WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BY SHOLA ABODUNRIN

GAME OF THRONES EASTER EGGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

it's over guys! The end is here and a demigod finally won the throne. I wanted to write a “Blame Of Thrones” article instead, highlighting the various mistakes and oversight in this final season as a whole, and the last episode in particular, but this is the end, no need for what could be anymore. So let's focus on what was.

First, the obvious question, why was Jon alone with Daenerys in the first place and was able to kill her? Remember the time Dany and Jon went on a dragon joyride in “Winterfell,” this was why: Drogon would only allow Jon—a Targaryen and someone who loves Daenerys—to pass, thus allowing him to enter the Throne Room alone.

Notice Arya’s hair too? Arya stopped wearing the signature half-up look she shared with her father and Jon and pulls her hair into a tight bun, a look entirely her own and all the better because it signifies Arya going on a different path now, a path that is entirely her own.

On his way into the Red Keep, Tyrion enters Cersei’s map room (map atrium? map patio?) and walks right across the division between North and South, from his birthplace of Casterly Rock to Dragonstone, where he last stood with Daenerys.

What was with all the wildfire?(I mean the previous episode)
No, all that green fire wasn’t some sea-witch-ified undead Rhaegal giving Drogon an assist from below — it was wildfire exploding. You may have at first assume, as I did, this was the outcome of some sort of “burn it all down” mutually-assured-destruction plot of Cerseis’. But then I realized it probably wasn’t that at all, but rather a callback to a rumor in the novels that was alluded to on the series — later confirmed by Tyrion when he was temporarily hand to Joffrey — that there was stockpiles of wildfire stowed underneath much of King’s Landing, put there by Dany’s father – The Mad King. His last words were “burn them all.” Like father like daughter, I guess!

Also, showrunners played a bit of fan service by intentionally including the Sam scene about writing the story. It was a fan theory that had been on for years that maybe Sam will play George R. R. Martin in the show by being the one that writes “A Song Of Fire And Ice”.  I can't stop laughing at the spinoff though, one of the most important characters in the story was never mentioned.

Across the board, “The Game Of Throne” seemed to give characters who’ve been underestimated opportunities to rise up and assume authority. Sansa, the girl once deemed useful only as a potential wife, declares herself the independent Queen of the North. Arya, formerly viewed as just a girl incapable of kicking asses, sets out to discover a new world like a less racist, more formidable Christopher Columbus. Jon Snow, a bastard boy rose to become king of the north. He still leads the Night’s Watch now anyway, although it’s not clear what they will be watching since the White Walkers should be (emphasis on should) all gone now. And the wheelchair-bound, freakishly cerebral Bran becomes king of the remaining kingdoms, with the pariah of the Lannister family as his second-in-command.

This transformation is most significant for Tyrion, based on the amount of screen time he gets in the finale and in that amusing Small Council scene. Tyrion, anticipating that the full council will soon meet, goes to the head of the table and very particularly arranges the chairs, a callback to a scene from season 3 where his council colleagues go to great table-seating lengths to make him feel inadequate. (Of note: Everyone in that scene except Tyrion is dead now.) In the finale, Tyrion is positioned at the head of the table and no one tries to undermine him. It’s a wonderful moment of ascendancy for him.

And as for Bran being king, crazy right? Not so much. The show started out with a first-person chapter from the one, the only Baby Bran Stark. Sure he’s some all-knowing, all-seeing, not-really-anything memory entity now, but this show is insane. This story has always been insane. And if you’ll recall, Tyrion had that conversation with Bran in the Winterfell library where he asked to be told “all.” What did they talk about then? Perhaps everything Bran knew and saw? Bran is like a one-man Westerosi CIA!

I guess we will never find out what the lord of light really wanted. Or was it just the killing of the night king?

I'm yet to fully get grip of the story, more reviews and recap later when I've watched a second or third time.

Olushola Abodunrin is a graduate of Philosophy from the University of Ado-Ekiti. He is a professional writer, he writes articles for publication and he anchors – ‘What You Should Know’ on SHEGZSABLEZS’ blog.

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