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From Jon killing Daenerys and Drogon burning down the throne to Robin Arryn's glow up and Bran becoming king, here is your Game of Thrones season 8, episode 6 recap, as told by Twitter.
It's over. The series finale of Game of Thrones aired last night (May 19) and the reaction to the whole thing has been somewhat... disappointing, to use Kit Harington's now iconic choice of words that have been immortalised on camera.
The final episode of the season 8 ('The Iron Throne') saw the battle for the throne come to what some fans thought was a not-so-thrilling conclusion. Jon Snow finally did what he had to do and killed the biggest threat to Westeros (his aunt-girlfriend Daenerys) and despite the throne being physically destroyed by a distraught dragon, a new King was crowned (along with a new Queen) before everyone went their separate ways to life their lives in peace.
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You know what they say... in the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die - or you meme. So, here we go. For the last time, here's a full meme recap of everything that happened in season 8, episode 6.
You remember those violinists who started playing the theme tune as the Titanic was sinking? Yeah, that was all of us for the last time last night. The ship that was sinking? It was this show.
That theme song gon hit different tonight #GameOfThronesFinale #GOT pic.twitter.com/NSfUlsl28l
— Najma (@_osna_) May 19, 2019
The episode opens with Tyrion walking through the streets of King's Landing. The dead are frazzled all around, there's ash falling from the air, Grey Worm is still out here 3 hours later slaughtering the Lannister soldiers that dared survive Drogon's fiery rampage.
Tyrion finds his way to the secret passage that he told Jaime and Cersei to escape from. Did they survive? NO! Did they die? They're dead AF! Did the internet's theory about Jaime still being alive come true? NO. IT DIDN'T. Tyrion finds Jaime's hand in the rubble and then moves the bricks to find them dead as they were born - in each others arms.
And despite Dany and Drogon *literally* destroying the entire roof of the room they were standing in, there's apparently still tons of space and only like, one pile of bricks that managed to drop specifically on Jaime and Cersei. And they were only under one layer too! Incredible! No further comment!
And to think Jaime only needed to hug Cersei right there #GoT pic.twitter.com/J8ZlNb2qsO
— Peter Austin (@doctorofflaws) May 20, 2019
Cersei and Jaime could have survived if they’d just moved a little to the right. #DemThrones #gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/bRAaUWW9E7
— Anna Laura M (@heyannalaura) May 20, 2019
Tyrion crying over the deaths of Cersei and Jaime even though he joined the side that wanted exactly that. Superb content
— Lou (@louorns) May 20, 2019
jaime hugging cersei, i’m— pic.twitter.com/8yMqrRE6r2
— angela (@notlenaheadey) May 20, 2019
Joffrey welcoming Cersei and Jaime in the Gates of Hell pic.twitter.com/mY4NXsAneO
— harman. (@woIgang) May 19, 2019
Dany, who apparently had time to have a quick shower before addressing her soldiers, then posts up for a quick speech about "liberating" the rest of the world - including Winterfell and Dorne along with all those other places who managed to avoid this war unscathed. Basically, she's about to take Drogon on the Bend The Knee Or I'll Snap Your Neck Tour 2k19 and burn everyone who doesn't accept her as Queen.
As she looks out onto a burnt and broken King's Landing, you'll be thrilled to know that the Unsullied and the Dothraki (of which there should only be around 27 left) have multiplied considerably. Again - incredible! No further comment!
Anyway, Tyrion approaches and throws his Hand of the Queen pin away and then shoots Jon a look as if to say, "When you do clownery, the clown comes back to BURN." Also, Jon and Arya don't speak either High Valyrian or Dothraki so am very unsure how they knew what she said... BUT AGAIN, NO FURTHER COMMENT!
Dany: We've liberated the people of King's Landing.
