Game Of Thrones Season 8 Breakdown: What 'Winterfell' REALLY Means

11. Yara Lives, The Ironborn Retreat (Mostly)

As suspected, Euron took Yara with him to find the Golden Company for his own entertainment (though it turns out it was more for company than anything more nefarious - never can tell with the glam rock pirate, though, can we?). He could have killed her off easily, but he chose to keep her alive because ultimately he's still committed to his family name.

As a pointed reminder that he's not really in it for anything but Greyjoy success and more power, he even says he'd simply hitch his wagon to someone else if it turned out Cersei's was the losing side.

Anyway, as quickly as it turns out that Yara is alive, her brother arrives and rescues her in a display of stealthy prowess far more fitting of the New Improved Theon rather than meek old Reek. In a matter of moments, they're free and we don't even get to see Euron's discovery of it, while Theon expresses his desire to go and fight for the Starks and presumably get himself killed.

Yara, meanwhile does what a sensible person would and gives the Ironborn the Dorne treatment, wrapping their story up quickly to tie off a loose end by heading back to the Iron Isles. But at least the reasoning of "it's a good fall-back that the Night King can't get to" makes sense and offers us an ominous hint that the North WILL fall and Dany's army will need somewhere over the water to retreat to. Somehow.