With a season so filled with gore and betrayal, I used to be shocked the sequence finale wasn’t bloodier—or extra satisfying. Regardless, listed below are the eight wildest moments from the Sport of Thrones sequence finale.

Tyrion finds his siblings buried within the rubble.

Final week, Daenerys Targaryen fulfilled her future and have become the Mad Queen, burning your complete metropolis of King’s Touchdown to the bottom, regardless of Queen Cersei’s give up. On the finish of the episode, long-time lovers (and siblings!) Cersei and Jamie Lannister held one another because the partitions of the Purple Maintain got here crumbling down round them. Since we didn’t technically see them get crushed beneath the load of their citadel (and their sins), some followers of the present held out hope.

Nonetheless, within the sequence finale, Tyrion spots his brother’s golden prosthetic hand peeking out from beneath the rubble. Block by block, he uncovers his brother and sister and cries over their our bodies, however nobody whimpered extra loudly than me. I spent years loathing the evil queen, however seeing her die like that abruptly had me calling for #JusticeForCersei.

Tyrion rashly tosses his Hand of the Queen brooch down the steps.

Look, there was barely any LGBTQ illustration on this present, and so far as I’m involved, an eldritch brooch that symbolizes wholehearted subservience to a Mad Queen is a homosexual icon. Watching Tyrion disrespect such an honorable heirloom like that was each surprising and rewarding; he chucks it pointedly down the steps in open disgust on the Mad Queen’s torching of King’s Touchdown. But additionally, have some respect for that talisman!

(Should you’re not offered on the Hand of the Queen brooch being a homosexual icon, simply keep in mind that we’ve come to know this brooch over the course of eight seasons, just for it to be carelessly discarded of within the ultimate episode—that’s homosexual as hell.)

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Jon kills Daenerys.

Essentially the most surprising scene comes after Jon speaks with Tyrion, who has been imprisoned for betraying Dany (and the brooch). Tyrion had urged Jon to kill the Mad Queen and take the Iron Throne, as a result of as Aegon Targaryen he is the rightful inheritor, and he’d save hundreds of lives she’d possible take as queen.

Dany glides over to the snow-dusted throne, able to plop down and helm her seven kingdoms, till Jon approaches her. With tears in his eyes, he kisses her and pledges his allegiance, swearing, “You might be my queen—now, and all the time,” and swiftly sticks a knife in her coronary heart.

Perhaps it needed to be finished, nevertheless it was nonetheless devastating to observe. Screw Cersei—justice for Dany and her busted character arc.

Drogon toasts the Iron Throne.

Moments after Jon’s nice betrayal, the Mom of Dragons’ final remaining dragon-child, Drogon, swoops in and screeched on the sight of his useless mom. Heartbreaking! Drogon appears to Jon, hearth rising in his throat, and simply after we assume he’s about to depart King’s Touchdown smelling like burnt man-bun, he furiously spits hearth on the precise Iron Throne. After which once more. And once more, till the symbolic throne melts into swirling heaps of magma. Within the phrases of Drogon, “RREEEERRRREEEEET,” which I imagine interprets to: If Daenerys Targaryen can’t have the Iron Throne, nobody can.

Sansa roasts Uncle Edmure.

Positive, the loss of life of the Lannisters made me cry and Daenerys’ loss of life made me burn with rage, however Sansa’s roast of her uncle, Edmure Tully, made me gasp. Weeks after Daenerys’ loss of life, Gray Worm brings Tyrion, nonetheless a prisoner, earlier than the brand new counsel of Westeros, made up of essentially the most highly effective lords, women, knights, and maesters of the realm. He means that the one strategy to break the “wheel” and produce peace to Westeros, as Daenerys supposed, is to decide on a brand new chief themselves, and discard of the precept of heirs.

One of the insignificant males on the counsel, Edmure Tully, stands up and begins to orate about his meager accomplishments, placing himself ahead as a possible king of Westeros. Sansa curtly cuts him off, saying, “Uncle. Please sit.” It was my favourite second in all of season 8. Edmure Tully, retire bitch!!!

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Bran turns into king of Westeros…

Within the upset of the century, Tyrion finally ends up nominating Bran Stark as the primary chosen King of Westeros. Sure, Bran, whom Twitter likes to roast greater than it likes to argue. Bran, whose character is each confounding and underwhelming. I completely hate that after eight lengthy seasons, the chief of Westeros isn’t one of many present’s extreme main women, like Cersei, Daenerys, Sansa, Arya, or Yara Greyjoy.

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…and the opposite Starks do a lot.

Bran being chosen as ruler of the Seven Kingdoms by a panel of Westerosi superdelegates is actually mindboggling—however what turns into of the Stark siblings is equally as stunning.

Sansa is the one one to detract from the vote, insisting as an alternative that the North will secede from the Seven Kingdoms and stay an unbiased state, and that she is going to rule it. Arya decides to change into an amazing explorer, crusing west of Westeros, the place no man or girl has ever explored. Magellan might by no means.

Jon Snow returns to the Night time’s Watch.

Jon Snow is sentenced to a life again on the Night time’s Watch, by no means to marry or bear kids. Ultimately, he rides north of the wall together with his BFF Tormund. Attention-grabbing: The Starks declare to like one another and but have taken each alternative to stay worlds away from one another for the previous couple of seasons. Now they will all reside peacefully in solitude, as leaders of their very own little realms. Right here’s hoping that “Arya the Conqueror” is a type of massive Sport of Thrones spinoffs we had been promised.

Goodbye, Sport of Thrones. You had been nice to have on within the background whereas making out.