Game Of Thrones has built its reputation on its heady narrative turns and arguably executes the cliffhanger better than any other series on television. Whether it is the untimely deaths of popular characters, heartless treachery or just random acts of brutality, the show's cliffhangers, in its many forms, can often take a long time to resolve themselves. This is, after all, a show that delights in leaving plot points hanging for seasons (we still don't know what the deal is with the black shadow that Melisandre gave birth to and that killed Renly Baratheon), a stark contrast from most shows that resolve the previous episodes dangling threads in the next. Cliffhangers are now considered to be a deep-seated convention of HBOs hit series and avid audiences now anticipate that agonising to be continued moment that sends them crawling under a rock for a week, or sometimes even months as the arduous inter-season period takes its toll. In anticipation for the fifth season, the list takes a look at the largest narrative bombs from seasons one to four that carried audiences from one episode to the next and which gave themselves to all sorts of conjecture.
