Line #26 YMMV/GameOfThronesS6E10TheWindsOfWinter


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2	* AlasPoorScrappy: Tommen's death. He was becoming a spineless PuppetKing, but it was still immensely sad to see him commit suicide after witnessing the destructive results of his mother's machinations. This was a boy of no more than fourteen, who was HappilyMarried, wanted to be a good king to his people, and he drops out the window with no more effort than one might take to go on a stroll. He crossed the DespairEventHorizon, and he crossed it ''hard''.
3	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
4	** Jaime's reaction to returning to King's Landing and watching Cersei's crowning is decidedly neutral, leaving it ambiguous as to what his opinion of her actions is.
5	** Jon Snow banishes Melisandre to the south instead of execution, perhaps in a secret belief that she may still play a part in the wars to come. Though he does make it clear that if she returns to the North, she will be hanged for murder.
6	** Melisandre doesn't actually believe Shireen's sacrifice gained the Lord of Light's favor, just that the Lord of Light needed her around to resurrect Jon Snow. Her desperate plea that she is still needed is based less on the slightly farther away threat of the White Walkers, but more on her fear that she is now unneeded by the Lord of Light and is no longer protected by him.
7	** Littlefinger does not like Jon because he does not have Littlefinger's beloved Catelyn's blood and because Catelyn resented the boy for being Ned's illegitimate son by another woman who was openly raised by Ned at Winterfell as his son. Well, as far as Littlefinger knows, as he is not aware Cat had a change of heart a few months/weeks/days before her death.
8	** Did the High Sparrow really have no idea about what Cersei had been planning, or did he know and either was confident that the Seven would protect them, or was he willing to die a martyr?
9	*** On another level, did he remain silent in the face of Margaery's warnings because he was truly confident in keeping everyone in the Sept to maintain the sanctity of the trial? Or did he remain silent because he understood the danger they were in, but simply didn't know what to do? Or dismiss it out of hand because the idea came from a woman?
10	** Sansa's exchange of looks with Littlefinger while Jon is declared King in the North: is she wary of Littlefinger's treachery, or is she upset that the lords of the North will crown Jon instead of her and planning to stab him in the back, thinking that Littlefinger's "pretty picture" looks pretty good after all?
11	** Cersei's reaction to Tommen's death is rather subdued, especially in comparison to Joffrey's. Is she in DespairEventHorizon? Does she simply not care due to how he's been undermining her the whole season and effectively sentenced her to death by abolishing trial by combat? Is she resigned to the fact that she would outlive her children and is now simply riding out the prophecy? Or has she JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope, not caring about his death at all?
12	* AluminumChristmasTrees: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chained_library A library that chains books to the shelves]] is totally a thing.
13	* {{Anvilicious}}: Davos calling the Lord of Light "evil" struck some viewers of this, as the show has kept repeatedly harping on ReligionIsWrong sentiments time and time again (as that claim is wrong in and of itself since nearly every religion is right about at least a few things and some are right about more than others, it's not something the books promote and came at the expense of some details and scenes from the story and has been criticized by non-religious people just as much as religious people have, too). This was combined with giving Melisandre excessive AdaptationalVillainy on top of the AdaptationalVillainy the Faith of the Seven have been saddled with. Many also point out that Davos didn't bring up Stannis and Shireen's fate in any of the preceding episodes earlier this season and only latched on because Shireen's wooden stag miraculously survived the funeral pyre leading to his belated EurekaMoment. Some book viewers also note that calling any side "evil" is missing [[MoralityKitchenSink the point of the entire series]], especially Melisandre, who Creator/GeorgeRRMartin considered to be his "most misunderstood character" and Martin, while an atheist himself, approaches a WartsAndAll stance on religion.
14	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
15	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS-gbqbVd8c "Light of the Seven"]], the piano/organ suite that plays during the course of Loras's trial and Cersei's destruction of the Sept of Baelor was a fantastic mood setter for the entire scene. What makes the song stand out so much is that the composer went out of his way to use instruments that hadn't been used for music before in the series.
