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]]>Jason Lannister is the Lord of Casterly Rock and twin to Ser Tyland Lannister, a prominent lord who served the realm as master of ships for Viserys I Targaryen, as master of coin for Aegon II Targaryen, and as Hand of the King for Aegon III Targaryen. Both characters will be portrayed by Jefferson Hall, a returning Game of Thrones alum who played Hugh of the Vale in the HBO series.
Meanwhile, Ryan Corr (Wolf Creek 2, The Water Diviner) has been cast as Ser Harwin “Breakbones” Strong, who HBO describes as “the strongest man in the Seven Kingdoms.” David Horovitch (Miss Marple) will play Grand Maester Mellos, a close advisor and voice of reason to King Viserys.
Graham McTavish (The Hobbit, Netflix’s Castlevania, Preacher) is set to portray Ser Harrold Westerling, a chivalrous and loyal servant of the Kingsguard. Bill Paterson (Amazing Grace, Miss Potter) has been cast in the role of Lord Lyman Beesbury, Lord of Honeyholt and Master of Coin on King Viserys’s small council. Gavin Spokes (She Stoops to Conquer, Utopia, Warrior Kings) is Lord Lyonel Strong, Lord of Harrenhal and the King’s Master of Laws, and Matthew Needham (Stutterer) is playing Larys Strong, son of Lyonel Strong.
House of the Dragon is set roughly 300 years before the events of Game of Thrones, during a time of strife and civil war within the Targaryen dynasty. There’s no release date just yet, but barring any delays, it’ll hit HBO sometime in 2022.
In the wait for House of the Dragon, check out our list of the best TV shows of 2020 to see if there’s anything you missed.
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]]>Deadline (opens in new tab) is reporting that a sequel centered around the Targaryen dynasty in its death throes is close to getting a pilot from HBO. The series is being helmed by George R.R. Martin himself, along with the co-creator and executive producer of Colony, Ryan Condal. Martin had hinted at the project for a while on his blog (opens in new tab), imploring fans looking for answers on the unannounced prequels to read Fire and Blood for clues.
Fire and Blood tells the tale of Aegon the Conqueror, his conquest and rule in Westeros, and the vulnerable dynasty he left to his children. If the series ends up being green-lit, you’ll likely see the formation of King’s Landing and the Iron Throne, the birth of the Baratheon house, and plenty of incest and dragons. In fact, Deadline says the series will prominently feature the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of Dragons.
For my money, a series about Aegon’s Conquest and the political inner-workings behind Targaryen rule in the Seven Kingdoms is far more exciting than the more ancient history – the origin of the White Walkers and “the Starks of legend” – it seems Bloodmoon will center around. If based on Fire & Blood, this series could more closely resemble the Game of Thrones we already know, with all the cleverly-written extended dialogue sections and soul-destroying tragedy, than what’s been revealed about Bloodmoon.
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]]>“I’ve got a few of my own gripes,” Headey candidly reveals to The Guardian (opens in new tab). “But I haven’t sat down drunkenly with [showrunners] David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] yet.”
So, what would Cersei’s actress be up in arms about over a few glasses of wine? Surely not the lack of elephants?! No, it’s as you might have suspected: Her character’s demise. After all, Cersei bowed out in the most unceremonious of ways. The then-Queen of Westeros doesn’t get a knife to her back, nor is she poisoned by Arya in a crowd-pleasing twist. Instead, she embraces her brother/love of her life Jaime, and they both perish underneath the crumbling ruins of King’s Landing.
After that, it’s no surprise to find out Headey wanted “a better death.” Headey explains her reasoning by saying, “Obviously you dream of your death. You could go in any way on that show. So I was kind of gutted.”
However, Headey isn’t coming out swinging – and even defends the Game of Thrones showrunners: “I just think they couldn’t have pleased everyone. No matter what they did, I think there was going to be some big comedown from the climb.”
So, while Lena Headey doesn’t come down on Game of Thrones season 8 like a tonne of bricks, there are certainly things she maybe would’ve done differently. A different death for one thing – but no word about those elephants.
Still not over the finale? Same. Here are some of the biggest questions we had after watching the Game of Thrones ending (opens in new tab).
