Screenshot breakdown: Trailer for “Stormborn” and “The Queen’s Justice”
By Dan Selcke
So above and below, we have Euron Greyjoy riding a horse through the streets of King’s Landing, the people applauding him. So it looks like he survives whatever excursion he makes away from the city, and returns triumphant. If you want to know the spoiler-tastic details of his procession, you can click here.
Twincest incoming in 3…2…1…
More Euron, or at least his ships — they glide across the night sea, their decks packed with what look like arches wielding flaming arrows.
Appropriately, Theon and Yara make “Oh, shit” faces, as indeed they should.
We only get brief new flash of Arya in the trailer: she turns around in a forest. That is all.
Daenerys and some of her Dothraki attendants make their way up the long staircase at Dragonstone.
Over all of these images, Littlefinger is giving Sansa one of his Machiavellian speeches.
“Everyone is your enemy,” he says. “Everyone is your friend. Every possible series of events is happening all at once.”
And as the music swells, we get a succession of quick shots of everybody, everywhere, all at once, including Daenerys looking regal as hell on Dragonstone…
…Jaime walking purposefully with his back to the camera…
…the Unsullied invasion of Casterly Rock…
…Drogon swooping through the sky…
…Jaime riding a horse at the head of an army…
…Euron bowing to someone (almost definitely Cersei) in the Red Keep Throne Room…
…and an incredibly dark shot of Jorah, probably still in his cell. Well, at least the greyscale hasn’t eaten his face yet.
Finally, the trailer ends with a meeting between Team Dany and Melisandre, who we’d seen in earlier trailers would be hanging out at Dragonstone. She did spend a lot of time there in seasons 2-4, so it makes sense that she’d come back after being exiled from Jon Snow’s side.
“I believe you have a role to play,” Melisandre tells Dany, “as does another.”
Could the other be the Lord of Light? Or is it a flesh-and-blood someone?
In any case, it looks like Melisandre is throwing her weight behind Dany now. Well, third time’s the charm, right?
Next: Game of Thrones theory corner: Is the Hound the true Prince That Was Promised?
And that’s that! Sunday can’t come soon enough.