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Spare a thought too for Dany’s brave Dothraki, the most vulnerable front and the first to fall. Other good men and women leaving included Beric, who sacrificed himself to save The Hound and Ayra, Dolorous Edd who saved Sam (and whose gloomy pronouncements I shall miss) and little Lyanna Mormont, who ferociously took out the ice giant, although alas, Jorah’s death means the great house of Mormont is no more. He may have started off a callow youth, but Bran was right – he died a good man. Similarly, Alfie Allen has made me cry twice in two weeks as Theon showed why he was both Ironborn, in his glorious and reckless final stand, and yet also Stark, earning redemption and Bran’s benediction too. In recent episodes Dany hasn’t been the most likable character, but when she wept for the man who has known her longest, who has seen her grow from child bride to autocratic queen, it all but broke my heart. Thus Jorah found his way to his Khaleesi one last time – in the moment that made me cheer the most – protected her, saved her and died for her.
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For amid the battle, the fire, the zombies and the deaths this was also an episode about those makeshift families made in series past. Not before finding peace and, most importantly, home. Chief among them Jorah and Theon, both of whom, to echo the famous quote about Dany’s brother Rhaegar, “fought valiantly, fought nobly, fought honourably.” And, like Rhaegar, they died. ‘He fought valiantly, fought nobly, fought honourably’. ‘ Everything you did has brought you where you are now, where you belong: home’ Ultimately, though, I’m fine with the fact that not everyone fell (although as the Night King moved towards Bran I really thought they might.) There are three episodes to go, and too many big deaths would have lessened those we did get. Prior to that climatic moment we had seen all manner of mayhem, as well-known characters went to their heroic doom, albeit perhaps not as many as the odds and the audience expected (how Grey Worm made it out alive I’ll never understand, but I do hope he now gets his island paradise with Missandei).
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What I liked most about her late arrival – other than the fact I truly didn’t expect it – was that we’d seen both Ayras prior to that point: the killer who used her weapon to slice through a zombie army, and the panicked girl who ignored her training and ran.īoth coexist inside her, and it’s because of that – because she is at once human and murderer – that she could deliver the telling blow: she came to save the Three-Eyed Raven and the day, but, almost more importantly, she saved her brother Bran. As Melisandre reminded her at the end of the world: “All men must die” “But not today.” For despite Sandor’s gloomy predictions about fighting death, what is Arya but death’s assassin? Her entire training at the House of Many Faces was leading to this moment. Regardless of how you might feel about Dany’s fire not burning the Night King’s ice, the actual killer made perfect sense. He’s just not so good at surviving smaller attacks from those he inexplicably still thinks of as brothers. I would argue this is a terrible battle tactic, except weirdly it seems to work for Jon. Her partner-in-battle Jon fell back on his patented method of charging suicidally into the fighting mass hoping to take as many with him as possible.
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When the mother of dragons yelled ‘dracarys’ I thought for a few sweet minutes it had worked – but it turned out zombie overlords are pretty hard to kill, and Dany’s fire seemed to temper his steel rather than destroy him. The Night King’s end too made sense when it came. She lit the flames of the Dothraki swords, set a trench ablaze which allowed the retreating army enough time to get through the walls of Winterfell, and even found time to deliver a bracing (and, as it turned out, crucial) pep talk to Arya before finally walking out of the castle and through the snowy wastes to die, necklace cast aside and job very much done. While everyone got their moment in a tense and pulsating episode during which I barely drew breath, no one was more important than red priestess Melisandre.