

Weiss failed to understand-especially in its later seasons-is that Game of Thrones is a series more about the characters than it is anything else. Eastern.What showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Game of Thrones Season 8 premieres Sunday, Apon HBO at 9 p.m. The many moving pieces in the final Game of Thrones season are starting to come together, and we can’t wait to see how all of this plays out. Theoretically, he was still behind bars when Arya killed all the Freys at the start of Season 7, and he might very well still be there.Technically, he’s the sole remaining Lord of the Riverlands, so if he were freed he’d be in charge of a large section of Westeros. Edmure was confirmed still alive in Season 6, imprisoned by Walder Frey for that whole time. His wedding to Roslin Frey was the Red Wedding. Fans might’ve forgotten him entirely, but this is Catelyn Stark’s lame brother. In all of this, the most surprising return of all is that of Tobias Menzies’s Edmure Tully. So chances seem high that Arya is totally gonna kill the Red Witch before Game of Thrones Season 8 is through. Jon and Davos Seaworth also hate her these days. Mind you, Melisandre is on Arya’s infamous murder list because she kidnapped Gendry that one time. She also told Arya way back in Season 3 that they would meet again. She was last seen heading to Volantis early in Season 7, when she was very vocal that her fate was to die in Westeros. HBOĬarice van Houten’s Red Witch Melisandre also makes a return. Robin isn't a little boy anymore, but he's probably still odd. So we can probably take this as confirmation that the unlikely duo lives. And the script for the Season 7 finale, “The Dragon and the Wolf,” explicitly states that they “run for their lives and disappear from view,” therefore implying those lives are preserved.

We’ve previously speculated that these two survived the attack on the Wall. With Thoros of Myr dead, Beric probably won’t ever be resurrected again, making him more vulnerable than ever. It was impossible to tell as the Wall was destroyed by the Night King’s new undead ice dragon, but it sure seemed like Tormund and Beric would’ve been buried under all that rubble. Perhaps best of all is a quasi-confirmation that Tormund (Kristofer Hivju) and Beric Dondarrion (Richard Dormer) survived the Wall collapsing onto them at the end of Season 7. It also shows a runtime of exactly 60 minutes, lining up with earlier leaks. On Thursday, Watchers on the Wall noticed what’s probably an accurate cast listing for the Season 8 premiere, provided by analyzing the program details on HBO’s official schedule. A semi-official cast listing for the Game of Thrones Season 8 premiere might’ve just revealed which characters we’ll see in the first episode of the final GoT season.