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It starts out promising in the first episode, Winterfell, which shows our cast of characters responding to Daenerys coming North and the oncoming preparations for the Battle of Winterfell. We get some much-needed downtime to let the characters actually talk and react to revelations that came at the tail end of season 7, and this is where Game of Thrones shines: when people have the chance to play the politics game, charming and planning their next move from behind the scenes. Yet while we get plenty of that in the first episode and episode 2 (The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), the rest of season 8 is a spectacle, for better and for worse.
Too little, too fast
While two episodes dedicated to game-changing (pun intended) battles would have felt like the payoff after several episodes of planning in earlier seasons, this finale makes the mistake of sacrificing build-up in favour of pure shock factor. To be fair, with only six episodes there wasn’t really any other way it could be done, but nonetheless Game of Thrones simply deserves better. Watching the battles in Winterfell and King’s Landing play out doesn’t feel like the satisfying pay-off it needed to be after all the key players had carefully moved their pawns into place over weeks of plotting, so it lacked the emotional weight that came with the Battle of the Bastards or the duel between Oberyn Martell and The Mountain.
Having said that, the best episode of the series is clearly The Long Night, where the Night King finally arrives for a showdown eight years in the making. Although we don’t get any insight into what those swirly symbols he kept leaving mean, or hear from his own lips why he wants to destroy Westeros, the battle does an almighty great job of showing that all our fears about him are well-founded. Each character grows in that fight: Sandor reaffirms his fear of fire, reminding us that he’s not healed from being abused by The Mountain as a child, Arya realises her destiny, Melisandre fulfills her purpose, and despite all their tactical maneuvering, Sansa and Tyrion realise that they can’t control everything. It should have been the punctuation note on a handful of episodes of build up yet, even still, The Long Night does the forces of the Night King justice… even if they can’t protect him from Arya’s stabby blade.
Daenerys’ unsatisfying ending
Daenerys’ descent into madness makes sense in hindsight, but – and yes, I’ve already mentioned this – dedicating a little bit more time to her unravelling sanity, especially after Rhaegal and Missandei’s death, would have allowed her massacre at King’s Landing to make more sense. Morality aside, she literally said that she’d take what was hers with fire and blood, so there has been quite a bit of foreshadowing when it comes to her rampage with Drogon. But, as with the whole of season 8, it’s not enough. There’s few things as satisfying as realising that the answer was right in front of your eyes all along, like Olenna using Sansa’s necklance to murder Joffrey or Littlefinger being the one behind Ned’s arrest, and I can’t help but feel a little cheated that Daenery’s madness doesn’t get the same treatment.
Emilia Clarke’s portrayal of the Mad Queen is exceptional from start to finish though, whether it’s her subtle expressive cues reflecting Dany’s transition from shock, to grief, to fury at Missandei’s death, or her rage-fuelled topple into insanity triggered by the sound of the bells at Kings Landing. Seriously, someone give that woman an Emmy already.
More delicious moments like that are held back from us in season 8 though, and the fact that we aren’t given much time to reflect on Dany’s madness means that her eventual death felt unearned, in a morbid sort of way. When she speaks with Jon in the finale, we see a brief glimpse of how she views the innocents she killed as evidence of her weakness, (paradoxically) thinking that Cersei was using them as bargaining chips. In Daenerys’ mind, killing them makes her strong. She’s more like Cersei than any of us thought, yet not being able to see her reign – or at least deal with the displaced inhabitants of Kings Landing – feels like a mistake.
The Game of Thrones ending (opens in new tab) did as much as it could to tie up one of the biggest pop culture phenomena of the 21st century, but with so little time to do so, it was always going to feel slightly… meh. Almost all the decisions make sense (Bran being king could have done with a bit more explaining, especially considering Sansa’s suitability to rule) and having some characters come full circle feels right, but it did come across as rushed. And a little too happy, to be perfectly honest.
Game of Thrones has made us come to expect that bittersweet tinge left in our mouths at the end of each season, giving us endings that feel fair yet hard to stomach, so it’s a surprise that so many characters survive with a smile on their face. In the end, we all expected more from Game of Thrones. Season 8 doesn’t feel like it was earned, with too little time dedicated to growing characters paired with a greater emphasis on rushing to major plot points, rather than proving to those of us watching how inevitable they were. Oh well. At least Ghost got petted in the end, right?
