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  1. May 5, 2019 · The Last of the Starks: Directed by David Nutter. With Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke. The Battle of Winterfell is over and a new chapter for Westeros begins.

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    • David Nutter
    • 2019-05-05
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    "The Last of the Starks" is the fourth episode of the eighth season of Game of Thrones. It is the seventy-first episode of the series overall. It premiered on May 5, 2019 on HBO. It was written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and directed by David Nutter.

    At the Winterfell feast

    Following the final battle against the White Walkers, Winterfell has been cleared of the thousands of corpses in and around it. The fallen are gathered into dozens of funeral pyres, and Jon Snow gives a eulogy that it is the duty of those who survived to keep them alive in memory for generations to come. Quoting the funeral speech used for members of the Night's Watch, he announces that they were the shields that guarded the realms of men, and they will never see their like again: now their watch is ended. The assembled leaders go forward with torches to light the pyres: Sansa Stark weeps over Theon Greyjoy's body, taking a pin with the Stark direwolf sigil off of her own gown and adding it to his chest, to show that he was a Greyjoy and had redeemed himself as a Stark. Daenerys lights Jorah Mormont's pyre, Jon lights young Lyanna Mormont's pyre, Arya lights Beric Dondarrion's pyre, and Samwell lights the pyre of Dolorous Edd. That night, the survivors hold a victory feast in the great hall of Winterfell, though so many died that the mood is somber at first. Gendry gets up to go look for Arya, but as he passes the high table, Daenerys calls on him, noting that he is Robert Baratheon's son - the man who overthrew her family. Gendry humbly responds that he didn't even know that Robert was his father until after he died. Daenerys then asks him who the Lord of Storm's End is now that Robert is dead: he says he doesn't know, then she asks the entire hall, rhetorically, who the lord of Storm's End is now (with both of Robert's brothers, Stannis and Renly, also dead). Daenerys declares that she will make Gendry the new Lord of Storm's End, as a reward for his heroism. Gendry is shocked, and says he cannot be, as he is only Robert's bastard son. Daenerys quickly addresses this by announcing that in her power as queen, she legitimizes him as "Gendry Baratheon", rightful son of Robert - nominally the new lord of Storm's End and head of a revived House Baratheon. Davos Seaworth, from the Stormlands, toasts the newly made Gendry Baratheon, followed by the rest of the hall. Quietly at the main table, however, Tyrion notes to Daenerys - with approval - that this wasn't an altogether altruistic move, but politically wise: this props up Gendry as a rival claimant to rule of the Stormlands instead of Cersei, while at the same time pacifying what could have been a rival claimant to the Iron Throne by making him dependent on her favor. Sansa looks over at the exchange between Daenerys and Tyrion, silently distressed. However, despite any lingering resentment, the mood is lightened and the hall becomes more celebratory, as everyone starts drinking heavily and boasting about their deeds in the battle. Tyrion talks to Davos, who tells him about Melisandre's death: he was going to kill her, but then she died, "Or her god did it to her." Davos wonders what this all means: he hated Melisandre, but she had a real connection to some sort of higher power - which she called the "Lord of Light", but whatever it was, their last connection to it ended with her. Why, he wonders, would this divine power directly intervene in their affairs - only to then leave them after the great danger passed? With the White Walkers defeated, what are they supposed to do now? Tyrion says he doesn't think pondering this subject will make him any happier. Davos says he's not trying to be happy and Tyrion remarks that's good, "We have defeated them but we still have us to deal with." Tyrion then speaks to Bran Stark, pointing out that as Ned Stark's last trueborn son he should be the lawful heir to Winterfell and the North - but Bran says he won't ever be a lord now (as he is the magical Three-Eyed Raven and removed from human affairs). Tyrion says he envies Bran for his powers, but Bran says he wouldn't - he mostly just lives in memories of the past now. Tormund and Sansa encourage Jon to chug an entire horn of wine in one go. Jon declines, "Vomiting is not celebrating," but Tormund replies, "Yes, it is," and raises his horn, "To the Dragon Queen!" As the hall cheers, Daenerys stands up and makes her own toast, "To Arya Stark, the hero of Winterfell!" prompting more cheers and getting a smile from the Hound. Jon and Daenerys share a smile, which is noticed by Sansa who leaves the table. Meanwhile, Tyrion settles into playing his "I Have Never"-style drinking game with his brother Jaime, Brienne of Tarth, and Podrick Payne. Jaime and Brienne playfully argue over whether or not she told him she was an only child but Brienne ends up having to take a drink. Then Jaime tells Brienne she danced with Renly Baratheon. Brienne looks at Pod, who smiles and shrugs, and Tyrion simply tells her, "Drink!" Meanwhile, a drunken Tormund laughs and drinks, praising Jon and going over their history: he made friends with an enemy (Tormund himself), got himself killed for it but didn't stay dead (which everyone seems to laugh off as just drunken boasting), and that he keeps fighting. Daenerys watches this exchange despondently and when Tormund declares, "He climbed on a fucking dragon and fought. What kind of person climbs on a fucking dragon? A madman or a king!" Jon turns around to look at Daenerys, who gives him a smile and raises her glass. However, after Jon returns her smile and turns back to the conversation, Daenerys becomes more and more downcast as she looks around the hall at the groups of people - first to Tyrion, Brienne, Pod, and Jaime playing their drinking game and then to Jon, Tormund, Davos, who are joined by some wildlings. Varys notices Daenerys's mood and isolation, quietly becoming concerned. Daenerys gets up to leave the hall. Tyrion, Jaime, Brienne, and Pod continue their drinking game. Brienne correctly guesses that Tyrion was married to someone else before his forced marriage to Sansa. She takes another guess that Tyrion is drinking wine but prefers ale. Tyrion yells, "No!" and Brienne must take another drink. Brienne and Jaime exchange smiles and Tyrion, now very drunk, tells Brienne, "You're a virgin." Brienne's smile fades and Pod takes a drink. Tyrion drunkenly guesses that Brienne has never slept with anyone. Brienne doesn't answer, gets up, and says she must relieve herself. Tormund drunkenly propositions Brienne, whom he is smitten with (unlike southern knights, he respects a warrior woman) but is rebuffed by her and the intervention of Jaime. Comically heartbroken, Tormund commiserates with Sandor Clegane, but soon Northern serving girls start hitting on Tormund, an impressive hero of the battle, and they leave. Sandor, however, stays drinking alone - shooing away another serving girl who seemed surprisingly interested in him. Seeing him, Sansa Stark comes to his table to sit with him: the last time they spoke was the Battle of the Blackwater, he offered to try to sneak her out of the city as he abandoned his post, but she felt it was too risky and declined. He says he heard that she was taken by Littlefinger. After that, Sandor comments that she was "broken in rough" - marrying Ramsay Bolton, who raped and imprisoned her. Sansa says that without Littlefinger and the rest, she'd have just stayed a "little bird" her whole life, but the abuse she suffered from Ramsay made her strong. He asks how she had Ramsay executed, and when she says she killed him with "hounds" he laughs (as he is commonly nicknamed "The Hound").

