YgritteĪs the human face of the northern insurgency, Ygritte carried a lot of responsibility. Grenn, Pyp, they lived together, they served together, they mocked Sam together And now, together, their watch is ended. The giant was stopped, but there was no Happy Ever After for the brave, bearded bloke that led the fight against him. Grenn’s last stand facing an angry giant was the stuff of fairytales, even if the outcome wasn’t. He nevertheless managed to take out at least one willing before succumbing to Ygritte’s trusty arrow. Pyp acted like any reasonable man in combat, with extreme terror. Despite this, under the combined influence of Jon Snow and Sam Tarly, the pair of them found depth enough to bond with their sworn brothers and were able to die bravely, (or as bravely as they could manage) as men of the Night’s Watch, honouring their vows to the letter. Unwanted back home and ill-prepared for the demands of the Wall, they suffered and grumbled as Ser Alliser Thorne drilled them and Dolorous Edd Tolett regaled them with bitterly cynical stories from his put-upon life. We first met Grenn and Pyp as raw, unwilling recruits to the Night’s Watch back in the first season.
We’re still struggling to forget it at any rate. A show-off to the end, Oberyn at least secured probably the most gruesomely memorable death that Game Of Thrones has yet provided. Despite giving a solid performance in the ring, out-performing his colossal opponent with style and verve, Oberyn’s desire to punish the Mountain and the Hand left him open to a vicious final assault that ended when Clegane bust his head open like a ripe melon. If he lost, he’d redecorate part of Kings Landing with blood and viscera. If he won, he’d humiliate and annoy Tywin, earn public confirmation of their crimes and kill the man that murdered his sister. The sort of man who never missed an opportunity to double-up, he seized his moment by standing as Tyrion’s champion and facing the Mountain in single combat. Arriving ostensibly for the diplomatic purpose of representing the royal House Martell at Joffrey’s wedding, Oberyn had the higher (and darker) purpose of seeking revenge on Tywin Lannister and his enforcer Gregor ‘The Mountain’ Clegane, at whose feet the Dornishman lay the blame for the killing of his sister and her children. Oberyn MartellĬoming over like a priapic cross between Inigo Montoya and Puss in Boots out of Shrek, Oberyn ‘The Red Viper’ Martell was one of the most immediately likeable and charismatic of season four’s newcomers, indeed of the show in its entirety. The bizarre bridegroom disposed of Lysa before her wedding ring had time to absorb the warmth of her finger, making her plunge through the Moon Door a fatal misunderstanding of her environment and her new husband, who, to his falling bride’s surprise, didn’t love her at all. As we all know, just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean that they’re not after you and that goes double if ‘they’ are a master exploiter like Petyr Baelish. Her genuine love for her son resembled that of Cersei for her children and, like her fellow widow, provided scant comfort to her sense of paranoia. In the end, it was a combination of both features that did for poor Lysa. Well, that and their home in an utterly impregnable mountain fortress. Which is a good enough explanation as any for understanding how the oddly dysfunctional relationship between Lysa and her son Robin had continued for so long in the way that it had. Perhaps the defining characteristic of pre-modern societies is their lack of well-funded social services infrastructures.
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