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The first look at the next episode of Game of thrones season 8 teases the aftermath of the great battle of Winterfell.
While the HBO series is preparing for its last three episodes, it seems like things are moving to King's Landing as the survivors of the Night King battle prepare to face Cersei Lannister, Euron Greyjoy and The Golden Company.
Before that, however, there is a small case of mourning for those who died in battle with a photo showing Jon, Daenerys, Tormund, Gray Worm and Samwell carrying torches in memory of Theon, Beric, Lyanna and Ser Jorah .
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As for the savior of Westeros, Arya Stark? She killed the king of the night and all she had was a black eye. Watch your back, Cersei.
You can feast your eyes on the first-look pictures below.
You can find a list of those who are dead – as well as a ranking of the quality of their fight in the big battle – here.
The intense trailer of the episode next week sees everyone turning to the iron throne and destiny of Cersei Lannister.
The last season of Game of thrones continue every Sunday. Our detailed ranking of each episode of the series – from worst to best – is presented below.
1/70 70. Season Seven, Episode Five: Eastwatch
There must be a loser. "Eastwatch" throws one of the most important pieces of news in the series, Jon's true lineage, as well as many beautiful meetings. This is the best example of the series' rush in recent years, with unpredictability giving way to a conventional plot.
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2/70 69. Season Four, Episode Three: Breaker of Chains
Jaime seems to be violating Cersei next to Joffrey's corpse. The scene is confusing, unpleasant and different from books in a confusing and useless way.
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3/70 68. Season Five, Episode Six: Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken
The sand snakes are just unbearably naff and it's one of their worst.
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4/70 67. Season Four, Episode Four: Oath Keeper
At Craster's Keep, a lot of rapes and killings of children. Unpleasant.
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5/70 66. Season one, episode two: The Kingsroad
Unlike the precipitous plot of recent seasons, it is a quiet discussion of the M1.
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6/70 65. Season two, episode eight: Prince of Winterfell
Arya and Jaqen H'ghar have good things, but it's mostly a placeholder when they organized the Battle of Blackwater.
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7/70 64. Season Three, Episode 10: Mysha
The farewells of Jon Snow and Ygritte at the peak of season 3 should have been much sadder.
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8/70 63. Season five, second episode: The house of blacks and whites
A lot of setting up. Jaime and Bronn plan to go to Dorne, Arya arrives at Braavos.
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9/70 62. Season Seven, Episode Six: Beyond the Wall
It should have been one of the big battles: ice zombies plus dragons plus Jon Snow's expedition. It sounded spectacular, but everyone was worried about the teleportation of crows and the speed of dragons.
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10/70 61. Season six, episode eight: No One
Some absolutely horrible jokes between Gray Worm and Missandei.
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11/70 60. Season two, episode seven: A man without honor
Pyat Pree kills the 13 at Qarth. Tywin talks to Arya about the inheritance.
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12/70 59. Season six, first episode: The red woman
Melisandre is a very, very old woman.
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13/70 58. Season two, episode two: The Night Lands
Tyrion talks a lot to King's Landing but not much else.
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14/70 57. Season Six, Episode Seven: The Broken Man
The Hound meets Ian McShane. That's about all in an episode of preparations.
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15/70 56. Season Three, Episode 1: Valar Dohaeris
A classic opening season that moves from one place to another.
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16/70 55. Season Two, Episode Four: Garden of Bones
A lot of sadness. Rat and bucket torture in Harrenhal. Robb Stark meets Talisa. Joffrey is cruel to Ros and Daisy.
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17/70 54. Season Five, Episode 1: Upcoming Wars
Mance Rayder refuses to bend his knee, Stannis burns the pyre before Jon pulls him with an arrow. A pretty good death actually.
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18/70 53. Season Five, Episode Five: Kill the Boy
Season five is perhaps the weakest, and this is one of the weakest episodes of it, despite some good actions by Bolton and Stone Men's fatal attack on Tyrion and Jorah Mormont. they crossed Valyria.
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19/70 52. Season Two, First Episode: The North Remembers
In the first game of season two, we meet Stannis at Dragonstone, then Joffrey orders a huge infanticide. It was vaguely controversial at the time. It feels like there is a life. "Power is power," Cersei told Littlefinger, which was a good thing.
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20/70 51. Season six, episode three: Oathbreaker
Jon Snow, coming back to life, really should not have felt flat. Yet he did it.