    After the feast at Winterfell

    Slipping out of the hall, Gendry finds Arya practicing archery alone in the stables. He happily announces to her that he is no longer a bastard, but has been officially made "Gendry Baratheon" and the new lord of Storm's End by Daenerys. She is very happy for him, but then he says that he doesn't know how to be a lord, and it won't mean anything to him if she isn't by his side: he then gets down on one knee and begs her to marry him, and become the new Lady of Storm's End. Arya is deeply moved and pulls him in for a passionate kiss - but saddened, she says that while he deserves a wonderful wife, she doesn't think she'll ever be a proper "Lady" at a court or ever get married. Gendry is left crestfallen. Hours later, after the feast, Jaime Lannister shows up at Brienne's chamber in the castle. He starts undressing and so does she, as she admits she's never slept with anyone before. They have sex. Daenerys Targaryen then arrives at Jon Snow's bedchambers. He says that he regrets that Jorah died, but if he could have chosen a way to die, he would have chosen to die defending her. She observes that Jorah did love her - but not the way that she loves him. The two of them proceed to passionately kiss and are on their way to having sex, starting to undress but Jon stops himself. Daenerys laments she wishes Jon never told her the truth about his parentage, "If I didn't know, I'd be happy right now. I try to forget. Tonight I did for a while, and then I saw them gathered around you. I saw the way they looked at you. I know that look. So many people have looked at me that way, but never here. Never on this side of the sea." Jon replies that he told her he doesn't want the throne but Daenerys argues it doesn't matter what Jon wants - he didn't want to be King in the North either but people will press his claim and take what is hers. Jon gets down on one knee in front of Daenerys and insists, "I'll refuse! You are my queen. I don't know what else I can say." Daenerys tells him he can say nothing, never tell anyone who he really is. She holds his hand as she says she wants it to be the way it was between them. Jon clasps her hand in his and says he must tell Sansa and Arya (as Bran and Samwell already know) because they are still his family. Daenerys is certain Sansa will press Jon's claim over hers. Jon says Sansa won't do that but Daenerys warns him that Sansa isn't the same girl he grew up with. Jon believes he owes Sansa and Arya the truth but Daenerys begs for him not to tell them, saying the truth will destroy Jon and Daenerys. Jon insists it won't, "You are my queen. Nothing will change that. And they are my family. We can live together." Daenerys tells him, "We can. I just told you how."

