Game Of Thrones Season 8 Premiere: 12 Things You Might've Missed In 'Winterfell'

3. Winter Fell

Game of Thrones Winterfell
HBO

The episode is simply titled Winterfell, and that fact alone you could've missed since HBO didn't reveal it until after the episode, because obviously it was such a major spoiler...

The title does nicely callback to the very first episode, Winter Is Coming, with a reminder that, well, winter has now fallen. It also speaks to the importance of the castle, which is going to be where the heroes make their stand against the army of the dead, with parts of this episode about preparing for that.

It also ties back to where winter did fall as well. Winterfell was built by Bran the Builder of the Long Night, i.e. after the White Walkers had been defeated, i.e. after winter had fallen.

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