Game of Thrones: All the Times the Premiere of Season 8 Gave Us Major Déjà Vu
Warning: Big spoilers for Game of Thrones below!Despite spending weeks pouring over the official trailer and photos from the set, nothing could prepare us for the eighth season premiere of Game of Thrones.
The episode opens with an eerily familiar sequence.
Soldiers march along a road lined with curious faces.
A child, young Lord Umber, scurries through the crowd in an attempt to get a better glimpse of the royal procession that follows the fearsome army.
The camera swoops down and captures the face of Ayra Stark who smiles at the boy.
Only then do we begin to understand that the scene parallels Ayra's own introduction to us from the first episode of the series when King Robert Baratheon's family first arrived at Winterfell.
In a way, the entire sequence is a subtle nod to how this episode is the beginning of the end to the series.
However, the