Hey guys, Pete here.
This will be my Game of Thrones Season 8 episode 6 trailer breakdown.
I wasn't expecting them to give away much in the trailer, and unfortunately I was right.
Still, we have some things to talk about in this, and it is the final trailer for the
last episode of Game of Thrones ever.
So, it's not like I was going to take the day off after doing this for years.
The first thing that stood out to me is that whole trailer appears to be tied together
and related to a short period of time.
Since we know episode 6 is another 80 minute long episode this means that we're only looking
at a part of the series finale that we imagined was inevitable anyway the time after the fighting
ends and Daenerys looks at what her victory cost.
I wondered as I looked at the last scene if she's spoken to any of the people we see in
this trailer.
I thought Arya returning was the most surprising thing, and we'll talk about that after we
get through the images.
Let's break it down scene by scene, all 9 of them, and then talk about where things
are headed.
The episode 6 trailer opens with a shot of Davos and Jon walking through the ruins of
King's Landing.
We see fire burning inside a window behind them, and a body on the ground in the front
of the frame.
What stands out here is that there is a skeleton on the left of the shot that looks like a
child to me.
It's pretty gruesome.
Even though we saw all that stuff go down in episode 5 it's still pretty gruesome to
see the way that this small skeleton looks framing that window there.
There isn't any voiceover in this trailer so we're left to wonder what these two characters
might be thinking as they walk through the destruction.
The next shot shows Tyrion walking alone doing the same thing Jon and Davos probably doing.
Taking in the reality of the destruction.
We see blood smeared on the walls of the city and fires still burning on the streets.
We have to imagine that Tyrion is in a tough position here after seeing how his plan to
stop the destruction himself didn't exactly work out.
We had the ominous warning from Daenerys that the next time Tyrion failed her would be the
last time.
And, I have to imagine this is going through his head as he's walking towards the center
of town.
After that we see what's left of the Red Keep.
This doesn't reveal much since we witnessed Daenerys attacking it in episode 5.
Since it follows the shot of Tyrion this could be from his perspective, and he would have
to be thinking about Cersei and Jaime.
At this point he might still think its possible that Jaime was able to reach Cersei and get
her out of King's Landing in time.
I doubt by this time that Tyrion knows what happened to them.
Arya arrives next.
We see the remaining Dothraki in front of her, and she's probably going where we see
her next.
If you're keeping track Tyrion and Arya are the only two characters that we see more than
once in this trailer and they are both moving through the city alone.
The next shot is of Arya again, and she's standing behind the Unsullied.
Knowing what she lived through in episode 5 we can have a pretty good guess what's going
through her mind here.
She is probably looking at Daenerys here, and she looks absolutely vengeful as she is
processing the emotions that are running through her.
Then we see what's left of the Unsullied standing looks like what's left of King's Landing.
They've followed their Queen a long way to get to this place, and they should be coming
out of the battle in pretty good shape.
All things considered it was a one-sided battle so they shouldn't have taken too many casualties
during that.
In the second shot we see of Tyrion he looks deeply troubled.
We get a good idea of how the ashes are covering everything in this shot.
This reminds us of a couple things from past seasons.
In season 2 episode 8 Tyrion and Cersei are talking about Joffrey fighting in the battle
of Blackwater.
Cersei tells Tyrion that she has his whore as a hostage to make sure nothing happens
to Joffrey in that battle.
After she presents Ros to him he tells her, "I will hurt you for this.
I don't know how yet, but give me time.
A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy and suddenly your joy will turn
to ashes in your mouth.
And, you'll know the debt is paid."
So, even though in the end he tried to save her and her unborn child he ended up paying
off what he told her in season 2.
In season 7 we heard of ashes again when Tyrion tells Daenerys, "Conquering Westeros would
be easy for you, but you're not here to be Queen of the Ashes."
Daenerys itself echoes that later on when she's talking to her allies about attacking
King's Landing by saying, "I'm not here to be the Queen of Ashes."
This of course leads into one of Lady Ollena giving one of her famous speeches.
Saying, "He's a clever man, your hand.
I've known many clever men.
I've outlived them all, you know why?
I ignored them.
