Jaime and Brienne get to hook up, thanks to some honesty during a drinking game, and then - Jaime takes off south because he still loves his sister. Things were looking good! They both avoid being shot by Bronn and his Tywin Lannister Memorial Crossbow. Of the two Lannister boys, Jaime had the better week, but also had to admit the core of his character is forever poisoned by Cersei. House Lannister (or, oathsex and bad news) Because of the reality of Aegon/Jon's legitimacy and Tyrion's bloodline, there are very few people around her that can be trusted to have only her best interests at heart. It seems like Dany's arc is bending this way because executing Missandei not only pisses off the Dragon Queen, but removes a person close to Dany that could have talked her down from killing hundreds of people. As an audience, we’ll be leaning in to another Game of Thrones battle without necessarily thinking that our heroes survived the Long Night only to plunge into another war where our main characters make bad decisions. This seems to be crafted in a way that next week we can watch Daenerys and Grey Worm exact revenge for Missandei on King’s Landing and not be completely horrified by it. Maybe we don't have a hero on this show anymore, at least not in the game for the Iron Throne. Their loyalty might buy her a little bit of latitude, but certainly not enough to go burn the Red Keep to the ground. It's a powerful motivator to push both Grey Worm and Dany to the edge, and that behavior is going to freak out the Dany's remaining allies: Tyrion, Varys, and Jon.
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Not only do we get a reminder that Dany lost Jorah with the funeral scenes early in the episode, but now she's down her main sidekick, the one she turned Valar Morghulis around on with, "Yes, all men must die, but we are not men." Daenerys looks like she might follow the dark side path of fear to anger, anger to hate, hate to suffering when The Mountain takes off Missandei's head after she's captured by Cersei's men. Martin pull), seemed driven insane and needlessly cruel. The Mad King, who wanted to "burn them all" (a line the show has put emphasis on, not a George R.R. It's beginning to look like Daenerys Targaryen might have more in common with her father than we've been expecting. This division between the source material and the HBO show feels like an important one to emphasize as it continues to make surprising and controversial choices. We are in the endgame for Game of Thrones, as these character arcs do more to satisfy the show plot than literature-based theories, prophecies, and events. Martin from before the show began production, but we also learned on last week’s making of featurette that the decision to make Arya the one who took out the Night King was a show decision, not one of Martin's plot nuggets from The Song of Ice And Fire novel series. We know the duo had conversations about the ending with George R.R. Season 8, episode 4, "The Last of the Starks," is the second episode so far this season where showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Last week, it was the sudden end to the Army of the Dead's attack on Westeros this week, we’re down another dragon and Missandei at the hands of Queen Cersei and her war minions, Euron Greyjoy, and The Mountain.
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With only two more episodes left in the final season of Game of Thrones, we’re spiraling towards a conclusion, closing off possible avenues along the way.