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Adhering to Chekhov's law of the gun, Game of Thrones duly showed us last night that if you provide a bunch of dragon's eggs in episode one, they damn well better hatch by the series end. It would be nigh on impossible to top last week's Sean Bean-destroying denouement but the scene when Daenerys Targaryen took control of her destiny came close in an episode that managed to be both brilliant and bewildering. The best bits largely belonged to Emilia Clarke as the young Khaleesi. Given one of the most difficult roles in the show and one of the few that dealt directly with magic, Clarke, straight out of drama school, was fantastic, ensuring that we not only believed in Dany's transformation, we willed her to be right. In lesser hands it would have been easy to snigger at some of the dialogue, while the final two scenes could have been hokey in the extreme were it not for the creepy, atmospheric buildup and Clarke's compelling conviction. Credit too to Iain Glenn as Jorah and Mia Soteriou as Mirri Maz Duur: their reactions sold the moment to the extent that even my fantasy-mocking husband barely drew breath until the end.
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