E.g.: Stranger Things, Grey's Anatomy, Banshee, The Walking DeadWarning SPOILERS: Back to the fifth episode of the eighth and final season of "Game of Thrones", broadcast tonight on OCS.The Port-Réal war did not take place.Game of Thrones fans have been waiting for a siege that could top Battle of the Bastards (Season 6, Episode 9) or Battle for Winterfell (Season 8, Episode 3).The showrunners have defied all expectations for this episode 5 of season 8, turning the epic battle into a sacking of the capital of the Seven Kingdoms.Apocalyptic sequences, of fire, ashes and blood, where Daenerys Targaryen decides, while the bells of the city ring to announce the surrender of the city, to unleash the flames of her last dragon on the inhabitants."Fear will suffice" announced the Mother of Dragons to Jon before the attack, when she understood that she could never hope for the love of the people.The fright was well and truly there."I don't think she decided in advance what she was going to do", explains in a making-of the co-creator of the series DB Weiss."But when she sees the Red Keep from the walls of King's Landing, a building built by her family when they arrived in Westeros, the symbol of all that was taken from her, she makes it personal."Game of Thrones season 8 episode 5 making-ofThis personal fury echoes the first part of this penultimate episode, where Councilor Varys, a noble-hearted schemer who has worked since the very beginning of the series for the good of the Kingdom, is executed by fire for his coming betrayal. , he who doubts Daenerys' ability to make a just sovereign.Burned to death before the eyes of his "old friend" Tyrion, the Master Whisperer's final words are words that will echo throughout these 75 minutes of destruction: "I hope I deserve this. I hope I'm wrong."Varys was not wrong.And so the battle did not take place.All the elements put in place for the hoped-for confrontation are thus swept away in a few minutes: the Iron fleet and its "scorpion" crossbows are sunk, the walls fall one after the other, the Golden Company is decimated by the fire of Drogon and the charge of the Dothraki, the soldiers of Port-Réal throw down their arms at the feet of Jon Snow, Ver Gris and Davos.The drama will therefore not come from the outcome of the fight, but from what the "good guys" do from this position of strength: Danerys burns children, women and men (and even his own fighters) in a destructive and limitless fury. ;Worm Gray and his men massacre unarmed soldiers;The Dothraki cavalry and the army of the North loot, kill and rape before the eyes of Jon Snow, forced to kill one of his men to save a resident.The moral line changes, and the young man undoubtedly realizes that "his wisdom and his discernment", underlined by Varys at the start of the episode, would have been preferable for the Kingdom.At the heart of this hell, some personal destinies come to an end.Euron Greyjoy and Jaime Lannister kill each other on a beach: the master of the Iron Islands dies on the sand, happy to be the one who will have killed the Kingslayer, while Jaime, mortally wounded, manages to join Cersei in the rubble of the Red Keep."Nothing matters but us" he calmly says to his sister and only love, as the stones of the castle crumble on them.The Hound and the Mountain, meanwhile, finally embark on THE fratricidal fight announced since their first pass of arms which occurred during the tournament of episode 5 of season 1: in the ruins of the Red Keep, crossing swords in a "stairway to nowhere" ("Starirway to Nowhere", according to the showrunners), the two colossi surrender blow for blow, and Sandor ends up dragging his big brother into the flames.A death by fire, for the one who feared him so much.The teaser for the final episode of Game of ThronesPreviously, the Hound will have said goodbye to Arya, who accompanied him on his mission to eliminate Cersei and his bodyguard.A very moving sequence, which sees the warrior seize with an almost filial love the head of the young Stark, to convince her to give up the path of revenge.“Do you want to be like me?” he shouts from his heroin-burnt face.The latter then calls him by his first name for the one and only time in the show, before turning on his heels: "Sandor, thank you."Despite the multitude of alleys, stakes and fates, Arya is once again the central character of the episode.It is through his eyes that we witness the destruction of Port-Réal, up to the inhabitants as the fire of the dragon falls on the city.“We wanted to show the death that comes from above, from the point of view of the people who die under the flames of the dragon,” confirms series co-creator DB Weiss."In most epics like this, you tend to focus on the heroic figures, and not necessarily the people who suffer the consequences of those heroes' decisions. We wanted to stay on the ground with those people at this point- there, because they are the ones paying the price for Daenerys' decision."Wounded and covered in ash, Arya finds a horse still alive, amid rubble and death.A magnificent shot, which undoubtedly echoes Picasso's Guernica, and which sees the young heroine set off, resolute, towards the rest of her destiny and towards episode 6. Will she add Daenerys to her list of targets?Will the latter punish Tyrion Lannister for his betrayal ("If you fail me again, it will be the last time" she promised, before her Hand secretly went to free Jaime -arrested as he tried to join his sister- at the beginning of the episode)?Will Jon Snow renounce his Queen after witnessing this massacre?And in whose hands will Varys' letter revealing Jon's origins and his right to the Iron Throne end up?Lots of major questions that will be answered in the final 80 minutes of the series next week.The game is almost over...Game of Thrones season 8 episode 5: who died at the Battle of Port-Réal?[SPOILERS]Contact |Who are we |Recruitment |Advertising |TOS |Cookies policy |Cookie Preferences |Personal Data |Press review |AlloCiné services |©AlloCineFind all the times and information for your cinema on the AlloCiné number: 0 892 892 892 (€0.90/minute)