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'Game of Thrones' review: Like a dragon joyride, season opener thrills

Forget winter. The Great War is coming. Armies are marching. Evil queens are scheming. There is no time to waste. The end is near, just five episodes away.

The urgency was palpable at the start of "Game of Thrones'" eighth and final season, which arrived Sunday after a near two-year absence that had fans deconstructing everything from the artful arrangement of corpses in Season 1 to the gentle drift of a tiny snowflake in Season 7 for clues about who might capture the Iron Throne.

Carefully laid theories blew apart Sunday as the paths of key players finally converged, and at a rapid clip, in the most dynamic and eventful season opener in the HBO drama's nine-year history.

Within minutes of the lengthy cogs-and-wheels title sequence, the arduous separation

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