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21/70 50. Season One, Episode Three: Lord Snow
This is understandable since it was necessary to create a whole medieval universe, but 12 main characters are presented. It's too many major characters.
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22/70 49. Season six, epsidoe four: The book from abroad
Jon and Sansa get together, which is cool, Daenerys is still burning other enemies, which is hot, good monologue from High Sparrow to Margaery.
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23/70 48. Season Three, Episode Six: The Rise
Theme of climbing. Thormund climbs the wall; Littlefinger gives his most famous monologue, explaining to Varys that chaos is "a ladder".
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24/70 47. Season five, second episode: The sons of the harpy
Mid-season doldrums, especially in five, when Jaime and Bronn arrive at Dorne.
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25/70 46. Season Five, Episode Seven: The Gift
The same thing except that Tyrion meets Daenerys. Everyone gives themselves gifts.
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26/70 45. Season Three, Episode Two: Dark Wings, Dark Words
A slow number at the beginning of the season, although we meet Olenna and Margaery shows how much she will be good at handling the field.
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27/70 44. Season One, Episode Eight: The Pointy End
Until the next series, eight episodes are a little paralyzed by the upcoming denouements. This is true in the first season, as machines crack to set up decapitation.
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28/70 43. Season three, seventh episode: The bear and the first fair
Even thinking back to what happened in this episode, I still can not remember it, aside from the fight with the bear. Oh yes, Mackenzie Crook! I forgot that he was in this program.
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29/70 42. Season Two, Episode Five: The Ghost of Harrenhal
Two good times: Renly is killed by the shadows and Arya meets Jaqen H'ghar.
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30/70 41. Season eight, second episode: "A knight of the seven kingdoms"
Another slow scene for the epic Battle of Winterfell, full of nocturnal antics like the Knight of Brienne by Jamie and the slightly disturbing sight of Arya and Gendry preparing to take it to the hammer and to the clip.
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31/70 40. Season six, second episode: Home
The disappearance of the best boy, Roose Bolton, as well as Balon Greyjoy, both returned to their fate by their families. Melisandre finally uses her anti-death magic on Jon Snow.
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32/70 39. Season four, episode five: The first of his name
One of the benefits of Season 4 was that it was the only time when, even briefly, it seemed like some kind of temporary stability had been achieved. Tommen is king, Sansa has escaped King's Landing, Jon Snow and takes revenge on the mutineers of Craster's Keep.
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33/70 38. Season two, episode 10: Valar Morghulis
The White Walkers attack the Night Watch on the fist of the first men is a good laugh, but other than that, there is a lot to go through, after the events of Blackwater in the previous episode, and the finale of season two anticipates some of the rushed feeling that will occur later.
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34/70 37. Season one, episode seven: You win or you die
Our first glimpse of what will become of Cersei, as she surprises Ned Stark after the death of Robert Baratheon in a hunting accident.
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35/70 36. Season seven, first episode: Dragonstone
A great moment Arya, as she erases the rest of the House Frey, but it's especially for a season that counts a lot.
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36/70 35. Season One, Episode Four: Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things
Ned works as a policeman at Kings Landing to find out what happened to Jon Arryn.
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37/70 34. Season Five, Episode Nine: Dragon Dance
One of the most troubling deaths in Game of Thrones, while Stannis Baratheon burns his girlfriend friend Shireen to appease Melisandra.
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38/70 33. Season seven, second episode: Stormborn
Theon jumps out of the boat after Euron has overtaken Greyjoy's fleet. Nice meeting between Arya and Hot Pie. Tyrion deters Daenerys from cremating King's Landing.
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39/70 32. Season Eight, Episode 1: 'Winterfell & # 39;
A slower start to the game than expected for the last season, although some touching reunions took place at Winterfell, including Bran and Jamie who saw each other again.
40/70 31. Season six, episode six: The blood of my blood
Midseason. Cersei sends Jaime to retake Riverrun, while Arya is finally trained to become a murderer. I really can not remember it, to be honest.
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41/70 30. Season One, Episode Five: The Wolf and the Lion
Jaime and Ned argue in the streets of King's Landing in an episode that focuses on skuldugery rather than magic. If you ask me, magic always trumps magic.