    The Winterfell war council

    The next day, Daenerys, Jon, and their remaining leaders hold a war council around a large map of Westeros. Apart from the destruction of most of the Dothraki, Grey Worm says that about half of the Unsullied were killed in the battle; Jon says that about half of the Northern/Vale armies were destroyed as well. Varys updates them on the situation in the south using map markers: the Golden Company has just arrived in King's Landing, delivered by Euron Greyjoy's fleet, reinforcing Cersei Lannister's position. Daenerys says that they must attack King's Landing, and rip out Cersei root and stem. Tyrion warns her that a direct assault on King's Landing would result in so many civilian casualties that it would make the Smallfolk hate her, and they must once again try to encircle Cersei - starving out the city until the commoners revolt against her (as they did against Joffrey not too long ago). Varys points out that Daenerys is gaining allies in other places as well: the "new Prince of Dorne" has formally declared for her and against Cersei, while they have received news that Yara Greyjoy has successfully retaken the Iron Islands themselves while her uncle Euron's fleet has been away in the east. Daenerys insists that they must attack Cersei, as the only reason she is considered a "queen" at all is because she physically controls the greatest symbol of power: the Iron Throne itself. They must take the capital city in order to defeat Cersei, as without it she is nothing. Sansa counters that they are not in a strong position to immediately mount a new full-scale offensive, "The men we have left are exhausted. Many of them are wounded. They'll fight better if they have time to rest and recuperate." When Daenerys asks how much time, Sansa says she needs to talk to the officers first. Daenerys tells her, "I came north to fight alongside you at great cost to my armies and myself. Now that the time has come to reciprocate, you want to postpone," but Sansa pointedly reminds Daenerys that this is the same for both the "Northern" armies and for Daenerys's Unsullied. Daenerys tells Sansa that the longer she waits, the more time Cersei has to gather new strength and new allies, just as she recruited Euron and the Golden Company. Jon interjects that the North will honor its allegiance to Queen Daenerys, whom he has bent the knee to, and they will just have to leave the badly wounded back home and march south with a smaller army. At this, Sansa and Arya exchange a look. It is decided that Jon and Davos will lead all of the surviving Northmen/Vale forces and the bulk of the surviving Dothraki/Unsullied forces south down the Kingsroad, while a smaller force of Unsullied return via ship from White Harbor to Dragonstone, island along with Daenerys and her two remaining dragons. From Dragonstone, just across Blackwater Bay from King's Landing, Daenerys can blockade Cersei by sea and ultimately stage a final attack. Brienne of Tarth wishes to stay at Winterfell to defend the Stark sisters, and Jaime Lannister will stay with her as well. Daenerys declares to the war council that this will be the last war they have to fight in the Seven Kingdoms - adding "all of them". Daenerys and Sansa exchange a tense look. Daenerys and her advisors leave, but Arya asks Jon for a word in private.

    Firsts

    •Willa •Sarra •Winterfell girl

    Deaths

    •Rhaegal •Missandei

    Starring

    •Peter Dinklage as Lord Tyrion Lannister •Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Ser Jaime Lannister •Lena Headey as Queen Cersei Lannister •Emilia Clarke as Queen Daenerys Targaryen •Kit Harington as Jon Snow •Sophie Turner as Lady Sansa Stark •Maisie Williams as Arya Stark •Liam Cunningham as Ser Davos Seaworth •Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei •Alfie Allen as Prince Theon Greyjoy •Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark •Gwendoline Christie as Ser Brienne of Tarth •Conleth Hill as Varys •John Bradley as Samwell Tarly •Hannah Murray as Gilly •Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane •Jerome Flynn as Ser Bronn •Kristofer Hivju as Tormund •Joe Dempsie as Lord Gendry Baratheon •Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm •with Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont

    Guest starring

    •Pilou Asbæk as King Euron Greyjoy •Anton Lesser as Qyburn •Richard Dormer as Lord Beric Dondarrion •Ben Crompton as Lord Commander Eddison Tollett •Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne •Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as Ser Gregor Clegane •Bella Ramsey as Lady Lyanna Mormont •Rupert Vansittart as Lord Yohn Royce •Richard Rycroft as Maester Wolkan •Staz Nair as Ko Qhono •Alice Nokes as Willa •Danielle Galligan as Sarra •Emer McDaid as Winterfell girl

    Uncredited

    •D.B. Weiss as Wildling 1 •David Benioff as Wildling 2 •Michael Fitzgerald as Knight of the Vale •Andrew McClay as Stark Soldier •Stephen Presley as Unsullied •Mark Quigley as Bannerman Torch Bearer - Daenerys •Andrew Watson as Unsullied

    Daenerys Targaryen: "We have won the Great War. Now we will win the last war."

