Game of Thrones season 8 spoilers: Will Winterfell fall?

Ready your hearts now, Game of Thrones fans, because the freshest spoiler images seem to suggest that season 8 could end up wrecking a familiar location.

Warning: We here at Culturess have always been aficionados of Game of Thrones spoilers, and as we wait for season 8, that hasn’t changed. If you aren’t, that’s okay!

Have you set aside your Game of Thrones theorizing, speculating and flat-out guessing? You might want to reconsider that now. Our sister site, Winter is Coming, has offered forth the supposition that Winterfell might see a full-blown action sequence, and we’re not talking a retread of the season 6 fight that mostly took place outside Winterfell. We’re talking the actual possibility of a siege-like situation.

As WiC itself points out, the odds are that it’s going to be the Night King on one end of the battle. So, let’s speculate on when this could take place in terms of the season. It’s clear that the work isn’t yet done from the images, so we don’t expect shooting to start particularly soon, but soon-ish might be a safe estimate.

On a practical level, if this is an early event in season 8, then what are the odds that Daenerys shows up on her dragon yet again to at least mitigate the damage if not save the day? Would the show repeat that kind of beat so soon after “Beyond the Wall”?

Presumably, it would mirror the danger she and Jon faced then. In that vein, it would make sense to let this happen early on in the season — early enough that perhaps this combat scene could, in fact, end up also pulling double duty as the reveal to Daenerys that her thought-dead Viserion is no longer her Viserion.

In that sense, it wouldn’t work as a end-of-episode reveal, because it wouldn’t shock the audience, who knows about this already. It could work as an emotional climax and lead into a denouement scene between Daenerys and Jon, presumably among what’s left of Winterfell.

Throughout the show, no house has had quite the same level of obsession with their castle as the Starks with Winterfell. Granted, no house has gone through quite the same set of events as the Starks.

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Doesn’t it seem likely that the show will take it away from them once and for all to inspire them to fight on as if they have nothing left, because, well, they won’t?