Spoilers for the Game of Thrones season-four premiere contained herein.

8. House Stark

Action: Family sword melted down while Tywin Lannister watches lustily; Sansa accepts a present from a drunken fool; Arya reclaims Needle and gains a nice, white horse.

Verdict: The pause between seasons did them no favors. "The War is Over," says practically every character in this episode, and that is bad news for the side that lost. The War of the Five Kings is now almost entirely in House Lannister's rearview, with the Boltons ruling over Stark vassals. The fact that Arya is on her way to her aunt Lysa (you remember her, right? She breastfeeds her six year old) shows how desperate they are. But at least Arya got rid of Polliver, who as one of Gregor Clegane's men, definitely had it coming.

7. The Night's Watch

Action: The council of five decided against beheading Jon Snow, which was a good move since he is one of their most talented members.

Verdict: They are the New York Knicks of Westeros at the moment, congratulating each other for not destroying themselves. Still, Janos Slynt, the frog-faced former City Watch commander who betrayed Ned Stark so happily, has secured a position of power. The man clearly knows nothing about the new life he's landed for himself, and seems more interested in insulting Jon than surviving the coming battle against the Wildlings. To say nothing of the real fight against the dead white army that's coming after that.

6. The Baratheons

Action: None! How do you not put Stannis Baratheon, Rightful King of Westeros, in the season premiere?

Verdict: We hope Davos Seaworth at least attended his weekly reading class held by Shireen, the child princess, even if we didn't see it. Also we hope they return next episode with even more traction than the end of Season 3.

5. The Martells

Action: Prince Oberyn Martell arrives in King's Landing to play the Game of Thrones, immediately showing a few Lannister thugs who is boss. In a brothel.

Verdict: Finally! Someone with the balls and the cunning to deliver a comeuppance to the Lannisters. We wish the Starks had someone like this in their near empty family tree.

4. The Wildlings

Action: Tormund Giantsbane and Ygritte had an argument, and then the cannibalistic Thenns joined up with their ranks headed towards Castle Black.

Verdict: They beat The Night's Watch this week because, well, eating your rivals means you are winning. But we also see how much the two leaders hate each other, proving a point a Night's Watchman said this episode, "You can't get more than 20 wildlings together before they start trying to kill each other." Will they be able to stick together?

3. House Lannister

Action: Tywin disowned Jaime (also Jaime disowned himself); Joffrey made fun of Jaime; Brienne chastised Jaime; and Cersei refused Jaime.

Verdict: "Ever since we got to this city, every member of my family has been a huge pain in my arse." Jaime tells Brienne, speaking out to a little of the bitterness he's feeling as regards his situation. House Lannister may have won the war, but it seems like they're beginning to crack as a family unit now that they've reached the top of the food chain.

2. House Tyrell

Action: Olenna and Margaery have a little grandmother-granddaughter chat.

Verdict: While House Lannister deals with infighting and the actual ruling of the realm, House Tyrell's biggest problem right now is finding the perfect necklace for Margaery's wedding dress. Add to that the fact that they don't have a murderous prince from Dorne breathing down their neck, and you can see why the Tyrells continue to come out on top against House Lannister.

1. Daenerys Targaryen

Action: Relaxed with her growing dragons before coming across the brutal "You are Here" left by the city of Meereen.

Verdict: She is on top because she has huge dragons, the nuclear option of in the game of thrones. This should be a bigger deal, but tonight we saw that Dany's dragons aren't quite the cute lizards they used to be. Drogon actually snapped at her over a sheep's leg. For all of her learning to rule that Daario Naharis suggests, she'll have much bigger problems if her flying nuclear dinosaurs decide they want to be rebellious teenagers. But, since even an unruly dragon is more useful against an enemy army than no dragon at all, Dany still comes out victorious. And you can bet you wouldn't want to be a slaver when she finally gets passed all those dead children, either.

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