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42/70 29. Season Three, Episode Three: March Against Punishment
The first moment when the trajectory of a character was really reversed. Jaime had not liked Jaime since the beginning, but when his hand was cut, he started to win us back. The Blackfish at Edmure School to shoot fire arrows was another highlight.
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43/70 28. Season Four, Episode 1: Two Swords
The opening of the fourth series presented the charismatic and enigmatic viper of Dorne, one of the few positive points other than the wine to come out of Dorne. Also notable for an excellent scene with Arya and the hound cleaning a hostel.
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44/70 27. Season Two, Episode Three: What's Dead May Never Die
Presents Margaery Tyrell and Brienne of Tarth, two of the best characters, and also sees Theon deciding to betray Robb Stark. What is the family? Who can you trust?
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45/70 26. Season Three, Episode Eight: Second Sounds
Built around the importunate marriage of Sansa and Tyrion, while in the north, we see all the importance of Sam as he draws in reserves of courage to drag in slalom a white walker.
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46/70 25. Season Four, Episode Seven: Mockingbird
The fact that Littlefinger throws Lysa out of Eyrie is probably the most dramatic moment in history, one of his decisive moments of stealing power when he saves Sansa.
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47/70 24. Season One, Episode One: Winter Is Coming
Do you remember an era prior to Game of Thrones? Look again "Winter is coming", marvel at Baby Starks, think about the number of dead characters, think about your own mortality. You are much, much older than at the beginning of Game of Thrones. Your life runs between your fingers.
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48/70 23. Season One, Episode Six: A Gold Crown
Another dramatic death that is hard to remember now, when the miserable Viserys had come out of his moron with molten gold.
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49/70 22. Season Two, Episode Six: Old Gods and the New
Theon takes Winterfell. Theon, you say bastard. I hope you are punished for this.
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50/70 21. Season Five, Episode Three: High Sparrow
A key episode of Littlefinger, as he continues to manipulate Sansa, while Jon Snow executes Janos and at King's Landing, the machinations of Cersei are at the height of those of Margaery.
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51/70 20. Season four, second episode: The lion and the rose
Joffrey, scratching his throat, turning purple, dying. Top things.
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52/70 19. Season four, episode six: The laws of men and gods
An excellent episode of the mid-season, built around the trial of Tyrion but with many other things to admire, which alludes to the underlying economies of the Game of Thrones universe. Drogon roasts cattle, while Braavos Iron Bank refuses to bail out Davos and Stannis.
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53/70 18. Season three, episode four: And now his watch is over
The total depravity of Ramsay Bolton is exposed as he makes fun of Theon with a false escape, while Commander Mormont is murdered at Craster's Donjon. But it's all about Daenerys, as she and her companions flare Astapor on the ground.
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54/70 17. Season Seven, Episode Seven: The Dragon and the Wolf
It turns out that Jon Snow is actually the real heir of Seven Kingdoms, the remaining children of the Stark finally join together to kill Littlefinger, certainly in an overworked style, and the White Walkers use their new lizard hair dryer to destroy the wall. There are far too many things happening, especially the strange scene where Jon shows Cighti, but she still sends you to popcorn and encourages, which is more or less the stage where we are with the series whole now.
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55/70 16. season three, episode five: kissed by the fire
Especially for the very parodied love cave of Ygritte and Jon, but also for the duel of the Dog with Bendric Dondarrion, who revealed his terror caused by the fire. While nursing his stump in the baths, Jaime tells Brienne the truth about his assassination of the mad king. Midseason.
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56/70 15. Season Five, Episode 10: The Mercy of the Mother
The end of the fifth series is the nicest we've ever seen, as she completes her atonement pardon in the streets of King's Landing, cuts her hair and undresses. Strategically, Cersei, humiliating, turns out not to be the master-shot that the High-Sparrow thought was.
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57/70 14. Season Seven, Episode Four: The Spoils of War
Spoil a lot. Arya returns to Winterfell and sees Sansa, then fights for a brief duel with Brienne who shows how much she has learned. However, this is not the case with one of the best shots in the series: Daenerys riding Drogon over a full-load Dothraki horde before cremating Lannister's lines.
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58/70 13. Season One, Episode 10: Fire and Blood
We were promised dragons, and here they are, mingling at the top of the naked Daenerys. And one thing we know about baby dragons is that they have to grow up. This is the Game of Thrones version of Chekhov's rule on firearms. You will continue to watch until they blaze something up.
