Month: April 2019

SPOILER ALERT! If you’re a fan of HBO’s Game of Thrones, but you aren’t caught up on what’s going on and don’t want SPOILERS, stop reading right now! (There, I warned you. What happens next is your own fault!)

If you’re here looking for my latest baseball articles, well, sorry. This isn’t related to baseball at all.

(Of course, if you really WANT to read my latest pieces on the Cedar Rapids Kernels you can click here to read my piece on outfielder Trey Cabbage and here to read my interview with pitching coach Virgil Vasquez. Both were posted at TwinsDaily.com.)

But THIS post is all Game of Thrones. If you’re one of those people tired of everyone talking about the HBO series, you should probably just move on now.

If you’re a GoT watcher, like I am, then you know that Episode 3 of Season 8 (the final season of the series) is scheduled for airing this Sunday and it’s gonna be brutal!

By now, we’re all used to seeing our favorite characters meet surprising, untimely, and usually vicious demises and with the battle on deck for this Sunday night, it’s clear we’re going to lose a few… or many… more of them. There are only three more episodes left to air after this week’s ultimate clash with the Night King’s legions of walking dead at Winterfell.

So, I say let’s have a little fun with their misery.

No, I’m not going to do a Deadpool. There are plenty of those out there, but I’m putting up a DeadPOLL!

Simply click the name of each GoT character that you believe will perish before the end of Episode 3 when, presumably after dispensing with the Night King, whoever remains turns their attention on Cersei Lannister. (And, perhaps, one another?)

This episode is scheduled to run an hour and twenty minutes and the word coming out is that it is the largest scale battle ever presented on TV or in any film.

So who’s going to buy the farm this week? (Sorry, that’s a Midwest term for what Jersey folk might call, “getting whacked,” if you didn’t know.)

Will it be Jon Snow (ne: Aegon Targaryen)? Just when he finds out he’s the rightful heir to the Iron Throne, will author George R. R. Martin and the show’s writers do him in?

Fans of GoT have believed for years that Martin secretly has it in for the popular Stark clan. Of course, Jon isn’t really a Stark now (or is he?), so maybe it will be the not-as-young-as-some-thought Arya. Would be a shame to kill off Sansa now that she’s found her inner Starkness. Hard for me to imagine Bran goes down right now, but never trust Martin to spare your favorite Stark!

Seems unlikely Daenerys Targaryen falls before she gets to go up against Cersei, doesn’t it? But you never know. And what about her dragons? Will either/both of the surviving not-undead dragons survive this battle?

Have either of the Lannister men, Tyrion or Jaime, run through their luck? I’m guessing at least one will need to deal with their sister before this is over, but both? Hmmmm. I’m not so sure.

Similarly, it would seem that Sandor Clegane (The Hound) has a confrontation with his brother, the Mountain, to get to before we’re done, so one would think he comes through this week’s carnage.

Now that Samwell Tarly has broken the news about Jon’s true identity, is there anything left for his character to do? What about Gilly and young Sam?

Other characters that you could argue have seen their character’s arc pretty much completed might be Bronn (though he has already survived longer than he had any right to), newly knighted Brienne of Tarth (not to mention her protégé Podrick Payne), the Mormonts (Joran and Lyanna), Grey Worm (though I’m suspecting Missandei will move on, for now), Theon Greyjoy (seriously, is anyone else shocked that this guy has survived this long?), Davos Seaworth (his arc seemed to run out some time ago, to be honest), or how about Tormuno Giantsbane and Deric Dondarrion (don’t know who they are? Don’t feel bad, I had to look them up. I just know them as, ‘that crazy red-haired wildling guy’ and, ‘the guy with the eye patch who only has one life left’)?

It seems obvious that the characters not currently at Winterfell aren’t in danger of seeing their paychecks end after this episode, so Cersei Lannister, Gregor Clegane (The Mountain), as well as Yara and Euron Greyjoy still have breath in them after this week. Then again, beware of what’s “obvious” when it comes to Martin’s imagination. Still, I’m going to leave them out of the poll for this week.

Finally, what about the Night King? I mean he HAS to be defeated, right… right? But who is he, really, and can he truly be killed?

But enough of my speculations. Tell me who YOU think gets their fire snuffed out in Episode 3. Click on all the character names you think will fall this week.

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