# Game of Thrones 8.04 "The Last of the Starks" 5/5/2019 \[Show discussion\]

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> [@eunoia](#):
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> the “Monty Python Ending” (my apologies for forgetting who first brought it up)

> [@Quercus\_alba](#):
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> I think it’s a clue that the final episode will be resolved by the local police bursting in and breaking the Fourth Wall, “Holy Grail”-style.

**Quercus alba** in this thread, but **Loach** in last week’s 8.03 thread:

> [@Game of Thrones 8.03 "The Long Night" 4/28/19 \[Show discussion\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-8-03-the-long-night-4-28-19-show-discussion/833190/262):
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> Am I the only one hoping the series ends like Monty Python’s Holy Grail? Instead of the police stopping everything the Iron Bank comes in and forecloses on the Seven Kingdoms. The last scene can be them repossessing the Iron Throne.

Still want to shout out to **Quercus alba** for:

> [@Quercus\_alba](#):
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> An interesting level of analysis for epidemiology nerds… (No spoilers. Any individual subject information is de-identified.)  
> [https://injepijournal.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40621-018-0174-7?fbclid=IwAR220xVIYIKVtdDNQqRz5nebfoNVyOKO2dKjStRoRrF9kU-Hg-1JCN7wsqg](https://injepijournal.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40621-018-0174-7?fbclid=IwAR220xVIYIKVtdDNQqRz5nebfoNVyOKO2dKjStRoRrF9kU-Hg-1JCN7wsqg)

Reminded me of The (beloved) Journal of Irreproducible Results!

> [@GreysonCarlisle](#):
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> Remind me why Gendry has Targaryen blood. Are the Baratheons a branch from the Targs?

**Telperion** saves me from an embarrassing warning, I may need to find a cite for where this is clarified in the TV series, but the pertinent Targaryen would be three generations up from Gendry in the Barratheon family tree.

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