Geekery: New ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Teaser – Let the Theorizing Begin
The final battle between light and dark, life and death, is coming and the throne will be claimed by the victor. The last season of the acclaimed series hits small screens this coming April, and HBO just started dropping hints at what is to come for the houses of Westeros that remain.
If you haven’t watched season 7 all the way through, go do that.
At the end of season seven Stark, Targaryen, Lannister, Greyjoy, and several other houses are still standing – some of the smaller houses are holding on as the threat looms. Ignoring the threat of cold and darkness is no longer an option. This first teaser focuses on the map on the table in Dragonstone. It’s a place where a lot of discussion and strategizing happened last season, but after watching this teaser those well laid plans seem a little shaky. See what clues you can discern…
When the two meet we get a wall of jagged Dragonglass, and a battle that will be epic. The glass may also have something to do with the new alliance between Dany and Jon. Will ice and fire save Westeros from everlasting darkness?
The two seem to collide around The Twins, which is the home of House Frey. Arya took most of them out, so I’m going to posit that Vale, where House Arryn and Baelish reside, is going to be important. It’s a historical location – the Andals first invaded there 6,000 years before the present timeline. It’s also near Gods Eye and the Isle of Faces where the First Men and the Children of the Forest forged the Pact. It would be fitting to have a large battle in such a place.
It would also be fitting because of the planned prequel HBO is working on. End the current war here, open the new series here to tell the tale of The Pact. The pilot is on order and HBO programming president Casey Bloys has said he’d like to start filming in late spring this upcoming year. It’s being led by Jane Goldman (X-Men: Days of Future Past). Not a lot of news is out there just yet, but we do have some hints from George R.R. Martin himself:
Yes, this is a prequel, not a sequel. None of the characters or actors from GAME OF THRONES will appear in the new show. All of the successor shows we’ve been developing have been prequels, as I have mentioned before. This one really puts the PRE in prequel, since it is set not ninety years before GAME OF THRONES (like Dunk & Egg), or a few hundred years, but rather ten thousand years (well, assuming the oral histories of the First Men are accurate, but there are maesters at the Citadel who insist it has only been half that long). We’re very early in the process, of course, with the pilot order just in, so we don’t have a director yet, or a cast, or a location, or even a title. (My vote would be THE LONG NIGHT, which says it all, but I’d be surprised if that’s where we end up. More likely HBO will want to work the phrase “game of thrones” in there somewhere. We’ll know sooner or later).
So… let the theorizing begin, and will see what happens with the war at hand and the story coming up.
Game of Thrones Season 8 premieres in April.