The Lords of Westeros are sheep.
Are you a sheep?
No, you're a dragon.
Be a dragon."
In retrospect I'm not sure this is what the Queen of Thorns had in mind, but there definitely
was some dragon going on in King's Landing in episode 5.
There is a quick look at the Dothraki cheering, raising their weapons in the air.
They look victorious.
They look happy with their victory.
Then we see the closing shot of the trailer as Daenerys walks out to address the assembled
soldiers.
It's pretty clear that King's Landing is destroyed here, and her troops at least seem to be satisfied
with what went down.
As we saw in episode 5 she decided to be a dragon, and so the Queen of Ashes it is.
It's a very powerful image this last image, and it really drives home the uncertainty
of how everything is going to go past this scene.
It's also clear that the other main characters who followed Dany to this point are conflicted
about what just happened, and that's about as far as they're going to go, and that's
about it for what they're going to give away to us in this trailer.
So, we have some scenes that look like they take place directly after the battle.
We can't tell how much time has passed, I mean there are fires still burning out at
this point, but it's hard to imagine that too much of the story will unfold before this
scene we have of Daenerys looking out over the troops.
Jon and Davos will most likely be reckoning with what they just went through and thinking
about how to proceed.
Beyond that we can only speculate on where the rest of the episode might go.
I'll wait until later this week to see if they release any other pictures before I get
into all of that.
The ashes in the trailer do make a good impression.
Beyond the callbacks I mentioned above it reminds me of the long running debate about
the visions from earlier seasons.
In Daenerys' House of the Undying vision, and later in Bran's weirwood vision we saw
the destroyed throne room.
Ever since then people have debated over whether it was ash or snow falling from the sky, and
I guess now we do know.
Makes you wonder what the throne room will actually look like we see Dany entering it
in episode 6.
I mentioned being surprised about Arya's return.
At the end of episode 5 I thought we might be witnessing her riding away for good after
her conversation with the Hound.
The fact that she returned makes you wonder what part she'll play in the aftermath.
Obviously we followed her harrowing journey through the destruction so we know what she
saw.
But, we also saw her change her mind about killing Cersei.
My guess is that a bunch of fans now will jump on the idea that she's going to kill
Daenerys, and that would make some sense.
There's the whole "green eyes" thing that people keep bringing up in my comments [laughing].
But, I do wonder since it seems odd to have her change her course in episode 5 only to
re-up on being a killer in episode 6.
I'm really not sure.
Let me know what you guys think as far as what part she'll play in the comments of this
video.
If she's there as things are going down then I have to expect she's going to play a part
in whatever comes next.
So, being a main character, being involved, it seems pretty important.
In this trailer we don't see anyone from the story who wasn't in King's Landing for the
battle.
Episode 6 being the final episode of the entire series means that we're definitely going to
be travelling north to Winterfell, or the players that are there will be coming to King's
Landing.
Daenerys framing her betrayal as Jon betraying her by telling Sansa was one of the things
that really stood out to me in the last episode.
While it seemed like there was a pretty good chance Varys wouldn't make it out of the episode
alive, I was definitely surprised when Dany shifted the blame for the betrayal from him
to Jon and Sansa.
She gave Jon a chance to come back to her and in that process called out Sansa for what
she'd done.
So, there's absolutely a conflict brewing between these two characters.
Besides Dany, Tyrion is certainly the character in the toughest spot in the episode 6 trailer.
As viewers we can understand what he did by freeing Jaime, but based on the way things
played out we know that it's going to come back up.
I think it would be foolish to try to suppose what's actually going through the Queen's
mind at this point.
I went over the path that she traveled to reach this destination in my video yesterday,
but we're in the dark as far depth she's sunk to at this time.
This makes Tyrion's outcome uncertain.
On the one hand he could explain away the fact that he freed Jaime based on wanting
to get Cersei to surrender, and he is essentially the only adviser she has left.
On the other hand what are the chances that Daenerys will be keen to see this in any other
way than a betrayal?
That's about all there is to say about this trailer.
We still have 80 minutes of story left to tell so there's a lot that can happen.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think about how they're going to wrap things
up.
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