Game of Thrones Screencap Breakdown: “Episode 706” Trailer

The music surges. Graphic card: “Winter.”

Begin fast edit montage: Jon battles a White Walker, Valyrian steel versus magical ice blade.

Gendry is in the mix now, war hammering a wight. Ser Davos was right: the boy can handle himself.

Graphic card: “Is.” What will the last card read? WHAT WILL IT READ?

Armed figures carrying torches charge out what looks like the gate under Castle Black. Is The Wall under assault?

Arya, looking inscrutable, faces off with Sansa.

Sansa is realizing what Arya has become. She may have reason to worry.

Graphic card: “Here.” Never would have guessed.

Beric Dondarrion lights up his sword. Yeah, they showed this shot a lot in the preseason trailers. Not hard to figure out why — it ranks high up there on the dramatic coolness scale.

The undead horde chases Jon’s expedition towards a rock outcropping, the probable location of their last stand.

Jon runs like the dickens.

Ahead of Tormund on their headlong dash, Jon glances back. We’ve seen this shot before, too. The music accelerates into a thunder; drums pounding, Jon gasping for air. Cut to black. Music stops. Jon gasps.

The music snaps back in. Fade up on the Night King with White Walkers and his undead army behind him.

Wowza. HBO gave us plenty to chew on this week, and it was all blue-toned and covered in snow. Sharpen your blade, my friends. We’re heading north of The Wall.

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Or we could scratch it all and put Gilly on the Iron Throne. I like that better.

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