By - A new teaser with new footage has dropped
- Items belonging to Tyrion, Jon Snow, Daenerys and more are shown lying in the snow
- Fan theories, obviously, run amok
Another teaser for season eight of Game of Thrones landed yesterday and, obviously, fans are so intensely, throat-croakingly thirsty for any new pointers on what's going to happen in the season finale that they've been formulating theories based on a minute of footage that doesn't actually include any characters or action whatsoever.
In the extremely foreboding clip - subtitled 'Aftermath' - the camera glides about Winterfell in the manner of that bit at the end of Grand Designs where Kevin McCloud wanders around the finished build and says do you know what? It might have been eight years over schedule and £4 million over budget, but this Sussex barn conversion is exactly the home Andrew and Sara wanted to defend their family from the rampaging undead hordes in.
We're shown a few key items buried in snow: Tyrion's Hand of the Queen pin; Arya's needle; Lyanna Stark's feather; Bran's wheelchair; Jaime's golden hand; Daenerys' dragon chain; and finally, Jon Snow's blood-soaked longclaw sword.
Now, does that mean that they're all going to die in the battle of Winterfell? Probably not. Does it mean that Winterfell is going to fall, and anyone who was sheltering there has had to Mary Celeste it at short notice, leaving their precious bits and bobs behind? Possibly. Along with the dragonglass arrows and the frozen direwolf carving, they all point back to the show's previous seasons and might suggest that we've already been shown all the clues we need to tell where things will end up.
Some fans are saying that actually, these are the personal affects of the characters who will make it to the end of the road - they're resisting the storm and are still just about keeping their heads above the snowdrifts.
Another interpretation is that this is a dream sequence of some sort, maybe one of the symbolism-rich ones Bran gets after he's dropped off in front of the fire with his nightly Ovaltine. Or, it could just be there to add some hype, much like the faces promo before season six which didn't turn out to be a deathly foreshadowing of everyone included in it.
If so: mission accomplished.