— Nessah (@Vannie__Oswald) May 20, 2019
The people Dany's talking about:#GameOfThrones #TheFinalEpisode pic.twitter.com/E2pMXwx1Sj
People coming back to Kings Landing from vacation in Dorne pic.twitter.com/Lla3zZdHNT
— A.J (@AJ_10Q) May 19, 2019
We now take a brief moment of pause during this recap to congratulate the cinematography department on what is absolutely one of the best shots ever produced on Game of Thrones and maybe even on TV ever.
As Daenerys approaches the stage to address everyone, Drogon takes off directly behind her and the Dragon queen finally gets her wings. I literally gasped.
We had to stan on that one pic.twitter.com/rSH0pPNTLY
— Mad Queen (@KingBeyonceStan) May 20, 2019
How in the world does this season have some of the best cinematography in TV history yet some of the worst writing? #GameOfThronesFinale pic.twitter.com/SDKa0AcpJH
— 𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕒 (@MeddlesomeWench) May 20, 2019
This shot of Daenerys walking out with Drogon taking off behind her was incredible and epic.
— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) May 20, 2019
I SAID WHAT I SAID. pic.twitter.com/Ur9h0JAI28
Jon goes to have a chat with Tyrion who is now in jail for treason and who will be executed in about... 5 minutes.
Tyrion finally admits defeat, saying: "Varys was right, I was wrong." (We been knew.) He then tries to talk Jon into seeing the truth and killing Daenerys. It's the only way! Otherwise, she'll never be stopped! Pussy-whipped beyond belief, Jon is still defending her, only semi-snapping out of it when Tyrion reminds him that Dany *will* kill Sansa and Arya and probably him, seeing as he's the rightful heir to the throne.
It's Jon's choice... be a bitch and die, or take one for the team and take out the true threat.
Jon finding more excuses for Dany #GameOfThronesFinale pic.twitter.com/HJO4r7PjVR
— Michaela Barber (@Mrsbarber25) May 20, 2019
After her speech Daenerys takes off to finally claim what's hers: The Throne. She makes her way to the Throne room and in almost a shot for shot scene of the vision she had in season 2, Dany approaches the Throne. This time she touches it, but then... in bursts her nephew-boyfriend Jon Snow.
Jon is crying little bitch baby tears, pleading her to pardon Tyrion while Dany is all like "No! Come and rule with me, nephew-boyfriend! We can break the wheel!" He tells her that she will always be her Queen and then he STABS her clean in the chest.
I'd say he snapped but honestly? He really should have listened to Sansa and he shouldn't have let it get this far. Sorry!
Dany then drops down dead and Jon hears the rumblings of Drogon - and he knows that he's absolutely fucked. Drogon is absolutely distraught about his mother's death and it all but looks like he's about to torch Jon on the spot but he turns his head and instead burns down the throne.
The throne is gone. There is no throne. The game is over. Apparently Drogon is very good at understanding complex metaphors about power and corruption but he suddenly cannot identify the rat who just stabbed and murdered his own mother. Don't know if that's because Jon has earned his trust and is a legit Targaryen BUT LIKE I SAID - NO FURTHER COMMENT!
Once he's burnt the throne to the ground, he goes up to Dany like Simba nudging Mufasa (I'm sorry I just put that visual in your heads, if I had to be reminded of it, you do too...), picks her up in his claw and then flies off, never to be seen again.
drogon said FUCK the iron throne. if daenerys can’t have it then NO ONE CAN #gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/ih7ZoSL3N3
— i love you emilia clarke (@emiliacIarked) May 20, 2019
Seeing Drogon nudge Daenerys #GameOfThronesFinale #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/ONecqqe4U5
— Oops (@Thatwaswack) May 20, 2019
Jon:
— Guyana's Ass 🇬🇾 (@sporker_) May 20, 2019
Drogon: the sight of this accursed thing sickens me. This throne stands as a symbol of the oppression of the proliteriat, and as long as people seek it, this world will never know peace. Dragon fire can't melt steel beams, but on my honor, I shall liquefy this sham
jon: kills dany
— bri (@jonstabsdany) May 20, 2019
drogon: FUCK YOU IRON THRONE YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS YOU DUMBASS CHAIR
season 3: slave master approaches dany
— ً (@targarcyn) May 20, 2019
drogon: TRY ME BITCH
season 7: jaime attacks dany
drogon: TRY ME BITCH
season 8: jon kills dany
drogon: uhm well let me take my anger out on this chair#GameOfThrones
Have to confess I'm a little surprised Drogon can understand a complicated sociological metaphor but not a simple who-dun-it.
