10 Gaping Plot Holes In The Game Of Thrones Finale

In the game of thrones, you win or you die or you fall down a hole and are never seen again...

Game Of Thrones Jaime Cersei Deaths
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It’s been a few days since the broadcast of ‘The Iron Throne’, the final episode in the final season of Game Of Thrones. That means enough time has passed that everyone should have calmed down, stopped signing petitions and posting reaction GIFs and videos, and actually sat down and thought about the events of that series finale.

The thing is, whether you loved it, you hated it, or you were a little indifferent and just wanted to stay friends with it, there are gaping holes in the story that ‘The Iron Throne’ presents us with.

Sometimes plot holes exist because they ignore parts of the story that have been told in previous episodes; sometimes because they contradict information we’ve already been provided with. Sometimes it’s the logic that’s at fault - whether that’s the internal logic of the story that’s been told to date, or a more fundamental kind of logical inconsistency where what’s playing out in front of us simply makes no sense.

So here it is: an in-depth analysis of the gobsmackingly huge plot holes in the Game Of Thrones finale… and of course, if you’ve not yet seen it, here be spoilers.

10. The Twins Were Apparently Killed By A Light Shower Of Stones

Game Of Thrones Jaime Cersei Deaths
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In the penultimate episode, ‘The Bells’, Jaime and Cersei Lannister attempted to flee the sacking of King’s Landing through the cellars of the Red Keep, which housed an escape tunnel to the beaches. The ceiling came down all about them as they discovered their way was blocked, and they embraced as they were buried beneath the rock.

‘The Iron Throne’ dedicates some time to the aftermath of Drogon’s destruction of the city, as Tyrion Lannister descends into what used to be the cellars to find the bodies of his siblings. However, upon reaching the site he locates Jaime’s false hand without any difficulty and moves three or four bricks from the top of the pile to find Jaime and Cersei, quite dead yet quite intact.

We clearly saw the collapse of the cellars behind and about them in the previous episode, boulders the size of men falling from the roof - yet the section of the roof that fell on the twins seems to have been composed of a few small chunks of brick that a very small man can lift aside with one hand.

It’s not clear how this light dusting of mortar could have killed the pair of them, or why Jaime couldn’t easily have sheltered Cersei from them if that was all that fell on them.

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