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Eight years ago, the opening scene of HBO Game of The Thrones included footage of a White Walker killing someone beyond the wall. In the last season of the series, the wall has finally fallen and the undead army has arrived in Winterfell, where they will face dozens of recognizable characters in the episode of this Sunday night.

HBO has released a series of new photos of the Battle of Winterfell, and we have a theory about what could cause that look on Jon Snow's face.

Here are the new photos, some of which look essentially like screenshots of the trailer for this episode:

HBO is not about to spoil anything major about the episode by posting revealing photos, so most of them are pretty classic. Jon and Dany are likely to take a quick dragon ride to a belvedere and examine the landscape, Brienne shouting a battle cry to his left flank soldiers, Tyrion and Varys have a heart to heart in the crypts, and Arya probably casually announces she and Gendry found themselves connected, provoking Sansa's fantastic reaction.

But this is Jon Snow's last picture – um, excuse me, Aegon Targaryen – it's really worth concentrating. Last week's episode, Jon led a whole meeting preparing everyone for what they are about to fight. So, what could make him look like that face on the battlefield? The king of the night who threw a sword on Bran's face, just seconds before Jon could stop him? Sure. Dany hit by an arrow, falling from Drogon's back as she collapsed to the ground? May be!

But if…

What if the time came for ice spiders as big as hunting dogs? When Bran was a child, his nurse / nanny, nicknamed Old Nan, told him stories of The Long Night, a seemingly endless winter period in which the White Walkers conquered Westeros, wandering on the backs of huge spiders. icy. A few months ago, an author of Song of Ice and Fire George R.R. Martin shared the first look at these creatures on an upcoming calendar, and I theorized that he specifically released this image before the finale Game of thrones season as a way to beat the series in the fist by revealing something he is referring to since the first book in the series.

It's unclear if Jon heard the same stories of Old Nan when he was growing up in Winterfell, but look again at his face: this looks like that of a man who just realized that a part of The army of the dead is heading straight for him on the back of massive spooks and scary. Am I right? We'll see when the next episode of Game of thrones broadcasts this Sunday night, April 28, 2019.

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