NOTHING gets past Game of Thrones fans, who continue to scan the show for inconsistencies in the wake of its final season earlier this year.
The Westeros fantasy drama got tongues wagging for all the wrong reasons after its last string of episodes left many fans and critics underwhelmed.
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Branded “rushed” and “oversimplified”, the feature-length instalments were panned on social media, as well as on ratings site Rotten Tomatoes, raking in a measly score of 58%.
Now some eagle-eyed Reddit users have flagged what they deem to be a plot hole from the last episode.
Fans will remember how Jon Snow (Kit Harington) made the heart-breaking decision to murder love interest Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) after deeming her unfit to rule.
He reached the conclusion after the brutal burning of King’s Landing, which saw soldiers and civilians alike torched indiscriminately.
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During their final embrace, Jon plunged a dagger into the silver-haired queen, prompting her only remaining dragon Drogon to melt the Iron Throne and fly off into the distance with her corpse in his claws.
In the fallout from the betrayal, Jon was arrested – but some viewers clocked that his arrest would be problematic given the lack of evidence.
With no body and no confession scene, some claimed that Jon’s trial was glossed over.
“If the dragon flew away with Daenerys’ body, how did they know that Jon stabbed her?” one user wrote.
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The comment received hundreds of upvotes as other chipped in with messages of agreement.
“Good point, for all they knew she just snapped after the King’s Landing siege and flew off,” one replied.
“If there was only a patch of blood on the floor that’s not a lot to go on,” another added.
However, a few hit back with their own theories as to what happened after the murder.
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Mostly they cited Jon’s nobility as sufficient grounds to assume he came clean and handed himself in.
“I’m assuming they heard Drogon’s cry, and when they got there they saw a pool of blood on the ground and tears in Jon’s eyes with no Dany,” one theorised.
“And if they asked Jon, did you or the dragon do it, what answer do you think someone like Jon would give? At least that’s my take on it.”
A second insisted that since Jon had no regrets about his decision, he wouldn’t have felt the need to issue a denial.
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“If Jon got anything from being raised by Ned Stark, it was his sense of honour; when he killed Daenerys, he had decided that killing her was the right thing to do, and he was willing to accept the consequences for his actions,” they opined.
“Would you expect Ned to have tried to weasel out of the consequences if he had been the one with the dagger?”
The speculation comes after The Art of Game of Thrones revealed that a scene between Jon and The Unsullied that preceded the stabbing of Daenerys was cut from the show.
