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The study found with more characters in the book series, and with more than 41, interactions between them, the numbers were comparable to what humans can handle in real life. This is the same number that the average human brain has evolved to deal with. Yep, we as a viewing public, got on board with a show that had dragons in it.

And no one thought that was weird at all. There is no shortage of dragons in Game of Thrones. Credit: HBO. Yes, GoT churned out death on an industrial scale, but it also found time for romance and friendship. Sam Tarly went from butt of the joke to keeper of the scrolls, while Tyrion and Bronn shagged and fought their way across Westeros. What was the last show you watched with everyone? When GoT premiered it was on the cusp of streaming being the dominant way we view television.

To think it dropped one episode a week here on Monday mornings now feels absurd, especially when most shows dump their episode load in one block. Remember your words. Daenerys raised in exile with a horrible brother longs, most of all, to be loved, accepted, and adored.

The show also makes this clear from the start. Some critics, already legitimately concerned with the lack of racial representation on Game of Thrones , worried that a white woman like Daenerys was being depicted as the savior of the brown people of Essos.

We are supposed to be concerned with how high Daenerys gets on her own supply here. Martin likes narrative surprises that feel earned in retrospect. Oberyn Martell, for instance, was always going to lose that duel in Season 4. The evidence is right there on the page and in the episodes once you know where to look for it.

So, regrettably, one of the last shocks of the series comes not as another well-earned Martin surprise, but a terrible gut punch to the many fans who had built Daenerys up as a symbol of feminine power and survival against all odds. Think of the people who named their children Daenerys and Khaleesi. Think of the people who got Daenerys tattoos. Dany always wanted to feel loved and feel like she belonged. She told Jon explicitly that never felt that once since she came to Westeros.

For her, watching Jon being embraced by the Northerners was like Viserys watching her be embraced by the Dothraki. She was jealous, alone, unloved, and paranoid. She snapped. But could the show have given viewers a bit more warning? The fact that the show was so disinterested in the answer to that question is ultimately why it's taken almost no time at all for it to slip from our memories. To get a little meta about things call it my " A Song of Ice and Fire by Samwell Tarly" moment , a recurring element of the What Is Ten May Never Die project in which this will be the final entry was how much of the show was able to slip from our memories, in a relatively short period of time.

There were six Stark direwolves, and you'd better believe that before I did the research to write about their history, I could only remember the fates of two of them. The impact of Ned Stark's Sean Bean death extended well beyond the show, but it was so well-executed sorry that it deserved further appreciation. And can you believe how many video games were made in connection with the Thrones brand? So many! That said, there's a lot I haven't forgotten about Game of Thrones and that includes a lot of fond memories.

But all of them are very rooted in the experience of watching the show in the moment, the jaw-dropping and heartbreaking shocks, the communal feeling that arose around it. And even as much as we like to crap on that final season, I did enjoy the small and large moments of triumph: Brienne of Tarth getting it , Tyrion finally getting the power we know he'll use wisely, Arya being the one to finally, ultimately take down the Night King.

As Miltos Yerolemou Syrio Forel himself! I mean, now we're all into streaming and binge-watching. The direwolf is now leading a pack of regular wolves. Arya asks Nymeria to come home to Winterfell with her, and Nymeria… walks away. The warlocks of Qarth were a group of magic users living in Qarth hence the name that clashed with Daenerys. The warlocks wanted to kidnap Dany and her dragons since the dragons make magic stronger, which is another plot point the show seems to have largely forgotten.

Daenerys has the dragons burn some of the Warlocks at the end of season 2. We never see or hear from the faction again. Fans of the books, in particular, know there are a lot of prophecies swirling around the Game of Thrones world. Azor Ahai once wielded a magical flaming sword called Lightbringer and saved the world from darkness. Everyone from Dany to Jon to Ser Pounce has been considered at this point. But the show never brings the Lord of Light subplot full circle, outside of sacrificing his servant Beric to save Arya.

The question remains open: was the Lord of Light real? What was its plan? But the series writers did use all the prophecy setup. Instead, it has Jaime reconciling with Cersei, leaving her history with Tyrion unresolved, and giving the siblings a fairly trite ending.

Probably not, given that when we last saw her in season 7, she was chained up in the dungeons in Westeros. Last seen defending Arya from Lannister soldiers back in season 1, Syrio has been assumed dead for seasons now.

But his Faceless Man-sounding lines and impressive combat skills have had fans holding out hope that he might have somehow escaped his seemingly fatal duel. Plus, we were never shown a body.

Sadly, though, his fate has probably been sealed for years.