Game Of Thrones Season 7 Finale: 11 Big Questions After 'The Dragon And The Wolf'
Tormund is totally fine, right?!
Game of Thrones wrapped-up its seventh season in style, with the immensely satisfying The Dragon and the Wolf.
Even though the season itself was a little more uneven than usual, the finale delivered with payoffs, spectacle, and twists, expertly utilising its longer-than-ever runtime to give us one of the best episodes of the year.
Sadly, that means it's all over for another year, and the show might not be back until 2019. With so much of this season being setup, something parts of this episode - and certainly that jaw-dropping ending - continue, a lot of this instalment leaves strands to be cleared up whenever Season 8 does come around, and a lot of questions in need of answering as well.
11. Who's Coming For The Mountain?
"...It's not how it ends for you, brother. You know who's coming for you. You've always known."
We didn't get CleganeBowl in the end, but The Dragon and the Wolf did give us an intriguing showdown between the two Clegane brothers, with Sandor offering the above warning to whatever is left of Gregor. The question is just 'who' is coming for Gregor?
The most simple and obvious answer is that it's the Hound himself. This makes sense in terms of him having a burning hatred of his brother and wanting revenge, while also foreshadowing the very event the show has so far denied viewers. There were more important matters in the Dragonpit than their rivalry, so it's a way of saving that for later.
The alternatives are a bit more of a stretch, but there are two more people who want to kill the Mountain. Beric Dondarrion was tasked with bringing him down way back in Season 1, while he's a name on Arya's kill list. Either of those could feasibly come for him at some point, depending on where the action takes the characters, but would the Mountain have "always known" that?
The final possibility is that it's more of a vague prophecy, and refers to the Lord of Light. Sandor now has some connection to the flames, as does Beric, and it could be signalling that Gregor - who is to some degree a zombie - is killed by fire.