Warning: Contains spoilers for Game Of Thrones season eight.
Game Of Thrones looks set to deliver major character deaths in the battle for Winterfell, but Bran Stark may have foreshadowed a particular individual’s fate in episode two.
The third episode of season eight looks like it will bypass the happy reunions and last night in Westeros antics for a battle against the White Walkers, directed by the show’s battle extraordinaire Miguel Sapochnik.
Considering almost every battle in Game Of Thrones kills off someone of significance, the question has now turned to who will be biting the dust in the battle for Winterfell.
An exchange between Bran Stark and Jaime Lannister, however, may have revealed one potential candidate in everyone’s favourite king slayer.
In the latest episode, Jaime approaches Bran to apologise about the whole pushing him out the window lark back in season one, only for him to surprisingly brush it off as unimportant in face of the battle ahead of them.
Jaime asks if Bran will tell people ‘afterwards’ once the battle is over, which yields a mysterious and typically Three-Eyed Raven response.
Bran asks: ‘How do you know there is an afterwards?’
This could be taken a number of ways. Bran could be directing the message specifically at Jaime’s future, foreseeing his death is on the cards in the coming battle.
It could also be taken generally as the White Walkers will be wiping out everyone in Westeros. Or, it could simply be Bran being typically mystifying Bran.
With Jaime and Brienne Of Tarth sharing an emotional scene as he knighted the latter in a boozy love-in, if Game Of Thrones has taught us anything, it’s happiness usually spells death.
Game Of Thrones season eight continues on Sundays on HBO and Sky Atlantic. Seasons one to seven are available on NOW TV.
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