Game of Thrones season 8: 5 last-minute Sansa Stark predictions

Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister. Photo: Helen Sloane/HBO

Sansa brings down Cersei

You heard it here first. Sansa’s going to be at least partly responsible for ending the inevitable civil war that Cersei Lannister’s going to start this season. With everyone distracted by the threat of the Night King and the White Walkers, Sansa’s pretty much the only person still banging the drum about how Cersei’s a legitimate threat. (Not to mention totally untrustworthy.)

She’ll probably still be saying it by the time the battle against the undead is finished, and maybe then someone will actually listen to her.

To be fair, it seems unlikely that Sansa will be the person to kill Cersei, in the end. (If we’re all assuming Cersei has to die, which seems accurate.) That role will probably go to Arya or Jaime, with an outside shot of Tyrion. Arya has her list after all, and the Lannister brothers have the whole valonqar prophecy thing going for them. But, given that Sansa and Cersei have been set against each other as both adversaries and strange mirrors, it still seems smart to assume that Sansa will be a key figure in her downfall in some way.

She spent quite a long time in King’s Landing and learned many lessons from Cersei along the way about power and politics. Out of all the major Game of Thrones players that aren’t Lannisters, she probably knows Cersei better than anyone, and could make a good guess about the things she’s likely to do.

Perhaps Sansa will be the one to convince everyone that Cersei will inevitably betray them all, or remind everyone about that secret store of wildfire under the Red Keep. Maybe she’ll fill Arya in on all Cersei’s weaknesses, or convince Tyrion that his sister has to go. However it happens, it’s past time for the rest of the Game of Thrones good guys to take her insight seriously.