![]() ![]() Maybe it wasn’t that Jaqen, just someone wearing the same face. But when they reunited in the fifth season in Braavos, he was wearing tattered spa clothes and appeared to have lost all of the personality he once had. When he showed up in the second season, he was weird, yes, but also charismatic you could see why the Faceless Men piqued Arya’s interest. The motivations of the Faceless Men remain a mystery, as do Jaqen’s intentions with Arya. He gives her an approving nod-and that’s it, the last of our screentime with the Faceless Men. She refutes his take, reclaims her identity as a Stark, and says she’s heading back to Westeros. “Finally a girl is No One” is the last piece of dialogue Jaqen H’ghar has in the series, directed at Arya at the end of the sixth season. At least we can take some solace in knowing that, wherever Gilly is, it’s a huge upgrade over Craster’s Keep. A spare shot of Gilly and the Sams happy and together in the finale would’ve sufficed, but alas. Gilly, more than most characters on Thrones, deserved a proper send-off. ![]() She was the one who initially uncovered Jon’s realm-changing parentage-and she never got the credit when Sam revealed this information to Bran. Leaving Gilly off-screen for Sam’s final moments-like Brienne’s ending being tied to writing Jaime Lannister’s Wikipedia entry-is a disservice to her character. Is Sam allowed to continue his relationship with Gilly after becoming a maester? Has he even been appointed an official maester, and if he isn’t, is this another sign of Bran the Broken’s incompetence? Does he avoid punishment for not breaking the Citadel’s rules and stealing library books? Was he allowed to marry Gilly? Or is she back in the North or back at Horn Hill without him? Lil Queenslayer?) somewhere, but it’s unclear where, exactly, she’s situated. Surely she’s raising Little Sam (and Little Jon, a.k.a. While Sam reappears in the finale and gets a fancy promotion on the new Small Council, Gilly is nowhere to be seen. Hopefully Meera can take a much-deserved vacation to the Isle of Naath after Grey Worm rehabs its beachfront real estate. I’d be livid if I opened up my morning raven’s scroll to find out that after all of my hard work, the ungrateful asshole who spent a gap year in a tree is on the throne and I’m now his subject. And while it’s probably nice that House Reed sat this season out-all the better to avoid the fighting against the White Walkers-she deserved a better ending, or even just an ending. This is a serious butterfly effect: None of this would’ve been possible without Meera’s thankless sacrifice. Bran told Theon Greyjoy he was a good man before he ran to his death, but he couldn’t muster an emotional response to the person who dragged him on a sled for several seasons to achieve his destiny? Unfortunately, only Meera survived that trek beyond the Wall-and for her troubles, Bran gave her a curt thank you and sent her on her way. Meera Reedīran Stark couldn’t have become the Three-Eyed Raven or Bran the Broken (first of his name, etc.) without help from Jojen, Meera, Summer, and Hodor. Hopefully, some of them have better days ahead than Daenerys Targaryen and the inhabitants of King’s Landing. For that, we humbly mourn the Thrones characters we never had a chance to bid farewell to. And while Sunday night’s finale did offer some moving and thematically appropriate codas for the Stark family and a few other principal characters-and showed just enough of many secondary characters to leave an impression of what they’ll do next enjoy the Iron Islands, Yara Greyjoy!-there are plenty of characters from the show’s run who never got an appropriate send-off. It would’ve been impossible for Game of Thrones to satisfy every loose end in its final season, even if it was bulked up to 10 episodes. ![]()
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