Although the final episode aired all the way back in August, there are still plenty of people with HBO's
on the mind. One of the biggest cultural juggernauts in this or many a decade, the fantasy
has captured plenty of hearts since its debut in 2011, and with the final season slated for 2019 at the earliest, there's plenty of time for discussion about the adaptation George R R Martin's magnum opus.
Although the intense political scheming from earlier seasons has fallen away as Game of Thrones shuttles intently towards its endgame, there's still plenty of interesting moments and spectacles to enjoy in season eight, as we finally got to see Daenerys'
do the business in a pretty satisfying way.
In fact, much of the discussion around the final season revolves around the Mother of Dragons and her babies.
All over the world, people will be asking each other: "How exactly do you kill a White Walker dragon?" They'll type furiously on forums: "Will Drogon and
Rhaegal be able to fight their brother?" And at ComicCon next year, someone might approach Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss and ask the question on everyone's lips: "So, when exactly in season eight will Daenerys finally have sex with her dragon?"
If that sounds a little farfetched, that's because it is, but this isn't (just) a page from a Game of Thrones fanfiction that may or may not exist: a staffer on the show has confirmed that Drogon, the biggest and baddest of Daenerys' dragons, has a massive, scaly, Oedipus-complex-crush on his mum.
As you may or may not know, Drogon is named after Khal Drogo, Daenerys' powerful and formidable husband played by
, who is tragically lost at the end of season one. Speaking to WNYC's Radiolab, Game of Thrones sound designer Paula Fairfield says that the Mother of Dragons sees Drogon as an extension of her late lover, and the show was sure to make Drogon's set of sounds that little bit more... uh, sexual.
"I have sounds I might choose simply by certain personality traits that I want to put forward. So in the case of Drogon—she named that dragon after Khal Drogo, her hot, late husband—and so Drogon is like her lover. He's whistling at her all the time, he's looking at her butt and going 'ooh, baby.'"
Well... that's, uh, good to know. Thankfully, Fairfield went into greater detail about how Drogon has grown from a tiny winged lizard into a dragon capable of taming Westeros with a single breath, and all the while, the sounds he makes for his mum grow that bit more flirtatious.
"The groan of the male actually became—with some work and adjustments and stuff—the source for Drogon's purr with Daenerys. The funny thing about the purr with Drogon was watching people watching [the show] and giggling when they heard it, but not really knowing why. To me it’s because it had that essence—that kind of sensual, sexual essence."
Neat.
Of course, if you've watched all the way through to the end of season eight, you'll know that it ends with Daenerys getting hot and heavy with Jon Snow, just as it's revealed that they're actually related. Like many of us, I bet you watched that scene, and thought to yourself: "there is no way that a sex scene in Game of Thrones could be any creepier than this."
Season eight is still at least a year away, but you may just be wrong about that.
