Game of Thrones season 8 spoilers: The reappearing banners

Even as changes come to one of the last major known setpieces of Game of Thrones season 8, some things remain mysteriously the same.

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If nothing else, production for season 8 of Game of Thrones really doesn’t want us to deduce anything about what’s going on with King’s Landing. Well, challenge accepted, production. (We’re probably not going to have it exactly right, but we’re absolutely willing to try.)

Twitter user A Red Priestess, as well as our own sister site, Winter is Coming, both identified this as a particular mystery.

Check out the below photos. Guess what’s made a return?

So, at least for now on set, King’s Landing remains part of the Lannister holdings — and those banners look suspiciously undamaged considering the fire work that’s been done to the towers. Then again, the Lannister wall, as we’ll call it, doesn’t quite look like it’s been worked on yet besides the initial construction. In fact, it’s a suspiciously red color, making us suspect that our theory that this is a sweep of the city might actually be correct. WiC goes further and explicitly calls it the Red Keep.

However, at the time, we did speculate that the Keep itself would burn. Right now, at least, that doesn’t look to be the case. If this assault comes from Daenerys, what better way to announce your presence than to torch a good part of the city, then land outside of — or on top of — the gates of King’s Landing, announcing your presence to the current ruler in a very large, obvious way? She’s done it before in the Dragonpit meeting of season 7. She could absolutely do it again.

Of course, there’s another, more practical answer, and that’s that set production and design simply hasn’t gotten to the Lannister wall yet. After all, we know it took some time to get the towers down to this level.

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What’s your theory for this development of the set?