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• Game of thrones season 8 episode 3 deaths movie#

(And probably would've knocked it down to an 8 were it not for Arya's entire journey in this episode, which was electrifying from start to finish.)

Game of thrones season 8 episode 3 deaths movie#

I was tempted to do the same here, just because “The Long Night” is such a spectacular achievement in filmmaking - it certainly puts many of the MCU and DC movie universe’s climactic battles to shame, and thanks to its intensity, can respectably be mentioned in the same breath as the Helm’s Deep sequence in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - but I had to deduct points based on the contrivances of the plot.

If we were measuring the episode based on technical difficulty alone, it would be an easy 10 (which is probably why our reviewer for previous seasons, Matt Fowler, gave both “Hardhome and “Battle of the Bastards” a perfect score). Still, in terms of sheer scale, “The Long Night” easily overshadowed the ambition and tension of “ Battle of the Bastards” and “ Hardhome,” which were also directed by Miguel Sapochnik. See all the post-episode photos from "The Long Night" below: That doesn’t mean some of them won’t die in the final three episodes, of course, but for a confrontation as heavily foreshadowed and long overdue as the final fight with the Night King, the episode did have echoes of “ Beyond the Wall,” where characters made questionable decisions because the plot dictated it, and yet managed to survive despite the odds for exactly the same reason. There were times when Brienne, Jaime, Sam, Tyrion, and Sansa, in particular, were completely surrounded and overrun, and yet their plot armor proved too thick to penetrate. Not that I wanted to lose any beloved characters, of course - but the fact that the episode spared all of the core cast did undermine the stakes of an otherwise monumental endeavor. Theon and Melisandre also served their narrative purposes in a way where I wasn’t surprised (or particularly devastated) to see them go, and although Lyanna's death here was clearly intended to be the fan-favorite exit that really twisted the knife, according to the showrunners she was originally designed to be a one-scene character, so it obviously doesn’t affect the show’s endgame. Still, it’s impossible not to feel a little underwhelmed, given the hype for this episode, that we only got seven notable character deaths (and let’s face it, despite Jorah's noble death protecting his Khaleesi to the last, he and Beric and Edd might as well have been wearing red shirts from the moment we heard this battle was coming). There is some terrible stabbing of heads and gouging of eyes and Sandor realizes the only way to end his brother once and for all is to tackle him and go down with him into the flames below, plummeting to fiery and symbolic death into the thing he fears the most.Game of Thrones promised us something unprecedented for the third episode of Season 8, and it delivered in ways we never could have expected. The Mountain is responsible for the death of so many of our faves-Oberyn Martell! Elia Martell! Missandei! Like, all of the Riverlands! His horse!-that it's due time he suffered some justice.Īfter the Mountain tosses Qyburn to the side, killing him instantly (which, you gotta believe he’s been dying to do for ages), the Hound manages to knock off his zombie brother's helmet, and we finally get to see what has been lurking under there for all these years. Remember how, when they were children, the Mountain pushed Sandor’s face into a fire for stealing his toys? And that Sandor has been terrified of fire ever since? He's bad. As you’ll no doubt recall, the Hound’s horrifying older brother, the Mountain, was brought back to life through some terrible wizardry of Qyburn’s. The penultimate episode tied up at least one storyline we’ve been waiting for since very early on.