Game Of Thrones Season 8: 7 Last-Minute Predictions For Episode 4
Are we looking at a Red Wedding style twist?
What if the expected lull after the battle of Winterfell is nothing more than misdirection? What if we're being set up for another sharp shock? Another storm after the storm?
This is, after all, a show about making statements now and there's no way they follow the death of the Night king with anything that doesn't match or surpass it. And there's a pretty big hint in what we've seen of the coming episode to suggest that we're not being told the whole story: it's all there in the trailer.
Or more pertinently, it's not.
Looking back at the trailers for the three episodes so far, we get a broad spread of scenes from through the episode. Even The Long Night's teaser showed footage of the very end of the battle, right before Arya made her Hail Mary (not Sue). But the trailer for episode 4 seems to show a bottle neck of footage, spreading from the immediate aftermath of the battle to Jon leaving Winterfell. We do see Dany off on her own, but there's no suggestion there that it's not at the same time. And this episode is almost 80 minutes long... Something is not being shown.
And that suggests something serious is happening here. Something that's going to potentially make what's come before look like pleasantries between old friends if this take on episode's four possible twist turns out to be true...
7. We See The Cost Of War (And Jon Wants Peace)
The opening of the episode is likely to focus on what we've seen already in the trailer: namely, the Winterfell survivors bringing out their dead and burning them on huge pyres outside of the doors of Winterfell. The stronghold is being rebuilt and so too is Dany's relationship with her dragons, but plans are still being made to go back to war.
It looks, for all intents and purposes, like some semblance of "normality" is returning to the North. There's even a celebration. Celebrations in Game Of Thrones are not good. They don't end well. Not all of the main characters are going to necessarily be there to celebrate, though...