

It will be fascinating to see how they develop as the season advances toward the series’ ultimate endpoint. The season eight credits both expand upon that legacy and create a new one. Game of Thrones’ elaborate, clockwork constructions of its world have become one of the show’s most enduring pop culture legacies. Located far North, extremely close to The Wall, it. If you look closely, you’ll see they’re already past Last Hearth, which is indicative of a sequence set there late in the season eight premiere, in which it becomes very clear that Last Hearth is no longer so hearth-y. Once the great castle of the now extinct House Umber, Last Hearth is a currently unoccupied fortification.


The camera dives into and out of a handful of spots on its dramatically compressed map, taking us into the Stark family crypt in Winterfell and the throne room in King’s Landing, as well as through the big hole in the Wall that the Night King’s newly resurrected ice dragon opened up at the end of season seven.Īnd all the while, little tiles in the snow flip over from white to ice blue, to indicate the advance of the White Walkers. 7 winners and 8 losers from Game of Thrones’ final season premiere
