Game of Thrones Season 8: Subtle Details You Might Have Missed in Episode 5

Warning: spoilers are waiting in profusion.

The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones (always!), The Bells, was controversial to say the least.

Good or bad, from the point of view of history, it was probably the most important episode of the series. He presented the death of many key charactersincluding Cersei and Jaime Lannister, and Daenerys Targaryen completing his transition to Mad queen.

It was also a categorical epic, lasting about 90 minutes and featuring an incredible cinematography. The images of King 's Landing being shaved by Drogon and Daenerys were haunting but fantastic. In the midst of madness, though, you may have missed some of these details and reminders of previous seasons.

Bad omens

Even more than the twin deaths of Cersei and Jaime, The Bells 'main dish was Daenerys' official passage from hero to villain. King's Landing had gone, but she could not help it. She burned it, with thousands of innocent men, women and children, just because.

Targaryen is more Aerys than Rhaegar.

All this came out of nowhere. She was unhappy after learning in episode 2Jon Snow's real identity is Aegon Targaryen, heir to the Iron Throne. But things quickly escalated from "hey, we have to talk about it" to "brb, go kill everyone from King's Landing".

This, however, has been announced at least twice in the series.

The first time, it was season 2. Daenerys was in Qarth, a town in Essos, where his dragons were seized by Pyat Pree, a local warlock. Pree chases the dragons in a tower in which Daenerys enters alone. Before finding her chipped children and cremating the strange man, she sees herself in the red dungeon.

The dungeon ceiling is torn and snow covers the ground. At the time, this seemed to mean winter and The Long Night, but the White Walker finally threatens to be treated before Daenerys takes King's Landing. Now, fans speculate that it's ash, not snow, in the vision. (This was absolutely snow, because if you look good, you can see ice cubes, but hey, the visions can not be perfect.)

Two years later, in Season 4, Bran Stark, still Bran and not yet the Three-eyed Raven, touches a Weirwood tree and sees one of his first visions. It is the same shot of a war-torn red dungeon that Daenerys saw at Qarth and, most ominously, the shadow of a dragon flying over King's. Landing.

Jaime's death was also mentioned in a previous episode. In season 5, he and Bronn, while they are in Dorne, discuss how they would like to die. Jaime is? "In the arms of the woman I love."

Happy Mother's Day

This is just a treat, but it's fun. Cersei Lannister dies in this episode, broadcast in the United States on the occasion of Mother's Day.

Meanwhile, his father, Tywin Lannister, was killed by Tyrion Lannister in episode 10 of Season 4, aired on June 15, 2014, dubbed Father's Day.

Look at him!

The greatest triumph of the bells must be Cleganebowl. It may have been a fan service, and Sandor "The Hound" Clegane clearly rekindled his desire to kill his brother barely a season ago, but the showdown was still unsatisfactory.

Not only did it end the life of The Hound, one of the best characters in the series, but also Three of its history bows. Obviously, he killed his brother. The fratricide was accomplished by Sandor, who plunged his brother and himself into a Drogon flaming pit. Of course, Gregor distorted Sandor's face by holding him to the fire, causing a fear of the flames that lasted all his life.

As my mother once told me: if you want to go out, it's just as good in a pit.

Second, his relationship with Arya Stark (and Sansa Stark) was even more poignant. Before Cleganebowl, The Hound persuaded Arya not to climb the red dungeon and kill Cersei. The structure collapsed and the crazy queen was circling around, making it a suicide mission. Arya says she wants revenge, but The Hound holds her back by force.

"Look at me," he growls. He says that he has avenged his whole life and Arya should not look like him. "You come with me, you die here." The dog is a success, Arya withdraws. "Sandor," she shouted as he approached the stairs, "thank you." (This reminded himself that Bran was thanking Theon Greyjoy during the Battle of Winterfell moments before his death.)

This closes the Hound and Arya circle that opened in season 3. But it was also a reminder of season 2, where the bow "Hem is not a bad guy" has begun.

You will surely remember, Sandor had been saved by King Joffrey while it seemed that Stannis Baratheon's forces were defeating King's Landing defenses during the Battle of Blackwater Bay. Before leaving town, he briefly stopped in Sansa's room, where he offered to bring it to Winterfell. She passes it saying that she will be safe and that Stannis will not hurt her.

"Look at me," urges The Hound, exactly as he did in the Sunday episode, "Stannis is a killer, the Lannisters are killers, your father was a killer, your brother is a killer, your sons will be killers one day, the world is built by killers. "

He was trying to protect her from tragedies that he knew would happen to her in the years to come. Unlike her successful suicide prevention mission at Arya, this time it did not work. But as we saw in The Last of the Starks, Sansa said it was worth it.

