It seems that everything is coming full circle (or full spiral) on “Game of Thrones.” The first episode of the HBO series’ final season aired on Sunday, and after viewers had their share of elephant jokes, Bran memes and Drogon interpretations, fans pointed out some parallels between the most recent episode, “Winterfell,” and the show’s pilot.
Here’s a breakdown of all the major callbacks fans have brought to light of the seven.
The Opening Scene at Winterfell
A lot of symmetry between season 01 and 08 #GameofThronesSeason8 #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/QMEr77jjrT
— NuchNgaw (@NgawNuch) April 15, 2019
Some of the most obvious callbacks happen at the top of the episode when Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) arrive at Winterfell with an enormous army and two dragons (that Sansa, played by Sophie Turner, has no idea how to feed).
The scene begins with a boy excitedly running past Ayra Stark (Maisie Williams), who is standing among commoners gathered to receive the new monarch. The boy eventually climbs a tree to get a better look of the grand display of the Unsullied and Dothraki armies descending on his home.
The boy’s route calls back to Arya and her brother Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) in the pilot. A young and rebellious Arya bucks tradition and sneaks away from her family to observe the arrival of King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) on her own terms, while Bran climbs the castle’s tower to get a better view of Robert’s procession. In the pilot and “Winterfell,” Ayra also catches glimpses of The Hound (Rory McCann), yet in the pilot she is awed by him, while in the most recent episode, she looks bewildered or disturbed, wondering why a man she left for dead is still alive.
When Sansa greets Dany and Jon in the courtyard of Winterfell, more symmetry is displayed as she assumes the past roles of her parents and haughtily welcomes the foreign queen into her home.
“Winterfell is yours, Your Grace,” she says to Daenerys, imitating her father’s long-ago words to Robert, with a tad more sass.
Like the pilot episode, Arya is not present when the Stark family greets their royal guests. When Jon asks where Arya is, Sansa says she has no idea, much like when their mother questioned Arya’s whereabouts in the pilot.
King Robert’s Wish to Join House Baratheon and House Stark
Some of Twitter had a whole lot of fun tweeting a quote by King Robert during Ayra and Gendry’s (Joe Dempsie) reunion scene in “Winterfell.”
“I have a son. You have a daughter. We’ll join our houses. ” #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/GuOvKJRHkL
— AS• (@AH0SU) April 15, 2019
In the pilot, King Robert attempts to talk Ned Stark (Sean Bean) into marrying off their children, Joffrey Baratheon (Jack Gleeson) and Sansa.
“I have a son. You have a daughter. We’ll join our houses,” Robert says to Ned.
Though Sansa and Joffrey never got hitched, fans speculated that Ayra and Gendry’s possible romance — and the revelation that Gendry is
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