If you can’t quite remember what went on in the final season, here’s the Game of Thrones season 8 recap (opens in new tab)!
The Verdict
3
3 out of 5
Game of Thrones TV show
Game of Thrones season 8 gallops to the finish line at the expense of the subtle character development we’ve come to expect, but there are flashes of the brilliance the series is famed for
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It starts out promising in the first episode, Winterfell, which shows our cast of characters responding to Daenerys coming North and the oncoming preparations for the Battle of Winterfell. We get some much-needed downtime to let the characters actually talk and react to revelations that came at the tail end of season 7, and this is where Game of Thrones shines: when people have the chance to play the politics game, charming and planning their next move from behind the scenes. Yet while we get plenty of that in the first episode and episode 2 (The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), the rest of season 8 is a spectacle, for better and for worse.
Too little, too fast
While two episodes dedicated to game-changing (pun intended) battles would have felt like the payoff after several episodes of planning in earlier seasons, this finale makes the mistake of sacrificing build-up in favour of pure shock factor. To be fair, with only six episodes there wasn’t really any other way it could be done, but nonetheless Game of Thrones simply deserves better. Watching the battles in Winterfell and King’s Landing play out doesn’t feel like the satisfying pay-off it needed to be after all the key players had carefully moved their pawns into place over weeks of plotting, so it lacked the emotional weight that came with the Battle of the Bastards or the duel between Oberyn Martell and The Mountain.
Having said that, the best episode of the series is clearly The Long Night, where the Night King finally arrives for a showdown eight years in the making. Although we don’t get any insight into what those swirly symbols he kept leaving mean, or hear from his own lips why he wants to destroy Westeros, the battle does an almighty great job of showing that all our fears about him are well-founded. Each character grows in that fight: Sandor reaffirms his fear of fire, reminding us that he’s not healed from being abused by The Mountain as a child, Arya realises her destiny, Melisandre fulfills her purpose, and despite all their tactical maneuvering, Sansa and Tyrion realise that they can’t control everything. It should have been the punctuation note on a handful of episodes of build up yet, even still, The Long Night does the forces of the Night King justice… even if they can’t protect him from Arya’s stabby blade.
Daenerys’ unsatisfying ending
Daenerys’ descent into madness makes sense in hindsight, but – and yes, I’ve already mentioned this – dedicating a little bit more time to her unravelling sanity, especially after Rhaegal and Missandei’s death, would have allowed her massacre at King’s Landing to make more sense. Morality aside, she literally said that she’d take what was hers with fire and blood, so there has been quite a bit of foreshadowing when it comes to her rampage with Drogon. But, as with the whole of season 8, it’s not enough. There’s few things as satisfying as realising that the answer was right in front of your eyes all along, like Olenna using Sansa’s necklance to murder Joffrey or Littlefinger being the one behind Ned’s arrest, and I can’t help but feel a little cheated that Daenery’s madness doesn’t get the same treatment.
Emilia Clarke’s portrayal of the Mad Queen is exceptional from start to finish though, whether it’s her subtle expressive cues reflecting Dany’s transition from shock, to grief, to fury at Missandei’s death, or her rage-fuelled topple into insanity triggered by the sound of the bells at Kings Landing. Seriously, someone give that woman an Emmy already.
More delicious moments like that are held back from us in season 8 though, and the fact that we aren’t given much time to reflect on Dany’s madness means that her eventual death felt unearned, in a morbid sort of way. When she speaks with Jon in the finale, we see a brief glimpse of how she views the innocents she killed as evidence of her weakness, (paradoxically) thinking that Cersei was using them as bargaining chips. In Daenerys’ mind, killing them makes her strong. She’s more like Cersei than any of us thought, yet not being able to see her reign – or at least deal with the displaced inhabitants of Kings Landing – feels like a mistake.
