*Warning: This articles contains spoilers for Game of Thrones season 8.
Game of Thrones season eight is just one episode down but suddenly all the pieces are already coming together including who die and who – if anyone – will make it out alive.
Winterfell saw Cersei Lannister (played by Lena Headey) start her plot to bump off her brothers Jaime (Nikoloaj Coster-Waldau) and Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) by summoning their best pal Bronn (Jerome Flynn) to do her dirty work and gifting him a crossbow.
Right now it seems implausible that Bronn would lay a finger on either the Lannister brothers but if we take a look back at some of the biggest killers from the past seven cycles and their eventual demises, his new weapon takes on a whole new meaning.
Reddit user HiImAbigail dropped this mother:
We hate to say it, but this makes a lot of sense and we’re bricking it for poor Tyrion.
#PrayforTyrion
The shocker comes after it was announced today that George RR Martin planned an icky love triangle beytween Tyrion, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and his little sister, Ayra Stark (Maisie Williams).
Way before Game Of Thrones was brought to HBO, when Martin was laying out the family dynamics in the outline for his A Song Of Ice And Fire series, he thought up a storyline in which Jon and Arya fell in love.
Arya – who is Jon’s cousin, but at this time believed they were half-siblings – was originally slated to join her mother Catelyn and brother Bran on their journey to the Wall, and when she arrived at Castle Black, Martin planned for Arya to realise she had feelings for the Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch.
The outline read: ‘Wounded by Lannister riders, they will seek refuge at the Wall, but the men of the Night’s Watch give up their families when they take the black, and Jon and Benjen will not be able to help, to Jon’s anguish. It will lead to a bitter estrangement between Jon and Bran.
‘Arya will be more forgiving… until she realises, with terror, that she has fallen in love with Jon, who is not only her half-brother but a man of the Night’s Watch, sworn to celibacy.
‘Their passion will continue to torment Jon and Arya throughout the trilogy, until the secret of Jon’s true parentage is finally revealed in the last book.’
And then Tyrion was set to throw his hat into the ring: ‘Exiled, Tyrion will change sides, making common cause with the surviving Starks to bring his brother down, and falling helplessly in love with Arya Stark while he’s at it.
‘His passion is, alas, un-reciprocated, but no less intense for that, and it will lead to a deadly rivalry between Tyrion and Jon Snow.’
Game of Thrones continues this Sunday at 9pm on HBO in the US and will be simulcast on Sky Atlantic. Seasons one to seven are available to stream on NOW TV.
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