Happy April 2! No, that’s not an officially recognized national holiday, but you made through the harrowing experience of April Fools and HBO is dropping promos and images and posters for the final season of Game of Thrones like it’s going out of style, so it might as well be.
Today, let’s focus on that promo. “Aftermath” shows us a Winterfell devastated by a major battle. Watch:
Well, that certainly chilling. Let’s dig a little deeper and see what we can find.
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First up, we have a Stark banner flap in the wind; it’s battered and torn.
The camera pans wide and we see the wrecked inner courtyard of Winterfell:
A spear tipped with dragonglass lies around unused.
More wreckage….it looks like a lot of nasty somethings swarmed the place:
The camera pans to the side and we see the direwolf statue that’s guarding the Winterfell crypts.
Here’s a broken door on the walkway that wraps around the inner courtyard:
And now we take a tour of abandoned keepsakes. First, we see the Hand of the Queen pin Dany gave Tyrion at the end of season 6, lying on the snow:
Next, we see a room filled with armor and shields, with Arya’s sword Needle stuck in the ground.
Here’s a shot of the trashed walkway along the battlements:
And then that damn feather from the Crypts of Winterfell teaser shows up, the one Robert put in Lyanna Stark’s statue way back in season 1.
Sansa, if you’ve forgotten, picked up this feather in season 5, so we think this represents her snowbound keepsake. Everybody has one.
Next, we see a wheel…
…that belongs to Bran’s broken wheelchair!
Then there’s Jaime Lannister’s golden hand…
… and finally, Daenerys’ dragon chain hanging on a broken wheel:
How poetic:
The wind blows away some snow and uncovers Jon Snow’s Valyrian steel sword, Longclaw:
And finally, we see a shadowy figure that looks an awful lot like the Night King walking through through the castle gate:
So obviously, this promo, much like the “Crypts of Winterfell” teaser from earlier this year, doesn’t contain any actual footage from the show. The show is trying to send us a message, and that message is: everyone is screwed.
We note that there are some major characters who aren’t represented. We don’t see anything of Cersei’s in the snow (a wine glass, maybe?) nor anything belonging to the Greyjoys (an oar…?), but I wouldn’t read too deep into what’s supposed to be symbolic teaser.
Game of Thrones season 8 premieres on April 14. Get hype (like you weren’t already).
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