The Game of Thrones ending (opens in new tab) did as much as it could to tie up one of the biggest pop culture phenomena of the 21st century, but with so little time to do so, it was always going to feel slightly… meh. Almost all the decisions make sense (Bran being king could have done with a bit more explaining, especially considering Sansa’s suitability to rule) and having some characters come full circle feels right, but it did come across as rushed. And a little too happy, to be perfectly honest.
Game of Thrones has made us come to expect that bittersweet tinge left in our mouths at the end of each season, giving us endings that feel fair yet hard to stomach, so it’s a surprise that so many characters survive with a smile on their face. In the end, we all expected more from Game of Thrones. Season 8 doesn’t feel like it was earned, with too little time dedicated to growing characters paired with a greater emphasis on rushing to major plot points, rather than proving to those of us watching how inevitable they were. Oh well. At least Ghost got petted in the end, right?
If you can’t quite remember what went on in the final season, here’s the Game of Thrones season 8 recap (opens in new tab)!
The Verdict
3
3 out of 5
Game of Thrones TV show
Game of Thrones season 8 gallops to the finish line at the expense of the subtle character development we’ve come to expect, but there are flashes of the brilliance the series is famed for
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]]>A disappointing Dany death
The Mad Queen arrived and… was dispatched pretty quickly. So much for the Big Bad taking up much of the final episode’s airtime. The response, as you can imagine, was fairly mixed for such a (formerly?) beloved character going out without so much as a blaze of glory.
Love the visual in this scene, Drogon’s unfurling wings appeared to be wings on Dany #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/SFMG1IMNUoMay 20, 2019
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Drogon Mourning dany’s death had same energy of simba mourning his dad…God i’m still crying#GameOfThronesFinale pic.twitter.com/zSOcO4RWcUMay 20, 2019
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the hbo people editing out dany’s death scene and replacing it with jon being chased by drogon pic.twitter.com/VWFuSTZtUeMay 19, 2019
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The Iron Throne is no more
Symbolism 101: Destroy something that stands for something else. Dan Weiss and David Benioff certainly did that, but how did Drogon know the importance of melting the Iron Throne? That’s one smart-ass dragon.
Either Drogon is the SMARTEST dragon in the world as he knew the corrupting power of the Iron Throne led to Dany’s downfall or he’s the stupidest and saw a knife in Dany and assumed it was the evil chair made of knives that killed her & he wanted revenge lmao#gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/PryyvUgDvRMay 20, 2019
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Really cool how that dragon understood the metaphorical synecdoche of the iron throneMay 20, 2019
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Drogon destroying the iron throne because he knew King Bran got his own seat. #GameOfThronesFinale #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/Ne0XoQrCnaMay 20, 2019
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I’m beyond proud of Drogon. He’s not even human yet he knew the root of evil was the iron throne.#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/bEGzX4Ys0BMay 20, 2019
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Bottled it
First there was the Starbucks cup, ruler of the Decaf Kingdoms, and now – wouldn’t you just know it – there’s been another on-set slip-up. This time, a pesky water bottle has been spotted in one of the most important scenes in the show’s history.
LMAOOO I CAN’T BREATHE THEY DID IT AGAIN 💀💀 First Starbucks now a water bottle this show is a joke #GameOfThrones #GameOfThronesFinale #TheFinalEpisode pic.twitter.com/9YaFF8Pnm6May 20, 2019
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a water bottle in King’s Landing!! #got #gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/mwGQlsLwnhMay 20, 2019
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You’ve heard of coffee cup now get ready for plastic water bottle? #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/iZLZ7kx3XaMay 20, 2019
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A Song of… you know the rest
A Song of Ice and Fire. Sam said the thing! The history of the show is now in book form and, weirdly, Tyrion doesn’t make a single appearance.
My exact reaction #GameofThrones #GameOfThronesFinale pic.twitter.com/c5uOUlyrLGMay 20, 2019
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benioff and weiss’ game of thrones finale included a character reading a song of ice & fire because the fantasy genre allows authors to imagine scenarios that they’ve never experienced themselves pic.twitter.com/D81UfE4tf0May 20, 2019
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Samwell: it’s called… a song of ice and fire pic.twitter.com/Dbo5HZu3EBMay 20, 2019
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Sam: It’s called, A Song of Ice and Fire.Everyone: Oh just get the right fuck out of here.May 20, 2019
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Two new rulers
For years now, we’ve been wondering who would be sitting on the Iron Throne come the show’s end. As it turns out: no one. No, not Arya, but two more Starks reigned supreme away from the Iron Throne, as Bran became King of the Six Kingdoms, while Sansa broke off the North to become an independent Kingdom.
