It’s just not entirely clear what “winning” means when you unnecessarily raze an entire city in the process. “We have won the great war now, we will win the last war,” Daenerys said earlier this season. Got to do a lot of heavy breathing tonight. (“You win or you die,” of course, but sometimes you can also win and die.) The last surviving dragon Quite dead, but hey, at least he got to take his brother down with him. (Brienne deserved better, though.) The Hound We might once have considered him defecting back to King’s Landing to cancel out these points, but Daenerys and Cersei’s respective moral standings are no longer so clear. Points to Jaime for bringing back an underappreciated dig-that time Cersei called him the “stupidest Lannister.” More points for taking out Euron Greyjoy. (Plus, Sophie Turner handily deflected blame for that coffee cup onto Emilia Clarke.) Sansa for the Iron Throne. And Sansa doesn’t even appear in this week’s installment. In any case, this seems like the most immediate catalyst for Dany’s psychotic break on dragonback midway through the episode. Sansa’s mall goth days might be behind her, but she’s still got a mall teen’s penchant for gossip: After non-brother Jon Snow swore her to secrecy and told her of his true parentage, she proceeded to tell Tyrion Lannister, who absolutely cannot keep a secret. WinnersĪrya avoids a lot of the real action this week but, honestly, she’s done her service and we salute her nevertheless.
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Read on to see where everyone ranks ahead of next week’s series finale. This also means that winners in the game of thrones this week were hard to come by one Clegane clearly did better than the other, some Starks managed to get in a few jabs, and a dragon lived to breathe fire another day. (Miguel Sapochnik returned to the director’s chair, which is as sure a sign as any that we’re in for a bloodbath.) Some may have claimed-despite the high death toll of the third episode, much of it among immigrant communities-that not enough people died during the Battle of Winterfell those people were likely far more satisfied this week, which saw the deaths of two-thirds of the surviving Lannister clan, both Cleganes, another Greyjoy, and so many King’s Landing civilians. But after a bit of housekeeping-Daenerys weeding out some pesky gossips in her midst-it’s all action, returning to the front lines for a brutal confrontation between Daenerys and her allies, and the Lannister army and the Golden Company. We’re plunged immediately into the aftermath of last week’s shocking execution Daenerys Targaryen, Grey Worm, and Tyrion Lannister are still mourning the death of Missandei at the end of season 8’s fourth episode.
(Admittedly, it’s feature-length, and then there will be that prequel series, but Game of Thrones as we know it is about to draw to a close.) And this week, the show’s writers continued to whittle down the ranks of major players, leaving us with just a handful of egos to contend with heading into the final couple of hours of the show. Well, that’s it: There’s just one episode to go before Game of Thrones is done.