Raise your glass to the baddest boss in Westeros, Olenna Tyrell. (Spoilers for last night’s Game of Thrones within!)
Game of Thrones season 7 is moving along at a breakneck pace, with Sunday’s episode “The Queen’s Justice” delivering several huge moments that have been a long time coming.
Jon and Dany met at last! Jon and Tyrion reunited! Cersei got her revenge on Ellaria Sand! The Targaryen forces took Casterly Rock! Sansa and Bran Stark saw each other for the first time since THE PILOT EPISODE OF THE SHOW! (Well, I guess Bran’s been seeing Sansa in between now and then, but you know what I mean.)
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But no moment can top the episode’s final scene, in which Olenna Tyrell (played by the incredible Dame Diana Rigg) met her dignified, glorious end, upstaging everyone.
The Tyrell matriarch, last of her House, had lost everything by the time Jaime Lannister got to her in her tower at Highgarden. Her children and grandchildren were gone; her army was gone. Her only goal in life was to get her revenge on Cersei Lannister.
And even in what seemed like complete defeat, Olenna did get her revenge — or as close to it as she could, anyway — revealing to Jaime that it was her, not Tyrion, who had Joffrey killed:
Jaime had arranged for her to have a painless and dignified death by poison, which was really very nice of him, but didn’t save him from the savage truths that Olenna was dealing out in her final moments:
Even as he was killing her, Olenna totally had the upper hand on Jaime (no pun intended), berating him for loving Cersei and ominously telling him, “she’ll be the end of you.” Whether this was a prophetic warning or will serve as a wake-up call for Jaime remains to be seen, but either way — even in death, Olenna was winning at life.
This might be the first time we’ve lost a (non-evil) character on this show and it hasn’t hurt like hell, because Olenna Tyrell died the best possible death: she was old, it was painless, and she spilled ALL. THAT. TEA. as she went, leaving the squabbling lords and ladies to clean up her mess.
RIP the Queen of Thorns, First of her Name, Lady of Savagery and Spiller of Tea. Westeros won’t be the same without her.
Game of Thrones? More like the Game of THORNS, am I right?
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