    Daenerys: "We'll rip her out root and stem."

    Daenerys: "I've never begged for anything. But I'm begging you, don't do this. Please."

    Bronn: "You boys are a pair of gold-plated cunts, do you know that?"

    Bronn: "I've never hit a dwarf before, but say another word and I will belt you."

    Tyrion Lannister: "See, I don't believe you'd do that."

    General

    •The episode title refers to Arya's statement "We're family. The four of us. The last of the Starks". •Originally, the showrunners wanted Miguel Sapochnik to direct episodes 3, 4, and 5 of Season 8 - as they see them as one story arc (comparable to how Season 6's "Battle of the Bastards" and "The Winds of Winter" complemented each other). Sapochnik, however, warned that the battle scenes in episodes 3 and 5 were already so massive that there wasn't enough time for him to direct episode 8.4 - so David Nutter was reshuffled to direct this episode as well (after directing episodes 8.1 and 8.2). •All the cast members whose characters died in the preceding episode return to portray their corpses during the funeral scene at the beginning of this episode: Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont), Bella Ramsey (Lyanna Mormont), Richard Dormer (Beric Dondarrion), and Ben Crompton (Eddison Tollett). •The fates of a few missing characters from the Battle of Winterfell is revealed. Ghost and Rhaegal did, in fact, survive with major injuries (Ghost bloodied and missing an ear and Rhaegal with holes in his wing). Yohn Royce and Maester Wolkan also survived. Less clear is the fate of Alys Karstark, who is neither seen amongst the dead nor the living. Her actress hinted on Instagram that the character did in fact die. •Despite the Night King's defeat in the previous episode, the title sequence still starts at the hole in the Wall where Eastwatch used to be and still shows his army's approach to Winterfell - the visual idea is that the ground is still covered in ice from their advance. Winterfell has been updated to show damage from the battle, and the funeral pyres from the beginning of the episode. Dragonstone does not appear in the title sequence despite being a major setting for the episode. Conversely, Last Hearth still appears in the sequence despite not appearing in the episode. •Cersei returns in this episode, after being absent for two episodes, as she was last seen in "Winterfell". This is the first and only time her character has been absent for two consecutive episodes.

    Callbacks

    •Tyrion convinces Jaime and Brienne to play the "I Have Never"-style drinking game he originated in Season 1's "Baelor", in which you have to take a drink if someone can accurately guess something about you. Brienne refers to Tyrion's first marriage, which he mentioned in the aforementioned. •During his encounter with Bronn, Tyrion begins to say "Power resides where men believe it resides" - before getting cut off with a punch in the nose. This echoes what Varys told him in Season 2's "What Is Dead May Never Die": "Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow." •Jaime mentions the horrible things he has done for Cersei, including pushing a boy out of a window and crippling him for life ("Winter Is Coming") and killing his own cousin ("A Man Without Honor"). •Daenerys asks Gendry whether he is aware that his father tried to have her murdered, referring to the poisoning attempt in Vaes Dothrak ("You Win or You Die"). •Davos says that the last time he saw Melisandre, he warned her he'd kill her if he ever saw her again ("The Winds of Winter"). •Tyrion says that Bran's wheelchair is better than the saddle he designed for Bran ("Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things"). •Jaime states that Renly once danced with Brienne, as she told Podrick in "High Sparrow". •Tormund says that Jon is "strong enough to befriend an enemy and get murdered for it", referring to the mutiny at Castle Black ("Mother's Mercy"). •Tormund says "Most people get bloody murdered, they stay that way - not this one", referring to Jon's resurrection ("Home"). •The Hound tells Sansa "Heard you were broken in rough", referring to her rape by Ramsay ("Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken"). •Sansa says "[Ramsay] got what he deserved. I gave it to him", referring to Ramsay's death ("Battle of the Bastards"). •The Hound tells Sansa "Used to be you couldn't look at me", referring to their first meeting, when she was frightened by his burnt face ("The Kingsroad"). •The Hound reminds Sansa that he offered her to escape from King's Landing with him ("Blackwater"). •Sansa says "The men in my family don't do well in the capital" - referring to the unjust executions of her father ("Baelor"), uncle, and grandfather, all of which took place in King's Landing. •Tyrion says "I watched the people of King's Landing rebel against their king when they were hungry", referring to the riots in King's Landing ("The Old Gods and the New"). •Gendry tells Arya "Be my wife. Be the Lady of Storm's End", a reference to his words "You'd be my lady" in "Kissed by Fire"; Arya declines Gendry's proposal, saying "I'm not a lady" - a reference to the words she told her father in "Lord Snow" - "I don't want to be a lady"; she also says "That's not me" - a reference to the words she told her direwolf in "Stormborn" - "That's not you". •The Hound reminds Arya that she left him to die ("The Children"). •Bronn reminds Tyrion for the second time (following "Mockingbird") what he said in "The Pointy End" - that if anyone offered Bronn money to kill Tyrion, he'd pay Bronn double (actually, Tyrion promised "whatever their price, I'll beat it" - not "double it"). •Tyrion says that Daenerys is "a girl who walked into a fire with three stones and walked out with three dragons" ("Fire and Blood"). •Jaime says he would have murdered every man, woman, and child in Riverrun for Cersei, referring to what he told Edmure Tully in "No One": "The people in the castle don't matter to me. Only Cersei. And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her, that's what I'll do". •Jaime tells Brienne "[Cersei]'s hateful". In "Breaker of Chains" he told Cersei "You're a hateful woman". •The Hound calls Sansa "little bird" - the nickname he occasionally called her in Season 2 ("The Old Gods and the New", "Blackwater").

