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Full spoilers for Game of Thrones: Season 7 continue below. Check out our review of "The Queen's Justice."

The third episode of Game of Thrones' seventh season featured the long-awaited meeting of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), which proved to be quite confrontational. While Dany wanted Jon to bend the knee, Jon was trying to convince her there is a much bigger threat to worry about than Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey).

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Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

The "Foreign Invader" hosted the "Northern Fool" this week on a very eventful, emotional, and critical episode, as Jon Snow finally stood face to face with Daenerys Targaryen, Casterly Rock made its debut (after only being mentioned for seven years), a couple characters met death at the hands of poison, and two more Starks reunited for the first time since Season 1!

Now, it's saying a lot about "The Queen's Justice" that Sansa and Bran's reunion felt, overall, like the least important thing to happen this week. I mean, just last year Sansa and Jon's big hug was a Season 6 standout. But Sansa finally seeing Bran after so many years was sort of a downer moment, as surprising as that sounds. Firstly, Bran's now gone completely psychically cold. He's sort of monotone and emotionless now. Secondly, he's no one's favorite Stark and never has been. Thirdly, there was an Arya fake-out here. She didn't appear this week (or did she? I have a theory), so we're still not sure what direction she took after meeting Nymeria. So for a second, we thought we might be getting an Arya/Sansa reunion. Yup, seeing Bran after that glint of hope could only be a deflating moment.

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Cities have tried innumerable measures to keep pedestrians' eyes off their phones when they cross the street, and there have even been some state-level attempts at legislation to force a change in behavior. Honolulu, however, has officially drawn tha...

It should come as no surprise that Barry Allen will (likely) escape the Speed Force when The Flash returns this fall. But when he does, he’ll return a changed man.

In the season 3 finale, Barry (Grant Gustin) sacrificed himself to protect Central City from a lightning storm by entering the Speed Force. When the show returns, Barry will have been gone for six months when what appears to be a Samuroid — a robotic samurai warrior from the comics — threatens Central City, forcing Team Flash to up its game in freeing Barry from the Speed Force. However, they may not like what they find.

“The way I see it is, time is non-linear and everything is happening at once in the Speed Force,” Gustin tells EW. “In some ways he’s had an awakening and he’s had a rebirth. Our first episode is called ‘Reborn,’ and it is a rebirth for Barry, but he’s kind of scrambled, too, because he’s experienced so much so quick over the course of six months, even though for him it was an eternity. He’s not Barry when we see him for the first time.”

Barry isn’t the only one who has changed, though. In the months since he’s been gone, Iris has taken over Team Flash, but she’s definitely struggling with Barry’s absence. “Obviously they had a wedding planned,” Patton says. “They did defeat Savitar and thought they were going to live happily ever after, but at the last minute Barry decided to go into the Speed Force, so she’s really, really going through it. She’s choosing to be as strong as she possibly can. Barry told her to keep running, keep being strong, and that’s what she’s doing. When we pick up season 4, Iris takes the mantle of Team Flash; she’s the leader, the boss, the overwatch for Team Flash while Barry is gone, which is a cool new role for her to play.”

VIDEO: The Emmy Awards By the Numbers

However, don’t expect Barry and Iris to fall back into near-marital bliss when he returns. “There’s going to be some trust issues,” Patton says. “He left and didn’t really ask her or discuss it with her. He just kind of does things and comes back and says, ‘I hope you’re okay with that.’ They’re going to have to really work on their relationship before they actually tie the knot — if and when he comes out. There’s going to be some work that needs to be done before they actually put rings on each other’s fingers.”

The Flash returns Tuesday, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. ET on The CW. Get more scoop and watch the season 4 trailer here.

Note: This review originally ran following the world premiere of Atomic Blonde at the SXSW Film Festival. It is in theaters today.

In a nutshell: Atomic Blonde is about a badass, bisexual British secret agent who fights like John Wick and seduces like James Bond who travels to Germany days before the fall of the Berlin Wall to recover some stolen intelligence. She wears a number of amazing outfits, kills a whole bunch of bad guys, and just looks terrific as she struts through noisy nightclubs and desolate alleyways to a soundtrack of ’80s synth pop. It is excellent, two-fisted entertainment and further proof that Charlize Theron is one of our great modern action heroes.

In a smaller nutshell: Atomic Blonde is one of the most purely entertaining action movies coming out this year.

Anyone disappointed that David Leitch let fellow John Wick director Chad Stahelski helm the sequel by himself will be pleased to know that Leitch’s first solo gig is cut from that same tough, stylish, merciless cloth. That means we’re getting double the number of action movies that are all about hard-hitting stunts and lengthy shots that let you actually appreciate those hard-hitting stunts. Leitch, a former stunt performer, and stunt coordinator, knows how to stage astonishing action and he’s wise enough to know that we want to see it all clearly.

