Thank The Seven Gods We Finally Have New Deets On Game Of Thrones S8

The first episode of season eight apparently has some huge callbacks to season one.

The 1000 year winter aka the wait between Game of Thrones seasons seven and eight, continues unabated, but finally, we have some official new details to pore over ahead of the final season airing sometime next year.

Entertainment Weekly have been blessed with a set visit and a slew of new interviews about what will no doubt be the biggest pop culture entity of 2019, as hype continues to build to near unbearable levels after the HBO mega-hit about dragons and boobs took an extremely rude year off.

First up in the juicy new EW splash is a brief description of the very first episode of season eight, which sees Daenerys and her new boo/secret nephew Jon Snow arriving at Winterfell to start chatting what to do re: all those ice zombies up north.

The opening of season eight apparently explicitly imitates scenes from Game of Thrones’ very first episode but instead of King Robert coming in to swing his dick about, it’s Queen Dany, and not everyone’s super chuffed to meet our Khaleesi with EW noting “Sansa isn’t thrilled that Jon bent the knee to his fancy new Targaryen girlfriend”.

The other main takeaway from the piece is all about the final season’s epic last battle between the living and the dead and from all reports, it’s abso-fucking-lutely massive.

Remember season six’s supremely brutal Battle of the Bastards sequence, which at the time was considered the biggest single shoot in HBO history or whatever, taking 25 days to film? Yeah fuck that tiny little squabble, season eight’s big bash is being hailed as the “most sustained action sequence ever made for television or film” taking 55 nights of outdoor shooting followed by weeks (!) of studio follow-ups.

“It’s brutal,” GoT actor Peter Dinklage tells EW. “It makes the Battle of the Bastards look like a theme park.”

Me, rn.

The whole piece is worth a read for any GoT fans, as it delves into more one-on-more stuff with the cast who all talk about the INSANE levels of secrecy they’ve all been kept under for the past two years.

My favourite snippet has to be how Davos Seaworth actor Liam Cunningham hadn’t read a word of a script until he arrived on set, purely because he couldn’t figure out how to get through all the levels of passwords and whatnot attached to his digital copy. Classic Davos am I right?

Read the full piece here and join me in prayer to the Lord of Light that they’ll drop a trailer or something more substantial soon ahead of Game of Thrones return in the first half of 2019.

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