Game Of Thrones: Our Favorite Moments From The Final Season
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ARYA'S SAVING THE DAY
Just when it seemed like the Night King and his army of the dead would win the Battle of Winterfell, Arya swooped in and destroyed the frosty bugger, simultaneously wiping out his troops in the process. A girl has earned herself a rather long vacation, no?
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BRIENNE'S KNIGHTING
At long last, the series' purest character was rewarded for her valor, moral uprightness and steadfast loyalty. And the fact that her knighthood was conferred by someone who'd become one of her closest compatriots made the moment that much sweeter. Tyrion said it best: Ser Brienne of Tarth! A knight of the Seven Kingdoms!
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SOME QUALITY QUIET MOMENTS
With all of the fighting and regicide going on in Season 8, it was easy to breeze past the little scenes full of characters we love simply interacting. But those interludes — the post-battle drinking game, Tyrion and Jaime's conversations, The Hound's farewell to Arya — were some of the richest bits in the last six episodes.
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#CLEGANEBOWL
So long in coming, so gruesome, so satisfying!
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THE PRODUCTION TEAM'S PIPING-HOT GOOF
Yes, it was a dumb thing for the show's behind-the-scenes team to miss a hot beverage cup left conspicuously on the table during a scene after the Winterfell victory. But it reminded us that even the loftiest, finest and most expensive productions are prone to the occasional slip-up, and HBO's official response was pretty clever. (That said, the fact that no one in production then double-checked the remaining episodes to catch, say, a stray water bottle, is unforgivable.)
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THE DEADLY CALM BEFORE THE BATTLE OF WINTERFELL
As the Dothraki riders' fires were slowly snuffed out, everyone peered into the surrounding darkness, waiting and fearing the worst. Nothing that followed in the Battle of Winterfell came close to matching the terror of that dread-filled moment.
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DROGON'S REACTION TO DAENERYS' DEATH
The high-quality effects! The score! The cinematography! The ability of a giant beast to emote! The lone remaining dragon's response to his mother's murder was spectacular and heartbreaking at the same time.
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TORMUND'S JUBILANCE, BOTH PRE- AND POST-BATTLE OF WINTERFELL
Remember, vomiting is celebrating.
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EDMURE'S CLUELESS RETURN
Tyrion's heavy trial was made that much lighter by the appearance of Catelyn's brother, who blundered his way through a bid for rule of Westeros and then couldn't even sit down right, bless his heart.
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ARYA'S RESPONSE TO GENDRY'S PROPOSAL
"I'm not a lady. I never have been. That's not me," she said gently, breaking the blacksmith's heart with a sentiment first uttered by her father, Ned Stark, and invoked when she ran into direwolf Nymeria in Season 7.
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JON AND GHOST'S REUNION
Who's a good boy? Who's a very good, loyal, patient and forgiving boy?
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JON'S REUNION WITH HIS SIBLINGS
They hadn't seen each other in quite some time, which made the hugs Jon shared with Arya and Bran (as well as Sansa, with whom he reunited in Season 7) that much more poignant. It appears that the heart, like the North, remembers.
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LYANNA MORMONT'S LAST STAND
The pint-sized Lady of Bear Island went out like a boss, managing to fell a giant wight before succumbing to his deadly grip and a rather hard fall.
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QYBURN'S DEMISE
If chuckling at the shady maester's death at the hands of the monster he created is wrong, we don't wanna be right.
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ROBIN ARRYN'S BLOSSOMING
What an ad for extended breastfeeding, huh?
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SANSA'S ASCENSION TO THE THRONE
Queen in the North! Queen in the North! (Though we wouldn't have been mad about "Queen of it all!," tbh.)
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TYRION'S LAST STAND
Just when we feared the series' final run wouldn't give Peter Dinklage a proper acting showcase, the finale delivered Tyrion's rightly intense reaction to Jamie's death, and then, in a starkly quieter sequence, his careful and sage (if not indisputable!) musings on who should be the new king.
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THIS GIRL'S COURAGE
Speaking of bravery, how about Teela, the little muffin who wanted to fight in the Battle of Winterfell?
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THIS MAGNIFICENT SHOT
No matter which way you flip the Targaryen coin, this Episode 6 visual was a thing of beauty.