22 Missed Details in GOT Finale — Full Breakdown & Transcrip

[00:00] After 8 seasons, Game of Thrones has finally come to an end in an episode called The Iron Throne. Here are 22 things you might have missed in the series finale. And warning, spoilers are cut.

[00:15] For the show's very last credit sequence, they changed yet again. This time, there was no lion above the Iron Throne, showing that the Lannister's reign has ended. And while the red keep is still shown as standing, other parts of King's Landing have been

[00:29] destroyed. We see a crack in the floor in the credits that we see later in the episode as Tyrion walks through the rubble. Daenerys stands in the ruins of King's Landing, overlooking her massive army. The image almost directly mirrors this shock from Lord of the Rings the two towers, as Sarmon

[00:45] overlooks his army before commanding them to march to Helm's deep. Like Daenerys, Sarmon also descended into madness. In that speech, she specifically speaks to the Dothraki saying, you kept all your promises

[01:00] to me. You killed my enemies and their iron suits, you tore down their stone houses, you gave me the Seven Kingdoms. She's referring to the original promise Cal Drogo gave Daenerys unborn son in season 1.

[01:25] She recalls this speech in season 6, when she names all the Dothraki her bloodwriters.

[01:39] In Tyrion's cell, John repeats the words of Amon Targaryen, the maester of the Night's Watch. Amon offered this piece of wisdom when John was considering deserting the Night's Watch in

[01:52] order to come to Rob's aid. In retrospect, his words sound pretty prophetic.

[02:09] Daenerys' premonition in the season 2 finale, Valar Magulis, finally came to fruition. In it, she walks through a ruined throne room that's blanketed in snow. In episode 6, however, she actually touched the throne.

[02:21] In the Vision, she did not. The Lord of the Rings comparisons were plenty. Moments after John murders Daenerys, Drogon flies in and in mourning, burns the iron thrown to a crisp.

[02:33] This is yet another instance mirroring Lord of the Rings. As pointed out by Joanna Robinson of Vanity Fair, the iron throne is similar to the one ring, an object of absolute power that is absolutely corrupting. In this instance, Daenerys was like Gollum, looking wide eyed when she finally obtains what

[02:48] she's been searching for all her life. And then, like the one ring, the throne is destroyed by fire, melting in front of our eyes, taking Daenerys along with it. As the Stark stand at the King's Landing Docks and prepare to go their separate ways, Grey

[03:01] Worm also departs. He's heading towards Noth, which is where Massande is from, right before the Battle of Winterfell and a few episodes before Massande's tragic death. Grey Worm tells Massande that after the war ends, that he would like to leave Westeros and

[03:14] asks her where she would want to go. She responds that she would like to go see Noth again. Grey Worm kept his promise, but had to make the journey alone. The Stark's go their separate ways, John to the North, signs it back to Winterfell, and

[03:28] Arya somewhere out west to land unknown to Westeros. This was yet another Lord of the Rings parallel. The return of the King ends with Frodo Gandalf and other characters sailing away to the undying lands.

[03:40] Two big farewells are visual and emotional mirrors of one another. And speaking of which, Arya's had to urge to explore what's west of Westeros since at least season 6, when she had this conversation with the Bravosi actress Lady Crane.

[03:56] The great council meets in the dragon pit to decide Terrians fate and who will rule Westeros.

[04:23] Among the people on the council, Samuel Tarley, Edmira Tully, Robin Aaron, Jan Royce, Serbrian of Tarth, Sardava Seaworth, Gindry Baratheon, Yara Greyjoy, and unnamed Prince of Dorn, and then Sansa Arya and Bran.

[04:37] There are also a few unidentified lords, one possibly from the Westerlands and another, might be from a lesser known house in the reach. Edmira Tully, Catlin Stark's younger brother, has provided some of the most memorable moments

[04:49] of comic relief on the show, and this episode was no different. Most memorably, in season 3, he tried to light his father's funeral pyre and couldn't hit it.

[05:04] Brienne is the new lord commander of the Kingsguard, and she has a raven sigil on her armor representing Bran, the new king.

[05:16] We see Brienne riding in the white book, a book with records of the deeds of all the members of the Kingsguard, Brienne read Jaime's page back in season 4 episode 4.

[05:36] Now that Brienne is lord commander, she fills Jaime's pages with the rest of his life and his death. We get to see exactly what Brienne writes in these pages about Jaime, we see her refer to the loot train battle from season 7 episode 4, as the Battle of Gold Road, which is a new

[05:51] name for that battle, and a better one. At the small council meeting Sam presents Tyrion with a song of ice and fire, it's a history of wars after King Robert, written by Archmaster Ebros. Sam says he helped with the title, this is a call back to season 7.

[06:05] When the new small council assembles, Bran says, or soon there won't be no more coin,

[06:27] Sir Davos, whose master ships, corrects him by saying, anymore. This is particularly funny because when we first met Davos, he couldn't read. He was taught by Cherine, Stanis Baratheon's daughter.

[06:42] In Tyrion's final moment of the show, he says he brought a jackass on a honeycomb into a brothel. But here's the thing, we've all heard this joke before. Tyrion first attempted to tell it in his confession to Liza Aaron in season 1 before she cuts

[06:54] him off. He then starts telling the same joke to Grey Worm in Mason Day in season 6 episode 3, Oathbreaker before he's interrupted once again.

[07:16] It looks like we'll never hear the punchline now. Tyrion's feci chair rearranging is a habit left over from Tywin's small council meetings, which were memorable for passive-aggressive moves like this.

[07:42] Sons' coronation dress represents the independence of the North. It has a pattern of a weird tree which grows in the forests up north. The symbolism reminds us just how much she's evolved since longing for the South in season

[07:54] 1. Sons' crown also resembles one of Cersei's crowns, especially from the back. It suggests that Sons' took on the best of Cersei's queen inequalities. A lot of fans voiced their disappointment after John Paret ways with Ghost in episode 4 without

[08:08] so much as petting his wolf goodbye. That episode's director, David Nutter, explained that CGI considerations were the real reason behind John's abrupt send-off. Luckily, the visual effects team was able to pull together this last shot of John and Ghost's

[08:22] reunion. The final shot of the show is John Snow walking off beyond the wall with the wildlings through the woods. The show ends in the exact same place as it began. The pilot episode begins with a group of men from the Night's Watch going beyond the wall

[08:37] where they encounter dead wildlings and then a white walker. Now they are free to walk beyond the wall with no whites or white walkers in sight. And a mistake seen across the world, a coffee cup accidentally ended up in season 8 episode

[08:50] 4, The Last of the Starks. And unfortunately, it happened again. In the finale, during the council meeting, you can spot not one but two water bottles that were left behind, one by Sam and one by Davas.

[09:07] Do we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.