Five best and worst moments from the season 8 trailer

The official trailer for Game of Thrones season 8 has dropped, and it’s as wild, wooly, dark and enigmatic as expected. Clocking in at two minutes and three seconds, it’s a potential heart-pounder for fans, inspiring excitement, dread, concern for our favorites and — running under it all — a current of sadness; this is the last season, after all, and everything we see from here on in is the last of its kind.

So what to make of this new trailer? The discussions are raging at multiple levels, but I’m here to give you my immediate, visceral reactions; my primal knee-jerk! As with the Knee-Jerk Reactions to new episodes, we’ll list the five best Valyrian Steel moments and the five worst Flea-Bottom Brown Moments. Hey, it’s all in fun.