“Every time a Targaryen is born,” he counselled Jon, his new pick, “the gods toss a coin and the world holds its breath.” Who could have seen this unrestrained carnage coming, besides absolutely everybody watching? Step up Varys, whose long-standing loyalty to Queen Dany had begun to subside under clear signs of her unfitness to rule, and news of a worthier contender. Well, the Fleet was incinerated by Drogon, who has learnt to fly tactically, the quivering Gold Company got similarly smelted, Cersei appears to have had no cunning plan at all, and as for the civilians… Are you sitting down? The seat of the conniving Cersei Lannister and the last holdout of unbended knees to Daenerys Targaryen, now Mother of Dragon (singular), was buttressed by a human shield of unloved civilians, fortified by the Gold Company’s mercenary army, defended from sea by the Iron Fleet and guided, it seemed, by a heavily signalled cunningly nasty plan.ĭirected by Miguel Sapochnik, whom GoT has made something of an apocalypse auteur, the episode is a standout for how it manages to flip its own tokens of devastation The prelude to the storming of King’s Landing, realised in the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones as a sinisterly apocalyptic vision, suggested that the odds between opposing sides would be roughly even. Let’s start with a major spoiler and, even at this late stage, quite a Game changer. This article contains spoilers for Game of Thrones, season eight, episodes one to five.
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