In the sentimental second episode of Game of Thrones’ final season, Lady Brienne of Tarth realizes her lifelong dream: She becomes a knight.

At last, Brienne has a proper title to go with her deeds. How long she enjoys it, and why she had to wait until today, are maybe questions for some other time. But there by the hearth at Winterfell, as the heroes contemplated their likely ends in the next day’s battle, Jaime Lannister invoked the right of any knight to make another a knight, and now Brienne is.

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