Of course, there’s a reason everyone is punching and kicking and knifing and vehicular homicide-ing each other in Atomic Blonde. Theron is Lorraine Broughton, an ice-cold secret agent who is sent to Berlin after another spy (and one-time lover) is murdered, and a top secret list of spies and their codenames is stolen by a rogue KGB operative. In this political powder keg of a city, she meets, and quickly learns to distrust, David Percival (James McAvoy in full scumbag mode), England’s man-on-the-ground who has “gone native.” Pretty soon, the complicated and sometimes convoluted espionage twists give way to Lorraine having to kill everyone.

It’s the general plottiness of Atomic Blonde that sometimes drags it down and you can feel the shape of a leaner, faster movie lurking within the slightly-too-long running time. Like many spy movies, the plot twists and double crosses pile up with each passing scene. Not knowing what anyone is doing or thinking or planning at a given moment can be as exhausting as it is thrilling. The film does reward you for sticking with it, but it’s not always clear when you’re deliberately not supposed to know what’s going on or if you just missed a small but vital plot point. Kurt Johnstad‘s screenplay (adapted from the graphic novel The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart) is dense and complex, and there are moments when it feels like some of the finer points are lost in execution. Think Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with more car crashes.

But once the action kicks in, it becomes easy to forgive just about everything else. Leitch is a stylish filmmaker, and every shot has something to savor: the gaudy colors of a West Berlin bar; the suffocating despair of an East Berlin neighborhood; chase sequences set against the backdrop of protests. Transitional titles depicted as graffiti being sprayed across the screen sound like they could be too much, but they’re perfectly in-line with the film’s hyper-stylized world. The atmosphere is provided by Tyler Bates’ period-appropriate synth score and a soundtrack of recognizable ’80s hits that accompany virtually every scene in the movie. In many ways, this is the too-cool, too-weird, too-grungy feeling that Suicide Squad tried and failed to nail last year.

At the center of it all is Charlize Theron and Atomic Blonde is very much the Charlize Theron show. Lorraine Broughton is less of a character and more of an attitude – you don’t learn a thing about her personal life or what she wants or needs as a human being, but there’s a thrill to be had from watching a powerful performer play someone who is just really, really good at their job. Lorraine is a fascinating companion to Theron’s other great action heroine, Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Furiosa: the latter fights from the heart, during the other fights because she can emotionally divorce herself from the battle entirely. It’s a true movie star performance, a case where a character works solely because the actor fills the gaps with unsaid history and pure gravitas.

It helps that Theron (like Keanu Reeves in the John Wick movies) does many of her own stunts and Leitch films his action to make sure we realize this. But Lorraine Broughton isn’t just Lady John Wick. She’s no superhero, no unstoppable force. While they share a similar, vicious style of combat, Theron is just a person, albeit a deadly one. She gets hit as often as she hits and gets knocked down as often as she knocks someone else down. Every single fight in Atomic Blonde, even the one-on-one brawls, is an ordeal. There are no easy victories, and the film doesn’t shy away from showcasing its leading lady getting beaten to hell. She wears her battle scars throughout the entire movie.

This is especially evident in the film’s best scene: a ten-minute long fight through an apartment building (stitched together to look like a single shot) where Lorraine battles a team of Russian agents. It’s a tremendous fight scene because it’s staged with so brilliantly and shot so audaciously, but it becomes remarkable because it acknowledges just how hard fighting someone to death must be. By the final stretch of this real-time brawl, Theron and her opponents are noticeably battered, panting, unsteady on their feet, and frequently backing away from each other to catch their breath and summon a second (and third and fourth and fifth) wind. It’s the alley fight from They Live, the street fight from that infamous Deadwood episode and any scene from The Raid were all combined into one of the most impressive action scenes…of the past decade? Hyperbole may be earned here.

I once wrote that James Bond would be a more efficient secret agent if he was bisexual (doubling his odds of seducing information out of people!) and Lorraine Broughton is up to that challenge. Although she initially sleeps with a French spy (Sofia Boutella) for work purposes, the two continue to see each other throughout the film. Some will accuse this of Leitch using girl-on-girl imagery to get a literal rise of the men in the audience (and their sex scene is shot like a soft-core porn film if we’re going to be honest here), but let’s focus on what Atomic Blonde does that’s so unique. Here’s an action movie about a tough-as-nails warrior whose attraction to both sexes is not treated as a sign of villainy or betrayal or an entirely broken moral compass. Lorraine Broughton is duplicitous because of her career choice, not because she likes to get it on with men and women. It’s not the most eloquent pro-LGBTQ statement out there, but seeing a proper action hero so unashamed of her sexuality (and perhaps even empowered by it) is a breath of fresh air.