16	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syYD3WVuszU "The Winds of Winter"]], the piece that plays in the final scene when Daenerys's fleet has finally set sail for Westeros.
17	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF1BKd4fMU4 "The Tower"]], the piece that plays when finally young Ned reaches Lyanna in the Tower and finds out she's dying of childbirth. The awesome climactic moment plays when the camera focuses on Lyanna's son and follows a WhamShot with Jon sitting in Winterfell's hall.
18	* CaptainObviousReveal: The books and, to a lesser extent the show, have been dropping gazillions of hints about Jon's true parentage for years, turning the actual reveal into more of a formality.
19	* CargoShip: Sam's love for books is displayed more prominently than ever before.
20	* FanNickname:
21	** The bombing of the Sept of Baelor at the beginning of the episode has been dubbed "The Green Trial" by fans, in the same vein as "The Red Wedding" and "The Purple Wedding" before it.
22	** After taking the throne, some fans have started calling Cersei "The Mad Queen" [[note]]due to her tyrannical regime and use of wildfire being similar to Aerys; the wildfire was even planted there by Aerys, he was killed before he could use it[[/note]]. Another one is "[[Music/{{Metallica}} Queen Nothing]]" given that aside from the Crownlands and Casterly Rock, everywhere else's ruler is basically in open revolt against her.
23	* HilariousInHindsight:
24	** Bronn griping about a server girl looking at Jaime and how easy it is for him to attract other women. Then we find out that the server was really Arya. In the books and TV series, Jaime was never on Arya's kill list, apparently because word had spread enough when she was at Harrenhal that Robb had captured Jaime ''before'' her father died and he wasn't directly involved in the gravest atrocities against her family. (Well, he ''did'' throw Bran out a window, but Arya never found that part out.) In a post-episode interview, the showrunners mention that Arya was surprised to see Jaime at the Twins and was eyeing him because she was considering if she should kill him, too. She didn't because 1) it would have disrupted her already careful plans for how to take out the Freys and 2) the writers acknowledge that Jaime was never a name on Arya's kill list. She realized this and decided he wasn't a high enough priority to risk her original plan to kill Walder Frey, whom she hated far more.
25	** Jon Snow, bastard-born, who once swore to own no lands and hold no titles, is now King of the North and has a more effective rule (and claim) over more of Westeros than the actual monarch does.
26	* JustHereForGodzilla: With Creator/DianaRigg and Creator/ConlethHill thrown into the mix, finally a Dorne scene is actually watchable.
27	* MemeticMutation:
28	** Long May She Reign. [[note]]King's Landing's Court is forcibly coerced into chanting this to Cersei after she appoints herself the undisputed Queen and Ruler.[[/note]]
29	** Tommen brings a whole new meaning to ''[[{{Pun}} King's Landing]]''. The fact that he pulled a [[Series/TheITCrowd Denholm]] had some viewers chuckling at his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbTO8-tWc4U exit]].
30	*** Not to mention his comparisons Bran surviving his accident... Winter''fell'' but Kings''landing''.
31	** An itself [[http://imgur.com/cMWalaa memetic scene]] from ''Series/{{Community}}'' in which Troy Barnes cheerfully walks into a room only to find out all hell has broken loose in his absence is frequently compared to Jaime's return to King's Landing. The biggest difference is the color of the fire.
32	** Jokes about Varys and Arya having/being teleporters thanks to their blatant TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot. [[note]]Varys is on Dorne in one scene and then two scenes later, he's back at Essos with Dany and company, while Arya is now on the Twins despite being on Braavos just two episodes ago. People have calculated that the sailing time between Dorne and Meereen is approximately two weeks, meaning the last scene is probably around a month after the Sept blew up, though Arya's journey is a lot shorter.[[/note]]
33	** "The books [at the Citadel] gave Sam more orgasms than Gilly."
34	** Thanks to the "Frey Pie" scene, another joke on the internet is that "the Faceless Men taught Arya how to cook". Alternatively, another joke doing the rounds is how, while en route to the Twins, she picked up her old friend Hot Pie for that part of the job.
