Game of Thrones is back, excitement is at its peak and we now have release date and a teaser, albeit packed with old material, to painstakingly pick apart ahead of season eight.
So it’s no wonder that speculation surrounding the final chapter to come from the fantasy epic has spiralled out of control once again after HBO dropped a nail-biting montage of the rival rulers of the Seven Kingdoms battle it out for the Iron Throne.
The broadcaster dropped the footage in the most exciting tweet of 2018, with the caption: ‘Every battle. Every betrayal. Every risk. Every fight. Every sacrifice. Every death. All #ForTheThrone.’
We’ve got chills, and it’s not because winter actually arrived weeks ago for us Brits – ugh.
But skeptics out there are already suggesting HBO are trying to pull the wool over our eyes, and when it comes to the Game of Thrones finale there won’t be an Iron Throne at all.
Reddit user DreamerOfSpring noted: ‘I started watching after S6 so I only know about the S7 campaign #WinterIsHere. and winter came in S7. I don’t know if previous seasons also had something like that.
‘You can mention if there was, but maybe many expected something about the great war, long night, … but should we assume it was really all #ForTheThrone?’
And, actually, the general consensus is no.
‘It’s a red herring,’ Stargoron agreed. ‘I’m dubious about there being a throne in the end.’
Another user thought the trailer pointed to an episode title for the penultimate instalment, because ‘Cersie, Aegon, Daenerys, Tyrion, The Night King all want to sit on the Iron Throne.’
Shortly after Game of Thrones confirmed season eight will arrive in April 2019 yesterday, director David Nutter jumped into a live Reddit Q&A to reveal each of the final six episodes with be longer than the traditional 60 minutes.
‘They’ll be dancing around the bigger numbers, I know that for sure,’ he told fans.
He added that the final season puts together characters who hadn’t shared screen time in the past.
David revealed: ‘It was a chance for a lot of characters to work together that hadn’t worked together before – or at least hadn’t worked together in a long time – so there was a sense of discovery and appreciation.
‘Everyone saw it was coming to an end so there was a real family sensibility to it knowing that it was about to end — lot of tears, lot of sadness but it was very special.’
Game of Thrones returns to Sky Atlantic and HBO in April 2019.
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