Game Of Thrones Season 8: 7 Clues From Episode 5's Trailer
Something wicked this way comes...
It's almost time to pack away your Game Of Thrones fandom again into the parts of your mind where it won't burst out every Monday morning and you're not spending hours endlessly theorising about some minute behaviour by a character in the background and why it might confirm that they're going to die/not going to die/a secret Targaryen/ a f*cking mermaid.
That's because next week sees the penultimate episode of Game Of Thrones' final season and with the shocking revelations of the end of The Last Of The Starks and the likely impact on Dany, we're in for some serious fireworks.
Unsurprisingly, the trailer for the next episode has gone heavy on building suspense without showing too much. And yet, there's still a fair bit in there to discuss ahead of the new episode.
Here's the trailer...
So, what can we learn from this...?
7. Dany Doesn't Simply Burn King's Landing Immediately
One of the strangest revelations of the trailer is the implication that Dany greets the death of Missandei by walking away and not taking immediate action against Cersei for it. This is particularly strange considering the fact that she had batted away Vary's concerns about burning King's Landing and seemed to suggest that was her exact plan last episode.
For her to then take on Missandei's death and not react furiously and swiftly suggests that either she did listen to Varys and banked the fears that the people would not take to a queen so willing to burn them, or her emotional state is even more dangerous than outright fury.
That could be taking us in some interesting directions...