https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3n99/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-2-review > This post contains spoilers for last night’s ‘Game of Thrones.’ > Last night's Game of Thrones, the second episode in the final season, had a familiar vibe. Dozens of characters the audience has grown to love over seven years gathered in Winterfell to have conversations, drink, and bone for the last time. People made plans in the face of mortal danger, characters separated by years of plot reconnected to resolve lingering plot threads, and folks generally partied in the face of impending death. It was the calm before the storm, a beat that mirrored almost every role-playing video game I’ve ever played my entire life.