![]() hanging around the burned-down city again, the horse nowhere to be found. But at the start of the series finale, Arya was. Her triumphant exit suggested that Arya riding this horse would be significant in some way. She rode it out of the crumbling King’s Landing following Daenerys’s assault on the city. So, exactly how big was Daenerys’s army to begin with for it to withstand an epic death toll from the Army of the Dead and still look so massive? 5) What was the deal with Arya’s white horse?Īt the end of Game of Thrones’ penultimate episode, “The Bells,” a white horse magically appeared before Arya, who’s barely evaded death. ![]() During the same battle, the Unsullied held formation outside Winterfell’s gates, and many sacrificed their lives to protect the forces of the living during a retreat.īut in the series finale, Daenerys’s army still seemed to be pretty huge: Daenerys Targaryen’s army in the series finale of Game of Thrones HBO In season eight’s third episode, “ The Long Night,” Daenerys sent her Dothraki army into the darkness to fight the advancing Army of the Dead, which resulted in mass casualties. Or was Maggy talking about Bran (definitely younger, but maybe not as beautiful) since he’s the one who ultimately took control of the kingdom? 4) Did Game of Thrones forget the casualties Daenerys’s army suffered at Winterfell? ![]() Some suggested that Jaime would kill his sister, or that Sansa or even Tyrion might. In season five, Cersei received a prophecy from Maggy the Frog, foretelling that “another - younger, more beautiful - cast you down and take all you hold dear.” Many Game of Thrones fans understandably thought that Maggy was talking about Daenerys.īut there were also fan theories that the prophecy wasn’t as simple as Daenerys coming in and killing Cersei. Going by the rubric that Game of Thrones applied to Daenerys, wherein revenge and vindictiveness are signs of irredeemable madness, shouldn’t we, and Arya’s friends and family, be more worried about Arya? 3) Was Maggy the Frog’s prophecy really just about Daenerys? Throughout Game of Thrones’ eight seasons, Arya was trained as a face-stealing assassin, devoted years of her life to exacting revenge on her enemies, and at one point created human pies out of Walder Frey’s family and fed them to Frey. Remembering how Cersei bombed the Sept of Baelor for personal reasons, are we then supposed to take Tyrion’s speech to Jon about assassinating Daenerys skeptically? If so, is Daenerys really more of a “Mad Queen” than Cersei? 2) Where does Arya stand on the “sanity” front? While Tyrion might not know his sister was behind this, Game of Thrones presents him as a voice of reason and logic. ![]() But Cersei did bomb an entire church in season six, leveling a section of King’s Landing to take out the High Sparrow and the Tyrells: In support of this, he cites that his family, particularly his father and his sister Cersei were truly awful people, but never leveled a city. When Jon Snow visits Tyrion - who’s being held by the Unsullied for treason against Daenerys - Tyrion states that Daenerys is completely mad because her body count is so high after destroying King’s Landing. 1) Does Tyrion know how awful his sister was? Here are 20 thorny questions we’re still wondering about. Though a lot happened in the finale’s 80 minutes, it feels as though the show ended with plenty of unfinished business that couldn’t be addressed in even a feature-length episode. And Arya Stark set off on a ship in search of a new adventure. Sansa Stark became the queen of the North, ruling over an independent Winterfell. “The Iron Throne” included the murder of Daenerys Targaryen Jon Snow returning North to a Night’s Watch that doesn’t seem to have a reason to exist and Tyrion Lannister plotting his Queen’s death, avoiding execution, and then being installed as Hand of the King by Bran Stark, the newly minted ruler of what is now the Six Kingdoms. The nicest thing I can say about the Game of Thrones series finale - and even its final season - is that a lot of things happened.
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