Game of Thrones season 8: Major spoiler seen from miles around set
Things aren't looking so good
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HBO has done an incredible job keeping Game of Thrones spoilers under wraps for season 8 with sets being guarded like high-security jails, but some scenes are so big there's really nothing you can do.
This was the case its Moneyglass estate location in Northern Ireland this week, where a pivotal scene was filmed.
*Here's your spoiler warning - and seriously, this is a major, potentially endgame one.*
A video posted by Steven McAuley on Facebook (via Watchers on the Wall) showed the Winterfell set on fire. And not 'someone fetch the Maester and a bucket of water' on fire, but 'very probably burning to the ground' on fire.
Flames used to signal Daenerys' involvement, but with the Night King now in charge of wight Viserion, perhaps this is his work? You would think the flames would be blue in this case, but goddamnit I do not understand the intricacies of colour-varying dragon fire.
"We did a massive read-through in October, and I think pretty much everybody cried at one point," Cersei Lannister actor Lena Headey said recently, and perhaps the Stark actors shed a tear over Winterfell's demise.
Winter fell, and Winterfell fell.
As for the show's finale, which could be set long after the Starks' home goes up in flames, Tyrion Lannister has described it as "heartbreaking".
Game of Thrones season 8 is expected on HBO and Sky Atlantic in 2019.
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