Atomic Blonde can be shaky, but it is also sexy and stylish and shot by filmmakers who actually value action. It’s cool without being too cool. David Leitch is going to be making action movies for a long time…and hopefully Charlize Theron will star in a few more of them.

/Film Rating 8 out of 10

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One of the panels that went overlooked at San Diego Comic-Con amidst all the major news and trailers from the rest of the convention was Entertainment Weekly‘s own “Women Who Kick Ass” panel. Usually, the panel features an ensemble of tough, badass women from movies and television, but this year’s panel focused on just one: Charlize Theron.

With Atomic Blonde in theaters this weekend, Charlize Theron continues to proved that she’s a certified action star. As Theron said during the panel, she sought out the movie herself because she wanted a very specific movie to play with, a movie where she could play a character who was “unapologetic and can play by the same rules as men.” Atomic Blonde is definitely that movie, and it opens up a possible franchise where Charlize Theron can keep returning as the secret agent over and over again.

Along with discussing the future of Atomic Blonde with Entertainment Weekly senior writer and panel moderator, Sara Vilkomerson, the actress also talked about a possible follow-up for Mad Max: Fury Road, what she thinks of the suggestion that she be the next James Bond, one of her proudest moments on screen, and what she wants to see from future female characters in movies.

The Future is Female

Charlize Theron grew up being inspired by the likes of Sigourney Weaver in Alien and Aliens, which gave her a new perspective on womanhood completely. It wasn’t just that Ellen Ripley was a badass, but also who she was and how capable she was as a woman. It’s a movie that she revisited when she made Monster.

It’s not hard to see how an actress like Weaver and the characters she’s played over the years have influenced Theron, who has taken to playing strong women across a variety of movies, even if those movies didn’t always turn out as everyone hoped. But Theron still wants to see female characters grow and not fall into the same tropes that have been around Hollywood for decades. Theron explained during the panel:

“When a story doesn’t quite work, the female characters in a movie are used to emotionally manipulate in a movie [and] men don’t get used that way. We’re known to be nurturers, we’re not thought of as just warriors. We need a reason to become warriors, and I’m sick of that. We don’t need to lose a child or to lose a husband or need some kind of revenge story to become a warrior.”

Part of what makes Atomic Blonde work so well is that we don’t need to know much about her character to just accept who she is. Theron says, “I love that about Lorraine. She exists and she’s just simply her. We don’t explain why or why she’s any good at her job. She’s just there, and I love that about her.” She adds that a female character doesn’t need to be used to manipulate emotions to make an impact on the audience, saying:

“I love an emotional story, but there are different ways to tell those stories than to go for those easy, manipulative emotions. But I think sometimes there’s a laziness behind it. It’s such easy choices. Of course  I’ll care for this woman because her husband died. But what if you don’t tell me that, can you make me still feel something for her?  I want to see interesting choices with women, but not the easy mother-nurture, madonna-whore complex that we’ve seen so many times before.”

Mad Max, James Bond and Arrested Development

Since Charlize Theron knows exactly what she wants from female characters in the future, what can we expect to see from the actress as she continues her acting career? Fans have been waiting to see what will happen next in the Mad Max franchise after Theron stole the show as Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, and it sounds like the actress is in the same boat. Theron said that she’s totally game for a Mad Max sequel, but she’s still waiting on director George Miller to make it happen. She does note that she’ll be 42 in August though, so she wants to get to it sooner than later.

Interestingly enough, Theron revealed that she knows even more about Furiosa than fans do. The actress knows how Furiosa lost her arm and how she came to be in The Wasteland. She also reaffirmed the idea that she was brought to Immortan Joe for the purpose of breeding, but discovers that she’s barren. The character is treated as having no purpose in this world because she can’t have children, but she carves out a place for herself, which is a big part of what makes Furiosa such a great character. She’s a woman who doesn’t have to be what others expect her to be.

The strength that Theron has shown on the big screen has Chris Hemsworth championing the actress to take over the mantle of James Bond once Daniel Craig is done with the role. However, referring to the role she plays in Atomic Blonde, she thinks the film gives her “something that could hopefully live and breathe in the same kind of format, we could make a couple more movies and see this agent live.” So while she’s not necessarily opposed to playing James (or Jane) Bond, she says, “I’m fine with leaving James Bond over to Daniel Craig or to Idris Elba, who would be great, and I’ll do Lorraine.” That’s a nice plug for Idris Elba as James Bond as well as hope for an Atomic Blonde sequel to come together.

Finally, Charlize Theron was asked whether we might see her go back to some different spy roots by returning as Rita on Arrested Development when the show comes back for a fifth season. Not only did she acknowledge that appearing on that show is still one of her proudest moments, but she said, “I love those guys, I love that that world, and I love what they do with their writing. So if they called, of course I would make myself available.”

