WINNER: Arya Stark
The list of names on Arya Stark‘s kill list (on the show) include the following: The Tickler (dead), Polliver (dead), Armory Lorch (dead), The Mountain (alive-ish), Ser Meryn Trant (alive), The Hound (questionable), King Joffrey (dead), Queen Mother Cersei (alive), Lady Melisandre (alive), Tywin Lannister (dead). She’s currently training to become a silent, faceless assassin. She’s being told to forget who she is or what she was in order to become a ‘faceless man’, but then this dude who’s on her ‘kill list’ shows up in Braavos across the Narrow Sea from his home in King’s Landing and suddenly she has the opportunity to kill the man she’s had blood lust towards for what seems like forever.
What concerns me most about her right now is that based on Jaqen H’ghar’s reaction to her lie about the oysters is that he knows. He 100% knows she’s lying, and he likely knows that she’s trying to kill some man who’s not the old dude who wants oysters.
I’ve said countless times that Arya Stark is my favorite character, and I have the most faith in her living to be the ultimate badass before this show ends. In next week’s season finale I fully expect her to kill Ser Meryn Trant, one of the knights on King Tommen’s Kingsguard. But will that put her in bad standing with Jaqen H’ghar? I hope not.
WINNER: Daenerys Targaryen, First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals and All Men, Freer of Slaves, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons
I’m pretty sure I soiled my pants when Daenerys finally mounted the dragon and rode it off into the skies. We all knew something messed up was going to happen during the scene where the fighting pits reopened, but I think most of us figured it would be Ser Jorah Mormont dying.
Related, I came across this meme earlier and had to share it with you (via):
So he didn’t die, he didn’t die at all. I could name him as this week’s biggest winner as he saved the life of his one true love AND regained her favor…But did he ride a mother fuckin’ dragon? No. He did not.
Henceforth the barometer for ‘biggest winner in Game of Thrones‘ is measured by this barometer: did they ride a goddamn dragon? Did that dragon rain hellfire down on the infidels and attempted assassins before they rode that dragon? Did that dragon kill at will and fly out out there only sustaining moderate injuries but the dragon killed tens of men?
If that criteria is not met than I cannot in good faith name someone ‘biggest winner’ in Game of Thrones.
So Daenery’s husband is dead, she’s regained the favor of her old bear, her lover is alive, and Tyrion is intact…But in the midst of those hundreds Sons of the Harpy trying to kill her she just got on the back of the dragon and rode off to leave her closest friends surrounded by enemies…Dafuq is up with that?
Did she not realize that her friends and lovers need a little more fire from that dragon?
Drogon is EVERYTHING. DROGON IS LIFE. But they needed a little more from Drogon before she rode off into the night.
Where’d she go? What will happen to the rest of the gang? These are questions I have going into next week.
I expect that it’ll be a fantastic season finale, one for the ages! And I’d like to apologize for giving you a condensed ‘Winners and Losers’ Game of Thrones recap today, (even if it was nearly 2,000 words), but I wanted to save all my theories and good stuff for next week.
As usual, feel free to rip me a new a-hole in the comments down below if I’ve screwed up minor and inconsequential details, because I know you all love doing that.
Until next week!