Reflections and curiosities of Game of Thrones 8×05: And in the end it turns out that it was not snow…

El chapter number 5 for the eighth season of Game of Thrones It has been on the air for enough hours for it to be time to sit down, relax and gut everything that its 80-minute broadcast has given of itself. It's not just any episode. Its about penultimate in the series, the prelude to the grand finale that we are all waiting for... or maybe you hyping Has it faded as the weeks went by? Let's talk about all this and more.

Attention XNUMX-hour: in this article we will talk about the fifth chapter of Game of Thrones and theories about some events that could take place in the final episode will be discussed. Read it at your own risk.

Details and curiosities of Game of Thrones 8×05: The bells

"The bells" is the title of what has already become the penultimate chapter of an intense and magnificent series that began back in 2011. The journey has been long, incredibly entertaining and has helped make Game of Thrones one of the most famous series of the television history.

That is why you have to understand that the expectation for this last season it has been so great and that, in a certain way… you are not satisfying everyone. Is the eighth season the weakest of all that we have? Is the total disassociation with the books to blame? are we perhaps exaggerating? The answer is probably yes to all these questions. the bar in Game of Thrones was (and still is) so high that by now it is hard to surprise us. No Red Wedding will ever take us by surprise or shock us as much as when we saw Ned Stark beheaded and understood that no one was safe here.

Undoubtedly the lack of a book behind It is also a great inconvenience -on these lines you can see one of the most repeated memes these days alluding to this. George RR Martin has managed to create a perfect universe, full of nuances and details, many of which we saw perfectly turned into well-characterized and spun characters, who caught us from minute one. now things happen too fast. But again I think our own expectations are so high right now that no matter what the leads do, we will never be completely happy. It is high time that we prepare for a final that maybe… we won't end up liking it.

Having reflected on this, let's review some key points that will probably help us better understand what we have seen in 8×05 of Game of Thrones.

· Daenerys has given her head... too fast?

Again the most repeated criticism in this eighth season. Many of us agree that it was the most likely end for the Mother of Dragons. Her father was the Mad King and it is quite poetic (and very George RR Martin) that our Khaleesi I ended up the same -admit it: that I reign happy and calm was too easy.

The problem is that they have put it into us with shoehorn in a very short time. Although Daenerys has had a spurt -like when she executed the Tarlys-, we considered her to be someone sane and with a head. as rightly remember en Here we only talk about series, you only have to go back to season 7 to find the Chain Breaker giving an emotional and convincing speech about what makes her different from the evil Cersei -just before the execution of Randyll and Dickon Tarly-:

https://youtu.be/wXGBZ1s5k9Q?t=52

I know what Cersei told you. I come to destroy your cities, burn your homes, kill you and leave your children orphans. That's Cersei Lannister, not me. I do not come to murder, and I only want to destroy the wheel that crushes the rich and poor for the benefit only of the Cersei Lannisters of this world.

[You can see it dubbed into Spanish this link.]

The writers and showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss have explained that this idea about Daenerys has actually been worked on since the Season 1, when she coldly looked at how Khal Drogo killed his brother Viserys, but this reasoning does not quite convince the great critical mass, who continue to believe that everything has happened in a way that was too drastic - and that her brother really was too cruel to her as to feel compassion or pity.

did you have then planned this destruction Daenerys from the beginning? Those responsible for the series point out that it is not. As explained in the videoInside the Episode«, the last Targaryen was cross the wires when she sees the Red Keep, which is the home her family built and was banished from, and then decides, in the wrath of events, to make everything much more "personal" and lay waste to the city.

It is not what one might think when seeing that gray worm attacks one of the surrendered knights of the Lannister side, starting a new fight (minute 42:59), but we will have to believe that, instead of something agreed between Daenerys and the Immaculate One, it was the reaction (and anger for Missandei) to see that his queen has decided to burn everything.

· What happened to the prophecy of Cersei's death?

If not many agree with the madness shown by Daenerys, what to say about Cersei's death. The bad very bad She has ended up buried by the rocks of the fortress, crying and in the hands of her brother and lover Jaime Lannister. Few agree that one of the most powerful, decisive and characteristic characters in this story died in this way. so little epic.

And that's not to mention the prophecies. Cersei Lannister was (in a way) the protagonist of two, in which she supposedly described how she was going to die. The first of hers was revealed to her as a child maggy the frog, who predicted that, in addition to being queen and having three children who would die -as it has been-, a valonqar would kill her, although the latter only appears in the books:

[…] And when the tears drown you, the valonqar he will encircle your white neck with his hands and take your life away.

The word valonqar means "little brother" in High Valyrian and it would be one of the reasons why Cersei has always hated Tyron so much, the youngest of the three Lannister brothers: she was afraid that prophecy would come true and he would end up killing her.

In the end it has not been like that, but there is no one who stops giving a twist to the prophecy and ensures that it has actually been fulfilled, being James (who was born after her in childbirth) who leads her to the Dragon Room, where they end up dying, and encircles her neck when she is desperate and "drown in tears". Very caught with tweezers?

