It’s the eternal struggle when it comes to Game of Thrones: to spoiler, or not to spoiler. And while most fans have made the decision early on to completely avoid all leaks of scripts, plot points, and set photos, this week’s early leak of episode four was probably especially hard to resist. Those who did resist, though, were treated to a spectacle that the 360p resolution screener copy just couldn’t do justice. That leaked version also didn’t contain the trailer for episode 5 of the season.
If you’re like me, you intend to turn the TV off after every Game of Thrones episode before the trailer for next week’s show starts, but somehow never quite make it in time. “Oh, I’ll just take a peek,” you say. And you watch it. Then you watch it again on the internet. And then you go through it frame by frame looking for hints at what we can expect from episode five. Well, maybe you don’t do that last part, but I did and now you can benefit from it.
We’re about to discuss everything you can see in the episode 5 trailer, so if you want to go into next week’s show pure, flee now!
Here we see the remnants of Jaime Lannister’s army being brought before Daenerys for judgement. Jaime might want to consider hanging out at the bottom of the Blackwater River until all this blows over.
“Bend the knee and join me,” Daenerys says. “Or refuse, and die.”
Sounds like something a certain sister might say. Tyrion is clearly starting to question his decision to wipe his family off the map and replace Cersei with another potential tyrant in Daenerys.
Witness the aftermath of the devastation a single dragon can wreak on the countryside. The entire region is reduced to ash. A convincing recruitment tool for Team Targaryen or something that will band the Seven Kingdoms together against Dany’s rule?
“You need to find a way to make her listen,” Varys says. Because why would Varys want to stick out his neck and try himself? It seems like all of Dany’s advisers are starting to feel like they’re one or two steps away from becoming dragon snacks.
Daenerys returns to Dragonstone atop Drogon, whose demeanor hasn’t been improved by getting skewered in that last battle. Or maybe he’s just picking up on all that potent sexual tension between Jon and Dany.
“Whatever stands in our way, we will defeat it,” Cersei says. By “it” she means dragons and by “we” she really means Qyburn, who hopefully has a couple other scorpion-quality ideas on how to even out this war.
Winterfell putting out the word that a White Walker army is about to attack the Wall. How many lords are going to assemble armies and join the battle versus run away? “Free punch and pie at Eastwatch” may have been a more effective message.
“Bran saw the Night’s King and his army marching towards Eastwatch.” Let’s hope those cave paintings really made an impression because the North needs Dany bad right now.
That’s a pretty big army, probably consisting of every formerly living thing that didn’t take up Jon Snow’s offer to hide on the southern side of the Wall. We look forward to finding out that all the actors in this scene are also part of death metal bands.
Next Sunday can’t come fast enough.
