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Season 7 of HBO’s Game of Thrones premiered last night. The show opened up with probably the best scene to start any season of the show. I’ve made no attempts over the years to hide the fact that I believe Arya Stark is the best character on the show and based on last night’s opening sequence it appears as if some of the show’s writers agree with me.
While I was watching the show live on HBO, there were millions of people logging into HBO Go, HBO’s online streaming service. In the past, HBO Go has had problems with crashing during the season premiere/finale of Game of Thrones because the servers can’t keep up with the demand. Going into last night, everyone thought there was no way in hell the servers would crash because HBO knows the demand and by now they must’ve finally fixed the problems. WRONG.
HBO Go crashed and everyone lost their goddamn minds on Twitter. It was such a big deal that HBO Go crashing began to trend on Twitter’s Moments:
Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by HBO Go #HBOGO #GameOfThones #GoT pic.twitter.com/DY45abJNOZ
— Jordi Linares Rivas (@jordilrivas) July 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/MudkipMama/status/886754174070861825
HBOGO servers tonight. #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/1ajlbxmfle
— sam (@samfickman) July 17, 2017
#HBOGO users now pic.twitter.com/Rzg98g4k4N
— José Andrés (@andreskrishna) July 17, 2017
Right now #HBOgo … pic.twitter.com/V8YhNeOoAi
— Juan Villalobos (@JAVO2307) July 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/gatoradrienne/status/886758834919886848
https://twitter.com/bb19tbh/status/886759421069541376
Users of #HBOGO in this moment pic.twitter.com/Q82GghmPYz
— Alan Barron (@alanbarronb) July 17, 2017
Who could have possibly predicted that the #HBOGO servers might experience an increase in traffic tonight?! pic.twitter.com/GxjEYeQyus
— chasemagnett.bsky.social (@ChaseMagnett) July 17, 2017
Me trying to get HBOGo to work right now: #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/1gSgf1D2MQ
— Lindsey Kupfer (@Lindseykupfer) July 17, 2017
Get your shit together, HBO Go. You know the demand.
Now, if you’ve already watched ‘Dragonstone’ and want to read a full recap of the episode you should head on over to UPROXX and read Alen Sepinwall’s season premiere review.