![]() More so than the Hound since Gregor raped and killed Oberyn’s sister on Tywin Lannister’s orders, also murdering her infant children before her eyes too. Rushing into King’s Landing like Inigo Montoya, Pedro Pascal’s Dornish prince had every reason to kill Ser Gregor Clegane. It’s been intentionally vague how much of him was Undead after Qyburn got his hands on the fresh meat, but if you can recall, the Mountain had one of the most epic duels in Game of Thrones history when he fought Ser Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper. Indeed, last night finally confirmed for us once and for all that the Mountain died when he fought the Red Viper (or shortly afterward). Read more: Game of Thrones Season 8 – White Horse Explained They never did cross paths though, at least not while the Mountain was alive. It seemed inevitable one must kill the other, even more so when in the second novel/season, the Hound forsakes the Lannisters who they both serve and escapes into the riverlands where the Mountain is acting like a genocidal warlord. Yet King Robert Baratheon intercedes, ordering they stop their squabbling before a good fratricide can be committed.Įver since that moment, fans of book and show alike have waited with baited breath for the day that the Hound and the Mountain would finish their bad blood which goes back to their childhoods. He does it because it is the opportunity he’s always wanted to get revenge on his big brother and kill him for ruining his face, ruining his ideal of knightly chivalry, and terrifying him of fire to this day. Gregor, aka the Mountain Who Rides, takes it about as well as can be expected and cuts off his own horse’s head and tries to do the same to Loras before the Hound intervenes-but not for honor and not for Loras’ sake. However, it also precedes the Hound then losing in a joust to Loras Tyrell, the Flower Knight. In the series, Littlefinger seems to tell it so as to give viewers some backstory on the guy Rory McCann plays with the ugly burn scars (and just to be a creeper on Sansa). Held him there while the boy screamed, while his face melted.” He just grabbed his brother by the scruff of his neck and shoved his face into the burning coals. One evening, Gregor found his little brother playing with a toy by the fire, Gregor’s toy. Some lucky boys are just born with a talent for violence. Gregor, a few years older, was already a big lad, already getting a bit of a reputation. The Hound was just a pup, six-years-old maybe. “Has anyone ever told you the story of the Mountain and the Hound? Lovely little tale of brotherly love. With Sandor and Ser Gregor finally meeting burnt to red eye within the tower of the Red Keep. Aye, the old gods and the new smiled on us by giving hardcore fans the most purely metal showdown between the Brothers Clegane. The genuine lack of fan service only weeks after Arya Stark killed the Night King (or Avengers offering nothing but for three hours) is a bit bewildering. Meanwhile Cersei Lannister, who we thought was the last big bad of the series, died not with any beloved character plunging in the knife, but as a scared and pitiful woman realizing that the ugly world she’d built around her was about to crash on her head. It really is the opposite of fan service when one of our perceived heroes has a tragic fall to darkness at the eleventh hour of a television series. While there have been hints and teases going back to the very first season that Daenerys Targaryen would do what she did and live up to her House words-Fire and Blood-that doesn’t mean fans had to like it when the moment came. Last night’s Game of Thrones was a bitter pill for many to swallow. This Game of Thrones article contains major spoilers for Season 8 episode 5, “The Bells.”
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