For more from Charlize Theron, watch the entire “Women Who Kick Ass” panel from Comic-Con right here:

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One place you should never, ever go in Derry, Maine is into the sewers. And yet when I had the opportunity to do just that, I was pretty much ecstatic to do so.

In Stephen King's 1986 novel, It, the popular 1990 miniseries based on the novel, and now in the new film adaptation, there is something very old and very evil in the town of Derry, and it has mercilessly targeted the local children. Most often taking the form of a clown called Pennywise, It's lair is within the sewers, which allows It access to pretty much any and everywhere. In junior high, when I first read It, I became absolutely captivated with King's excellent, incredibly immersive and freaky novel (I've probably read it a half a dozen times at this point), and to see Pennywise's domain brought to life for the new feature film version of the story -- and to actually set foot inside it --- was a pretty amazing feeling.

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Game of Thrones actor Ben Hawkey, who plays Arya Stark's former traveling companion and baker extraordinaire Hot Pie, has opened a real-life bakery called You Know Nothing Jon Dough.

According to Digital Spy, the Game of Thrones-themed bakery will sell Direwolf bread, which Hot Pie famously baked for Arya back in Season 3, and for Brienne to deliver to Arya in Season 4. Thankfully, Hawkey's bread bears much more of a resemblance to Hot Pie's second attempt at the House Stark-inspired treat.

Hot Pie actor Ben Hawkey and his Direwolf bread (Image credit: Deliveroo, via Digital Spy)

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During a panel today at the Television Critics Association press tour for Marvel's new Runaways series -- premiering November 21st on Hulu -- head of Marvel TV Jeph Loeb spoke briefly about how this new show might fit into the larger cinematic universe.

The story, based on the Brian K. Vaughan comic series, centers on six teenagers who discover that their parents are part of a secret cabal of supervillains, "lives in the same world" as all the other Marvel properties, Loeb said, from the movies to the Netflix shows. "How it's connected and where it's connected and what it's connected to remains to be seen. Right now what we're trying to do is tell the great story that Josh

and Stephanie

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With Rogue One's Ben Mendelsohn now up for the role of a Skrull in Captain Marvel, we break down everything you need to know about the alien shapeshifters.

A team of scientists from Oregon have performed the first known instance of gene editing on human embryos in the US, according to MIT's Tech Review. Shoukhrat Mitalipov from Oregon Health and Science University and his team have reportedly corrected...

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The following piece contains spoilers about episode 2 of Game of Thrones‘ seventh season, “Stormborn”

Game of Thrones lost two Sand Snakes at the hands of the murderous Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk) during Sunday night’s eventful second episode of season 7 — but the staging of the battle behind the scenes was nearly as dramatic. Below, ultra-busy Iron Fist star Jessica Henwick (the bullwhip-slinging Nymeria Sand) gives fans some insight about shooting those punishing final scenes, discusses how she almost didn’t return to Thrones, talks about fandom’s mixed reaction to the Sand Snakes, and more. (Note: Some spoiler-free quotes from this interview were previously published.)

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So you got the infamous call…
JESSICA HENWICK: I was in New York filming Iron Fist and I got a call from , the double Ds. As soon as you hear that more than one of them is on the call you know what that means. If it’s just one they’re probably talking about the story. But if it’s both of them then you know. They told me what’s going to happen and said, “We’d really love for you to come back.” But at that point and time, I wasn’t able to do it. My schedule clashed. I was filming Iron Fist for six-to-seven months and they wouldn’t give me the time off. The Ds pitched me the story and said, “It’s really important that you come back otherwise your character will just disappear and fans will never get a resolution.” The show was so massive for me in terms of my career and building my profile and as an experience in itself, I wanted to see it through to the end. I went and spoke to Marvel and I managed to get a release on two weekends. So I literally flew back and forth while I was doing Iron Fist in New York to Belfast, and over the Christmas break, I was filming as well.

Wow, the Thrones team actually had to work around your schedule instead of vice-versa?

I’ve literally not had a break since March of last year, when I found out I got Iron Fist and it’s been solid ever since. I did Iron Fist, Game of Thrones, went back to Iron Fist, did an independent film in L.A. and then went into The Defenders, then went straight to New Orleans, where I’m doing Underwater with Fox.

I’ve done exit interviews with many actors on this show, and I’m trying to think of another one — maybe Natalie Dormer — where somebody was so busy they actually wanted to leave. Normally they’re so disappointed, while you were all, “Well, I guess I could fit Game of Thrones in for a couple weekends…”
Yeah, it was funny. I’m not going to lie, a part of me was like, “Maybe I shouldn’t do it. Maybe she just does disappear!” And then the fans will never know what happened to her. Like Joe Dempsie. It would be like: What happened? No one knows…

But then 30 years from now people would still ask you what happened to Nymeria.
They would, but I decided to do it. The big draw for me every season going back is that getting to work with my sisters, . I’m such good friends with Keisha that any chance I get to be with her I gladly take it.

