If you have been one of the lucky ones to be able to see the first chapter of the eighth season of Game of Thrones -brief update: looks like HBO is up and running but some users continue to complain about cuts during the streaming of the chapter-, surely now you have certain doubts and questions about this first episode that at first seems to be somewhat... decaffeinated. Well it's time we talked about all its hidden details. Forward.
Attention XNUMX-hour: This is not a summary as such of the first episode but a compilation of all those details and curiosities of the chapter. Even so, all the points imply, of course, talking about what was seen in the episode and therefore it is full of spoilers. Read it only after watching it.
Details and secrets of 'Winterfell'
The first episode of the eighth season of Game of Thrones is already on the air (well... more or less), so it's time to analyze it in detail and collect all that information that you may have at first glance Have not you noticed. Entitled «Winterfell» («Winterfell»), is being considered by some fans as an episode that is too «quiet» and somewhat decaffeinated, awarded by the little action which is seen in it.
However, this first chapter is full of details and even winks that although they are not going to change the fact that our hearts have not set a thousand, they are worth being pointed out. Let's go with it, but not before leaving you (on these lines) with the intro of the new season.
· The beginning and end are loaded with symbolism that alludes to the first episode of the series.
have you had true déjà vu watching "Winterfell"? That is because of the many winks that it hides with respect to the first chapter that we saw of the series. now they are Daenerys Targaryens and Jon Snow, but at the time they were the king Robert Baratheon and his wife Cersei Lannister those who came to Winterfell on horseback under the watchful eye of all the northerners. Do you think it is pure coincidence? Well, pay attention to this: the music that plays when the Mother of Dragons and the King of the North appear is the same one that can be heard when the rulers of the Seven Kingdoms came to the North to visit the Starks. And that's not to mention the entrance itself through the gates of Winterfell, with a stark family (well, what's left of it) in the same waiting attitude.
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There are of course more similarities: while in this season we see a small boy climbing the treess watching how Daenerys Targaryen's entourage arrives, in the first chapter of the series, he was the restless Bran who did the same (scaling the walls of the fortress) to see how the troops arrived from King's Landing. Likewise Arya she also gives us another moment that will surely be familiar to you: she herself was trying to sneak into first row among the people while the cavalry passed by, a scene that we have now also been able to see in this premiere.
Someone has been in charge of facilitating our work . -a user named ycartz and has made a video in which the scenes of the two chapters are compared at the same time. You have it below so you can check everything at a single glance.
https://youtu.be/XjPzhciStLQ
And the comparisons continue. You may not even remember, but the first episode of the first season of Game of Thrones starts in a rather grotesque way: with several dismembered bodies in the snow, forming a kind of geometric figure. It is not the same one that we see in the episode released today -we will talk about that a little later-, but again we find a familiar scene. Just as the death of the child Lord Umber, staked to the wall, sounds to us - in the first season we also saw a girl staked to a tree.
In the same way, we find a striking parallelism between Sam and Jon Snow, when they meet in the Catacombs and the first reveals to the second his true origin, with the scene shared in the same place by Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark, also talking about Jon's mother - without the king knowing.
But without a doubt the culminating moment of this episode in terms of similarities -and the very great moment that he offers us- is the end, where we see Jamie Lannister and Bran together in a reunion that seems very interesting. Precisely the end of the first chapter of the first season was also carried out by the two of them, when the Kingslayer catches Bran in the window and pushes him vacuum.
· Who the hell is Eddie, the redhead?
When Bron is in his room surrounded by several women dedicated to the oldest profession in the world, one of them talks about Eddie, the red-haired gentleman who has arrived with his face completely burned (after a confrontation with Daenerys's troop and her dragons).
The allusion to this character could be completely trivial, but many think that it has some other meaning -after all Game of Thrones never gives threadless stitch. In fact, some believe that it could be a kind of nod to none other than E, the singer, who made a small cameo in the seventh season as a soldier of the Lannisters that cost him enormous criticism from fans -had to delete his Twitter account. What do you think?
I'm wondering if the ginger Lannister soldier “Eddie” who we're told had his face (and eyelids!) burned off by a dragon during that Bronn scene is a reference to this guy #game of Thrones #EdSheeran pic.twitter.com/77XShUDXqN
—James Hibberd (@JamesHibberd) April 15th 2019
Arya's Order
Arya has commissioned Gendry to make her a special weapon. What's more, she has even given him a drawing of how it should be so that he can make it for her. It goes without saying that at this time half the planet is arguing about said sketch. And it is that although our favorite Stark warrior already has a dagger made with Valyrian steel, but she is clearly preparing for war with an even more powerful weapon. It would be a kind of "two in one", some kind of double-ended dagger that separates into two shorter daggers, one of them also made of Valyrian steel - or so it is believed judging by the images.
Is this a clue that tells us that Arya will be in charge of killing the King of the Night? What we do know (or rather we believe because the images follow each other quite quickly) is that Arya will use her weapon in her battle as could be seen in the official trailer of the season (min. 1.22)
https://youtu.be/eUmV9WXqhTk
· The spiral left by the White Walkers, what does it mean?
Before we commented that in this first episode we have seen again a modus operandi that sounds familiar to us: dismembered bodies forming a figure. This creation has already appeared on the scene several times, and seems to always symbolize the same thing: the origin and creation of the White Walkers. so it say many fanss that they have not been slow to look for other similar images in episodes of previous seasons.
· Jon has ridden a dragon. Do you know his name?
We all expected to see this moment on the screen and it has finally happened. What you may not know is the curious symbology which again has the fact that Jon Snow has ridden Rhaegal and not another Drogon. Do you remember what Jon's father's name is? Indeed, rhaegar Targaryen. Of course, I do not know if you will be with me, but I hoped that the first time Jon got on the dragon everything would be a little more epic and not that he lived it with the face of circumstance that our hero has had throughout the little trip...
Cersei is pregnant and plans to make him possibly the next King of the Seven Kingdoms
Yes, Cersei already said at the end of season seven that she was pregnant, but there were many who thought that it was a mentira by the queen to make her brother and lover, Jaime, stay with her and not leave for the North. Now we know that the evil Lannister is actually expecting a child and not only that: she will pretend to pass him off as the new crown prince, probably making believe Euron that is his after having spent the night with him. You already know that when it comes to making plans… Cersei is quite twisted.
· Extra: there is already a trailer for the second episode.
HBO has not taken long to leave us a advance from the second episode. If you are one of those who like to take a look at what is going to happen, you have it right below. Hold on to the chair and go ahead, because if this chapter has seemed calm to you... it seems that they are going to make up for all with episode 2.