Littlefinger and the dwarf

The last episode, Varys, clearly explained to Tyrion: Daenerys had to leave. He wants to remove it from the equation and open the iron throne to Jon Snow, the legitimate heir. Tyrion, allegedly the most intelligent man in Westeros, decided that it was better to stay with Daenerys. The bells begin with Tyrion telling Daenerys the betrayal of Varys. Before long, Varys is extremely dead. Dragonfire will do that to a eunuch.

But before he is stopped by Gray Worm and The Unsullied, we see Varys writing letters revealing Jon's true identity. To whom he wrote and if these letters had already been sent, we do not know. What we do know, however, is that the circle around the Varys drain was almost identical to that of Ned Stark.

Ned discovered the true identity of King Joffrey, namely that he was in fact a Lannister and not a Baratheon, and wrote a letter to Stannis who, as the brother of King Robert Baratheon, was his true heir.

Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish reads it and tries to advise Ned against her. "[Stannis] can not take the throne without your help, you'd better refuse it and make sure Joffrey succeeds, "says Littlefinger.

Of course, Ned is disgusted. Littlefinger, just two episodes later, eventually betrayed Ned, leading to the shocking first death of Game of Thrones. Seven seasons later, it is Tyrion who warns Vary not to move against the queen and that is Tyrion who betrays Vary.

And the wheel turns in circles.

More you may have missed

A eunuch weapon: Another note on Varys. At the very beginning of the episode, we see Varys talking to one of his little birds. She tells him that the queen does not eat. Varys says to try again at supper and that "the greater the risk, the greater the reward". At that time, one would have thought that he was worried about a Daenerys growing in delirium, but the theory now seems that he would have tried to poison him the queen before she can go crazy.

It would also be a throwback tied to Ned Stark in season 1. Ned's first goal once arrived at King's Landing is to track down whoever murdered Jon Arryn. He then asks Grandmaester Pycell for the death of Arryn and the possibility of poisoning.

"I've heard that poison is the weapon of a woman," Ned says.

"Yes, women, cravens and eunuchs," replied Pycelle. "Did you know that Lord Varys is a eunuch?"

ICYMI, Varys totally tried to poison Dany at the beginning of the episode. The recalls in season 1 are amazing:

Ned: Poison is a woman's weapon.
Pycelle: Yes. Women, cravens … and eunuchs.

Grand Maester Pycelle then mentioned Lord Varys seconds later! ?#Game of thrones pic.twitter.com/TVbL2uVmdJ

– iTREVOR (@iLEADFARMER) May 13, 2019

The old sword in the eye: Before Arya and the Dog were the best buds, Arya had the Dog on her illustrious "kill" list. "I'm going to put a sword in your eye and in the back of your skull," he warns in Season 3. The Dog, about to have his eyes busted in the manner of Oberyn Martell, fleeing by putting a dagger through Gregor's eyes and back of his skull.

Old trampling: Jaime quarreled with Cersei at the end of season 7 after revealing that she had lied about sending her forces to Winterfell and that the good guys had to fight themselves against the king of nights. She calls him "the most stupid Lannister" for believing he can help her.

Jaime says that he made a promise and that he will hold it. After Cersei briefly threatened Jaime's life via The Mountain, he leaves and rises for King's Landing.

Their dialogue was referenced in The Bells, when Jaime declared that Cersei had called him the most stupid Lannister. And when Jaime finds Cersei, a little before their death, he does it in the card room of the red dungeon. It's the play where their confrontation of Season 7, the last time they've seen each other, has taken place.

Pentos ParadiseWhen Tyrion burst into the cell of Jaime's improvised prisoner, he tries to convince him to escape with Cersei and to go to Pentos. This is the same advice he gives to Shae, his lover disappeared, in season 4. Neither of them follow his advice and both end up dead.

Location, location, location: One of the most iconic scenes of Game of Thrones took place at the beginning of Season 6, Episode 10, when Cersei watched from the Red Keep his plan to blow up the Seven of Baelor went off without a hitch. A trail of green powder invaded the structure and she sat down with a glass of red and stared.

In The Bells, she finds herself in exactly the same place, confident and discouraged when she realizes that the war is lost.

"A day will come when you will think you are safe and happy and your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth and you will know that the debt is paid," said Tyrion during season 2. Of course, there was some ash.

Also note that there were green fires among the Drogon fire. That could mean two things: Either Cersei had planted a forest fire under King's Landing and was going to use it to destroy the soldiers as they approached the Red Keep, either his mad king's fire remnants , who had ordered to hide the forest fire throughout the city.