What was your reaction to reading Nymeria’s fate?
The plan was for it to be a more of a drawn out storyline. But because of my limited schedule . The first thing I thought was that it’s brutal. It’s hard reading these scenes where characters you love are getting absolutely demolished. And in our case, it’s by a crazy madman. I knew it was going to be very intense and very physical. I was excited because on the page you could feel the scope of it. And there is something fulfilling about finishing it.

How was shooting her fight scene?
It was grueling. It was one of the few occasions where it was more intense on set than it will be on screen. Normally there’s a lot of CG and you watch it on screen and you see a massive epic battle, but when you’re filming it’s all quite tame by comparison. For this, the audience can’t feel the heat on their face from the pyrotechnics going off or feel the wave machine trying to knock us off our feet, or the sweat dripping off our faces. They were blowing burning embers onto us. One of the stunt double’s wigs caught fire. And some of the stunt doubles fell through the balsa wood floor of the ship. It was hard, night shoots, we were really battling the elements they had created. I’m sure it’s going to look great but it was bigger in real life than on screen.

What was your last day on set like? Please tell me you got to keep her whip.
Well, I have a whip that I took from season 5, my first season. It’s not one with the special head on it. It’s a training whip, but I kept it. On my last day on set, it was freezing in Belfast, and they were shoving me onto a fork lift and hoisting me up there for that final shot. It was cold, windy and I don’t do well with heights. Earlier we had had an accident on set where I almost got choked out by the whip. So for that final scene, they wanted to tie one there and put pressure around my neck. As soon as they put it on I was like, “Get it off, get it off, get it off!” Even just the slightest pressure around my neck was really awful. That was emotionally difficult, and my sisters weren’t there either, so I was on my own.

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The Sand Snakes have had a mixed reaction from fans. Looking back, was there anything that could have been done differently?
I think that it was hard for from a production point of view. In the books, there are seven Sand Snakes and there was a lot of discussions about how many were going to be introduced . Originally it was going to be Obara, Tyene and then they couldn’t decide on Sarella or Nymeria. Obviously, I’m very lucky Nymeria ended up being the one they chose. It was always acknowledged that it was going to be very hard to give each of us a storyline. They had to introduce three characters all at once and differentiate them. When you’re limited to an introduction of two lines per character and there are four characters in the scene — during our introduction scene in season 5 — it’s hard to create a lasting impression. You kind of have to shove a character down the audience’s throat and Game of Thrones’ success is in its multifaceted characters. At the time it was definitely frustrating feeling like there’s so much potential here, and a lot of the stuff that we shot didn’t make the final cut. It was hard. But overall, given the size of the character, I’ve been very happy with how it’s come out. It is what it is. There’s nothing I can say, really.

What’s your best memory of working on the show?
I loved my scene with Rosabell where Nymeria and Tyene were playing the slapping game. That was a highlight. We slapped each other so many times our hands were really swollen at end of the day. It was quite funny. In season 6, getting to do that scene with Olenna Tyrell and she’s just amazing. Those are my picks.

Any final thoughts?
I just hope the fans enjoy it. The love I’ve received over the years from them has been wonderful. I have so many good memories, and to be a part of something so massive has been truly amazing.

Can you give us some Defenders tease to take us out?
We pick up with Colleen, not in New York — which is crazy as all the shows have been predominantly in New York. We find her a month after we left her. It’s really interesting she hasn’t been able to deal with the emotional trauma she dealt with in Iron Fist. So it builds to a head and she explodes in Defenders. It’s good, it’s really good. I think people are going to love seeing characters interact with each other, they’re going to see Colleen and Misty, they’re going to love seeing Luke Cage and the Iron Fist, Danny Rand. I think fans are going to freak out.

More Game of Thrones “Stormborn” coverage:

— Maisie Williams on that long-awaited Nymeria reunion

— Nathalie Emmanuel on that ‘vulnerable’ romantic nude scene

— “Stormborn” our deep dive recap

Game of Thrones airs Sundays on HBO.

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

"You're a dragon. Be a dragon."

"Stormborn" would have mostly been a set-the-stages style episode - though one with some big scenes, no doubt - had it not been for that big action set piece right at the end involving Euron's fleet overtaking and defeating Yara and Theon's envoy.

It was an impressive, explosive scene that didn't involve, I would say, anyone's actual favorite characters on the show, but it still did some nice work showing Euron's chaotic glee and Theon's lingering trauma from his time with Ramsay Bolton. Two Sand Snakes fell, the remaining Snake and Ellaria were taken prisoner, and Yara's fate is... unknown. It stands to reason that she's still alive since she's too big a character to kill off screen and also, you know, Theon will have to redeem himself at some point after this tragic failure to launch. Whether it's saving Yara somehow or in some other way.