    Errors

    •During the feast scene at Winterfell, what appeared to be a Starbucks paper coffee cup was clearly and prominently visible in front of Daenerys when the episode premiered. It happened when Tormund is boasting about Jon and how "who most people get bloody murdered, they stay that way". On the HBO Now streaming service, it was visible in the episode from 17:38 to 17:41. Though originally thought to be from Starbucks, art director Hauke Richter confirmed the coffee cup was from a local shop in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, where the scene was filmed. The cup has since been digitally removed from HBO Now - but has yet to be removed from several international streaming services. •Following his legitimization, Gendry says that he is no longer "Gendry Rivers" - which is wrong on two points. Firstly, he was never an acknowledged bastard, and only acknowledged bastards can even use the special surnames used for bastards of the nobility (with the exception of Mya Stone, the elder of Robert's bastards in the books). Within the TV show, no one ever referred to him as anything other than "Gendry" before. He even points out in dialogue that he didn't even know Robert Baratheon was his father until after Robert died, so Robert could never have legally acknowledged him. Secondly, "Gendry Rivers" is simply the wrong bastard surname. Bastards from the Riverlands use the surname "Rivers," just as bastards from the North use "Snow." Gendry is from King's Landing, however, and bastards from the Crownlands use the surname "Waters". •It would have even been loosely accurate if Gendry had assumed his bastard surname was "Gendry Storm," given that Robert was lord of the Stormlands (in the books, Robert's one recognized bastard is named "Edric Storm"), but bastard names usually follow where someone was born, rather than where their parents come from (i.e. in the TV series, Bran at first assumed Jon's name would be "Jon Sand" as he was born in Dorne). •Several major foreign language dubs have corrected the line. The official German language dub, for example, changed the line to "Gendry Waters." •A possible in-universe explanation is that as a commoner, Gendry himself isn't very familiar with the rules of bastard surnames, and Gendry himself mistakenly told Arya the wrong surname. •The sails of Daenerys's fleet very prominently display Targaryen heraldry inaccurately depicting a four-legged dragon. This error has persisted since Season 1, first with the dragon on Viserys's tunic. George R.R. Martin felt that a six-limbed dragon, with four legs and also two wings, was a little too unrealistic even for a magical creature (the basic physics would make it ungainly in the air) so "dragons" in his fictional universe only have two legs and two wings - the same body plan as a bat or a bird. •When Brienne of Tarth takes her clothes off to have sex with Jaime, the camera only views her from the shoulders up - but she should have prominent scars on her left collarbone from when a bear clawed her at Harrenhal in Season 3. The scene in this episode doesn't depict any scars. •Jaime states that he strangled Alton Lannister to death with his own hands. This is false; he beat Alton to death, and strangled Torrhen Karstark. Neither kills were strictly speaking "with his own hands", but with his chains. •Using the crossbow, Bronn shoots an arrow, then quickly reloads, as Tyrion did in "The Children". It is impossible to reload a medieval crossbow so quickly and easily; the books make a point of that, when Tyrion arms himself with a crossbow before confronting his father. •Tyrion's final plea to Cersei, imploring her to surrender, is framed so emotively that he resorts to a furtive near-whisper to her - even though she is on top of the city walls and there is no possible way she could hear him without shouting.

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