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59/70 12. Season Five, Episode Eight: Hardhome
While the big battles unfold, the clash between Night's Watch and Wildlings and Hardhome's wights is not quite comparable to the others, but it's still cold, especially when Jon realizes his sword is working. against the snowmen. If that was not enough, Sansa also learned that her family may be alive.
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60/70 11. Season Four, Episode Nine: The Observers on the Wall
The big room between the night watch and the savages. Not quite up to Blackwater, despite the convening of his battle specialist, Neil Marshall, to lead.
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61/70 10. Season Seven, Third Episode: The Queen's Justice
There is too much stuff in this episode, which could have been spread over several hours, but it's still wonderful. Jon meets Daenerys for the first time, Sam heals Jorah in grayscale, Cersei erases the Tyrells. Best of all is Diana Rigg, seated at a table in her tower, bowing out of what may be Thrones' best overall performance.
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62/70 9. Season six, episode five: The door
Poor old Hodor. The death that nobody wanted, as a wonderful character, played with so much sympathy by Kristian Nairn, is finally returned to him.
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63/70 8. Season Four, Episode Eight: The Mountain and the Viper
There are other things going on: Littlefinger takes the Vale and the Boltons up in Winterfell, but the episode is especially memorable for the central duel, while Oberyn asks justice on behalf of the man who murdered so many of his loved ones, and for an image above all else. armored fingers of the mountain crushing Oberyn's skull like a grapefruit.
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64/70 7. Season one, episode nine: Baelor
Poor old Ned Stark. The death they said could never happen! Clearly, they had not watched enough of Sean Bean's films.
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65/70 6. Season eight, episode three: The long night
After two episodes of staging, The Long Night finally holds the promise of season eight, with 90 minutes of blood and wonderful fire at Winterfell. The hordes of King Night meet the assembled ranks of Westeros, Wildlings, Dothraki and Unsullied. Defenders lose and lose and lose until they finally win, but not before some spectacular deaths. While it lacks some of the strategic nuances of other battles, it compensates for breathtaking action sequences and computer-generated images, particularly on dragons, who fight over the plain.
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66/70 5. Season Six, Episode 10: The Winds of Winter
The winter has arrived. It opens with the peak Cersei, while it eliminates all its enemies in one and the same fire. Arya kills Walder Frey. Jon's theory is confirmed. Tommen goes out the window.
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67/70 4. Season Three, Episode Nine: Rains of Castemere
The Lannisters salute you. Some would have this number one, and one could easily argue the case. The red marriage was the scene that pushed Game of Thrones out of its reputation and integrate with popular culture in a broad sense, the point where it was no longer possible. Fury, anguish, love, surprise, pity, hate: everything is there. The look that Roose Bolton gives Catelyn Stark when she reveals that the coat of mail that he wears for dinner might be my only favorite moment of any program.
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68/70 3. Season Six, Episode Nine: The Battle of the Bastards
Anyone who has seen Apocalypto, Mel Gibson's Mayan drama, knows that running in a straight line, far from arrows, rarely works. So it was a good thing for Rickon, who organized one of the big battles, not only on TV but also in any type of movie. Where battles had been bothered by the budget in previous seasons, especially when Tyrion was knocked out and missed, it was the belt and shoulder straps. She was brilliantly led, with aerial shots, as well as close-ups facing the mud to convey all the heartbreaking horror of the battle and the dark relief of victory.
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69/70 2. Season Four, Episode 10: The Children
I think the fourth season is the best in all respects, the culmination of the character's development before starting to be forced by the plots of the plot in the next series. Brienne's bloody fight with the Dog leaves him bloody and bloody as Arya heads for Braavos. Tywin finally found his place, a crossbow in the toilet, administered by his son, Tyrion, who then fled. And Stannis's cavalry arrives to save Jon and defeat Mance Rayder and the Indians in a pincer movement, after being persuaded by Davos.
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70/70 1. Season two, episode nine: Blackwater
It's a purely personal point of view, but if Ned Stark's death was the moment you sat down and paid attention, Blackwater was where you started cheering on TV. The magnitude, the splendor, the depth of character of the big events: they felt all new, somehow. It was perhaps the last moment when we were equally rooted on both sides, with the exception of one side being consumed in a strange green glow. Wildfire does not care who your favorite character is.
