EVENT REVIEW: Game of Thrones Screening Party by Johnnie Walker: Here’s What Went Down

I got invited to watch the first season of the final episode of Game of Thrones. I watched the first season and didn’t follow up with other episodes. So lets just say that I’m one of those who should read up on the previous episodes so i can catch up. So what went down at the event?ArrivalThe event took place at the Harbor Point event centre, Victoria Island. The event was to kickoff at 6pm. It was stated that the doors will be shut by 7pm. Guests were advised to arrive on time. I wouldn’t say i was one of those who arrived early but at the time i got to the venue at some minutes past 6pm it was already a full house.Getting Tagged.

Getting taged into the venue was quite easy. The ushers for the event were pretty, nicely dressed and polite. They attended to guests swiftly. In less than 5min , i had gotten my tag and was allowed into the venue. The Ushers were smart , experienced and properly briefed.The AmbianceTalk about the perfect ambience that depict the Game of Thrones 100%.? The organizers got this right. Beautiful ambience , perfect lightening.MunchiesGuests were treated to some White Walker’s infused cocktail, popcorn and finger food. The bar was open for a long while and was shut when it was movie time. The popcorn served at the event is best I’ve had this year.GuestsThe MovieWinter is here and Nigerians will have it no other way than with a celebration. Thanks to Johnny Walker Nigeria for hosting.The episode opens with a great reunion: the gates of Winterfell are thrown open as Daenerys Targaryen and “the greatest army the world as ever seen” are let into the city. Sansa Stark, who has now become one of the “smartest people” (or at least to Arya Stark), is highly uncertain if this is the right choice for the North. She has become very strategic. Well, who wouldn’t, having gotten through her version of hell from Cersei Lannister’s lair to Little Finger’s, and even Ramsay Bolton’s prison. She has watched patiently and learned.And so when she reunites with her ex-husband (of some sorts) Tyrion Lannister, the “hand of the queen,” she is the one who tells him Cersei isn’t sending her soldiers North. But then again, Sansa was indeed the understudy of the best players. Cersei, Little Finger and Ramsay.Cersei is never changing. In King’s Landing she welcomes her new captain, Strickland, and his army that she has loaned from the Iron Bank. She is displeased, though, that she didn’t get her bloody elephants. How is it that Euron Greyjoy doesn’t know that Cersei will discard him when she is done? Or how is it that Cersei doesn’t know that Euron knows this? I have always wondered. The game these two play gets more intense as they consummate the whatever it is they have.We love a good family reunion; and even though they are no one’s favorite family, the Greyjoys are somehow still alive, at least some parts of them are. They still want to defend that Iron Islands of theirs. What a joke. Or maybe not. Time will tell.And then the family we actually love reunites. Arya meets Jon Snow, and it indeed has been a minute. Arya also reunites with Gendry. But then the most unlikely fellows reunites: The Kingslayer, Jaime Lannister, meets Bran Stark, who he had try to kill in the first season. The plot is deep with history, only to be layered with more history.By now you should know that anything is possible in this show. Maybe that’s why my life these days is made up of wondering what the perfect venue in Westeros and beyond is for Dany and Jon to have their nuptials. The Great Sept of Baelor has always had my vote, but no thanks to Queen Cersei, it is now all ash and dust, reduced to sunder.Now that Jon Snow is fully aware of his claim to the iron throne, what next? Will he wage war against his new lover over a chair?VERDITSound: 10/10Munchies: 6/10Ambiance: 10/10Screens: 10/10DJ: 8/10Parking: 8/10