9. When Myrcelle Baratheon Dies
We know that Game of Thrones tends to put out material purposefully made to get a gut-wrenching reaction from the audience, but come on. Myrcelle Baratheon’s death on the ship was really too much.
Not only was the innocent girl poisoned for no good reason by the hateful snakes of Doorn, but she dropped dead right after Jaime opened up his heart to tell her that he was her father, right after she told him that she always knew that and loved him ever so much for it.
By this point in the show we were already trained to know that that little girl was going to drop dead right there, and that she and Jaime will never have a daughter-father relationship, but knowing it was coming did nothing to soften the blow. Jaime, who becomes more of a hero every episode, deserved to be with his daughter. At least outside of the GoT world, anyway. This one stayed with us for a while after watching it.
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