Game Of Thrones Season 8 Breakdown: What 'The Long Night' REALLY Means

6. The Dead Are Gone

In the biggest shock this show has ever pulled out, the Night King is dead and the Dead Army are no more thanks to the unlikely hero of Arya Stark.

Having spent so long trying to cast off her own story, the youngest surviving Stark ended up realising a destiny that most people wouldn't have thought belonged to her and using the Catspaw dagger - a weapon ironically intended to kill Bran so long ago - to kill the Night King.

Despite this being only episode three of a six episode run, the Dead Army are now no more. The Great War is over and Bran's Three-Eyed Raven lives on to preserve the memories of men. It was always going to be this way, but to have it come so early is simply stunning. Whether you think it's the right thing to do or not and whether you believe this is what George RR Martin intended to happen is firmly up for debate.

Personally, I think it should have come in episode five and that Martin would have done it differently, but that just obviously means what comes next must be incredible too.