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A very important prophecy was brought up again on tonight's Game of Thrones. Here's a refresher.

Full spoilers for Game of Thrones: Season 7 continue below. Check out our review of "Stormborn."

Game of Thrones' second episode of Season 7 featured a reunion of two characters who haven't seen each other since Season 1: Arya Stark, and her direwolf Nymeria. If you'll remember, Arya sent her young pup away back after Nymeria attacked Joffrey in the series' second episode.

After Arya made the decision to ditch her plan to kill Cersei in King's Landing once she learned that Jon Snow is now King of the North, she reencountered Nymeria and her pack in the woods. She asks Nymeria to return with her to Winterfell, but her direwolf leaves instead, prompting Arya to say the line, "That's not you."

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This article discusses events previewed in a promo for Game of Thrones Season 7 episode 3, "The Queen's Justice." If you don't wish to know what is coming ahead based on what is released by HBO, read on at your own risk.

It's finally happening, Game of Thrones fans. The promo for Season 7, episode 3 "The Queen's Justice" features the meeting we've been waiting for since this series began.

The promo for the third episode, which aired at the end of "Stormborn," featured the glorious introduction of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen. And this is only episode 3!

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Supergirl has added four new cast members for Season 3, and they'll be playing DC Comics characters.

The CW announced at Comic-Con 2017 that Heroes alum Adrian Pasdar will portray DC villain and ruthless real estate developer Morgan Edge. His plans for National City inevitably put him at odds with Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath) and Supergirl (Melissa Benoist).

Carl Lumbly (Alias) has joined the series as the classic DC character M'yrnn J'onzz, who's the father of the Martian Manhunter (David Harewood), and he will affect the character in unexpected ways.

Yael Grobglas (Jane the Virgin) will play the psychic villain Psi, who's set to battle Supergirl this upcoming season. Lastly, Emma Trembley (Elysium) will portray National City kid Ruby, whose fascination with Supergirl puts her in danger.

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Michelle Pfeiffer will join Ant-Man and the Wasp as Janet van Dyne, Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Bill Foster, and Walton Goggins as Sonny Birch, Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) and Michael Pena (Luis) announced at Marvel's San Diego Comic-Con panel.

Janet van Dyne was previously played by Hayley Lovitt in the first Ant-Man. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said Pfeiffer was their "dream choice" for the role at the panel. Goggin's involvement with the film was revealed earlier this month without details of his role.

Sonny Burch was chairman of a weapons design company, who was once linked to Obadiah Stane, the villain from the original Iron Man. In the comics, when Tony Stark revealed that he was Iron Man, it meant that the US Government had rights to the Iron Man armor. Burch claimed a lot of Stark’s technology and began selling it to the US government. He was more concerned with profit than safety.

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Lost and Person of Interest alum Michael Emerson has joined Arrow for Season 6.

The CW announced at Comic-Con 2017 that Emerson has been cast in an unspecified, recurring role in the new season.

Michael Emerson.

Emerson is known for his roles as the enigmatic Benjamin Linus in Lost and the high-tech billionaire Harold Finch in Person of Interest.

The CW also confirmed that David Nykl will reprise his role as Oliver Queen's friend, mentor and nemesis Anatoly Knyazev in the sixth season.

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The Legion of Doom may have been disbanded, but it’s not the last we’ve seen of their members!

It was announced at Comic-Con International on Saturday that Wentworth Miller and Neal McDonough will return to DC’s Legends of Tomorrow in season 3 as Captain Cold and Damien Darhk, respectively.

Miller, who will recur, was an original cast member whose character died at the end of season 1 but returned as an earlier iteration of the character, a member of the Legion of Doom. But this will be a brand new iteration of the character. “Mick Rory needs his pal, but unfortunately he’s not going to get the version of his pal that he remembers,” EP Phil Klemmer said during the panel.

Added EP Marc Guggenheim: “We’re obviously really excited to bring Wentworth back on the show for a few episodes, but a different iteration of Mr. Snart. Chaos and merriment will ensue.”

McDonough, meanwhile, first appeared as Damien Darhk on Arrow before the Reverse-Flash (Matt Letscher) picked him up from an earlier point in the timeline to join the Legion. When the Legion was destroyed, Damien was then deposited back in 1987. McDonough will now be a series regular. “We’ll be meeting a new version of Damien Darhk, a little less silly, a little more formidable,” Klemmer said.

