By It's over. It's all over. This is the first week where there ought to be a new Game of Thrones episode but there isn't. You sit on the sofa, staring at the TV. It's not on. You stand up. You realise you had to reason to stand up. You sit back down. Rain spatters the windowpane. You are lost.
That said, while the story's been wrapped up - to a lot more people's satisfaction than you'd have thought if you lived on Twitter, it turns out - there was still the behind-the-scenes documentary The Last Watch to ease the pain, and it was full of interesting little factoids and moments. For instance, here's Kit Harington finding out that Jon Snow killed Daenerys during the table read, having refused to go through the script beforehand.
He really did not see that coming, and longtime Harington-watchers might be as surprised by his emotional speech after filming his last scene. "I love this show... more than, I think, anything," he said. "It has never been a job for me. It has been my life. This will always be the greatest thing I've ever been a part of."
The other big reveal from the table reads is that Arya's much-puzzled-over Space Jam leap from apparently out of nowhere to stab the Night King actually does have an explanation. As writer Bryan Cogman reads: "Something is hurtling towards [the Night King] out of the darkness - Arya. She vaults off a pile of dead wights, leaps at the Night King, and she plunges the dagger up through the Night King’s armour. The Night King shatters."
Alright, so she boinged off a suspiciously trampoline-like pile of reanimated corpses, I see. A reanimated corpse version of Arya was actually in attendance during the filming of that scene where Bran is made king, as part of the efforts to bamboozle any spies who might have been hanging around the set or eavesdropping on actors in bars. Other red herrings included the Waif and Jaqen H'ghar from the Faceless Men, who many fans thought might get to Arya, as well as the Night King and Kit Harington.
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