Bran watching Dany and Cersei fight for the throne knowing it was all coming to him and the end…#gameofthrones #GameOfThronesFinale pic.twitter.com/GQ6jflWHx1May 20, 2019
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#GameOfThrones how bran won the iron throne pic.twitter.com/ejxu4KOqBCMay 20, 2019
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#GameOfThrones #GOT Nobody:Sansa: Bran’s dick is useless. pic.twitter.com/Wr2bhTtMNgMay 20, 2019
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Tyrion: “Bran should be King”Nearly everyone else: “Aye!”Sansa: “Lol! Fuck that! I’m naming myself Queen in the North!” #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/285QC3ptgEMay 20, 2019
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AHH, A GHOST!
D’aww. Just look at that Good Boy. He finally gets a reunion with Jon after episode 4’s heartbreaking goodbye (opens in new tab).
All of it was worth it for this. Ghost 🐺😭😭😭 #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/zOyh9OHTpHMay 20, 2019
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Good boy Ghost finally got the love he deserved. My happy ending for #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/tay7wMIBqJMay 20, 2019
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My heart broke for Drogon, but it lept for ghost. At this point, that’s all I caree about. The feelings of the animals. #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/6P9CNxTsjDMay 20, 2019
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please look at how happy Ghost was when he met Jon again #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/R21b4GkSVxMay 20, 2019
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A deserved ending?
Let’s leave the final word, as ever, with the people of Twitter. Good? Bad? Indifferent? It’s all here.
That was an awful awful ending to #gameofthrones. I feel like the writers just got bored and said F it! I think that was as bad as you can get to end a series like that #thefinalepisode pic.twitter.com/sdS7Jzk9VOMay 20, 2019
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That. Was. Not. A. Good. Ending. #GameofThronesFinaleMay 20, 2019
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THE ENDI have to say the ending won’t please everyone but we all know that bran is the right choice for king.But common Jon Snow with an ending like that…that was very disappointing and cruel for the man that sacrificed everything for the good of the people.💔#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/TbjO13Rb2dMay 20, 2019
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A somewhat good ending to a lackluster season. But all i can say is thank you for the amazing journey that you gave us and great memories, To one of the best shows in TV history our watch has ended 😭💔 #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/8sNwTzhCstMay 20, 2019
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9 years8 seasons73 episodesThank You! #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/mmxdZOwKn7May 20, 2019
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Thank you DB Weiss and DavidBenioff, and @grrmspeaking, @hbo and Richard Plepler for @GameOfThrones…one of the greatest television series ever created! Tonight’s episode was a tour de force, and a fitting way to conclude your monumental creative achievement.May 20, 2019
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Thank you guys for all the hard work and dedication to Game of Thrones. All the time spent away from your families and loved ones. All the shit we give you for just trying to please us all. Until next time. ✌🏿 pic.twitter.com/pxXSPdP4CsMay 20, 2019
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It starts out promising in the first episode, Winterfell, which shows our cast of characters responding to Daenerys coming North and the oncoming preparations for the Battle of Winterfell. We get some much-needed downtime to let the characters actually talk and react to revelations that came at the tail end of season 7, and this is where Game of Thrones shines: when people have the chance to play the politics game, charming and planning their next move from behind the scenes. Yet while we get plenty of that in the first episode and episode 2 (The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), the rest of season 8 is a spectacle, for better and for worse.
Too little, too fast
While two episodes dedicated to game-changing (pun intended) battles would have felt like the payoff after several episodes of planning in earlier seasons, this finale makes the mistake of sacrificing build-up in favour of pure shock factor. To be fair, with only six episodes there wasn’t really any other way it could be done, but nonetheless Game of Thrones simply deserves better. Watching the battles in Winterfell and King’s Landing play out doesn’t feel like the satisfying pay-off it needed to be after all the key players had carefully moved their pawns into place over weeks of plotting, so it lacked the emotional weight that came with the Battle of the Bastards or the duel between Oberyn Martell and The Mountain.