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It also was confirmed that Arthur Darvill will return as Rip Hunter in a recurring capacity. Rip basically will be going up against the Legends once again but in a different capacity as the head of the Time Bureau. “Last season, the Legends were the only game in town,” Klemmer said. “Now they’re competing with the best and brightest. Rip Hunter has reconstituted what the Time Masters were, so the existential question for the Legends is where do we fit into this universe?”

They’ll certainly need all the help they can get in fixing time, especially when another villain arises in the form of Kuasa, the sister of Mari McCabe, a.k.a. Megalyn E.K.’s Vixen. “We’re really excited about that,” Guggenheim said. “We’re looking forward to the inevitable confrontation between Maisie’s character and her great granddaughter.”

Meanwhile, a new hero will eventually join the team in Zari Adrianna Tomaz (Tala Ashe), a Muslim-American woman from the year 2030. In her future, technological advances have brought about significant change to civilization, but humanity’s fear, prejudice, and mistreatment of the planet have prompted her to become a “gray hat hacktivist.”

They’ll meet Zari in 2030, which has seemingly been decimated by what the Legends have wrought. “She’s seen the fallout from 2017 and in this dystopian future, they’re going to butt heads at first,” Ashe said. “It’ll be interesting to see how that unfolds and becomes a part of the team.” But she may also find herself at loggerheads with the team, particularly Ray (Brandon Routh). “Rather than fixing history you should improve history, so they don’t quite see eye to eye on that,” she said. “She might be a little glass half-empty.”

For Sara (Caity Lotz), we may get to see a more solid love interest. “It’s definitely time for Sara to maybe settle down, or at least have a relationship that’s at least more than a role in the hay,” Klemmer said. “It’s hard when you’re traveling through time. This season, we’re really looking to .” Added Guggenheim: “It’s definitely been a priority of ours this season to re-establish Sara’s bisexuality. It’s a big important thing for us to re-establish that part of her character.”

While it’s unclear whether Sara will get to meet Earth-2 Laurel Lance doppelgänger Black Siren (Katie Cassidy), Lotz thinks “it would be really hard, because you see this person like you’re my sister and there’s so much love there and all the pain and everything,” she said. “To see that person who is your sister but is not your sister, I don’t even know how you deal with that.” Guggenheim then revealed that question is vital to what we’ll be seeing on Arrow next season. “She’s a different Laurel Lance,” he said. “She’s a Laurel Lance of a parallel universe. That’s a big question, a big piece of the story we have to tell with the new iteration of Laurel: How much of the Laurel that you know and love is in there?”

As for what’s next for the team, we’re going to get a swap between Stein (Victor Garber) and Jax (Franz Drameh) “We have a concept, which we may or may not be able to afford,” Klemmer said. “We have a new character named FireStein, so it’s a Freaky Friday situation, so get ready to impersonate one another.” Plus: We may get to see Routh play his brother Sydney this season!

In other news, Guggenheim revealed that Amy Pemberton will reprise her role as the real-life Gideon in the season premiere. “You’re going to be seeing her more Gideon,” Guggenheim said of season 3. Further, the producers revealed they’ve talked to Matt Ryan about appearing as Constantine. There will also be an ’80s-themed episode that explores Ray’s childhood, and we’ll get to meet his mom.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow returns Oct. 10 at 9 p.m. ET on The CW.

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Who — apart from Dinah — survived the island explosion in the Arrow season 5 finale?

That’s the question on everyone’s mind. Unfortunately, the Arrow cast and showrunner wouldn’t tell Entertainment Weekly anything when they popped into our San Diego Comic-Con studio Saturday. However, Stephen Amell did say that the season 6 premiere will focus on the cliffhanger’s fallout.

“We have flashbacks in the first episode to the aftermath of the explosion, and I can’t say anything else,” said Amell.

While they couldn’t divulge any secrets pertaining to last year’s cliffhanger (and didn’t in the panel either — read about that here), showrunner Wendy Mericle did offer up an interesting tease about this season’s upcoming four-way crossover. “It’s going to be very much rooted in the DCU. It’s going to be an epic story that I think fans will be really excited about, particularly comic book fans,” she said.

So fans (Arrow-heads?), start guessing which DC Comics storyline the Arrowverse will tackle this year, and watch the rest of the Arrow cast interview above.

Arrow premieres Oct. 12 at 9 p.m. ET on The CW.

For all things Comic-Con 2017, visit our all-encompassing EW Comic-Con page.

What’s the best thing about San Diego Comic-Con? Well, if you’re a fan of The CW’s DC Comics superhero shows, it’s seeing the new trailers for the upcoming seasons of The Flash, Supergirl, Arrow, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. And, this year’s batch did not disappoint.

Below, we pick out the best moments from each trailer:

‘The Flash’: Caitlin is back on Team Flash?