— Zach Wahls (@ZachWahls) May 20, 2019
smartest dragon in the seven kingdoms? #GameofThrones #GameOfThonesFinale pic.twitter.com/7DCxrIzZ2h
— Eleanor (@eleanorbroome) May 20, 2019
#GameOfThrones
— BSK Waiting for KH3 DLC (@BSKtheKing) May 20, 2019
No one can take the throne from my mama
If there is no Throne pic.twitter.com/Ut5NZMDojf
Ladies, here's where it all goes downhill. Ok so, a week after Dany was stabbed by her nephew-boyfriend, Tyrion, the p r i s o n e r who is in prison for t r e a s o n, ends up holding court with a council of Lords and Ladies from the houses that are still alive. He explains that we need a new King (or Queen!!!!) to decide his and Jon's fate.
Sam, who has been watching too much Westeros Idol up at the Citadel, suggests everyone should put it to a public vote which a) is a terrible idea and b) not how monarchies work. If these idiots think a government is going to do the trick, they've got a big storm coming.
Tyrion then makes a case for the most unlikeliest candidate of all... Bran Stark. His reason? No one has a better story than Bran the Broken. Uhhh, Sansa says hi. Arya says hi. Even Jon Snow says hi. If it wasn't for Meera, Bran wouldn't even have a fuckin' story. Give! Me! A! BREAK!
Anyway, they all agree, Sansa makes sure the North remains independent and Brexits the fuuuuck out of there, Tyrion becomes the Hand of the King (?!?!?!?!?!?!) and Jon - the one who low-key got them out of this mess - is exiled north of the wall, never to have sex again because no one wants any more Targaryens to walk the Seven Kingdoms. Rude. But fair.
#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/XvwUwhemUN
— hunter harris (@hunteryharris) May 20, 2019
Tyrion: Jon Snow should be the rightful ruler. He deserves to be King. He's the rightful heir to the Iron Throne. He knows how to lead. He's the chosen one. The people love him. Convinces Jon to kill Dany.
— Osibisa 🇬🇭 🇬🇭 (@paa__grant) May 20, 2019
Time to choose a King.
Tyrion: Bran.#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/G11iB0FY27
TYRION: People love stories. And no one has a better story than Bran
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) May 20, 2019
ARYA, WHO LEARNED SHAPE-SHIFTING AND MURDERED THE INVINCIBLE ICE KING OF DEATH: Bran has what now
Tyrion: People love stories, who has a better story than Bran
— Kyle Bolt (@kylebolt) May 20, 2019
Jon Snow: pic.twitter.com/48NCtwzrYH
Behind every king is a woman who dragged him around on a sled for three years never to be heard from again #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/lNbUwmV48g
— Orli Matlow (@HireMeImFunny) May 20, 2019
TYRION: People love stories. And nobody has a better story than Bran.
— Jamie Woodham (@jwoodham) May 20, 2019
JON SNOW, WHO WENT FROM STARK BASTARD TO LORD COMMANDER TO KING IN THE NORTH, WHO WAS LITERALLY KILLED AND RESURRECTED, WHO SLAYED HIS QUEEN/AUNT/LOVER FOR THE GOOD OF THE REALM: [Jim Halpert look to camera]
how I sleep knowing that everyone around me is gonna waste their time for the next 8 years fighting for my throne #DemThrones #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/lZY4WFi4cb
— maria ✌🏼 (@itsmariayoo) May 20, 2019
Sansa: (survives torture and comes out on top by using her wits)
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 20, 2019
Arya: (trains for years with some of the best fighters in the world and kills the motherfucking Night King)
Bran: (falls out a window and says weird shit)
White men: This guy should totally be our king.