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1/70 70. Season Seven, Episode Five: Eastwatch
There must be a loser. "Eastwatch" throws one of the most important pieces of news in the series, Jon's true lineage, as well as many beautiful meetings. This is the best example of the series' rush in recent years, with unpredictability giving way to a conventional plot.
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2/70 69. Season Four, Episode Three: Breaker of Chains
Jaime seems to be violating Cersei next to Joffrey's corpse. The scene is confusing, unpleasant and different from books in a confusing and useless way.
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3/70 68. Season Five, Episode Six: Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken
The sand snakes are just unbearably naff and it's one of their worst.
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4/70 67. Season Four, Episode Four: Oath Keeper
At Craster's Keep, a lot of rapes and killings of children. Unpleasant.
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5/70 66. Season one, episode two: The Kingsroad
Unlike the precipitous plot of recent seasons, it is a quiet discussion of the M1.
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6/70 65. Season two, episode eight: Prince of Winterfell
Arya and Jaqen H'ghar have good things, but it's mostly a placeholder when they organized the Battle of Blackwater.
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7/70 64. Season Three, Episode 10: Mysha
The farewells of Jon Snow and Ygritte at the peak of season 3 should have been much sadder.
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8/70 63. Season five, second episode: The house of blacks and whites
A lot of setting up. Jaime and Bronn plan to go to Dorne, Arya arrives at Braavos.
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9/70 62. Season Seven, Episode Six: Beyond the Wall
It should have been one of the big battles: ice zombies plus dragons plus Jon Snow's expedition. It sounded spectacular, but everyone was worried about the teleportation of crows and the speed of dragons.
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10/70 61. Season six, episode eight: No One
Some absolutely horrible jokes between Gray Worm and Missandei.
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11/70 60. Season two, episode seven: A man without honor
Pyat Pree kills the 13 at Qarth. Tywin talks to Arya about the inheritance.
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12/70 59. Season six, first episode: The red woman
Melisandre is a very, very old woman.
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13/70 58. Season two, episode two: The Night Lands
Tyrion talks a lot to King's Landing but not much else.
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14/70 57. Season Six, Episode Seven: The Broken Man
The Hound meets Ian McShane. That's about all in an episode of preparations.
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15/70 56. Season Three, Episode 1: Valar Dohaeris
A classic opening season that moves from one place to another.
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16/70 55. Season Two, Episode Four: Garden of Bones
A lot of sadness. Rat and bucket torture in Harrenhal. Robb Stark meets Talisa. Joffrey is cruel to Ros and Daisy.
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17/70 54. Season Five, Episode 1: Upcoming Wars
Mance Rayder refuses to bend his knee, Stannis burns the pyre before Jon pulls him with an arrow. A pretty good death actually.
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18/70 53. Season Five, Episode Five: Kill the Boy
Season five is perhaps the weakest, and this is one of the weakest episodes of it, despite some good actions by Bolton and Stone Men's fatal attack on Tyrion and Jorah Mormont. they crossed Valyria.
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19/70 52. Season Two, First Episode: The North Remembers
In the first game of season two, we meet Stannis at Dragonstone, then Joffrey orders a huge infanticide. It was vaguely controversial at the time. It feels like there is a life. "Power is power," Cersei told Littlefinger, which was good.
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20/70 51. Season six, episode three: Oathbreaker
Jon Snow, coming back to life, really should not have felt flat. Yet he did it.
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21/70 50. Season One, Episode Three: Lord Snow
This is understandable since it was necessary to create a whole medieval universe, but 12 main characters are presented. It's too many major characters.
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22/70 49. Season six, epsidoe four: The book from abroad
Jon and Sansa get together, which is cool, Daenerys is still burning other enemies, which is hot, good monologue from High Sparrow to Margaery.
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23/70 48. Season Three, Episode Six: The Rise
Theme of climbing. Thormund climbs the wall; Littlefinger gives his most famous monologue, explaining to Varys that chaos is "a ladder".
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24/70 47. Season five, second episode: The sons of the harpy
Mid-season doldrums, especially in five, when Jaime and Bronn arrive at Dorne.
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25/70 46. Season Five, Episode Seven: The Gift
The same thing except that Tyrion meets Daenerys. Everyone gives themselves gifts.
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26/70 45. Season Three, Episode Two: Dark Wings, Dark Words
A slow number at the beginning of the season, although we meet Olenna and Margaery shows how much she will be good at handling the field.
