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Winter is Finally Here: Game of Thrones Final Season Premiere

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ IF YOU'RE YET TO SEE THE EPISODE. After waiting for over a year, Winter finally came for us! I’ve never been this excited about a TV series as I am about Game of Thrones. I always ask myself how a show can be this good and have such a great effect on millions of people all over the world. Before the finale premiered, I made sure I saw the entire 7th & 1st seasons again and random episodes from the 2nd to 6th seasons and it made me understand so many things more than I did when I watched it at first. There were so many things that were said in the first season about the undead, the mad king and Ned Stark’s sister Lyanna that definitely went over my head. Watching it a second time gave me proper understanding and I’m so glad I did. One particular scene that stood out for me was when an old lady told a recently crippled Bran about The Undead and he only thought they were scary stories but I really listened to what she said again and now it makes a...

Game of Thrones Season 8- Everything You Need to Know Before the Finale

Millions of people all over the world (including me) have been waiting and literally counting down to the epic final season of HBO's Game of Thrones and I'm so excited that the moment is almost here.So much went down in the last season and now that winter is finally here, it's important we all catch up and take a quick walk down memory lane. CERSEI LANNISTER Cersei is the current ruler of King's Landing and she's carrying her brother, Jamie's child. She lost all three of her children in the previous seasons with two getting poisoned and one committing suicide by jumping off a window. At the end of season 7, the major contenders for the throne all met for the first time at King's Landing to discuss the forthcoming winter. Cersei feels threatened by Daenerys and her dragons and this led her to borrowing a large sum of money from the Iron Bank to be able to find and create new weapons to protect King's Landing. She also captured Ellaria and poisoned her ...