Our main heroes sit along the head table, glumly stuffing their faces. We cut from a shot of the smoke rising from the flames engulfing the bodies to a shot of candles burning in a chandelier above the Winterfell great hall, where a feast is in progress. Ser Jorah, Theon Greyjoy, Dolorous Edd, Lyanna Mormont and Beric Dondarrion. We get lingering shots of five of the six casualties of last week's battle as they light them up up up, light them up up up. As for the remains of the Night King and the White Walkers, that's a much easier problem to deal with - sprinkle a little Snowmelt and they're slush sprinkle a little more and they're gone.) (That's the winning army's dead, to be clear, not the "argh, argh" dead - no word on how all those rotting corpses got disposed of. Our heroes stand stiffly, morosely, looking out over the plain before Winterfell, which is filled with pyres stacked with the bodies of the dead. We start with that formal feeling mentioned earlier. The episode also featured several farewells to characters who have been around a long time – both the actual, permanent kind (Protect ya neck, Rhaegal! We'll miss you, Missandei!) and goodbyes that are clearly head-fakes, as they're certain to show up again (Sam, Gilly, Tormund, Ghost).īut this episode will probably best be remembered for the comically cavalier way these characters suddenly approach keeping secrets. Her character arc just took a deep downward curve and is plummeting toward the x-axis. None of you? That's because it doesn't make a lick of sense.
Raise your hand if you had "badass Brienne of Tarth finally gets herself some, and immediately transforms into someone who'd stand sobbing in the middle of a courtyard while begging her boyfriend not to go off to war and leave her" in the predictions pool. Pop Culture Happy Hour Which Characters Will Lose The 'Game Of Thrones?': A Chronicle Of Many Deaths Foretold Instead, Tyrion dithers, Varys schemes, Arya remains cool and aloof, Bran MacGuffin gazes at folk unblinkingly a lot - so, yeah, all those characters are staying true to form. Not to Jon Snow, who stays maddeningly on-brand, clinging to honor and truth because he's somehow still too thick to understand when a little discretion is called for - even now, after getting, you know, murdered for it! Which you'd think would the most teachable of moments! Sansa keeps on Sansa-ing, as she once again raises concerns about the well-being of soldiers, displaying a keen tactical sense of exactly the sort of logistics you'd otherwise expect Tyrion to be all over.
The aftermath of the Battle of Winterfell does some weird things to our heroes.
That's a quote from Lady Emily of House Dickinson, who might as well have been describing this episode, which probably couldn't help but feel anticlimactic and setty-uppy, coming as it does in the narrative gully that naturally stretches between last week's exultantly fire-and-bloody spectacle and next week's likely disastrous siege of King's Landing. Spoilers, of course, abound.Īfter great pain, a formal feeling comes. We're recapping the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones look for these recaps first thing on Monday mornings. We believe people are mature enough to decide for themselves what content to view, and how, and when.Boy, Mike Brady really let himself go, hunh? Schemin' seaman Euron (Pilou Asbaek) and cunning Queen Cersei (Lena Headey) look awful pleased with themselves on Game of Thrones. We take action to enforce reddit's sitewide rules and those voted up by the community. R/Freefolk neither encourages nor discourages piracy. Decisions to stay on /r/all, or our community rules, are voted directly on by the community. We do not deliberately spoil other people, but we do not hide ourselves away either. Otherwise your post will be removed and you may be banned from posting again. That you want to promote? Please message the moderators beforehand and make sure it's ok. Have you gotten new merch or created something inspired by GoT/ASOIAF? Share it in the weekly Thenn Thursday thread!ĭo you have a subreddit, discord, YouTube channel, ect. Rules added or removed by annual community vote This is a wide open and minimally moderated subreddit to talk about the Game of Thrones/ASOIAF spoilers, leaks, books, and shows.