35	** "This is irregular." "I suppose ''life'' is irregular." [[note]]As Sam arrives at the Citadel with Jon's letter, the clerk says that the last recorded Lord Commander of the Night's Watch is Jeor Mormont, and that there is an irregularity within their records. Sam, trying to charm him, says that life is irregular as it is, but he fails to make an impression on the Maester.[[/note]]
36	** Jokes about how even as a baby, Jon was brooding.
37	** Wildfire can't melt stone pillars. 6/26 was an inside job (like 9/11).
38	** As he watched the wildfire ignite, Lancel's last thought was the realization that [[CallBack there was no such thing as a]] "[[SnipeHunt breastplate stretcher]]."
39	** In light of the rather controversial Seasons 7 and 8, many fans have taken to the comments of various clips from this episode, lamenting that it was [[SarcasmMode such a shame the show was cancelled here]]. See SacredCow below.
40	* MoralEventHorizon: Cersei has committed some horrible atrocities throughout her life, but ''large-scale mass murder'' wasn't one of them. Blowing up the Sept of Baelor and the surrounding houses with all their inhabitants could make Emperor Nero blush since undoubtedly hundreds, if not thousands, died in that attack. She then continues her streak of wickedness by leaving Septa Unella alone in a room with Gregor Clegane, implying that the undead Mountain has her leave to rape Unella to death. As if to hammer the point home, after [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes her love for her children was presented as one of her few redeeming traits]], she seems unconcerned -- and possibly even '''relieved''' -- that her last son is dead.
41	* {{Narm}}: You can be forgiven for laughing at the idea that winter’s arrival is signified by it starting to snow at Winterfell, AKA the place where both book and show have acknowledged it snows in the summer.
42	* OneSceneWonder:
43	** Once again, Lady Lyanna Mormont proves that she is the most badass ten-year-old girl ever by handily shutting down the Northern Lords who are criticizing Jon Snow despite having not fought alongside him at the Battle of the Bastards. Note that most of these men are ''decades'' older and more experienced than Lyanna and can only respond with looks of embarrassment.
44	** Her namesake Lyanna Stark in a flashback. Her time is short (both figuratively and [[DeathByOriginStory literally]]) but she confirms one of, if not the most notorious WMGs in the entire series.
45	** The man at the Citadel's front desk who gives some very pointed reactions to Sam's presence.
46	* PlatonicWritingRomanticReading: While it has yet to be seen whether it was intentional on the writers' parts, Sansa and Jon have some definite sexual chemistry while on top of the ramparts together. Many reviewers have commented that they thought it was going to be a RelationshipUpgrade moment, but then he went to kiss her forehead, so it combines with LauncherOfAThousandShips.
47	* SacredCow: For many fans, this episode is the highest point the show reached before the controversial Seasons 7 and 8, where many major developments happened alongside some high and low points. Aside from Season 6 being the last ten-episode season, it wraps up numerous long-running subplots and/or sets things up for the next great conflict — Cersei eliminates most of her rivals and is crowned Queen, seizing contested power; Winterfell is back under Stark control with Sansa as the Lady of Winterfell and Jon is declared the new King in the North; Daenerys sets sail to Westeros; Jon's parentage is revealed as the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen; and finally, the Maesters announce that winter has arrived, hinted since the first episode. The result is that some fans have declared it as the last episode, [[FanonDiscontinuity thereby ignoring the final 2 seasons]].
48	* ShockingMoments:
49	** This episode sets the stage for one hell of a grand battle, and the White Walkers are still yet to come. Cersei has taken over the Iron Throne by killing literally everyone else in King's Landing with remotely any claim to it (Tommen killed himself upon witnessing what she had done). Jon Snow unexpectedly has sovereignty over the North plopped in his lap by the assembled Northern Lords. Lady Olenna, as the last known member of House Tyrell, throws in her lot with Dorne for revenge, and both turn to Daenerys to get it thanks to Varys. The closing shot is of Daenerys -- at long last -- setting sail for Westeros... with a massive fleet behind her, staffed with Dothraki and Ironborn and Unsullied, with Tyrion and Varys and Theon and Yara at her side, and her three dragons flying above. Winter is coming? '''Daenerys is coming''', and the fight is coming with her.