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27/70 44. Season One, Episode Eight: The Pointy End
Until the next series, eight episodes are a little paralyzed by the upcoming denouements. This is true in the first season, as machines crack to set up decapitation.
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28/70 43. Season three, seventh episode: The bear and the first fair
Even thinking back to what happened in this episode, I still can not remember it, aside from the fight with the bear. Oh yes, Mackenzie Crook! I forgot that he was in this program.
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29/70 42. Season Two, Episode Five: The Ghost of Harrenhal
Two good times: Renly is killed by the shadows and Arya meets Jaqen H'ghar.
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30/70 41. Season eight, second episode: "A knight of the seven kingdoms"
Another slow scene for the epic Battle of Winterfell, full of nocturnal antics like the Knight of Brienne by Jamie and the slightly disturbing sight of Arya and Gendry preparing to take it to the hammer and to the clip.
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31/70 40. Season six, second episode: Home
The disappearance of the best boy, Roose Bolton, as well as Balon Greyjoy, both returned to their fate by their families. Melisandre finally uses her anti-death magic on Jon Snow.
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32/70 39. Season four, episode five: The first of his name
One of the benefits of Season 4 was that it was the only time when, even briefly, it seemed like some kind of temporary stability had been achieved. Tommen is king, Sansa has escaped King's Landing, Jon Snow and takes revenge on the mutineers of Craster's Keep.
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33/70 38. Season two, episode 10: Valar Morghulis
The White Walkers attack the Night Watch on the fist of the first men is a good laugh, but other than that, there is a lot to go through, after the events of Blackwater in the previous episode, and the finale of season two anticipates precipitate feeling that will occur later.
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34/70 37. Season one, episode seven: You win or you die
Our first glimpse of what will become of Cersei, as she surprises Ned Stark after the death of Robert Baratheon in a hunting accident.
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35/70 36. Season seven, first episode: Dragonstone
A great moment Arya, as she erases the rest of the House Frey, but it's especially for a season that counts a lot.
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36/70 35. Season One, Episode Four: Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things
Ned works as a policeman at Kings Landing to find out what happened to Jon Arryn.
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37/70 34. Season Five, Episode Nine: Dragon Dance
One of the most troubling deaths in Game of Thrones, while Stannis Baratheon burns his girlfriend friend Shireen to appease Melisandra.
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38/70 33. Season seven, second episode: Stormborn
Theon jumps out of the boat after Euron has overtaken Greyjoy's fleet. Nice meeting between Arya and Hot Pie. Tyrion deters Daenerys from cremating King's Landing.
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39/70 32. Season Eight, Episode 1: 'Winterfell & # 39;
A start of the game slower than expected for the last season, despite some touching reunion at Winterfell, including Bran and Jamie seeing each other again.
40/70 31. Season six, episode six: The blood of my blood
Midseason. Cersei sends Jaime to retake Riverrun, while Arya is finally trained to become a murderer. I really can not remember it, to be honest.
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41/70 30. Season One, Episode Five: The Wolf and the Lion
Jaime and Ned argue in the streets of King's Landing in an episode that focuses on skuldugery rather than magic. If you ask me, the skulduggery always takes on magic.
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42/70 29. Season Three, Episode Three: March Against Punishment
The first moment when the trajectory of a character was really reversed. Jaime had not liked Jaime since the beginning, but when his hand was cut, he started to win us back. The Blackfish at Edmure School to shoot fire arrows was another highlight.
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43/70 28. Season Four, Episode 1: Two Swords
L’ouverture de la quatrième série a présenté la vipère charismatique et énigmatique de Dorne, l’un des rares points positifs autre que le vin à sortir de Dorne. Également remarquable pour une excellente scène avec Arya et le chien de chasse nettoyant une auberge.
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44/70 27. Saison deux, épisode trois: Ce qui est mort peut ne jamais mourir
Présente Margaery Tyrell et Brienne of Tarth, deux des meilleurs personnages, et voit également Theon décider de trahir Robb Stark. Qu'est ce que la famille? À qui peux-tu faire confiance?
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45/70 26. Saison trois, épisode huit: Second Sons
Construit autour du mariage importun de Sansa et Tyrion, tandis que dans le nord, on voit toute l’importance de Sam alors qu’il dessine dans les réserves de courage pour traîner en slalom un marcheur blanc.
