Social Media Reacts To The Penultimate ‘Game Of Thrones’ Episode

This post contains spoilers for Game Of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5 “The Bells”.

Game Of Thrones brought some long-awaited confrontations to its penultimate episode, “The Bells,” which ended with King’s Landing laid to waste by possible mad queen Daenerys with the help of — to quote Missandei — “Dracarys.”

As always, fans of the show were livetweeting their thoughts, and some of those tweets were funny. For example, people continue to demand justice for Ghost, who reportedly couldn’t get a single goodbye pat on the head from Jon Snow because the CGI wouldn’t have worked out:

— Sabrina (@doshiiis) May 13, 2019

Speaking of Jon watching the destruction, people had thoughts about Varys being right:

— Kory Huntley (@DaSpecial_K) May 13, 2019

Jon Snow, tonight. pic.twitter.com/aQhzKhK98k

— Ali Arikan (@aliarikan) May 13, 2019

Jon and Tyrion after supporting Dany #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/zEWHN6QFn5

— ChristiBoss (@ChristiBoss) May 13, 2019

You know now that I think about it Varys made some good points. #DemThrones pic.twitter.com/EylMH81OEJ

— M’BlockU (@rodimusprime) May 13, 2019

Jon Snow helping conquer King’s Landing after his Aunt With Benefits does a bunch of war crimes pic.twitter.com/sVddrZIi6R

— Jules (@Julian_Epp) May 13, 2019

Daenerys was the target of most of the jokes this episode:

— TMY (@tianamarcus_) May 13, 2019

On campaign trail // in government #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/0XOsHNKPLa

— (@its__kojack) May 13, 2019

Daenerys seasons 1-7: I’m not my father. I’m nothing like the mad king

Tonights episode: …#GamefThrones pic.twitter.com/rGfZoCrm5a

— Rahnie (@Zha_Maquillage) May 13, 2019

Varys watching that whole battle like pic.twitter.com/QeIwlAbQLq

— alistair chernobyl (@penis_hernandez) May 13, 2019

Dany is not very good at SimCity#GameofThrones #DemThrones pic.twitter.com/ddgPlrSi3h

— dani (@omg_its_daniii) May 13, 2019

Daenerys after the battle be like:#GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/WtdCoF3Y8I

— Jamie FOOKIN Lannister (@lts_Josh) May 13, 2019

Dany ruling kings landing after she literally killed everyone#GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/mnUkLW3cNC

— night king (@amirrzaman) May 13, 2019

pour one out for the kids who years ago got named after a character whose televised arc finally swung around to "does warcrimes" in the penultimate episode of the show

— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) May 13, 2019

Wow she was really embarrassed about that coffee cup.

— Sara Benincasa (@SaraJBenincasa) May 13, 2019

To be fair, that coffee cup wasn’t the biggest flub in Game of Thrones history:

— Mr. Drinks On Me (@Mr_DrinksOnMe) May 7, 2019

To also be fair, people who’ve been paying attention to Dany’s past knew she was hardcore:

— you dont know me (@snsaimahesh) May 13, 2019

And the destruction of King’s Landing gives Arya a good reason to update the kill list.

"I'm gonna take my horse to the Old Town Road, I'm gonna ride til I can't no more"

pic.twitter.com/PeRvoYoKhR

— Game of Deez Nuts (@WorldofIsaac) May 13, 2019

Arya bout to survive all that she been through to die of mesothelioma. I know it’s asbestos in her lungs. Hate to see it.

— Craven Moorehead (@FAB_LAW) May 13, 2019

Were you or a loved one in King's Landing the day of the attack You may be entitled to compensation.

— Marc MacKenzie (@marcmack) May 13, 2019

Cleganebowl finally happened. It was a tie. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cersei walking past the Hound and the Mountain: pic.twitter.com/fXQ6lWNuuh

— Hishaam (@ahmadhishaam) May 13, 2019

Cersei walking between The Hound and The Mountain #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/iv7syu1H5V

— Bann (@Phanny_Pack08) May 13, 2019

#GameofThrones

nobody:

the hound: pic.twitter.com/iVQDbASppl

— patrick (@boolin) May 13, 2019

R.I.P. The Hound. Also, R.I.P. Jaime:

— 61% of global wealth is real estate #SB529 (@uhshanti) May 10, 2019

People said R.I.P. about some other things, too:

— Rings a Bel. Dracarys (@TheBelMembrane) May 13, 2019

The complaints didn’t stop there. You may be surprised to hear that people on the internet like to kvetch about TV shows:

— ኸል (@IamRudebwoy) May 13, 2019

Thank you, internet. I'm fully expressed now. pic.twitter.com/scsKYR2G9s

— Cade Massey (@bcmassey) May 10, 2019

The theory that Benioff and Weiss had a list of outcomes (from GRRM) they needed to happen in the ending, and reverse-engineered their characters to get to them, is looking pretty good.

— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) May 13, 2019

Book Euron: *ascending to kraken godhood using a cursed blood trident*

Show Euron: cor blimey I’m gunna fuck me the queen I am I am

— admiral ron of the pepper palace (@ronnyravegan) May 12, 2019

re: character development pic.twitter.com/1ys4ROYDuh

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) May 13, 2019

Complain all you want, but Game of Thrones is delivering the biggest twist nobody ever saw coming: that you'd fucking hate it by the time it's all said and done

— Jeff Bakalar (@jeffbakalar) May 13, 2019

I’m going to miss shouting “these idiots have no idea what they’re doing!!” at the tv for apolitical reasons

— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) May 13, 2019

i'm gonna give this show one more week and if it doesn't get better i'm out!

— your pal andy (@andylevy) May 13, 2019

You just can’t please some people.

— Neil (@rejects) May 13, 2019

BEST SEASON EVER.

— David Chen (@davechensky) May 13, 2019