Top 3 Things You Missed in Season 8 Episode 6 of Game of Thrones
And now our watch is ended. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today, we’re counting down our picks for the Top 3 Things You Missed In Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 6, “The Iron Throne.”
#3: Khal Drogo’s Promise
During Daenerys’ victory speech, she begins by thanking her Dothraki Bloodrider’s for their role in her ascension to power. Her choice of words is a callback to a scene from season 1 in which Khal Drogo promised their unborn son, Rhaego, the very same things. Dany repeated those words again when she convinced the Dothraki to follow her to Westeros in season 6. The Dothraki have been an important part of Dany’s story arc since the very beginning, so it was fitting to see Drogo’s words repeated when the promise was finally fulfilled.
#2: Nissa Nissa
In Westeros, predictions and prophecies tend to have an ironic twist. In the books, the legendary hero Azor Ahai was said to have stabbed his wife, Nissa Nissa, through the heart with his sword. This act turned his weapon into the flaming sword Lightbringer, which was used to defeat the White Walkers during the Long Night. Well, as the supposed Prince Who Was Promised or the second coming of Azor Ahai, many believed Jon would have to stab Dany with his sword to create Lightbringer and defeat the Night King. Well, yet again, our expectations were dashed when Arya killed the Night King. Many thought that if Arya was the one defeat the Army of the Dead, what was Jon’s purpose in all of this? Why was he brought back by the Lord of Light? Well, it turns out that the Nissa Nissa was Dany after all, but by stabbing her through the heart as the prophecy foretold, Jon defeated evil and fulfilled his purpose then and there, rather than doing it to create a flaming sword.
Before we get to our top moment, here are some of the best lines from this week’s episode:
- “You have to decide now…” approx.
- “You will be my queen for now and for always” approx.
- “Why do you think I came all this way?”
#1: Full Circle
If Game of Throne’s final scene, which featured Jon, Ghost, Tormund, and the Free Folks heading beyond the wall, looked familiar to you, it’s because it’s a direct callback to the very first scene of the very first episode. Whereas the show’s opening scene introduces us to the threat of the White Walkers and the Army of the Dead, the series ends with the threat of the Night King gone, and the Free Folk returning to the lands they were forced to abandon. Some shots are practically identical, namely the shot of them coming through the gates of the wall. We’ve come a very long way from the pilot, but having the series end where it began seems a fitting end for the journey we’ve been on for all these years.
