Riveting, and utterly revealing

Episode 1 The first episode of the final season of Game of Thrones premiered earlier today, and even the title sequence shows how far the series has come from its humble beginnings. A map that used to span the whole of Westeros and Essos now has only three significant areas of interest — Last Hearth, Winterfell and King’s Landing. Last Hearth is named so because it is the final place that gives people south of The Wall a sense of home and warm fire before they venture north to the colder climes. It is the northernmost castle in the country (not counting the three that belong to the Night’s Watch alongside The Wall) and is…