Game of Thrones Theory: The Final Battle Is Against Cersei, Not The Night King
Game of Thrones has been hyping the battle against the Night King, but the final big fight of the series will almost certainly be against Cersei.
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Game of Thrones returns for a final season this month, but while the promos have been hyping a showdown with the Night King, the final battle will almost certainly be against Cersei Lannister.
With a little help from an undead Viserion, the White Walkers have finally breached the Wall and are heading South to Winterfell. The battle between the living and the dead, the mystery of the Night King, and Jon Snow’s stand against them has been building since the opening scene of the very first episode. This was the moment that three rangers of the Night’s Watch first met the undead creatures of winter, and the only man to survive that encounter deserted, heading South to meet his death on the business end of Ned Stark’s sword.
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Since then, Game of Thrones has been building up the White Walker threat, taking them from fairy tale monsters to a very real army. At the start of season 8, the Night King and his army will be walking into Westeros… but the fight against them isn’t actually going to be the final battle of Game of Thrones season 8. That will be the battle against Cersei – for the Iron Throne itself.
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Game of Thrones Has Avoided Cersei in Season 8 Marketing
It’s easy to see why fans might think that the Battle of Winterfell, where the armies of the living and the dead meet, is going to be the big one for the season: the marketing has been focused almost exclusively on it. Teasers, trailers, and posters have centered on the Stark family homestead, whether they show the Starks in the crypts, the dragons flying overhead, or the aftermath of the battle in a snowy courtyard. Everything is pointing toward this fight, but it’s also pointing toward that fight happening sooner rather than later.
The choice to make the Battle of Winterfell the focus of the marketing means that it’s going to happen fairly early on in the season. Based on the titles for each episode, it’s assumed that the battle is going to take place in episode 3 – and given that Cersei isn’t about to head up to Winterfell to swing a sword, she’ll still be in King’s Landing after that, ready to defend her throne. It’s likely that the first half of the season will focus more on the North, and the fight against the White Walkers, and the second half will be all about the fight against Cersei. The Queen hasn’t been left out of the marketing (for the most part) because she’s unimportant, but because the showrunners don’t want to reveal who makes it through the first battle to fight her in the second half.
Jon & Dany Return to Dragonstone in Season 8
This scene might seem insignificant, but it’s actually incredibly telling. At the end of the last season, Jon and Dany were on their way North by ship, so the fact that they return to Dragonstone means that they both survive the Battle of Winterfell, and decide to return to the island for some reason. There’s a very (very) slim chance that they somehow return to Dragonstone before the Battle of Winterfell, because this is Game of Thrones and anything could happen, but there is absolutely no reason for them to head North, just to turn around and go back to the island, just to head North again for the battle against the Night King. So, what are they doing there?
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Rose Graceling-Moore has been writing about film, TV and comics since 2013, when she began writing for a local print magazine in Vancouver, BC. Since then, Rose has written for Horror Honeys, Moviepilot and Quirkbooks as well as Screenrant, increasingly focusing on comic books and live-action comic adaptations, as well as diversity and representation on screen. Rose also co-hosted the DC Movies Podcast, and has guested on other nerd and entertainment podcasts over the past five years. Rose’s love of comics began all the way back in the early ‘90s, when she discovered the X-Men while living in Africa (where there wasn’t a whole lot to do but read!), and since then has had an on-again, off-again love affair with not just Marvel, but DC and indie comics as well. You can follow her on Twitter: RoseMooreWrites for tweets about comics, movies, and more.
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