I have to admit, though, I’m pulling for Brienne to survive the finale and to ride off into the sunset with one of the show’s undisputed hotties. “Game of Thrones” has given her much more to do with her skills and her sense of loyalty than merely look for romance, but I still enjoy Tormund Giantsbane’s appreciation of her big-and-bombness. Her patient tutelage of Podrick Payne is one of the few truly mutually beneficial relationships in the whole show. She brings out the best in other people, whether it’s the Hound’s paternal feelings for Arya Stark, Arya’s respect for her as a role model, or Jaime Lannister’s long buried personal integrity. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Gwendoline Christie, “Game of Thrones”īrienne of Tarth might be a secondary character in the battle for the Iron Throne – her death wouldn’t reshape the history of Westeros – but she’s the person whose presence cheers me the most. Right before the Night King walks in and kills them. Maybe the entirety of the final season will feature occasional cuts to Sansa and Arya sitting in a warm room in Winterfell and laughing about how everybody else is having a rough time of it. Presumably she’ll join the Dany/Jon alliance, but she doesn’t really need to at the moment.
You could practically feel everything in season seven saying, “This is as far as you go, Sansa!” and the character insisting, “No, I think I can go a bit further.” And unlike a lot of the other characters, I don’t have the faintest clue where Sansa ends up in Season 8. I’ve never been as upset by a “Game of Thrones” character death as I was the fall of Viserion back in Episode 6, so maybe I should answer “the other two dragons.” But I suspect that’s not what we’re doing here, and, thus, my answer must be Sansa Stark, who has gone from a naive girl who believed in the romance of stories to one of the most cunning players out there. I don’t know if I think he’s going to survive the Great War necessarily, but I’ll definitely be rooting for him.
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He is at his best when he’s free from Cersei’s influence, which could mean the best Jaime is yet to come. Sure, it took him longer to break free from Cersei than I would have liked, which caused his redemption story to move slower than I’d have probably liked, but his actions in the Season 7 finale have given me hope once again. His mistakes and flaws make him feel the most human of all the show’s characters. For a few brief moments I honestly didn’t care if Daenerys or Drogon died, if it meant Jaime lived. When the writers forced us to choose between Jaime and Daenerys this season, I was a ball of conflicting emotions.