'Game of Thrones' recap: With the war at hand, Arya claims a moment of humanity

For all the indicators of the passage of time that filled the second episode of the final season of "Game of Thrones" - a humbled Jaime Lannister, his brother Tyrion drinking with men by the fire instead of at the local brothel - it was seeing one of the youngest Stark children joining the series' long line of sex scenes that colored the temples of anyone in the audience as much as on the show. But this coupling, on a few levels, was very different.

Indeed, as Tyrion told Jaime among the ramparts of Winterfell, "We're going to die," and the show that began in 2011 with Stark