It was the moment that will (probably) change everything.
One of the biggest bombshells of the series was in last night’s Game of Thrones.
Needless to say, this post contains spoilers.
Fans have suspected for years that Daenerys’ brother Rhaegar Targaryen had a much, much bigger role to play in the Song of Ice And Fire series.
The reason? Because it was believed that he was Jon Snow’s real father.
In this week’s episode, it was all but officially confirmed that the King in the North was conceived by Rhaegar and Lyanna Stark after he annulled his first marriage.
All because Gilly stumbled across the news while helping Sam.
Fans eagerly watched as she stumbled through the news that Prince ‘Raggar’ had gotten his marriage annulled, before marrying someone else in Dorne.
Gilly said:
“It says here (the high septon) annulled a marriage from Prince Raggar and married him in secret, to another woman, in Dorne.”
But as she read out arguably the biggest bombshell this season, she was quickly cut off by Sam.
The maester-in-training, who was frustrated that the other maesters weren’t listening to his warnings about the White Walkers, interrupted his girlfriend so he could fume about how he was being treated.
And while there’s no way he could have known that her comment was an absolute game changer for the series, his abrupt treatment of Gilly definitely struck a nerve with viewers.
Sam interrupting Gilly as she makes THE MOST IMPORTANT REVEAL in #GameOfThrones is every woman's experience in every meeting ever
— Abby Brooks (@_abigailbrooks) August 14, 2017
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Gilly: Yo, this right here is a game-changerSam: Hold up, let me mansplain a little to ya
— J.A. Adande (@jadande) August 14, 2017
Gilly (a woman): Here is some extremely pertinent infor—
Samwell (a man): ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN HOW AWFUL MY CIRCUMSTANCES ARE
— Andrew Gruttadaro (@andrewgrutt) August 14, 2017
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When Sam interrupted Gilly after she dropped the biggest bomb pic.twitter.com/dpwKK3aIxV
— sabah (@Sabah07) August 15, 2017
When Sam interrupted Gilly:#GoTS7 pic.twitter.com/OjHTntGsDY
— GameOfThronesAddict (@GameOfThroneGuy) August 14, 2017
Gilly: Discovers the most important piece of information in #GameOfThrones
Sam: pic.twitter.com/pZNKX9KE3r— Sammy | [email protected] (@sammyjlaw) August 14, 2017
When Gilly reveals an important plot point and Sam ignores her. #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/3A7Qgyhpb0
— Laura McIntyre (@LauraAMcIntyre9) August 14, 2017
