrones.
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Recommended viewing: 7.03 ("The Queen's Justice"), 7.04 ("Spoils of War"), 7.06 ("Beyond the Wall"), 7.07 ("The Dragon and the Wolf") Ideally, you're just re-watching all of Season 7 ahead of Season 8, since there are only seven episodes.
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The Nuer people are typically affiliated with the opposition, but the government army wooed thousands of armed militiamen from the Bul Nuer clan with promises of spoils of war: they could go into villages and towns and take what they wanted.
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Director Matt Shakman — who also directed the previous episode, "The Spoils of War" — spoke with Mashable via phone about how he and his team executed this episode and the great Western influences we've seen on Game of Thrones this season.
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"This is the spoils of war from the female pigs of the P.K.K.," one of the men in the videos says, referring to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, a Kurdish group from Turkey designated by the United States and Europe as terrorists.
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This was absolutely the case in the latest episode "The Spoils of War," in which Arya and Brienne of Tarth — who is kind of famous for her ability to kill grown men with the flick of her wrist — had the most badass duel.
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"I don't think literally those soldiers were there," Matt Shakman, the director of the episode, "The Spoils of War," told Mashable's Josh Dickey of the troops who were traveling north to take care of the Freys when Arya met them on the road.
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When Alexander triumphed over Persia's mighty Achaemenid dynasty in the Battle of Issus, he ordered a mass marriage between 70 of his elite Greco-Macedonian guard, the hetairoi, and the Persian noblewomen that had come into his possession as the spoils of war.
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But the battle would've been more devastating, and much more powerful, if it had also claimed the life of a character we've come to care about — and in "The Spoils of War," the most obvious candidate for such a death was Bronn.
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After all, considering the fantastic sword work she unveiled during her season 7 sparring practice with Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) in "Spoils of War," everyone knows Arya would be well-suited to on-the-ground, sword-to-sword combat with the Night King's army.
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In a series of interviews with The Verge, conducted both before and after the episode aired, McLachlan says the climactic battle sequence in "The Spoils of War" took 18 days to shoot, with the crew working six-day weeks to get it all done.
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That means there are many clues pointing to the fact that in next week's episode, which according to IMDb is entitled "The Spoils of War," we may finally see why Emilia Clarke had to straddle the buck for so many hour while filming this season.
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The most obvious comparison point for "The Spoils of War" is "Hardhome," the best episode of Game of Thrones' fifth season, which similarly started with a series of scenes checking in on characters around the show's universe, then transitioned to a lengthy battle scene.
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According to Reuters, the 26 artifacts in question were seized from Benin in 1892 as spoils of war when France sacked the 300-year-old Kingdom of Dahomey; they are just a small fraction of the 20103,000 works requested by the West African government, just .
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The following contains revelations from Game of Thrones season 7, episode 4, "The Spoils of War"… Game of Thrones staged another major Stark family reunion Sunday night: Sibling rivals Arya (Maisie Williams) and Sansa (Sophie Turner) came together for the first time since the show's debut season.
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This season, he pulled off a similar double feature with the back-to-back episodes "The Spoils of War" (where Daenerys Targaryen and her black dragon demolish a Lannister army) and "Eastwatch" (where her friends and enemies decide what to do with themselves in the aftermath).
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On Sunday night, Game of Thrones gave us the most satisfying and stimulating moment of this short seventh season so far: At the end of "The Spoils of War," Daenerys Targaryen and Jaime Lannister's armies came face to face with one another in a blazing fight.
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As Barnard recounts, the technique was once used in an act of canny resistance, to conceal the gold Nobel Prize medals being held at the Bohn Institute of Theoretical Physics as the Nazis closed in on Copenhagen, rather than have them appropriated as the spoils of war.
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A couple of episodes later, Bronn used one of the scorpions during the loot train attack in "The Spoils of War" when Dany ambushed the Lannister army as they returned from Highgarden: But when the scorpion's arrow hit Drogon, Dany pulled it out of his skin like a thorn.
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Spoilers ahead for season 7, episode 4, "The Spoils of War" Game of Thrones threw a dragon-shaped curveball at viewers last night as Daenerys took to the battlefield in a big way: dragonback, attacking Jaime Lannister's forces as they were heading home from their recent victory at Highgarden.
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In episode 23, "The Spoils of War," Daenerys brings her dragons and Dothraki hordes to Westeros for the first time in a stunning attack against Jaime Lannister's forces, and you know you want to see Drogon and Dany laying waste to the Lannister army on the biggest screen possible.
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Incredibly, this isn't related to the hack—it's just really unfortunate timing, as Vulture and other outlets have confirmed that "The Spoils of War" was acquired in a data breach from the show's Indian distributor, Star India—presumably from a different group of hackers who have yet to identify themselves.
