![]() Jon was always likely to meet them in The North or at The Wall. The only way for them to get south would be by obliterating The North. I feel the Army of the Dead were always likely to be fought/defeated in The North. They probably wouldn’t decline a chance to procreate, but then again, maybe they would. Until I know more about what their ultimate plan is, I wouldn’t assume procreation is a priority for them, but you never know. We just know that they seem to be interested in killing everyone/everything. We really don’t know what’s motivating the WW or what their ultimate purpose is yet. The WW were created from humans, but it doesn’t look like their instinct have changed: the fight to extend their habitatto increase their numbers and they have to increase their numbers to extend their habitat – its all about survival of the spieces at the end. And in general, procreation is a basic instinct of all the spieces. The WW are few and not invulnerable: even if they took over Westeros there would still be a risk, that they die by accidetaly cutting themselves with dragonglass or Valyrian steel left by the humans. Well, procreation should be the NK’s purpose one way or another. This is unlikely to be some random castle that we haven’t seen before that they’re building these elaborate sets and props for. And since they’ve constructed this whole new set it’s probably going to be King’s Landing, considering they couldn’t be bothered to construct new sets for the sieges of Casterly Rock and Highgarden. I can’t see why they would be constructing trebuchets for anything other than a human-based siege. I could envisage Theon and/or Yara rocking up with the Iron Fleet at King’s Landing late in the game, just as Theon promised Robb before he betrayed him. They’ve also already set up a potential Golden Company / Euron / Theon twist that would become redundant if Cersei is already dead and millions of King’s Landingers assimilated into the Night King’s army. I can’t see how or why the Night King would bypass all of these major narrative obstacles to attack King’s Landing, kill Cersei and then meet Jon/Dany in some final showdown. Plus the shortcuts to defeating the Night King and his army have already been established. I think it would make most sense as things stand if the Night King is defeated and then our survivors march on King’s Landing to defeat Cersei and unite the Seven Kingdoms once and for all.Įverything that is needed to defeat the Night King now resides in The North: Dany and the dragons, Jon, Bran, all the Valyrian steel, a horde of Dothraki, the Unsullied, Jaime Lannister, the North and Vale armies… It very much looks like a castle is going to be sieged in season eight, and the sequence will be big enough to warrant building all of it! With each new photo we form a better picture of what this new set is supposed to be: initial reports suggested that the sequences set here would involve a controlled fire two massive defensive walls seem to headline this elaborate set and now a siege engine has materialized nearby. However, there is little doubt the trebuchet will be moved somewhere, as shipping containers weren’t really a thing in the Middle Ages, so it’s likely that the siege engine will end up as one of the many props in the larger castle set, which is on the other side of the road. Though the trebuchet is near the new castle set, it’s currently not in the exact same location, so there is no way to know if they will belong to the same sequence. Here’s a closer look: Judging by the shipping containers around it, the trebuchet appears to be about 25 foot high! There is an opening between the walls with a rise at their end perhaps for a gigantic entrance Watchers on the Wall commenter Apollo brought these new photos to our attention, taken by Northern Irish reporter Paulo Ross, which not only show the trebuchet but also offer a much better sense of the distribution of the new castle set. Or a siege, at the very least!įilming for Season 8 looks to be almost underway. And if there was any doubt, now a new siege engine has appeared nearby. You don’t build an entire castle set for a quick appearance - the only times sets of this magnitude have been built, they were either permanent locations, such as Winterfell and Castle Black, or structures specifically designed for a battle sequence, such as the battlements of King’s Landing built in Magheramorne for the Battle of Blackwater Bay.Ĭonsidering the next season will also be the last, permanence is not a likely quality for any set, so it must be the alternative: the kind of 360º cohesive set designed for a dynamic action setpiece. Whatever it is the Game of Thrones production is building next to their studios, it’s big. We have only seen trebuchets once before mounted on the slavers’ ships in the siege of Meereen
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