--- title: Everyone Is Flipping Over That Game of Thrones Brienne Scene description: At last, Brienne of Tarth receives the official knighthood she deserves — and 'Game of Thrones' fans have a lot of feelings about it. canonical: https://time.com/5575440/game-of-thrones-brienne-reactions/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-22T16:10:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:44.358Z og:title: Everyone Is Flipping Out Over That Heart-Stopping Brienne Scene og:description: Fans are delighted og:url: https://time.com/5575440/game-of-thrones-brienne-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5020e0213c239eb/698948ae16d884045bc34f7f/game-of-thrones-s8-e2-brienne.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Game-of-Thrones-S8-E2-Brienne og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Everyone Is Flipping Out Over That Heart-Stopping Brienne Scene twitter:description: Fans are delighted twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5020e0213c239eb/698948ae16d884045bc34f7f/game-of-thrones-s8-e2-brienne.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Everyone Is Flipping Out Over That Heart-Stopping Brienne _Game of Thrones_ Scene  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 22, 2019 4:10 PM UTC  Helen Sloan—HBO  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 22, 2019 4:10 PM UTC For seven seasons, _Game of Thrones_‘s [Brienne of Tarth](http://time.com/5568012/brienne-tormund-thrones/) has been a stoic force on the show: as acted by [Gwendoline Christie](http://time.com/4869299/game-of-thrones-comic-con-gwendoline-christie/), Brienne is a powerful warrior with an icy exterior and an unimpeachable sense of honor. She’s also gone through her fair share of pain, being regularly rejected by the men of her family and of the fighting ranks who view her gender first, and her aptitude later. So on Sunday night’s [second episode](http://time.com/5575272/game-of-thrones-tormund-reactions/) of _Thrones_ season eight, seeing Brienne receive a knighthood — from [Ser Jaime Lannister](http://time.com/5375086/game-of-thrones-nikolaj-coster-waldau-jaime-lannister-douche/) no less, was nothing short of heart-melting. Add to that the tear-filled smile she cracks after the deed is done and Tyrion Lannister, Tormund Giantsbane, Ser Davos and Podrick are cheering for her, and it’s perhaps the first time we’ve seen Brienne show emotion other than intensity, sadness or disdain. In other words, while we know the Battle of Winterfell against the [Night King’s army](http://time.com/5574932/game-of-thrones-bran-night-king-battle/) is coming, at least Brienne got one moment of pure joy when she received the title of knight, making her the first official lady knight in the history of the Seven Kingdoms. (The whole episode was aptly titled “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” too.) Naturally, fans of Brienne could not have been more excited to see how it all went down. > [](https://twitter.com/missnemmanuel/status/1120319193847668736) > [](https://twitter.com/PiperAnderson1/status/1120302880249061381) > [](https://twitter.com/%5Fcatastroph3/status/1120303221052968960) > [](https://twitter.com/bookishmuse/status/1120338753590054912) > [](https://twitter.com/enigmatic%5Fbeing/status/1120331478062256134) > [](https://twitter.com/CarrieCnh12/status/1120335514899492864) > [](https://twitter.com/LilBraimeAds/status/1120284120565809152) > [](https://twitter.com/Batmanders/status/1120342730104721408) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5575440/game-of-thrones-brienne-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5575440/game-of-thrones-brienne-reactions/"},"headline":"Everyone Is Flipping Out Over That Heart-Stopping Brienne Game of Thrones Scene","datePublished":"2019-04-22T16:10:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:58:44.358Z","description":"She's Ser Brienne now","url":"https://time.com/5575440/game-of-thrones-brienne-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones 2019","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5020e0213c239eb/698948ae16d884045bc34f7f/game-of-thrones-s8-e2-brienne.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5020e0213c239eb/698948ae16d884045bc34f7f/game-of-thrones-s8-e2-brienne.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Game-of-Thrones-S8-E2-Brienne","caption":"","creditText":"Helen Sloan—HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5575440/game-of-thrones-brienne-reactions/","name":"Everyone Is Flipping Out Over That Heart-Stopping Brienne Game of Thrones Scene"}}]}] ```