Game Of Thrones Season 8 Premiere: 10 Biggest Questions After 'Winterfell'

6. Are We Going To See An Island Escape?

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With Theon off to Winterfell, Yara makes an important point about being safe on the Iron Islands, because the dead cannot swim.

Does that mean, if/when things go wrong at Winterfell, we could see Jon, Daenerys et al flee for the islands around Westeros, whether that's the Iron Islands or, quite likely, Dragonstone? And if so, just how safe will they be?

History of the first Long Night is patchy, but records seem to agree that similar events impacted other areas of the Known World. It can't just be as simple as hot-footing it across some water, can it?

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