· Arya still has some "green eyes" pending

We said before that Cersei was the protagonist of two prophecies and the second has to do directly with Arya. One of the great theories that was handled was that the Stark daughter would kill the Lannister queen, who has green eyes, thus fulfilling what she predicted. melissander -and with the particular list of revenge that the little warrior had.

Dead Cersei, now everyone points out that perhaps the one who has to kill Arya is Daenerys, after seeing the massacre it has caused in King's Landing. However, there is a problem with this theory: although in the series the actress Emilia Clarke She has green eyes, in the books the Targaryen is described as having "silver blonde" hair and blue eyes. Purple color. Either the series is going to take a big license to skip that important detail -which would be somewhat disappointing, really- or Arya is not destined to finish her off -no matter how much you want it to happen.

· And in the end it was not snow... but ashes

The prophecy that does seem to be being fulfilled to the letter is the one we saw in the strange "dream" of Daenerys in chapter 10 of season 2 and of which we have already told you when we reviewed what it could happen in 8×03 -now it is funny to reread it and see how much we have made a mistake or not.

In it Daenerys walked through a iron throne room completely devastated as what we thought were snowflakes fell snow… but no! What actually fell were ashes and the destruction has ended up causing it herself -eye who later meets Khal Drogo again, is it because his death is near?

In the vision of bran from chapter 4×02 we also see another moment that has been fulfilled: that of the shadow of a dragon flying over King's Landing.

The meaning of the white horse at the end

I'm sure you've been thinking about this. At the end of the episode a white horse (like the one that the little girl who Arya tries to save during the massacre) appears on the scene. The one who was in charge of executing the Night King looks at him with some peace and relief, she carefully approaches him and ends up riding to leave (or not, who knows) the devastated city. But what does the white horse symbolize? what does he paint in all this?

According to collect en nerdy, could be, nothing more and nothing less, than a biblical reference. There is nothing. in the book of Revelation, One four horsemen, who represents death, rides a "pale" horse:

[…] and power was given to him over a quarter of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with mortality, and with the beasts of the earth.

-Revelation, 6:7-8.

True is that Arya It has been in charge precisely of distributing justice since we know it and it has always been closely related to death. Posts to look for similarities, in the referred article it is pointed out that Cersei could have been the Red Horseman, the one of the war; Daenerys the White Rider, the one of conquest; and the King of the Night, the Black Horseman, the one of hunger.

More details in this regard? He Revelation It was written by John of Patmos or John of Patmos in English, which could be raised if Game of Thrones is a story told by Jon Snow. In the biblical book, reference is also made on several occasions to the ancient Roman currency denarius, which resembles the name of Daenerys. Was Martin inspired by all this to write his story?

The CleganeBowl finally came true

You may have seen the hashtag #CleganeBowl several times today without quite understanding what he is referring to. It is nothing more than the long-awaited fight between the Clegane brothers, The Dog and The Mountain, which many fans have been waiting for several seasons and had nicknamed by mixing the last name and the famous SuperBowl American.

The Mountain threw his brother into the fire as a child and since then, he, in addition to developing a terrible phobia of this element and wearing a scar on his face, has sworn to his family. He confrontation He has let us see how La Montaña looked under his helmet, to remember the death of oberyn martell (with those thumbs in the eyes, ishhhh) and witness the sacrifice of El Perro, who decides to throw himself into the flames in order to finally kill his brother.

· Memes can never be missing

Confess it: you like the theories and details as much as the memes of Twitter. And it is that the social network is a true reflection of what people think about each episode. As always, there is a bit of everything:

Daenerys when the bells start to ring pic.twitter.com/ubIEhAZjVc

— Iceshot (@Iceshot17) May 13th 2019

Sansa in Winterfell knowing that she was right about Daenerys and that Cersei died #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/vr4Hr1B0Km

— Maria Paz Avila (@icedsoylatte_) May 13th 2019

The ones who put #Daenerys to his daughters watching last night's episode #Game Of Thrones pic.twitter.com/eQzlUMZ4lb

— Buccaneer (@batmaniano) May 13th 2019

Us:
"Cersei's killer is going to be Jaime"
"Cersei is going to be killed by Arya, she has green eyes"
"Tyrion is going to kill her"
"Daenerys is going to roast Cersei"
"Cersei is going to die at Sansa's hands"

The one that ended up killing Cersei: pic.twitter.com/yahgMczLzL

— Nadia Ocampos (@nadiaoca) May 13th 2019

Tyrion: So, do you know what it means to ring the bells?
-Daenerys: pic.twitter.com/1tkvWEEc2M

— Domin (@DominJavi) May 13th 2019

Me the last 5 seasons hoping that #Daenerys burn everything/ Me, now.#Game Of Thrones pic.twitter.com/b61FsXL4R1

— Mony (@MonyVillarruel) May 13th 2019

Trailer of the last chapter of Game of Thrones

As always, HBO has released the trailer for the next chapter of Game of Thrones, which will be the last we see in the series. He end result. The advance is extremely short. He doesn't have conversations and they hardly look expensive, but he is possibly the one that makes you the most nervous of all.

There is nothing left to finish everything.