Sansa (whose wolf is killed right at the beginning) and Robb (who was tasked with taking over Winterfell and fight the War of Five Kings), due to these reasons, never even had a chance of unlocking their hidden potentials – Sansa didn’t have enough time to connect and Robb was busy elsewhere thus clogging his mind for all things magical.
Although it was not shown, or better yet, not emphasized in the show, Rickon was also the first of all his brothers and sisters, who managed to unlock his potential as a warg. Rickon was first, in this new generation of Starks, able to understand the importance of wolves and why is it that they suddenly reappeared in the North, in their house, belonging to them, after all this time. But it is an event of great importance because we are talking about Shaggydog, the wolf of Rickon Stark. This third event, and yes, we are talking about the death of yet another direwolf, is an event that most people will not even see as something that important, at least not the people who only watch the show, and with the good reason. With the loss of his hand, Jaime’s identity, as we knew it, perished into oblivion. Second ties in with the loss of Jaime’s sword hand (the same hand he used to push Bran out of the window, a fitting punishment), a hand that defined him as a person, youngest knight and a member of the King’s Guard.
First time it did happen though was when Ned lost his head in the King’s Landing which showed me that Game of Thrones is indeed a show that doesn’t shy away from anything. Not even The Red Wedding managed to do that. In a personal context, the last episode of Game of Thrones can be seen as one of the rare ones, because it is the episode that managed to completely derail me, which scarcely ever happens.
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