Every SPOILER we know for Game of Thrones season 8

The Battle of Winterfell: Prelude

Honestly, “epic” might not do this battle justice. Let’s let the Game of Thrones “producer types” speak for themselves:

The Game of Thrones crew spent 55 nights filming this battle sequence in Magheramorne Quarry, and several other nights at Moneyglass and on indoor sets besides. Various cast and crew members have talked it up, and it sounds pretty insane:

• Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister): “It’s brutal. It makes the Battle of the Bastards look like a theme park.”
• Maisie Williams: “I am currently on my way to a night shoot, which is week 4 of 12 weeks of night shoots. It’s just huge. The task is huge. But, there’s no better way to leave the show, to be honest.”
• Showrunner David Benioff: “Having the largest battle doesn’t sound very exciting — it actually sounds pretty boring. Part of our challenge, and really, [director] Miguel [Sapochnik’s] challenge, is how to keep that compelling… we’ve been building toward this since the very beginning, it’s the living against the dead, and you can’t do that in a 12-minute sequence.”

Writing about this battle in his EW cover story, James Hibberd describes it as “wall-to-wall action,” and says that it switches between the perspectives of several different characters, each of whom has a story that “feels like its own genre.” It’s gonna be nuts.

But we’re talking generalities. Let’s get into specifics. Per Watchers on the Wall, at some point in season 8, there will be a scene between two leading cast members in the crypts under the Winterfell. It will end when they hear a horn being blown. As you know, in the Night’s Watch, a horn is blown to warn of someone approaching — either rangers returning, wildlings at the gates, or White Walkers. We’re not sure what the horn means in this scene, but there are definitely people (or worse) approaching the castle, and they are not friendly…