Did you know that you missed six things on last
night's Game of Thrones? No, well, then
make that seven. Find out the rest on nerd
news. Is anybody else still emotionally exhausted from last
night's Game of Thrones? Because I am. And
though the show gave fans pretty much everything they could
have ever hoped for from an episode called The Battle
of The Bastards. And then some, I'm looking
at you hashtag Danara, there was even more cool
stuff going on just below the surface. So let's
run down six things that you may have missed on
last night's Game of Thrones. First off. You
know that little family history Centurion gave Danny complete with
the mention of wildfire. Well, it was more
than a casual reference and actually an exciting hint at
what's likely to come in the season finale next week
. Cersei Lannister is on the proverbial highway to hell
as she's about to face trial by the Sparrows one
, she'll undoubtedly fail since she can no longer get
the mountain to fight for her. But with Tom
and throwing her to the wolves, Jamie still chilling
with the phrase. Is it possible that she'll go
all mad King and burn all of King's landing to
the ground. Yeah, it's like definitely gonna happen
and we know this. Thanks to Tyrion, convenient
reminder to Daenerys that her father left caches of wildfire
below the city for that very purpose. A rumor
that Cersei now knows to be true. Courtesy of
her own personal doctor Frankenstein, confirming it with his
little birdies last week. Bye bye King's landing.
At least you'll go out with a bang. And
speaking of the Targaryen bloodline did a certain Jon Snow
shot last night. Give anyone else Deja Vu.
That's probably because this angle on the stark bastard coming
up for air mid battle happens to match this shot
of Daenerys Storm BN being lifted up by the Freedman
. Exactly. And it was no accident kit Harrington
pointed it out directly in HBO S behind the scenes
clip for the episode. So why bother going for
the parallel? Oh, probably just because John and
Danny are secretly related, something will hopefully see from
next week if brand can just finish his goddamn tower
of joy flashback. And next John meanwhile has a
long way to go before he embraces his Targaryen side
. I mean he went full on stark last night
wearing his alleged papa, but probably Uncle Ned's clothes
stubbornly ignoring the reasonable. If a little cold logic
, Sanso was dropping in the war room and putting
family in honor first to the degree that it tow
him in battle I mean, in his rush to
save Rickon, he fell right into Ramsey's trap and
definitely got a few 1000 soldiers who might have fared
better further back on the battlefield killed. Thank the
gods. Sansa stepped up and saved her half brother
slash cousin probably's life and Sansa uh Sansa damn girl
, Sansa went full on lemonade last night finally making
her transition from spoiled brat to calculating master of the
game right now. She's the stark most qualified to
rule despite lacking John's heart and possible Immortality Brand's powers
or Arya's combat skills. Why? Because she's clearly
blended her honorable, stark qualities with the more morally
gray antics of the people she's bounced around with since
her father was beheaded. Why did she withhold her
secret little finger DEA Sex Mao from John. Probably
because she's learned the power you can gain by withholding
information from that sly dog. I mean, if
John knew that the Knights of the veil may or
may not have dropped in last night, how would
it have changed his strategy? Would the knights have
managed to take Ramsey's army by surprise? Probably not
. It was clever strategy on Sansa's part, even
if she was putting the lives of thousands of people
, including two of her brothers on the line to
do it. And speaking of which Ramsey may have
been right about Sansa always having a piece of him
inside of her. The trauma obviously will remain,
but perhaps she's learned the power of cruelty from Ramsey
too. We saw how she was smiling after feeding
him to his own dogs. Is this a whole
new Sansa? We're seeing a ruthless leader who will
do what it takes to protect herself? Or was
it just a one off release for the young stark
? Only time will tell either way she was amazing
. I think she might be my favorite character.
I admire her so much. I think revenge is
best. And while seeing Sansa finally get driven to
bloodlust last night was almost as fun as it was
said. I disagree. It wasn't said at all
. It was awesome. The absolute most tragic moment
last night was reserved for the death of 11,
the giant. I know that actually did really bum
me out since they arrived on the show. The
giants have been treated as majestic creatures, not unlike
the Children of the forest. They hinted at a
more innocent magical past for the realm, but was
11. The last are the giants now extinct.
Well, since the show began, we've seen a
total of three and they've all died on screen.
However, the books have hinted that more may live
beyond the wall but not very many. In fact
, in Dance with dragons, leave tells brand,
the giants are almost gone as well. They who
were our bane and our brothers, either way,
we may never meet them again on the show,
which is a huge bummer because those giants were just
so damn cool. And finally, though it may
have moved too fast for you to even process it
. Last night's episode was the first time in Game
of Thrones history that we focused in hard on ice
and fire. Finally paying off the Song of Ice
and Fire book series title and giving us a glimpse
at how the show will inevitably come to a close
with dragon fire and cannonballs burning up marine and winter
, punishing the soldiers up north. The show's direction
is finally coming into focus and all of our plot
lines are converging, bringing Sansa John Savo, Melisandre
Torman and soon probably Brianne Padrick, the Hound,
the brotherhood without banners and Arya to Winterfell while Daenerys
Tyrion, the Dothraki Yara and the prepared to cross
the narrow sea. And if King's landing really does
burn down next week, we may see the plot
converge into just a few locations as our human characters
slowly draw together for a final battle with the dead
. And there you have it folks. What seemed
like a deceptively straightforward episode actually laid a lot of
groundwork for the series future. Did you guys catch
anything that we missed? Do you think Cersei will
survive her pyrotechnics next week? What do you want
to see in the season? Sally, let's discuss
Dan, what was your top moment from last night
? Oh, my God. It's hard to choose
just one and I assume you've already given a spoiler
alert to the people. Oh, yeah. But
spoiler alert, here's the thing. You just won't
spoil anything. My favorite moment from last night was
seeing, uh, Santa Stark and Jon Snow having
a tete, a tete with Ramsey Bolton outside Winterfell
because it was just so tense and you knew there
was gonna be a battle that was gonna erupt right
after then, Santa just dropped the mic with a
Zinger straight out of Cersei Lannisters playbook. It was
so satisfying to see and we talk about all that
and some of the other amazing stuff that happened in
last night's episode. And trust me, there was
a lot to discuss. You can find that on
all kings considered Alicia Lutes and I discussed it all
on Nerds Facebook page. It's facebook dot com slash
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It was super fun. Yeah, that's it.
Awesome. Fantastic guys. Check out all Kings considered
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