Game of Thrones Season 8 Full Episodes on March 2019

On Thursday the TV network gifted the citizens of the realm of Twitter with 20 new Game of Thrones Season 8 full episodes, which apparently included Sansa Starkís (Sophie Turner) new battle gear, the long-awaited return of Melisandre (Carice van Houten) and a Jon Snow (Kit Harington) callback to the original image of Ned Stark (Sean Bean) on the Iron Throne.

Actor Joe Dempsie was already part of a ìGame of Thrones missing person case after he rowed out of our lives in Season 3 as Gendry escaped being sacrificed by Melisandre. An endless stream of jokes and memes about where he could be took over the internet until Gendry finally returned in Season 7. Even Dempsie had some fun with it.

But his exclusion from the Season 8 posters is just odd, especially considering the images are all about who you expect or want to end up on the Iron Throne. As the illegitimate son of murdered King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy), Gendry perhaps has a better shot than most. I mean, Grey Worm (Jacob Anderson) is in the character posters, for crying out loud. No offense to Grey Worm, but I probably have more of a chance of ruling the Seven Kingdoms than he does. (He already has the Unsullied to worry about and probably isnít looking for extracurriculars.)

The theory: A diversion is coming?

Perhaps Dempsie just wasnít available for the photo shoot? Hey, people have busy schedules. But thereís a more convincing theory than thinking our guy could not find a few seconds to strike a pose for the biggest show on the planet. 

What if itís a diversion?

Again, Gendry isnít just a contender for the Iron Throne. As the son of Robert, heís one of the main contenders. Excluding him here (and in the other Season 8 photos) seems like a way to make us forget that. 

And if the show wants us to forget that, it just lends credence to the theory that his claim to the throne is even stronger than we thought: What if Gendry isnít a bastard but the legitimate son of Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) and Robert?

In this clip from Season 1, Episode 2, Cersei talks about how she ìlostî her first boy to a ìfeverî.

For a long time, it has been theorized that Gendry was Cerseiís son, the ìblack-haired beautyî she said she lost. Dempsie himself is even into the theory. When he returned to Season 7, he told HuffPost, ìAs far as Gendry is concerned, the big unanswered question is who is his mother, and I think the Cersei theory really blows so much out of the water.î

If anyone knows about water, itís our favorite little rower, Gendry. Was he left out of the posters on purpose? Is this to intentionally throw us off? Weíll leave you to ponder that question as you check out the characters who got posters below.

On Sunday, the television network released another new clip from the final season of Game of Thrones full episodes nestled in a promo for the networkís upcoming 2019 programming. The footage seemingly shows Arya (Maisie Williams) looking wide-eyed at a dragon, and doing her best impression of surprised Pikachu.

Itís a cool clip (Arya and dragons, whatís not to like?), but itís hard not to be slightly disappointed, considering some fans were thinking a Season 8 trailer would be dropping, especially with the season finale of ìTrue Detectiveî and the Oscars both airing on Sunday night.

On top of that, thereís some curious reused Season 7 footage tacked on to the end of the promo. After the teaser shows brief moments of when the Night King (spoiler alert) kills Viserion at the end of last season, this glimpse of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) eventually flashes on-screen.

In George R.R. Martinís A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Bran isnít the only kid in the Stark family who can warg, aka take over another creatureís mind (as he does above with Hodor). In fact, most of the kids seem to have some degree of this ability with their direwolves, including our King in the North, Jon Snow.

In the novels, itís not yet revealed that Jon Snow comes back to life after the Night Watchís mutiny (which took place in Season 5 of the show). Itís only theorized that he warged into his direwolf, Ghost, to avoid death.

Jon hasnít been revealed as a warg on the HBO show, but seeing this brief clip of a very foggy-eyed-looking King in the North, especially viewed on a small phone screen, is enough to stir up some conversation.

For the record, Jon is not warging in the clip. Itís actually a shot of him beyond the wall in Season 7, Episode 6, before Khaleesi shows up to save the day with her dragons. Interestingly enough, the brief moment is included alongside other footage that occurs after Khaleesiís dragons arrive, so it does make you wonder why HBO picked this particular earlier moment to shoehorn in.

Sure, it could be by accident that a slightly warg-like image of Jon Snow flashes across the screen. But HBO knows how much fans analyze footage, breaking it down frame-by-frame. And the network isnít opposed to playing jokes. HBO infamously Rickrolled ìWestworldî fans ahead of Season 2, promising spoilers and instead delivering a Rick Astley cover. The network was also reportedly messing with ìGame of Thronesî fans during a Season 5 social media campaign that would show ìvisionsî of the upcoming season. These clips could only be viewed once and would disappear, which HBO anticipated would cause some backlash from rabid viewers.

The network is well aware thereís already been a couple cases of ìeye-gateî on the show, with fans pausing different moments to see if Jonís eyes had changed color to indicate heís warging. One incident happened in Season 5 when Jon Snow lay dying after being stabbed by the Nightís Watch, and the other was in Season 7 when people were wondering if the eyes on the direwolf pommel of Jonís sword, Longclaw, had changed. In both cases, it turned out to be nothing.

If you think thereís absolutely no chance HBO was intentionally being a little cheeky, possibly giving fans a wink through warg-looking eyes, you know nothing, Jon Snow.