The Red Wedding shook the foundations of Game of Thrones, but it also shook everyone who watched it, who endured it. Catelyn Stark begs and pleads for any kind of mercy before her throat is cut as well, silencing one of the most devastating screams in television history. Robb is shot full of arrows and lives long enough to see his failure. Perhaps a controversial choice due to the fact that Bran’s voiceover reminds the audience that Daenerys is indeed Jon’s aunt. Jon & Daenerys (Season 7, Episode 7) HBO. Here is our ranking of the 10 best Game of Thrones sex scenes and why. In another show, a show that took its cues from fiction rather than harsh medieval history, someone would have saved the day. Just the hottest of characters in consent, going at it hammer and tongs. The warning of those lyrics rings louder than ever during a wedding reception held at The Twins, where Walder Frey, Roose Bolton, and Tywin Lannister conspire to murder Robb Stark and cut the head off the Northern army. Once upon a time, someone dared to defy House Lannister.

The Lannister's unofficial theme song, 'The Rains of Castamere,' tells such a tale. The victors, the bad guys, write the books and sing the songs and spread the tales.

(Jacob Hall)Ĭompared to history, fiction is forgiving. I want her to know it was me.' Two sentences that splash like acid. But as she sits dying, she tells Jaime her best-kept secret: she orchestrated the death of Joffrey at his wedding. The Queen of Thorns does not even hesitate. Still, Jaime (knowing what his sister has in store for Olenna if she's taken prisoner) offers her an easy way out: fast-acting, pain-free poison. But when Highgarden falls to the Lannister forces, words can't protect her castle. Diana Rigg's Olenna Tyrell was one of the show's greatest characters, an acid-tongued tactical genius who navigates social circles like a general navigates a battlefield, using her age as her greatest weapon and her strongest shield. So when the series decides to send off one of its finest characters like a total boss, it's a reason for celebration. Violence on this series is no joke – people scream and shit and beg when faced with the end. Most deaths on Game of Thrones are shocking, sometimes humiliating affairs.

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