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46/70 25. Saison quatre, épisode sept: Mockingbird
Le fait que Littlefinger jette Lysa hors de l’Eyrie est probablement le moment le plus dramatique de l’histoire, un de ses moments décisifs de vol de pouvoir lorsqu’il sauve Sansa.
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47/70 24. Saison un, épisode un: l'hiver arrive
Vous souvenez-vous d'une époque antérieure à Game of Thrones? Regardez à nouveau «L’hiver arrive», émerveillez-vous devant le bébé Starks, réfléchissez au nombre de personnages morts, réfléchissez à votre propre mortalité. Vous êtes beaucoup, beaucoup plus âgé qu'au début de Game of Thrones. Votre vie court entre vos doigts.
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48/70 23. Saison un, épisode six: Une couronne d'or
Une autre mort dramatique dont il est difficile de se souvenir à présent, alors que le misérable Viserys était sorti de son crétin avec de l’or en fusion.
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49/70 22. Saison deux, épisode six: Old Gods and the New
Theon prend Winterfell. Theon, vous dites bâtard. J'espère que vous êtes punis pour cela.
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50/70 21. Saison cinq, épisode trois: High Sparrow
Un épisode clé de Littlefinger, alors qu’il continue à manipuler Sansa, tandis que Jon Snow exécute Janos et, à King’s Landing, les machinations de Cersei sont à la hauteur de celles de Margaery.
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51/70 20. Saison quatre, deuxième épisode: Le lion et la rose
Joffrey, se grattant la gorge, virant au violet, mourant. Top choses.
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52/70 19. Saison quatre, épisode six: Les lois des hommes et des dieux
Un excellent épisode de la mi-saison, construit autour du procès de Tyrion mais avec plein d’autres choses à admirer, qui fait allusion aux économies sous-jacentes de l’univers de Game of Thrones. Drogon fait griller du bétail, tandis que la Banque de fer de Braavos refuse de renflouer Davos et Stannis.
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53/70 18. Saison trois, épisode quatre: Et maintenant sa montre est finie
La dépravation totale de Ramsay Bolton est mise à nu alors qu'il se moque de Theon avec une fausse évasion, tandis que le commandant Mormont est assassiné à Craster’s Donjon. Mais c’est vraiment tout au sujet de Daenerys, alors qu’elle et ses animaux font flamber Astapor au sol.
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54/70 17. Saison sept, épisode sept: Le dragon et le loup
Il s’avère que Jon Snow est en réalité le véritable héritier des Sept Royaumes, les enfants restants des Stark s’associent enfin pour tuer Littlefinger, certes dans un style surmené, et les White Walkers utilisent leur nouveau sèche-cheveux à lézard pour détruire le mur. Il y a beaucoup trop de choses qui se passent, en particulier la scène étrange où Jon montre Cighti, mais elle vous envoie quand même vers le pop-corn et encourage, ce qui est plus ou moins le stade où nous en sommes avec la série entière à présent.
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55/70 16. saison trois, épisode cinq: embrassé par le feu
Surtout pour la grotte d’amour très parodiée d’Ygritte et de Jon, mais aussi pour le duel du Chien avec Bendric Dondarrion, qui a révélé sa terreur causée par le feu. En soignant sa souche dans les bains, Jaime dit à Brienne la vérité sur son assassinat du roi fou. Mi-saison.
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56/70 15. Saison cinq, épisode 10: La miséricorde de la mère
Le dénouement de la cinquième série est le plus sympathique que nous ayons jamais vu, alors qu’elle achève son pardon d’expiation dans les rues de King’s Landing, qu’elle se coupe les cheveux et déshabille. Stratégiquement, Cersei, humiliant, s'avère ne pas être le maître-coup que le Haut-Moineau pensait être.
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57/70 14. Season seven, episode four: The Spoils of War
Spoils aplenty. Arya returns to Winterfell and sees Sansa, then fights a brief duel with Brienne that shows just how much she’s learnt. It’s nothing on one of the great shots of the whole series, however: Daenerys riding Drogon above a Dothraki horde in full charge before incinerating the Lannister lines.
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58/70 13. Season one, episode 10: Fire and Blood
We were promised dragons, and here they are, mewing atop the naked Daenerys. And one thing we know about baby dragons is they must grow up. This is Game of Thrones’ version of Chekhov’s rule about guns. You’ll keep watching until they torch something.