Having said that, the best episode of the series is clearly The Long Night, where the Night King finally arrives for a showdown eight years in the making. Although we don’t get any insight into what those swirly symbols he kept leaving mean, or hear from his own lips why he wants to destroy Westeros, the battle does an almighty great job of showing that all our fears about him are well-founded. Each character grows in that fight: Sandor reaffirms his fear of fire, reminding us that he’s not healed from being abused by The Mountain as a child, Arya realises her destiny, Melisandre fulfills her purpose, and despite all their tactical maneuvering, Sansa and Tyrion realise that they can’t control everything. It should have been the punctuation note on a handful of episodes of build up yet, even still, The Long Night does the forces of the Night King justice… even if they can’t protect him from Arya’s stabby blade.
Daenerys’ unsatisfying ending
Daenerys’ descent into madness makes sense in hindsight, but – and yes, I’ve already mentioned this – dedicating a little bit more time to her unravelling sanity, especially after Rhaegal and Missandei’s death, would have allowed her massacre at King’s Landing to make more sense. Morality aside, she literally said that she’d take what was hers with fire and blood, so there has been quite a bit of foreshadowing when it comes to her rampage with Drogon. But, as with the whole of season 8, it’s not enough. There’s few things as satisfying as realising that the answer was right in front of your eyes all along, like Olenna using Sansa’s necklance to murder Joffrey or Littlefinger being the one behind Ned’s arrest, and I can’t help but feel a little cheated that Daenery’s madness doesn’t get the same treatment.
Emilia Clarke’s portrayal of the Mad Queen is exceptional from start to finish though, whether it’s her subtle expressive cues reflecting Dany’s transition from shock, to grief, to fury at Missandei’s death, or her rage-fuelled topple into insanity triggered by the sound of the bells at Kings Landing. Seriously, someone give that woman an Emmy already.
More delicious moments like that are held back from us in season 8 though, and the fact that we aren’t given much time to reflect on Dany’s madness means that her eventual death felt unearned, in a morbid sort of way. When she speaks with Jon in the finale, we see a brief glimpse of how she views the innocents she killed as evidence of her weakness, (paradoxically) thinking that Cersei was using them as bargaining chips. In Daenerys’ mind, killing them makes her strong. She’s more like Cersei than any of us thought, yet not being able to see her reign – or at least deal with the displaced inhabitants of Kings Landing – feels like a mistake.
The Game of Thrones ending (opens in new tab) did as much as it could to tie up one of the biggest pop culture phenomena of the 21st century, but with so little time to do so, it was always going to feel slightly… meh. Almost all the decisions make sense (Bran being king could have done with a bit more explaining, especially considering Sansa’s suitability to rule) and having some characters come full circle feels right, but it did come across as rushed. And a little too happy, to be perfectly honest.
Game of Thrones has made us come to expect that bittersweet tinge left in our mouths at the end of each season, giving us endings that feel fair yet hard to stomach, so it’s a surprise that so many characters survive with a smile on their face. In the end, we all expected more from Game of Thrones. Season 8 doesn’t feel like it was earned, with too little time dedicated to growing characters paired with a greater emphasis on rushing to major plot points, rather than proving to those of us watching how inevitable they were. Oh well. At least Ghost got petted in the end, right?
If you can’t quite remember what went on in the final season, here’s the Game of Thrones season 8 recap (opens in new tab)!
The Verdict
3
3 out of 5
Game of Thrones TV show
Game of Thrones season 8 gallops to the finish line at the expense of the subtle character development we’ve come to expect, but there are flashes of the brilliance the series is famed for
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]]>Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) depiction of Euron Greyjoy has been odd. Fans of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire never took to the character due to how the show drastically changed his crazier elements. For the actor behind the pirate, Pilou Asbæk, the show version of Euron has always been a unique sort of villain.
“He’s very “just go with it.” He kills a dragon in “The Last of the Starks,” which was so fun, and then in “The Bells” his fleet burns and he doesn’t give a shit,” Asbæk said in an interview with the Making of Thrones blog (opens in new tab). “He’s just a survivor. Life goes on — things come and they go.”
