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Aside from being a traitor - in Daenerys' eyes - The Spider was also conspiring to poison her. At the start of the episode, we see him having a conversation with a young girl, one of his little birds.
The plan didn't work because we learn that Dany isn't eating. We've also seen Varys' spy before. She was one of the children that was hiding in the Winterfell crypts when the Night King attacked. While his motivations and loyalties were somewhat murky, Varys was always clear about where his allegiances were. "Incompetence should not be rewarded with blind loyalty. As long as I have my eyes, I’ll use them. I wasn’t born into a great house. I came from nothing. I was sold as a slave, and carved up as an offering. When I was a child I lived in alleys, gutters, abandoned houses. You wish to know where my true loyalties lie? Not with any king or queen, but with the people. The people who suffer under despots, and prosper under just rule. The people whose hearts you aim to win," he said.While the contents of Varys's scroll are fairly clear -it's a letter detailing the fact that Jon Snow is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne - the more interesting question is who was he sending it to?On this note, it's worth noting that Varys died for sending ravens about a true King.Here's the letter that Varys was writing.Even before Daenerys decided to burn King's Landing to the ground, the Game of Thrones makeup team did an excellent job at making her character look like The Mad King in his darkest hours.Aside from this, her hair looked like it had a more silvery tinge, just like her father. It's also worth noting that Dany's meeting with Tyrion in the throne room on Dragonstone was shot in the exact same way that The Mad King's fatal encounter with Jaime Lannister was.Aside from The Hound repeating one of Arya's favourite lines -"Not Today" - it's fitting that Sandor Clegane died by fire. After all, it was his brother, Gregor, that scarred him for life by holding his face to the fire. D.B. Weiss, showrunner on Game of Thrones, said that:"We knew that these two were going to die together, at each other's hands, and we knew the Hound's death had to be a death by fire. So the one thing stronger in the Hound than his fear of fire is his hatred of the person who put that fear there in the first place." In a previous episode, Arya told The Hound:"One day, I'm going to put a sword through your eye and out the back of your skull." That's the exact same way that The Hound killed The Mountain in this episode.13) The Lannisters During a conversation with Bronn, Jaime once said that he wanted to die in the arms of the woman that he loves. Well, he got his wish. In another previous conversation, Tyrion told Cersei that:"A day will come when you think you are safe and happy, and your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth. And you will know the debt is paid."Also, during the scene where Cersei and Jamie die, the score was 'The Rains of Castamere' mixed with"The Light of the Seven" which is a pretty great way to add some poetic justice to their death. Of course, 'The Rains of Castamere' is a beloved song of House Lannister and it's also the name of the episode that featured The Red Wedding. "The Light of the Seven" is the wonderful track that soundtracked Cersei's destruction of the Sept Baelor.Similarly, when Jaime deserted Cersei at the end of Season 7 to head North, their fallout occurred in the King's Landing map room.Last week, Euron Greyjoy was the man that killed a flying dragon with a few incredible shots.Elsewhere, Jorah Mormont is now the man that sacrificed his own life to save a woman that has killed thousands of people.Qyburn died at the hand of his own creation. We know that The Mountain is a remorseless killing machine but the way that he disposed of the Queen's Hand was borderline hilarious.After telling Jaime to get Cersei out through the dungeons/catacombs, Tyrion has, in one way or another, killed his mother, father, brother, sister, lover and friend, Varys.Speaking of Tyrion's decision to release Jaime, this hasn't been the first time that we've seen a prisoner freed. Of course, Jaime freed Tyrion when he was facing certain death after Oberyn Martell lost his trial by combat against The Mountain.Just like he did with Jaime, Tyrion also begged his former lover, Shae, to flee King's Landing and start a new life. Tyrion's relationship with his older brother can be defined by one line:"You were the only one who didn't treat me like a monster. You were all I had."Jaime Lannister previously talked about the wildfire plot that The Mad King, Daenerys' father, was obsessed with. "The Mad King was obsessed with it. He loved to watch people burn, the way their skin blackened and blistered and melted off their bones. He burned lords he didn't like. He burned Hands who disobeyed him. He burned anyone who was against him. Before long, half the country was against him. Aerys saw traitors everywhere. So he had his pyromancers place caches of wildfire all over the city. Beneath the Sept of Baelor and the slums of Flea Bottom. Under houses, stables, taverns. Even beneath the Red Keep itself," said Jaime. Well, Dany's decision to"burn them all" uncovered some of the hidden wildfire stashes that were hidden around the city.This episode features some beautiful cinematography but there were a few throwbacks to previous episodes too. For example, the scenes featuring Harry Strickland were a direct reference to Jon Snow during the Battle of the Bastards. Elsewhere, Cersei Lannister was watching the walls of King's Landing burn from the exact same spot that she watched the Sept Baelor being destroyed by wildfire. Tyrion walking through the charred corpses and ashes of King's Landing was eerily similar to the scene where he walked through the scorched battlefield after Daenerys destroyed the Lannister/Tyrell forces during the The Spoils of War episode.To be honest, they didn't make much of an impact during the battle!Cersei insisted the Red Keep has never fallen but her own father had attacked the castle during Robert's Rebellion and breached its walls. Granted, it might not have fallen in the same way that Daenerys destroyed it in this episode, but Tywin's assault was a factor in the fall of House Targareyn.In this episode, Cersei Lannister said:"The Red Keep has never fallen before, it won't fall today." Cersei died that day after the Red Keep literally fell on her head.If you look at the gates of King's Landing in the opening credits, you can see that Quyburn's Scorpion missile launchers are now on the walls.If you're feeling sorry for the innocent people that were killed during the firebombing of King's Landing, it's worth remembering that the same people were also cheering during Ned Stark's execution.It all comes down to this, here's the trailer for the final episode of Game of Thrones.
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