Game of Thrones: Emilia Clarke doesn’t think we’re ready for episode 5

Game of Thrones has nowhere to go but up, it seems like, based on Emilia Clarke’s latest comments about one episode in particular to come.

With three weeks left of Game of Thrones, one would think that the next truly big episode after “The Long Night” would be the finale, right? After all, it’s the end of the series as a whole.

However, there are two weeks between now and the finale, and thus two episodes. While episode 4 is reportedly Kit Harington’s must-watch, Emilia Clarke has a different episode: episode 5. As she told Jimmy Kimmel on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, “Episode 5 is, I mean, 4 and 5 and 6, they’re all insane, but like…Find the biggest TV you can.”

The immediate thought would be that you’d need a big TV in order to watch something like a battle scene, and that gives us some ideas. Unfortunately, that means it’s time to wade into potential spoiler territory. If you don’t want speculation based on rumors and reports from filming, then you don’t want to go past the video.

Okay, now let’s talk about some spoilers. There are two plot points, both related to King’s Landing, that come to mind for this.

The first is much more known, because photos were taken of it actually happening. King’s Landing, or at least part of it, burns. Is there a better way to watch one of the most iconic settings in Game of Thrones be destroyed on a massive level than the “biggest TV”? We submit that the answer is no. Well, more accurately, the answer is probably, because this is the more likely of the two things we think Clarke could be referring to.

The second lives more in the realm of reports and rumors, but if the series were to kill a widely-beloved character, then it would be even more excruciating to see it in detail. There is a possibility, perhaps less likely than King’s Landing burning but still reasonably likely on its own merits, that Tyrion Lannister not only dies, but is executed.

If it’s true, and if it were to happen in episode 5, that would presumably be the kind of moment that everyone would talk about, the kind you’d have to see to believe. Could you imagine seeing the pain on Tyrion’s face, or the look on Daenerys’ as she burns him, if that’s how he goes?

Perhaps in episode 4, we’ll get some answers.

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