Game of Thrones

Tyrion IS releasing the dragons! oh man this footage I'm so fucking excited.

Things getting a bit tense up North with the Night's Watch.

Tormund, who doesn't look like he's at the Wall anymore.

Meanwhile, in Mereen, it looks like Tyrion is about to deal out some justice to some Sons of the Harpy.

Jaime, losing patience with the High Sparrow.

Melisandre at the Wall. Doesn't look so distraught now, does she?

Drogon, coming back for Mummy.

Some new shots of Bran.

Dany, presumably with the Dosh Khaleen, because it's nothing but women in these shots. No idea what's actually happening though.

Some Hannibal Lecter shit going on at the Hall of Faces.

Our Queen in the North, looking badass in her Stark ensemble.

Ramsay, looking a bit lonely.

Nice shot of Sansa, looking ominous.

Dinner with the Freys! Hopefully this one is better than the last. They're mostly Lannister men btw.

Littlefinger, looking uneasy.

Jorah's greyscale intensifies.

Margaery and Loras in black cells.

Davos, with a STARK banner behind him.

A field of burning flayed men.

A new red priestess enters the fray in Mereen!

Jaime, in Lannister armor, presumably at Riverrun.

MOAR TOWER OF JOY GOODNESS.

Someone approaches the High Sparrow while he prays.

Don't know what's happening heer, but they're gettin ded real fast.

Nice shot of Ser Robert Strong. I think it's Jaime in the shot with him, because the hair looks shorter than Cersei's.

Asha/Yara goodness.

Jaime and Mace Tyrell with Tyrell troops at the Sept of Baelor. Note the decorative feather on Mace's helmet.

MOAR WHITE WALKERS!


Davos. Can't tell what the sigils are in the background behind him.

MOAR WHITE WALKERS.

Sam and Gilly.

The Three-eyed Raven. This terrain almost looks similar to what you see in the Tower of Joy flashbacks!

Sansa. PLEASE tell me she's looking at Jon or Rickon or SOME familiar face!!

More Sons of the Harpy action.

Brienne and Pod. Note the Tully banner in the background. So my vote is either Riverrun or somewhere in the Riverlands.

Ser Robert Strong, doing what he does best.

Can't tell who all the banners belong to in these shots. Any guesses?

I wouldn't freak out, because I'm 99% sure this is Bronn that gets Pod in the headlock.

Meera Reed.

Yup. Called it.

At this point in the books I think that Davos is on his way to Skagos to retrieve Rickon. Cannot wait to see Osha again and find out what the hell Skagos looks like!!!!! I feel like if he's representing the Starks, that might be where he's going in the show.

I'm wondering if they're going to do the Skagos plotline, because they probably don't want Davos wandering off too far. There's going to be more than one army involved in the 'battle of the bastards' as many people have dubbed it, and we've learned that the Umbers are definitely going to show up, as well as the Karstarks, and army from the Vale, more than likely. Some I'm wondering if the plotline of Rickon hiding with the Umbers is going to turn out to be true.

Thoros of Myr

Lyanna Mormont! According to Liam, she's a fantastic little actress. Holy hell, I cannot wait!!

Y'know, Mr. I've-brought-back-this-one-dude-multiple-times-with-my-red-priest-powers. Now you KNOW Jon Snow is coming back to life. Goddamn D&D are such trolls.

So initially we had no idea about what the heck was happening in this scene, expect that someone was getting dead fast. My first thought was that someone was trying to have a stab at Bobby Strong just because of the clip that game afterward, but I later threw that out the window after watching it frame by frame.

There is rampant speculation that it may be Jaime stabbing Aerys in the throne room (which I dismissed in a heartbeat), but after watching the trailer again a few more times (that music is epically epic) I began to reconsider a few things.

First of all, in the picture you can almost clearly see it: the shadow on the right--kinda looks like the outline Iron Throne right? And the architecture around it definitely kinda looks like the inside of the Red Keep, or some other nice building in King's Landing.

If you watch it in the slowest speed on youtube (at the 1:07 mark) you can deduce quite a few things. The person on the stabby end of the sword is wearing robes of some sort, and bit too flowy for for the Faith Militant or the High Sparrow. Also, the more you watch it, pay attention to the person's head. It looks almost like they're wearing a crown, right?

The person doing the stabbing is another thing. You can't tell much about what they're wearing, but it appears to be a sort of robe or flowing garment, because of the way it swishes around their feet while they move after the person being stabbed.

The only thing I can think of to debunk this is why would they choose to show this flashback. The Tower of Joy is understandable--we only get Ned's version of the events, which are a product of a fever dream no less, so we can't really consider it accurate, and it's expected to reveal a huge potential plotline.

However, there's never been any doubt the Jaime killed Aerys, seeing as how all of Westeros knows it and he's admitted it as such. I don't know what a flashback of Jaime killing Aerys would add to the narrative. That flashback with Cersei at the beginning of Season 5 didn't add shit, except that she's been a brat since childhood. They didn't even show the part of the prophecy that mattered the most, the part that's shaped her entire life.

So that begs the question... If it's not Jaime and Aerys, what exactly the hell is going on in this scene?

Frame #1 - I posted the frame of Jon Snow because his eyeballs are still open. This is leading the speculation amongst fans, but come on, he had his eyes open when he died. Someone's just closing them for him.

Frame #2 - The clip of Tyrion and Varys with Mereen citizens running past them--I wonder if that's linked to the scene we see in other trailers with the Sons of the Harpy. Probably causing more trouble, not doubt.

Frame #3 - Something is going down with the Night's King and the White Walkers this season. Why do I keep having this nagging feel that they're standing behind the Wall, waiting for it to crumble down? FYI, that was one of the supposed 'plotlines' that was in that fake script leak last year. It's not seeming so fake anymore


Frames #4 and #5 - We see the Faith Militant, closing in on Jaime and the High Sparrow. No wonder my TV husband looks so tense.

But I wonder what the High Sparrow's aim is here. In all likelihood, he may be looking to arrest Jaime because of his involvement with Cersei and her charges of incest, but we know that's not going to happen. Remember, there was a photo released not too long ago of Jaime and Tommen with Myrcella's body in the Sept, so we can probably assume that this scene takes place after that one. Maybe he went to go visit Margaery.

My GAWD I can't wait to find out who's who in the Tower of Joy sequence! I doubt that the man with the two swords is Arthur Dayne, only because Dawn is a greatsword and he would need both hands to wield it, unless the show isn't portraying Dawn that way at all. But I'm more intrigued by the one in the background anyway.

Well, we knew Dany wasn't going to be treated fairly, but damn. At least it gets better. Kinda.

Ellaria. Can't really say much about this clip, except that she's wearing the same outfit we last saw her in, and my feelings for her haven't changed. Book-Ellaria, fine. Show-Ellaria, I'm just waiting for Doran to give that order.

Bran, looking upon a frozen, icy landscape before he sees the Night's King. 99% sure that's the Weirwood tree of the cave they're currently living in. Maybe a vision of the world covered in ice before the Long Night? Or maybe how it looks right now? That's probably the more plausible option.

EDIT: Actually, I take that back. After looking at it, it doesn't look too much like a Weirwood, even if it's covered in snow.