Rough go, this guy's had.Īnd finally, Daenerys' death roused Drogon, who flew into the Great Hall. Ygritte, Jon's alleged first love, also died in his arms. She is the second partner to die in his hands Ygritte, his wildling lover, would also die while looking into the eyes of Jon Snow.ĭaenerys died in the arms of Jon, her alleged lover. He cried as he lowered Daenery's body to the floor. Jon was naturally even more conflicted about what he had to do. Jaime told Brienne back in season 3 about how little he enjoyed killing the man he was sworn to protect. ("Tell me," Jaime Lannister asked Ned Stark in season 1, "if I had stabbed the Mad King in the belly instead of the back, would you admire me more?") Daenerys died when her most trusted ally, appalled by her engulfing the city in dragonfire, impaled her from the front. Aerys opened the gates but Tywin's army turned on Aerys and sacked the city, similar to Daenerys razing the city even after the bells rang in surrender.Īerys died in front of the Iron Throne when Kingsguard head Jaime Lannister, appalled by the Mad King's demands that the whole city be engulfed in wildfire, impaled him from behind. There was similar treachery afoot there: Aerys' Hand of the King was Tywin Lannister, who requested King's Landing's gates open so that his army could protect the crown. The last Targaryen to rule, Aerys II, was famously stabbed in the same spot by Jaime Lannister during Robert's Rebellion. Jon sweet talks her, says she's his queen forever, and then stabs her right in the heart.
In episode 6, her attention goes to Jon Snow, who enters The Great Hall.ĭaenerys is notably less crazed here than in The Bells, but she won't free Tyrion and she said she had to kill all of those innocent civilians to prove Cersei wrong. In her vision she's distracted by the cries of a dragon. They've been planning these shots since season 2! #DemThrones /Fd12nuvDYd- Alex May 20, 2019 Honestly, props to David Benioff and D.B. Daenerys did make her grasp for power, grabbing onto the Throne, so I guess the Targaryen coin had yet to land in her vision.
It of course turns out that the Red Keep wouldn't be blanketed in snow, but rather ash. In it, she walks to the Throne and begins to reach for it, but at the last moment she shies away from touching it. The vision, also referenced in The Bells, shows Daenerys wandering into a snow-blanketed, ransacked Red Keep. This is a direct throwback to the vision she sees in Qarth back in season 2. She gazes upon it covetously and grasps a hilt of one of the many blades that comprise it. This scene, apart from being one of the best in season 8 and arguably the whole show, featured many callbacks to moments in previous seasons.īefore Jon confronts her, we see Daenerys ascending the steps to the Iron Throne. Jon confronts Daenerys and, gauging her to be insufficiently repentant about massacring an entire city, stabs her right in the heart. Tyrion, imprisoned by Daenerys, convinces Jon that she's officially mad, and that Jon and his sisters are sure to incur her wrath sooner rather than later. One of the two big moments of the episode was the death of Daenerys.