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59/70 12. Season five, episode eight: Hardhome
As the big battles go, the showdown between the Night’s Watch and wildlings and the wights at Hardhome doesn’t quite match some of the others, but it is still dead cool, especially when Jon realises his sword works against the snowmen. If that wasn’t enough, Sansa also learnt that her family might be alive.
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60/70 11. Season four, episode nine: The Watchers on the Wall
The big set-piece between the Night’s Watch and the wildlings. Not quite up to Blackwater’s standards, despite its battle specialist Neil Marshall being summonsed back to direct.
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61/70 10. Season seven, episode three: The Queen’s Justice
There is too much crammed into this episode, which could have been spread over several hours, but it’s wonderful stuff all the same. Jon meets Daenerys for the first time, Sam cures Jorah of greyscale, Cersei obliterates the Tyrells. Best of all is Diana Rigg, at a table in her tower, bowing out from what is perhaps Thrones’ best overall performance.
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62/70 9. Season six, episode five: The Door
Poor old Hodor. The death nobody wanted, as a wonderful character, played so sympathetically by Kristian Nairn, is finally given his due.
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63/70 8. Season four, episode eight: The Mountain and the Viper
Other things happen: Littlefinger takes over the Vale, and the Boltons move into Winterfell, but the episode is mainly memorable for the central duel, as Oberyn seeks justice from the man who murdered so many of his relatives, and for one image above all, of the Mountain’s armoured fingers crushing Oberyn’s skull like a grapefruit.
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64/70 7. Season one, episode nine: Baelor
Poor old Ned Stark. The death they said could never happen! Clearly they had not watched enough Sean Bean films.
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65/70 6. Season eight, episode three: The Long Night
After two scene-setting episodes, The Long Night finally delivers on the promise of season eight, with 90 minutes of marvellous blood and fire at Winterfell. The Night King’s hordes meet the assembled ranks of Westeros, wildlings, Dothraki and Unsullied. The defenders lose and lose and lose until they finally win, although not before a few spectacular deaths. If it lacks some of the strategic nuance of other battles, it compensates with stunning action sequences and CGI, especially on the dragons, who dogfight high above the plain.
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66/70 5. Season six, episode 10: The Winds of Winter
Winter has come. It opens with peak Cersei, as she eliminates all her remaining enemies in one enormous blaze. Arya kills Walder Frey. The Jon Theory is confirmed. Tommen walks out of the window.
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67/70 4. Season three, episode nine: Rains of Castemere
The Lannisters send their regards. Some would have this number one, and one could easily make the case. The Red Wedding was the scene that broke Game of Thrones out of its fandom and into broader popular culture, the point where it was no longer avoidable. Fury, anguish, love, surprise, pity, hate: it’s all here. The look Roose Bolton gives Catelyn Stark when she reveals the chainmail he is wearing to dinner might be my single favourite moment of the whole programme.
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68/70 3. Season six, episode nine: Battle of the Bastards
Anyone who has seen Mel Gibson’s Mayan drama Apocalypto knows that running in a straight line away from arrows rarely works. So it proved for Rickon, setting up one of the great battles not only on TV but on any kind of film. Where in previous seasons battles had occasionally felt hampered by budget, most egregiously when Tyrion was knocked out and missed the whole thing, this was the full belt and braces. It was brilliantly directed, with aerial shots, as well as face-in-the-mud close-ups to convey the full grinding horror of the battle, and the grim relief of victory.
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69/70 2. Season four, episode 10: The Children
The fourth season is the best all-round, I think, the high-point of character development before it started to be forced by the machinations of the plot in the later series. Brienne’s bloody brawl with the Hound leaves him bleeding and broken, as Arya heads off to Braavos. Tywin finally gets his comeuppance, a crossbow bolt on the loo, administered by his son, Tyrion, who then flees. And Stannis’s cavalry arrives to save Jon and defeat Mance Rayder and the wildlings in a pincer movement, having been persuaded by Davos.
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70/70 1. Season two, episode nine: Blackwater
This is purely a personal view, but if Ned Stark’s death was the moment you sat up and paid attention, Blackwater was the where you started cheering at the TV. The scale, the splendour, the depth of character brought to bear on grand events: they all felt new, somehow. This might have been the last moment where we were equally rooting for both sides, except for one side to be consumed in an eerie green glow. Wildfire doesn’t care who your favourite character is.
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