Game of Thrones season 8 episode 5: Who will live and who will die?
We’re fast approaching the penultimate episode of season 8 of Game of Thrones, and as long time fans will appreciate, that often means proverbial excrement will be likely to hit the fans.
Fans, in this case, meaning us as fans of Game of Thrones.
With the shocking loss of Missandei (we suspected it was coming a few episodes ago but who could have known just how she’d go?) and Rhaegal in the last episode, everything once again feels up in the air in the Game of Thrones universe. Who can predict the show’s most guarded secrets, in a series built to defy our expectations?
Well, we’ll still give it a go. We got Beric right, after all.
The Hound/The Mountain
The fan-favorite Cleganebowl seems extremely likely now that the Hound is on his way south and not preparing for a trip back home. Furthermore, his fate seems tied with his travel pal Arya (we’d watch that show), who is also heading south, presumably to kill The Mountain’s boss, Cersei.
There’s no doubt in our minds that for Cersei to die, or for it to even look like she’s in danger, The Mountain has to be taken out of contention — and he will be. Given the Hound’s less than ecstatic reaction to surviving the Battle of Winterfell, perhaps Arya is the one cause he’s willing to die for.
Could this be the end of House Clegane?
Chance of survival: Is this the End(Cle)game?
Euron Greyjoy
Euron Greyjoy (so named because he feels gray and brings us no joy) will stay alive so long as he is useful to Cersei.
With him already side-eyeing the paternity of their baby (genuinely, does he know the gestation period of a human woman? This will be a surprise tool that will help him later.), and directly in Dany’s line of fire as well after murdering her dragon baby, we can only assume his days are truly numbered.
We won’t miss him.
Chance of survival: Dany’s looking for some squid pro quo…
Cersei Lannister
Now you wouldn’t have been completely remiss in doubting Cersei’s status as the big bad of season 8. Yes, the White Walkers had actual superpowers and were tireless zombies with no thought for themselves or others, who followed their leaders blindly and were single-mindedly hellbent on destroying the race of men.
But Cersei proved in episode 4 just how much worse than that she is the very moment she put Missandei in chains.
Her cruelty is no longer in any doubt, and I don’t think any human villain since that human embodiment of period cramps Joffrey has united viewers in such hatred as she does now. Justice can only come knocking.
Chance of survival: She’s got to go, right? Surely.