Game Of Thrones Season 8: 7 Clues From Episode 3's Trailer

6. ...But It WILL Still Be Personal

The best thing Sapochnik has brought to the table as a Thrones director is the marriage of massive scale battle sequences but also personal character focus. The Battle Of The Bastards and Hardhome in particular weren't just some of the most impressive action-oriented episodes of the show's entire history, they were also incredibly tightly focused on characters. Neither ever lost their human hearts, in other words.

Watching a battle as incredibly vast as The Battle Of The Bastards and yet feeling at times like Jon was the only concern - when you tangibly feel him clambering for air and life - is absolutely magnificent and terribly tense and thats probably what we can expect once more. The trailer certainly seems to suggest that Sapochnik has loaded in those more intimate moments.

He's also notably a big fan of Jon Snow as a character, which we get a hint of in the few close-up shots of him (presumably in the Godswood). For a show with such a big battle raging to pull focus in that intimately is a hell of a bold choice, but it's what Thrones does best in those moments.

There is also time for some quieter moments too. For instance, we get some close moments between Dany and Jon as they look over the battlefield.

Interestingly, this exchange, which looks pretty heated and probably stems from Jon telling Dany about his true parentage seem to happen miles away from Winterfell as the pair lay in wait for the Night King with their dragons out of view. Close enough to help, but far enough away to not deter him, as was said last episode.

This is how far away a safe distance to help is, apparently...

That seems just dangerously out of reach, if you ask me. Almost the exact distance it would take for someone to JUST miss out on saving all their friends and allies for the sake of drama, if you like.