Also, Sansa snapped during this council meeting and the memes are too good not to include.
ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:
— Nikhil (@HitmanNick047) May 20, 2019
SANSA: BRAN’S DICK DOESNT WORK #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/fkuPuO6F3L
“uncle please sit” pic.twitter.com/sESyogXzmb
— bria (@briamicheIIe) May 20, 2019
#gameofthrones *Edmure Tully proclaiming he should be king*
— Caleb Snell (@snellebc) May 20, 2019
The Lords of Westeros: pic.twitter.com/5ThoyvwgtB
I HAD TO PAUSE THE SHOW. SANSA HAD ME YELLING.#GameOfThrones#TheFinalEpisode pic.twitter.com/Bp8FZkzKGr
— femme fatale (@eliesaaab) May 20, 2019
#GameOfThrones
— femme fatale (@eliesaaab) May 20, 2019
Sansa: “Uncle, please sit.”
Edmure Tully: pic.twitter.com/Mx9rqgrwlM
Sansa telling a mediocre straight white man to sit the fuck down added five years to my life span
— Sam Stryker (@sbstryker) May 20, 2019
We are thrilled to inform you that member of the Council Robin Arryn, son of Lysa Arryn, has - as they say in the industry - Longbottom'd. Congratulations to him. I hope he is able to one day chat with Tormund about the benefits of late-stage breastfeeding. Wonder how he's doing on solids?
Robin Arryn: a glowup #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/WQ3uyV2KZc
— Bettina Cecilia (@bcdgonzalez) May 20, 2019
the main theme of Game of Thrones finally became clear in the finale: the importance of breastfeeding to grow up big and strong pic.twitter.com/axazLAnW58
— Andrew Bridgman (@bridgmandrew) May 20, 2019
They can honestly use Robin Arryn's glow up for an infomercial about the advantages of breast feeding. 😂
— S. Woo (@SteffAureus) May 20, 2019
Ctto#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/YfRmWG3Pv1
the best plot twist of season 8 was robin arryn glowing the fuck up.....never said one bad word about him he's my son #gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/Q0dN1ZZ2kG
— sana (new acc please follow) (@aaronsjuliette) May 20, 2019
Robin Arryn straight up longbottomed us #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/hhFQYGq5Ir
— coopaloop (@mcoops_) May 20, 2019
At the end of the episode, we see what everyone is up to next. Brienne finds a book of Knights and decides to update Jaime's page. But instead of going Regina George 'Burn Book' and dragging him for leaving her in the courtyard of Winterfell after a night of passion in nothing but a dressing gown, she opts for Ariana Grande's 'thank u, next' vibes instead.
Brienne fills out his page, making sure to note all the good and noble stuff Jaime did before he died.
She closed the book without letting the ink dry.
Whoever opens that book next after Brienne of “didn’t let the ink dry” Tarth, gone be like#GameofThrones #demthrones pic.twitter.com/tSiNAT4oKn
— Kate Mary (@katee_may1220) May 20, 2019
What I really thought Brienne was going to write.. #GOTFinale #GOT pic.twitter.com/OzZmjBDv1h
— Anna (@Annamarie2426) May 20, 2019
This is the same energy to me pic.twitter.com/8giVxP2zdF
— Ella Torres (@Ella_RTorres) May 20, 2019
— Jessica Smetana (@jessica_smetana) May 20, 2019
“And also Ser Jaime died while telling Cersei that he was in love with Brienne who was super hot the end” pic.twitter.com/9yr5i3lvHK
— Dylan Goforth (@DGoforth918) May 20, 2019
"and i couldn't help but wonder, maybe this game of thrones was no game after all" pic.twitter.com/vXWcWYrBKS
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) May 20, 2019
Brienne out here altering Jaime Wikipedia page
— Tyler R. Tynes (@TylerRickyTynes) May 20, 2019
Jamie Lannister is the nastiest skank bitch I have ever met. Do not trust him, he is a fugly slut. #GameofThrones #GOT pic.twitter.com/N4I3XvBeBy
— Dana Nugent (@DMNug) May 20, 2019
After not stealing anyone's faces and then deciding not to kill Cersei, Arya decides to leave Westeros. She killed the Night King, she's peaked and she's retiring at the grand old age of 18. She's not staying with Bran, she's not going home with Gendry :( and she's not going North with Sansa either. She's heading west to discover America to explore what's beyond Westeros.
