Rather he commemorates all who died in the Battle for the Dawn as “the shields that guarded the realms of men.” We will never see their like again. It is so fitting one wonders why Jon wouldn’t allow him to be buried in the crypts of Winterfell (save for that he still knows Theon was kind of the worst), but the Warden of the North has different plans. Theon was allowed the family he always wanted, and he probably would’ve died for the right to be given that direwolf pendant by Ned Stark’s daughter. When Sansa gave Theon what he always wanted in life-acceptance as one of the Starks-it hurt. Mayhaps he was also the only person who also fully understands Sansa since he was the one to see her transition from the “little bird” to the traumatized but resourceful woman she is today. Theon Greyjoy, as it turned out, found one person before he died who understood him. But it is Sansa who has likely the most tender farewell. Jon Snow bids farewell to the little girl who was the only Northern lord to aid him and Sansa in a time of need, and Arya likewise honors the cycloptic rogue that saved her life. That will prove paramount later in the episode, but in this moment he is hardly the only loss. He’s dead now, and it’s becoming apparent that neither Tyrion or Jon will be able to fill his place as a tempering hand on the Khaleesi’s shoulder. It was his return last season to Dragonstone that brought the first genuine smile to her face since arriving in Westeros-finally a friend who isn’t actually a stranger in this strange land that she calls home. She banished him twice, but her greatest successes were always with him by her side. It is left up to viewers in a very Lost in Translation way to determine what Dany’s final words are to Jorah, my guess is the word “love” was somewhere in there (also like Lost in Translation).
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Now that he’s crossed over, Friend Zone jokes have lost their luster, and in his absence there is a visibly gaping hole in Daenerys’ soul. For Dany that came in the form of Ser Jorah Mormont, the Knight She Twice Sent Away, and yet always returned. It seems impossible now for the two to not have conflict in the remaining climactic episodes, which is a shame given they have so much in common after the lives they’ve lived-and the deaths they’re here leaving behind. Jon Snow is, in essence, giving them all a Night’s Watch funeral.Īmong the dead, each character had someone they could personally and privately grieve none more so than Daenerys and Sansa. As it turns out, there was a fair share of each, but that still didn’t take away from the misery of seeing thousands upon thousands of nameless Dothraki, Unsullied, and Northmen piled on their pyres.
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Two weeks ago, I said that the second episode of season 8 felt like a preemptive wake for the living because we didn’t know if there’d be enough characters or time left afterward.
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When “The Last of the Starks” begins, we’re actually afforded time doing something no one ever tends to in these fantasy big battle stories: mourn the dead. As a beloved character on another zeitgeist-y property would say, “We’re in the endgame now.” And of the two or three hours of story squished into less than 80 minutes here, the first one is heartbreakingly great. Nevertheless, there is still a lot to like in what is clearly the place-setting episode before the climax. “The Last of the Starks” is so compressed that moments which should breathe (like the blossoming life and death of Jaime and Brienne’s romance), and dawning epiphanies that needed to be gradually accepted (such as Daenerys’ ambition and pride are driving her mad), were conveyed in unsatisfying shorthand and the type of cliché that Game of Thrones and its literary source material are so good at avoiding. Thus enters the fourth episode of the year, “The Last of the Starks,” which clocked in at 79 minutes but still doesn’t feel quite epic enough to carry the weight of all the narrative heavy-lifting that is being attempted.Įasily containing enough material for two or three episodes, it will now forever be a mystery to me why it wasn’t exactly that many installments given the truncated nature of season 8. Well, as it turns out, that was only true for the final four episodes, and even then it’s become something of a double-edged sword. Offering the snow and sunshine together in one bitterly bright day, HBO teased that we’d have to wait almost two years for the final season, but at least each episode would be at or near feature length.
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When details about the eighth season of Game of Thrones trickled out, there were sorrows and joys to be had.