When season 3 ended, Caitlin’s (Danielle Panabaker) future was up in the air. Because she had decided to embrace being Killer Frost, or at least her powers, it wasn’t clear if she would return to Team Flash or strike out on her own. Well, this new trailer shows her back at S.T.A.R. Labs working with Team Flash, which is great news for The Flash fans. Curiously, her hair is no longer white, which suggests she might have taken the cure, or maybe she’s wearing a wig to hide her identity. We’ll have to wait until the new season to find out — Panabaker played coy on the matter during the panel.

The trailer also shows that Iris (Candice Patton) is trying to keep the promise she made to Barry (Grant Gustin) at the end of last season about moving forward, and it ends with Cisco (Carlos Valdes) trying out a device that’ll hopefully bring Barry out of the Speed Force.

The Flash returns Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. on The CW.

‘Arrow’: Slade made it off the island! 

After a brief recap of last season’s explosive finale, the Arrow season 6 trailer throws us into the fallout of the explosion. A shot of a Black Canary vs. Black Siren fight in Star City re-confirms that those two women survive the island, which is fantastic news since Juliana Harkavy was a great addition to the cast in season 5 and Katie Cassidy was definitely missed after Earth-1 Laurel was killed off in season 4.

However, the most exciting part of the new promo is seeing Slade Wilson alive and well off the island. While we already knew that Manu Bennett would return this season, nothing beats seeing him and Oliver (Stephen Amell) shake hands in that hospital room and hearing him give Oliver some more advice, which is so season 1 in the best way possible.

“We walk in two worlds. We can only do that for so long,” says Slade in the trailer. Even without context, it sounds like Slade might be giving Oliver some parenting advice, which makes sense since the trailer also reveals that William is now an even bigger part of Oliver’s life.

Arrow returns Oct. 12 at 9 p.m. on The CW.

‘Supergirl’: ‘Kara Danvers was a mistake’

The Supergirl season 3 trailer offered us our first looks at Smallville‘s Erica Durance as Kara’s mom and at Heroes alum Adrian Pasdar’s threatening turn as Morgan Edge, who isn’t too happy with Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath). But, the most appealing thing in the short clip is Kara’s (Melissa Benoist) voiceover, because it’s clear she’s still distraught over the lengths they went to save Earth last season — i.e. filling the air with lead, thereby forcing all of the Daxamites, including her boyfriend Mon-El (Chris Wood), to leave Earth’s atmosphere.

“The decision I made, he couldn’t have made that sacrifice. But me, I couldn’t have lived with myself if I hadn’t,” she says in the trailer. “I will always make the decision I made. I am not a human. I tried to be, but I’m not. Kara Danvers was a mistake.”

That last part should give all Supergirl fans pause. Since the beginning, this show has been about how Kara handles being both Supergirl and Kara Danvers, and to hear she’s decided that trying to live a normal life was a mistake is definitely heartbreaking. Hopefully, Kara realizes that’s not the lesson she should take away from last year’s conflict.

Supergirl returns Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. on The CW.

‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’: A great evil is coming…

The Legends broke time at the end of season 2, which isn’t surprising since they did break the one rule of time travel. So, in season 3, they’re focused on righting what’s wrong. But, as showrunner Phil Klemmer teased when he and the cast came by EW’s San Diego Comic-Con studio, fixing time aberrations is only a small part of the danger they’ll face this season.

“Rip has been hiding something from us. There’s a greater evil coming. Tell me what we’re facing here,” says Sara (Caity Lotz) to a woman in a suit, who we can assume is part of Rip Hunter’s new squad, the Time Bureau. As Sara says that, we’re shown our first look at Kuasa, Amara’s great granddaughter. Judging from the trailer’s scary music, Kuasa and Amara’s eventual family reunion won’t be as heartfelt as when Sara was reunited with her family after coming back from the dead.

Elsewhere in the trailer, it’s revealed Rory (Dominic Purcell) hates clowns, which is the perfect character detail.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow returns Oct. 10 at 9 p.m. on The CW.

When we last saw Lucifer he had been kidnapped and was dumped in the middle of a dessert. Oh yeah, and his wings are back! Who had taken him and how did his white wings return? That’s a big mystery for season 3 of LUCIFER. A preview that aired during the show’s Comic-Con panel reveals […]

Barry Allen sacrificed himself to the Speed Force after defeating Savitar at the end of season 3 of THE FLASH. But how is Central City — and his loved ones — doing with Barry and the Flash? Iris is trying to honor his last request to her (to keep running). But when they come across […]

The straits of Lembeh in Indonesia have become known as the sea’s strangest square mile and you will see why once you have watched this remarkable short by Shark Bay Films. Amid this alien landscape you will find the hairy frog fish, the bobbit worm and the flamboyant cuttlefish to name but a few.  The frenzy of hunting and feeding that goes on here makes The Circle of Life as depicted in The Lion King seem downright leisurely.