The good (Oberyn Martell), the bad (King Joffrey), the compromised (Daenerys) the beloved (the Hound), the hated (the Mountain), the inscrutable (Tywin). “When you play the game of thrones,” Cersei Lannister told Ned Stark in Season 1, “you win or you die.” And there’s only ever one winner, which means a lot of dead people.Īnd so, a year after Thrones itself met its end, it seems only reasonable to measure the massive scope of the show by evaluating the characters who lost their lives over the series’s eight-season run. Death is the only thing that the living in Game of Thrones could not defeat-until Arya Stark thrust a dagger through its heart, that is. Death is the way that so many characters earned power, closure, purpose, and perspective. Death is the way that Thrones reinforced that original statement, much to our dreaded surprise-the good guys would not win simply because they were the good guys. In honor of the conclusion of the last piece of monoculture, The Ringer will spend all week looking back on Thrones -focusing not just on its final season, but celebrating its entire eight-season run, reminiscing about its host of memorable characters, and pondering where some of them may be one year later.ĭeath is, of course, an integral part of Game of Thrones.ĭeath is the way that Game of Thrones first expressed its outlook-Ned Stark’s beheading proclaiming that the show (and its source material) was not your average hero story. A year ago this week, Tyrion Lannister gave his now-famous speech, Bran became Bran the Broken and the king of Westeros, Jon Snow ventured north, and Game of Thrones came to an end.
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