9 Things You Learn Rewatching Game Of Thrones Season 8

There are many questionable things about the final season. What is beyond dispute for the majority of the fans however is that the musical score is the best thing about it.

Game of Thrones started with a fairly unremarkable score but slowly and surely improved with every passing season, with season 8 being the peak of Ramin Djawadi's work, adding new music to the vast Thrones record collection but also reworking old themes, examples being the Faceless Assassins theme now given an action-packed makeover, and Daenerys' theme turning evil and dissonant, but later sombre after the Queen's death.

Of course, the new music is sublime. Jenny of Oldstones is a wonderful song, performed wonderfully by Daniel Portman, the Last of the Starks is the music heard in the final montage and wonderfully closes out the series, all of the music during the Long Night and The Bells is heart-pounding and builds the tension, adding even more drama.

Special commendation goes to the track called The Night King. The piano was introduced in season 6 with The Light Of The Seven track, and this new music surpasses the incredibly high bar set by that. The buildup is amazing, adding new instruments at every loop, heightening the drama of each death, and the abrupt silence at the end when Arya suddenly appears to save the day.