50	** From start to finish, the actual explosion takes twenty seconds of screen time, and it kills more named characters than any other entire episode. Not even the Red Wedding or Mother's Mercy had such a high body count: ''twelve'' recurring speaking roles, several of them guest stars -- three Tyrells, Kevan and Lancel, the High Sparrow, Septa Unella, Tommen and Pycelle due to Cersei's actions, and three Freys due to Arya. By contrast, during "The Rains of Castamere", only three major recurring characters with speaking lines died at the Red Wedding (Robb, Catelyn, and Talisa -- albeit they were presumed by many to be the main characters), plus Walder Frey's non-speaking wife, Robb's Direwolf Grey Wind, and Orell the warg in the other part of the episode (still, only ''six'' characters ''including'' the wolf). Even if you don't count the Freys as part of this specific event in King's Landing, Cersei's purge killed eight major speaking roles, compared to three at the Red Wedding (five if you count the non-speakers).
51	* UnintentionallySympathetic:
52	** Jon Snow and Davos cite Melisandre's burning of Shireen as grounds to dismiss her, but Melisandre argues that her actions secured victory at Winterfell because she believes that Shireen's sacrifice thawed out the blizzard. When Davos calls the Lord of Light evil for being willing to burn a child, Melisandre reminds him and, possibly herself after a pause, that it was the same Lord that resurrected Jon Snow, which might mean the Lord of Light is [[BlueAndOrangeMorality different]]. Despite her pleas, she's banished for Shireen's murder.
53	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
54	** By refusing to lift a finger against Ramsay, the Northern lords can come across as {{Fair Weather Friend}}s because only ''after'' the battle is won, do they support the Starks via Jon.
55	** EnsembleDarkhorse Lyanna Mormont and [[FairWeatherFriend the Northern lords]] can come across this way to some by crediting Jon with the entire victory and proclaiming him king while ignoring Sansa's battle-saving role in the Bolton defeat, even though Sansa is a trueborn daughter. Grieved by Rickon's murder, Jon makes an [[LeeroyJenkins egregious move]] by charging Ramsay's forces alone, after which Davos orders the Stark forces to follow their commander (Jon), while Sansa brings the Vale forces that save the day and Jon's life -- albeit after letting thousands die needlessly by keeping TheCavalry a secret.
56	** Sansa herself, according to WordOfGod, is agitated because she feels she hasn't been properly rewarded for her efforts after her brother Jon has been crowned the King in the North. Even after her brother forgave her for keeping the Vale reinforcements secret because she was unsure whether or not she could trust Littlefinger and Jon telling his sister that they should trust each other now. It seems like a slap in the face to reopen tension between the two siblings after it has been properly patched up in a previous scene.
57	** Melisandre might also come off as this in her final scenes with Davos and Jon Snow depending on where you believe the writers were trying to put her.
58	* WinBackTheCrowd:
59	** Critics who felt that there were some holes in the final confrontation against Ramsay Bolton in the preceding episode greatly praised this episode. The King's Landing storyline, always sort of "on pause" the whole season (because it went too far ahead of the books compared to other subplots), suddenly caught up in a very satisfying way. Even Jaime's story arc, also somewhat on pause, got a lot of development as his dealing with Walder Frey makes him seriously disgusted that these are the kind of people he's supporting by remaining part of Team Lannister, and then his look of shock at what Cersei has done as he returns to King's Landing at the end says it all.
60	** It seems like ''every'' season finale after Season 1, some fans and critics would grumble about how "they keep saying 'winter is coming' but it hasn't come yet", and most of all, expressing disappointment that Daenerys hasn't set sail for Westeros. Now, winter has officially begun, and the closing shot is Daenerys sailing with a massive invasion fleet to Westeros with three live dragons grown to battle-ready size.
61	** Arya's time with the Faceless Men had been summed up as "she gets beaten up a lot by the Waif, watches some plays, [[ShaggyDogStory and then decides to go home again]]". The reveal of her new special skill set gives all the time in Braavos a purpose.

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