Game Of Thrones Season 7: 10 Huge Questions After The New Trailer

Will the new season be awesome, or super-awesome?

Game Of Thrones Season 7 Trailer Jaime
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Question: How much hype can Game of Thrones build by only showing about 4 minutes of content between two trailers?

Answer: Quite a bit, as it turns out.

Game of Thrones' second trailer has arrived, and thankfully, it's completely devoid of any spoilers. Instead of telling viewers what will happen, it instead allows us to guess what will happen in the upcoming season, which looks set to be focused almost exclusively on the war between Daenerys and Cersei.

Set to Ramin Djawadi's excellent score The Light of the Seven, the new trailer raises the stakes and the excitement. The music choice is interesting in itself, given that it was previously used for the destruction of the Sept of Baelor. Will this season have the same progression: starting off promising, including a creeping sense of dread, and ending with the horrific deaths of countless characters? (Probably. This is Game of Thrones after all.)

With the new trailer comes a new set of questions viewers will want answered when Game of Thrones returns on July 16. How will the remaining 13 episodes of the series play out?

10. What Will Sansa's Role Be?

Game Of Thrones Season 7 Trailer Jaime
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In Season 1, Sansa Stark was a whiny spoiled brat who was literally the only person in all of Westeros that couldn't see just how psychopathic Joffrey was. Now, in Season 7, the second trailer has Sansa set up as the most important character.

The trailer opens with a shot of Sansa (narrated by Littlefinger), and ends with a narration of her own. Being the focus of both the beginning and end sends a massive sign that Sansa will have a very large role to play in the season.

However, what exactly will that role be? Presumably Littlefinger will try to turn her against Jon. Just how successful he will be remains to be seen, although getting assaulted by Jon in the first trailer is not a great sign for Lord Baelish.

Then there's the question of the tension teased between Jon and Sansa at the end of Season 6. Following Lyanna's rousing speech declaring the "bastard son of Ned Stark" to be the King in the North, Sansa is one of few that look less than enthused.

After all, Jon might have fought on the front lines against Ramsay, but ultimately it was Sansa that executed him. After Jon jeopardized their entire plan by rushing into battle following RIckon's death, it was Sansa's secret alliance with the Vale that saved the day. Yet, Jon gets all the glory.

Could she try to usurp the throne from her "half-brother?" Or will she prefer to remain in her pack of wolves?

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