(thailantour.com)Spoiler alert: If you haven"t watched Season 8, Episode 4 of "Game of Thrones," turn your vulnerable armada around và head for safety, because this whole post is a giant spoiler.
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Hello and welcome back to suffering. If you thought we were safe for a little bit after the Battle of Winterfell, then the second half of this episode probably hit you lượt thích a giant bolt in the soft underbelly of your soul. As the grotesque specter of Season 3 Ramsay Bolton constantly reminds us, "If you think this has a happy ending, you haven"t been paying attention."Yes, there will be plenty of time to mourn later, but first, it"s time for feasting (and another word that starts with "f" that we can"t print here)!
The Night King is vanquished, & the sun has risen on another day in Winterfell. After the dead are burned & Daenerys gives one last platonic, goodbye buddy kiss khổng lồ poor old Jorah, the heroes of Winterfell buổi tiệc nhỏ down. Drinking games are played, significant political side-eyes between Daenerys and Sansa are exchanged, & Tormund vomits. All in all, a good time.
However, under her smile, Dany is in serious "conceal, don"t feel" mode. She sees how people admire Jon & his whole coming back from the dead act, and it"s obvious she"s having doubts about how he really plays into her Iron Throne endgame. In the spirit of conviviality, she singles out Gendry, legitimizes him as a Baratheon and makes him the Lord of Storm"s End. It"s generous, but Tyrion calls the move for what it is: A political maneuver to lớn plant some loyalty in the great houses of Westeros.
Suddenly, in the flap of a dragon"s wing, it all goes to hell. Euron"s fleet attacks Daenerys và company en route khổng lồ Dragonstone, và with three well-placed bolts from those fancy scorpion contraptions, Rhaegal goes down in a horrifying cascade of blood. Don"t ask how the Greyjoy bannermen got so many of those intricate, heavy machines, or why they were so consistently accurate, or how they were all reloaded so quickly. We live in a post-Night King world. Anything is possible.
The Targaryen fleet is overcome & Missandei is captured. In a bid to lớn reason with Cersei & save Missandei"s life, Daenerys, Tyrion, Varys and Grey Worm meet with Cersei, Euron, & all of their assorted monsters outside the gates of Kings Landing. Tyrion tries khổng lồ use his pretty words lớn convince his sister not lớn start a war that will inevitably cost thousands of innocent lives và pull almost everyone into a pit of death and despair, but his sparkling rhetoric isn"t what it used lớn be.
Cersei is unmoved, and has the Mountain straight up BEHEAD MISSANDEI. The gall! The cruelty! No sumptuous red Lannister murderin" outfit is fabulous enough khổng lồ excuse such a crime. Daenerys" anguished face says it all as she walks away from the horror: Dracarys. Burn it all down.
Is this the last we"re going lớn see of Tormund and the không tính tiền Folk? Of Sam & Gilly? Of Ghost? Granted, if it is, that"s probably for the best. Getting peacefully shuffled out of the narrative is way better than dying.
What"s Sansa"s next move? We get it, she doesn"t trust Daenerys, and the looks she shared with Tyrion were deeply conspiratorial. But how is she going khổng lồ influence politics at large when most of the players are headed south and she"s in Winterfell?
Why don"t Dany and Jon just get married và stop with this silly political drama? Props lớn Varys for being the first person khổng lồ explicitly address the fact that Dany is Jon"s aunt, but still, given the gravity of the situation và the Targaryen"s propensity for inbreeding, it kind of feels like the practical solution.
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"What kind of person climbs on a f****** dragon? A madman. Or a king!" Tormund Giantsbane, future Presidential campaign manager.Fans have been waiting for a reunion between the Hound and his little bird, và their conversation in the great hall did not disappoint. True to lớn form, The Hound was both shockingly crass and gentle, noting Sansa was "broken in" by Ramsay và then musing, almost softly, that it wouldn"t have happened if she had left King"s Landing with him when she had the chance. For her part, Sansa gave as good as she got, và even coaxed a laugh from her old friend when she revealed the weapon she chose khổng lồ put an kết thúc to Ramsay"s cruelty: Hounds! Ha! Only Sandor Clegane would find that hilarious.
After a short but satisfying voyage, the SS Gendrya has returned lớn port and been respectfully decommissioned. Understandably, Gendry wants to wife up Miss Kingslayer II and settle down at Storm"s kết thúc as soon as possible. Và understandably, Arya isn"t about that life right now.
In a critical moment of character development, Jaime Lannister sleeps with a woman who isn"t related to him. Alas, it appears he"d rather return lớn his sister"s manipulative chaos than roll around in the bed furs with a wholesome lady knight. Toot toot! The Jaime Redemption Train is in grave danger of being derailed.
Ugh, these PEOPLE. It"s infuriating that Euron has such a heavy hand in Cersei"s machinations, considering he only properly entered the trò chơi last season. But this whole pregnancy thing throws a wrench in their cursed union. Is Cersei lying about the parentage (the baby is actually Jaime"s) out of convenience, or does she have betrayal on the mind?
So Dany và her dragons were flying high above the sea & none of them spotted Euron và his flamboyant array of kraken figureheads? What, does he command a fleet of stealth drones? Why does this drunk Panic at the Disco-looking pirate keep winning?
Both Stark sisters made Sandor Clegane, the most miserable man to lớn ever sulk about the Seven Kingdoms, smile & laugh. A true blessing.
Hmm. In this episode, Gendry is referred to as Gendry Rivers, and that surname indicates he"s a bastard from the Riverlands. However, by canon he"s actually Gendry Waters, since he was born in Flea Bottom, in the Crownlands.
Tyrion & Jaime:
Okay, let"s get real for a minute. Yes, this is "Game of Thrones." Yes, anyone could die at any time, even good people who shouldn"t. But Missandei deserved better than this!
Freed from a brutal system of chattel slavery, Missandei was given the opportunity to use her skills & intelligence to lớn make a difference in the world, lớn forge her own identity and fall in love. Of course she was brave to her very last word, but it"s a shame she died with so little agency — & in chains, nonetheless! Her death wasn"t a redemptive personal choice, lượt thích Theon"s; a sacrifice or a prophecy, like Melisandre"s or Beric"s; or even, in general, a hàng hóa of her own decisions (here"s looking at you, Robb). Plus, it needs to lớn be said: She was one of the only people of màu sắc in this whole story, & if you think that doesn"t matter in Westeros, just remember the way those rude little Winterfell urchins treated her.
It"s not the fact that she died. Valar Morghulis, she"d tell you herself. It"s the idea that she died mainly to lớn serve as traumatic motivation for someone else (who, albeit, truly loved & respected her) that"s a huge, huge bummer. Rest easy, sweet butterfly queen.
Daenerys spent six seasons amassing armies, dragons and beloved advisors so she could come lớn Westeros aaand...they"re all gone. She"s lost Viserion & Rhaegal, the whole Dothraki horde và half the Unsullied, plus Jorah và Missandei, & what does she have to show for it? A mopey incest-y boyfriend, gossipy seneschals và a diluted claim to the Iron Throne? She is probably this close khổng lồ losing it. Can you blame her?