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And with three episodes left in the season (including a finale that will almost certainly end on some sort of cliffhanger, if past seasons are anything to go by) it's entirely possible that "The Spoils of War" won't hold the title of "most-watched Game of Thrones episode" for long.
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While almost everyone will be talking about the giant battle scene that ended this week's Game of Thrones episode, "The Spoils of War," one of the most interesting pieces of the episode — at least from a historical perspective — comes from Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen's discussion in the dragonglass cavern underneath Dragonstone.
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Read more: Game of Thrones season 6 finale: 8 winners and 7 losers from "The Winds of Winter" Why it shocks: Amid all the dragon artillery bombing happening in "The Spoils of War," let's take a moment to appreciate that the episode's bit of climactic madness involves one reluctantly redeemed character saving another.
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We're guessing no — despite how heavy that armor is (and we all know that a golden hand adds ten pounds), there's no way the show would dispatch one of its main characters in such an inauspicious fashion, which makes the decision to end "The Spoils of War" that way kind of baffling.
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Unlike the show's actors, who are kept in the dark as much as possible about upcoming story events, the crew gets the scripts more than a year in advance, and planning for "The Spoils of War" began as much as 14 months ago for McLachlan, counting location scouting, travel, and working with subsidiary teams.
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As I said in last week's rundown of significant moments from episode 4, "The Spoils of War," it was just a matter of time until Littlefinger started undermining Sansa, trying to chip away at her support in hopes of leaving her in a position where she has to come to him for help again.
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"The mexica pieces may have come from the treasure of Moctezuma's ancestors, which the Spaniards found in Teucalco or maybe among the spoils of war stored in royal warehouses in Petlaclaco, gun factories in Tlacochcalco or the crafts workshops in Totocalli," said Leonardo López Luján, an investigator with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
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Much like a mighty dragon might shrug off a barrage of teeny, insignificant arrows, Game of Thrones has shaken off concerns that an episode leak might dent its ratings — the HBO hit just scored its most-watched episode yet with "The Spoils of War," despite the fact that the dramatic installment was illegally released online three days before it aired.
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After speaking to McLachlan about designing and shooting the "dragon-induced Armageddon" in "The Spoils of War," The Verge followed up with Endean, to discuss behind-the-scenes stories from "Eastwatch," why Game of Thrones is "a unique animal" for a first AD, and how the series is getting more complicated and demanding for the crew as it nears its conclusion.
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In an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from the bonus features on the season 7 Blu-ray/DVD, director Matt Shakman and the Mother of Dragons herself, Emilia Clarke, explained how they filmed the especially intense dragon attack in episode 4, "The Spoils of War," and why they decided it should be told through the eyes of Jamie Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).
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After all, Tyrion was previously insistent that she stay in Dragonstone, because riding her dragons into battle would make her an easy target "The Spoils of War" insinuates, with every arrow that zooms by Dany's head during the its big battle sequence, that Tyrion was right about the risk she takes every time she flies into battle alongside her men.
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But these claims are made, often anonymously, without any evidence provided; or by including all revenues from extraction (like mining and oil drilling); or based on sources that actually discuss Al Qaeda's looting (spoils of war, not antiquities looting) in Iraq from 22014–2008; or based on the guessed upper limit for the worldwide antiquities trade from a 1990 UNESCO document, with no evidence provided.
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Here is some more "GoT" fandom facts provided by Twitter: Dates "Game of Thrones" most frequently mentioned on Twitter - August 27, 2017 - "The Dragon and The Wolf" - April 22017, 216 - "The Red Woman" - July 22017, 220 - "Dragonstone" - June 22017, 226 - "The Winds of Winter " - August 63, 26 - "Beyond the Wall" - June 22017, 6 - "Battle of the Bastards" - March 5, 2019 - Season 8 Trailer Launch - August 7, 2017 - "The Spoils of War" - June 14, 20173 - "Mother's Mercy" - April 12, 2015 - "The Wars to Come" Countries with the most tweets about "Game of Thrones" - United States - Brazil - Great Britain - Spain - France Most-tweeted characters - Jon Snow - Daenerys - Arya Stark - Tyrion Lannister - Cersei Lannister Most-tweeted episodes of all time - "The Dragon and the Wolf," August 27, 2017 - "Dragonstone," July 16, 2017 - "Beyond the Wall," August 20, 2017 - "The Winds of Winter," June 26, 2016 - "The Spoils of War," August 6, 2017 The show's seventh season scored the most action with 23 million tweets.
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At first, this year's edition of what Meyers has dubbed "Game of Jones" followed the format established last year: Meyers fired up the latest episode, "The Spoils of War," and then played straight man to Jones's superfan wild card, watching in mingled awe and amusement as she explained that Bronn is the guy "who knows where all the one-dollar cigarettes is" and that she would definitely have sex with Littlefinger, but she would have to keep her eyes open the whole time.
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