10 Gaping Plot Holes In The Game Of Thrones Finale

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

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.