“Now I know.” The Dragon Queen is more committed now than ever before to the cause of defeating the White Walkers, as much for vengeance as it is because she finally understands there’s no greater threat to Westeros than the Army of the Dead. “You have to see it to know,” she tells Jon about why she doesn’t regret making the journey north, even though it cost her one of the most precious entities in her life. 'Game of Thrones' Must-See Moment: Winter Is Here for Jon SnowĪnother silver lining: Jon and Daenerys are finally on the same page. Consider it nothing more than a theory for now, and certainly one that won’t pan out until much closer to the end of the series, if it ever pans out at all. Remember what the Three-Eyed Raven told Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) all the way back in season four: “You will never walk again…but you will fly.” Bran has long been discussed as one of the potential characters to fly a dragon some day, and now the stage is set for the young Raven to fulfill his destiny, using his great gifts as a warg to seize control over the undead Viserion from the Night King’s influence. Now, it looks like we have the very unexpected answer: the Night King.īut he’s only the rider for now. There are some silver linings in Viserion’s death and subsequent resurrection, including the fact that it seemingly answers one of the show’s longest-running riddles: “The dragon has three heads.” Most fans agreed Daenerys and Jon were two of the prophesied characters who would ride dragons by the end of the series, but there has never been a clean common consensus on the third dragon rider. Winter is here with an added twist of fire, and the forecast for all in Westeros includes torrential amounts of devastation.
That’s right: as if the White Walkers didn’t have enough power on their side already, now they also have an undead dragon in their possession. In the final scene of the episode, the White Walkers’ resolute commander walked directly up to Viserion, placing his hand on the fallen beast’s snout (a haunting mirror image of Jon’s moment with Drogon last week), and raised it from the dead. 'Game of Thrones'' Gruesome Deaths: From Robert Baratheon to Lyanna StarkĪs if Viserion’s death wasn’t traumatic enough for both Daenerys and viewers alike, the Night King added devastating insult to injury mere moments later. The elation of Daenerys flying in to rescue Jon, just in the nick of time, is matched only by the sheer horror of watching one of her dragons bleed out from high above, dropping and sinking into the frozen waters below. Viewers will not soon forget the moment they first laid eyes upon dragons incinerating wights on a battlefield made of ice, nor will they forget the battle’s harrowing turn, as the Night King tossed a massive ice lance into the air and dropped a dragon from the sky. In what will go down as one of the most chilling scenes in Game of Thrones history, Daenerys and her fire-breathing children soared into the realm beyond the Wall in order to save Jon Snow and his allies, fulfilling one of the show’s core promises: ice versus fire, and plenty of it. The rest of the hunting party emerged from the episode with their lives intact, which in and of itself would have been the biggest surprise of the hour, if not for the fact that an entirely different character lost his life: Viserion, one of Daenerys Targaryen’s three dragons. Of the main players who passed beyond the Wall at the end of “ Eastwatch,” only one of them lost their life: Thoros of Myr (Paul Kaye), afforded a relatively peaceful (and somewhat ironic) end as the fire priest froze to death - only after he was brutalized by a zombie bear, of course, but that’s neither here nor there. Entering “Beyond the Wall,” virtually everyone expected to lose at least one main character, if not many more. Really, it’s two massive dragon sequences, both of which are linked in death.
Week in 'Game of Thrones': All Aboard the Jon Targaryen Train
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