In a recent interview Asbæk talked about his final showdown with Jaime Lannister and his characters death in the most recent episode of season 8. Jaime’s fight with Euron was an unexpected scene for most fans, no one thought that Jaime would be the one to end the eldest Greyjoys life.
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“Jaime’s character needed to be pushed,” Asbæk said. “He needed as many obstacles as possible — and that’s why Dan and David threw Euron into the mix, so his journey back to Cersei would be even tougher. So I was playing my part to fulfill that goal, but also adding my own color to the big palette.”
Euron’s journey in Game of Thrones ended beneath the Kings Landing with Jaime Lannister’s sword through his gut. Like every actor whose character died in the show before him, the scene was one of the most important things he shot while on set. Episode director Miguel Sapochnik and the shows creators wanted Euron to close his eyes once he was dead, but Asbæk wanted to keep them wide open as the camera cut away.
“Everyone else has a terrible death, or are in a position of, “OK, the world has burned down and now I have to rebuild it.” Euron isn’t. He’s just like, “Yay, I killed the Kingslayer! I’m going to go into history.” I’m the only one with a real happy ending.”
There is only one episode of Game of Thrones left. Enjoy these final moments by checking out the biggest questions we have after the season 8 episode 5. (opens in new tab)
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]]>Throughout the last five seasons of Game of Thrones (opens in new tab), Missandei has been Daenerys Targaryen’s anchor. She’s helped her get through many losses and grown to be the dragon queen’s closest friend.
Unfortunately for Missandei that friendship wouldn’t last. She was executed by Cersei in front of her queen after being captured by Euron Greyjoy. “Once I read she was captured in the battle, I knew she was going to be a casualty,” Missandei actress Nathalie Emmanuel tells the Making of Thrones blog (opens in new tab). “A part of me felt like her journey had been cut so short. We meet Missandei as an enslaved person in chains, and then she dies in chains. I really felt the weight and tragedy of that and what that meant — not just in the show, but in the world.
“It felt like a punch in the gut.”
Emmanuel spoke about her time shooting season 8, her relationship with Grey Worm, and how she felt about bringing Missandei’s story to a close. It wasn’t the huge set pieces or striking popularity of the show that drove her, it was about her own struggle in the industry and what playing a character like Missandei meant for representation on TV.
“What’s really hit home for me, more than anything, is how important my being in the show and the representation was to people,” she said. “I was like: “Wow people love her,” which made me miss her even more. I came up in this industry and didn’t think that I could ever be that representation for someone, somewhere; it makes me want to weep.”
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Despite her time on the show coming to an end, Emmanuel took comfort in Missandei’s last moments on screen. ““Dracarys” is a callback to earlier seasons, but Missandei is ferocious in that last moment, which is something we’ve never seen before,” she said. “…her life of enslavement has taught her to be collected, calm and non-threatening — to be correct and perfect. In that last moment, she’s like: “F**k this. I’m going to yell and be angry,” and that’s amazing. Her rage really came through and that’s something I was happy to see.”
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]]>- Step 1: Go to this site (opens in new tab) and make sure you sign into PlayStation Network if you aren’t already.
- Step 2: Watch the video all the way through (it’s only a minute long) and click “Redeem Here” once it’s over.
- Step 3: Redeem the code you receive on the PlayStation Store and download it to your PS4.
To change your theme over to your cool new dragon pal, head to Settings then select Themes. If your download is complete, you should see it as an option. Select it and you’re good to go. Redeeming that code will also unlock 10 PSN avatars as a bonus, including some more dragons, the Night King, and the Iron Throne itself (which will probably look like a goth porcupine when people see the tiny version next to your display name).
If you want even more Thrones accouterments for your PS4, you can head back to the same site and watch another two videos: one will give you a code for seven House Sigil avatars, and the other for a set of 13 character avatars. Be the first kid on your block to get a brutal team kill while rocking a Samwell Tarly portrait!
Find more funky fresh ways to spruce up your home screen in our list of the best free dynamic themes for PS4 (opens in new tab). Or see what’s new in games and entertainment this week with our latest Release Radar video.
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