The official poster for Game of Thrones season 8 is horrifying
By Dan Selcke
What the f**k, HBO?
Sorry, I just the new poster for the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones and I overreacted. But still…what the f**k, HBO?
Okay, so what we have here is all of our favorite characters — feel free to pick out everyone you can — dead and arranged in the snow in the shape of the Iron Throne. Even for this show, that is dark.
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If you’ve forgotten, the White Walkers have a history of arranging body parts in weird crop circle formations, and the poster seems be a reference to that:
As disturbing as the new poster is, I definitely prefer it to the first poster for season 8, which mashes the Iron Throne together with Drogon in an idea that’s cool on paper, but just makes me think of a dragon hand puppet more than anything:
What do you all think of the new poster? Are you as disturbed as I am? When you combine this with the very bleak teaser HBO dropped earlier today, they are forecasting rough times ahead.
Who else needs a hug?
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