Still, they’re all here and firing on all cylinders. All three of the beasties, although they quickly get cut off from the larger battle when the white walkers summon a mist – resulting in the guilty chuckle of Daenerys and Jon getting into an air traffic accident. None – but to be fair, in an hour-and-a-half battle sequence, where are you meant to fit it in? Still, there’s three episodes left, so don’t count anyone as completely safe just yet. Likewise, everyone’s insistence the crypts were totally safe turned out to be bunkum, and all the main characters who were down there made it through.
Brienne being knighted last week seemed like an obvious ‘one day before retirement’ signifier, ditto Grey Worm and Missandei talking about moving to Naath when this is all over. What’s surprising is those who didn’t die. This is also a similarly rare instance of death by old age. ‘You have outlived your usefulness’ bonus: a very, very rare self-inflicted instance of this, when Melisandre, her job done, simply walks off into the snow. Jenga bonus: Arya takes out the load-bearing baddy, and racks up a kill count too large to fit onscreen at once – impressive even for an already-prolific murderer. And while this wasn’t how he died, I’d like to put in an argument for him to get a ‘when all you have is a hammer’ bonus, for realising he’s out of arrows and immediately whacking the nearest wight with his bow. Redemption arc bonus: Theon, who has Bran literally spell out that yes, he has now redeemed himself. Unfortunately I have to ding him for magically going from this, to successfully escaping with the people his death was meant to be buying time for. Sacrificial lamb bonus: Beric Dondarrion, blocking the corridor as the wights stab the hell out of him and creating a picture-perfect Christ pose. Muddying the waters slightly is the fact she briefly comes back as a wight, but it seems unfair to blame her for that. Martyrdom bonus: little Lady Mormont, in the face of being physically eaten, icing an undead giant. So, just to keep things practical, let’s focus on those who turn up in the opening credits. To be fair, though, even with Thrones’s sizable cast, if they made every casualty a named character we’d run out. Naturally most of the deaths are nameless extras, with seemingly all the Dothraki and Unsullied used as cannon fodder. It’s the middle of the night, the wind’s getting up, and the army of the dead’s coming out of the dark, so let’s get right into it.įar too many to count.
Game of thrones season 8 episode 3 deaths full#
I suppose HBO is saving the majority of its big deaths for the battle for the Iron Throne, but - even so - the fatality count for this immensely bloody siege felt strangely timid.įor more on the latest happenings in Westeros, check out the Game of Thrones season 8 Battle of Winterfell reactions from around the internet, or watch the video below for a full recap of episode 3.After the first and second episodes of this final season turned out quite so sedate – a disaster for stats based entirely on gratuitous, blood-pumping action – with ‘ The Long Night‘ and the Battle of Winterfell, we finally, finally get something on the apocalyptic scale that the show’s been promising since episode one. The fact that most of our favourite characters survived this gauntlet, in a Game of Thrones episode no less, is nothing short of a miracle. They’re certainly all adept fighters, but we’ve seen what the Night King’s masses are capable of. Sure, we may have lost Theon, Lyanna, Eddison, Beric, and Ser Jorah, but did you see what Jaime, Brienne, Podrick, and Tormund were up against? While Jon and Dany were dealing with the Night King, the foursome were pretty much against the walls, surrounded by hordes of undead for what must have been half an hour. This Game of Thrones episode was perhaps the most surprising of them all, only in terms of how many characters managed to actually survive the battle.
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