game of thrones season 8 episode 6 preview

Having said that, the best episode of the series is clearly The Long Night, where the Night King finally arrives for a showdown eight years in the making. Watching the battles in Winterfell and King’s Landing play out doesn’t feel like the satisfying pay-off it needed to be after all the key players had carefully moved their pawns into place over weeks of plotting, so it lacked the emotional weight that came with the Battle of the Bastards or the duel between Oberyn Martell and The Mountain.

To be fair, with only six episodes there wasn’t really any other way it could be done, but nonetheless Game of Thrones simply deserves better. While two episodes dedicated to game-changing (pun intended) battles would have felt like the payoff after several episodes of planning in earlier seasons, this finale makes the mistake of sacrificing build-up in favour of pure shock factor. Yet while we get plenty of that in the first episode and episode 2 (The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), the rest of season 8 is a spectacle, for better and for worse. We get some much-needed downtime to let the characters actually talk and react to revelations that came at the tail end of season 7, and this is where Game of Thrones shines: when people have the chance to play the politics game, charming and planning their next move from behind the scenes. Watch the clip above and see how the people left at King's Landing reel from Daenerys's killing spree.It starts out promising in the first episode, Winterfell, which shows our cast of characters responding to Daenerys coming North and the oncoming preparations for the Battle of Winterfell. especially with Cersei out of the picture. Daenerys has her armies at her feet, and we have a feeling things are about to get real messy between the Mother of Dragons and the levelheaded people left in Westeros. The preview for the sixth and final episode of the series shows Jon, Davos, Tyrion, and Arya in awe at the wreckage strewn throughout King's Landing. There are subtle moments throughout the episode where we see Jon processing just how out of control his queen truly is, and it will all come front and center in the final episode of the series (cue the tears). Not only does she kill those close to her in the penultimate episode, but she kills thousands of innocent people after Cersei's armies surrender.

In episode five, 'The Bells,' Daenerys shows just how far she's willing to go to sit on the Iron Throne - and it's not pretty. Game of Thrones fans and longtime supporters of Daenerys Targaryen are about to see the worst of the Mother of Dragons Mad Queen.

Game of thrones season 8 episode 6 preview