Spoilers for Game of Thrones’ Season 8 premiere continue below! Be sure to check out IGN’s review and watch our post-show breakdown, Dragons on the Wall.
Game of Thrones’ final season premiere just aired, and it’s fitting that the episode had so many parallels to the series premiere that aired way back in 2011.
HBO was open from the get-go that this episode was going to have a lot of callbacks and references to the Season 1 pilot, even teasing some of them in the trailer for the new season. But seeing all those moments play out on the small screen still made us emotional when it came time to think about how far the Starks have come in the past eight seasons.
Source: IGN.com Game of Thrones Comparison: Season 8 to Season 1 Premiere