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“Game of Thrones” still has one more episode to pull something like this, with the series finale just a week away. Another recent example: Arya (Maisie Williams) being the one to kill the Night King despite the fact that she doesn’t seem to fit the concept of the Prince that was Promised. Martin’s entire saga is about defying the sort of logic that you usually expect from a fantasy story like this, with prophecies that are either nonsense or play out in ways that are not immediately clear. It’s a fitting way for “Game of Thrones” to resolve the matter. So the prophecy can be seen as technically true, but phrased in such a way as to maximize its impact on Cersei’s life.Īlso Read: 'Game of Thrones' Season 8 Death Watch: Who's Dead and How Bloody Was It? It’s important to keep in mind that the witch was certainly messing with Cersei to some extent, responding to Cersei’s scorn and general haughtiness. This fits, just not in the way that you would probably have expected. The key bit here is that Cersei was sobbing in her final scene, and Jaime had his hand on her neck as the life was choked out of her by the rubble of the Red Keep as it collapsed on her. Jaime did not murder Cersei, of course, so that would put this scenario firmly in a “certain point of view” kind of situation.Īlso Read: 'Game of Thrones' Series Finale Preview: Prepare for More Blood (Video) It appears, in fact, that the valonqar is Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), Cersei’s twin brother who was born minutes after she was. Dany could be the valonqar, since she is the youngest of the Mad King’s children and is thus a younger sibling.īut that’s probably not what the prophecy was foretelling.
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Martin.Īnd this week, Cersei’s death did finally occur, and it was, in fact, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) who was responsible because she rained dragonfire on the Red Keep in King’s landing and eventually it collapsed on top of Cersei. Though that prophecy is absent from the show, it seemed likely that it would still apply because the death of a character as prominent as Cersei (Lena Headey) - which is reaching its conclusion before the book series - would almost certainly occur as intended by author George R.R. “Valonqar,” if you’re not aware of this backstory, translates to younger brother or sibling (it’s a gender-neutral term).Ĭersei in the books took this to mean that Tyrion would kill her, which fueled her paranoia about him throughout the saga.Īlso Read: 'Game of Thrones' Season 8, Episode 5: 9 Biggest Questions Answered and 12 We Have Left “And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you,” the witch told her.
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Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” books that didn’t make it into HBO’s “Game of Thrones” that has nonetheless been a big point of discussion for years among fans of both the books and the show: the prophecy, given to Cersei by a witch when she was young, that said that she would be killed by a “valonqar.” And all credit goes to Lena Headey, who brings wit, humanity and empathy to a character who could be pure camp.(Spoilers ahead for the fifth episode of Season 8 of “Game of Thrones”) So it’s not even like Cersei is much of an evil outlier anymore.īut the real reason I will root for Cersei, until what I’m sure will be a very bitter end for someone, is because she is such a wicked pleasure to watch. Arya served Walder Frey a pie made out of his own sons. Daenerys likes to burn people alive for crossing her. When “Game of Thrones” began, Cersei was the arch-villain with an ever-present chalice of wine and a wicked Cheshire cat grin - the character who, along with her son Joffrey, viewers loved to hate for being so unapologetically bad.īut as the show progressed and the bodies piled up, nearly all her rivals have caught up to her in sheer ruthlessness. Quite the opposite: This is a woman who plotted to have her husband, King Robert Baratheon, killed by a wild boar ordered the slaughter of all Robert’s bastard children and forced Ellaria Sand to watch her daughter rot.Ĭomplete coverage: The final season of ‘Game of Thrones’ » For Cersei to triumph over more virtuous characters like Jon Snow would be perfectly in keeping with a show whose motto has always been “don’t get too attached.”Īnd, frankly, I wouldn’t hate it if Cersei prevailed - not because she is likable. And while it would be somewhat anti-climactic for Cersei to maintain her hold on the Iron Throne, “Game of Thrones” is a show that has thrived by defying fans’ expectations - killing off protagonist Ned Stark in the first season, then murdering most of his remaining family at the notorious Red Wedding.