And off she goes, to debunk the population of Westeros' flat earth theories.
Gendry: Where’s Arya?
— Half Grodd Half Shark (@ThiccGrodd) May 20, 2019
Sansa: Going west
Gendry:
#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/MaqMGtxe0V
Will watch Arya the Explorya.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 20, 2019
So basically the most skilled faceless man became Arya the fucking explorer #GameofThrones #TheFinalEpisode pic.twitter.com/kX8ZAADps7
— gandalf the purple (@gandalf_purple) May 20, 2019
Finally. It's what she deserves.
Sansa after she was crowned queen of the north #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/gJBuszj2ZN
— Filipe Orlando 🌏 (@MrFilipeOrlando) May 20, 2019
sansa @ all her haters after outliving all her abusers, getting the north's independence and being crowned the queen in the north #GameOfThrones #SansaStark #SansaHive pic.twitter.com/x2D5RICoBo
— mir. sansa stark warrior (@adamskylo) May 20, 2019
Sansa won the popular vote but Bran had the electoral college.
— snark hoppus. (@markhoppus) May 20, 2019
Jon, now King beyond the Wall, arrives as Castle Black where Tormund returned after the Battle of Winterfell. They reunite, and off Jon goes, but not before the moment we've all been waiting for...
JON FINALLY PET GHOST!!! After having Drogon fly off to an unexplained location, never to be see again, the CGI fictional animal budget has freed up and we were finally treated to a Jon and Ghost reunion.
The last ever scene of Game of Thrones was Jon, Tormund, the wildlings and Ghost, heading North into the same woods where it all started. CUE THE MUSIC!
LMAO #GAMEOFTHRONES ACTUALLY ENDED LIKE THIS pic.twitter.com/UyctJWieqU
— D-Piddy 🎭 (@_dpiddy) May 20, 2019
JON: *pets Ghost*
— Chris Masse (@cjmasse) May 20, 2019
Me:#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/aL4CV4e31b
This how Ghost should’ve welcomed Jon back#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/nT26BVMAV1
— wisē (@Wise809) May 20, 2019
The editors of #GameOfThrones throwing in Jon petting Ghost last minute so we would all shut up. pic.twitter.com/GmwrljeGAJ
— squidnie (@sydniefatt) May 20, 2019
Happy for Jon. Back with Tormund and Ghost and working an easy job where the only threats are now dead (dead army) and allies (wildlings). Fuck them damn vows tho man go get your fuck on in a cave again bro you earned it
— Beyonce has an uncle named Larry Beyince. Bruh.... (@DragonflyJonez) May 20, 2019
Bran on the Throne, Sansa Queen in the North, Arya off doing Arya things? Ned and Catelyn may have lost the game, but they won the war, bitch. #HouseStarkForever
This would have been a more acceptable ending #gameofthrones #demthrones pic.twitter.com/iHzUnlfZQX
— Eddie Miranda (@EddieMiranda_) May 20, 2019
This episode was written and directed by Catelyn Stark. Sansa is queen, Arya is doing her thing, Bran is king and Jon the bastard is exiled and forgotten...#Gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/qI9yRAncHU
— Gaby Bauzile (@GBauzile) May 20, 2019