On top of all of the other things that makes Game Of Thrones great is the amazing soundtrack we get week on week.
You know the drill, here be spoilers, fair warning, blah de blah de blah.
The composer for the show, Ramin Djawadi, has already given us some absolutely sublime tracks from the show, including the magnificent ‘The Light Of The Seven’ that played out during the build up to the destruction of The Great Sept at the end of the last season.
Here it is again just in case you needed a reminder:
Clip via HAVOCK8877
We’re not just mentioning this one in particular for no reason, either, but just hang on a sec until we get to that…
Okay, so the full soundtrack went up online on Friday, and the playlist revealed some tracks and – perhaps more importantly – some track titles that haven’t been used yet, specifically tracks 17 to 24 below:
1. Main Titles
2. Dragonstone
3. Shall We Begin?
4. The Queen’s Justice
5. A Game I Like to Play
6. I Am the Storm
7. The Gift
8. Dragonglass
9. Spoils of War (Pt. 1)
10. Spoils of War (Pt. 2)
11. The Dagger
12. Home
13. Gorgeous Beasts
14. The Long Farewell
15. Against All Odds
16. See You for What You Are
17. Casterly Rock
18. A Lion’s Legacy
19. Message for Cersei
20. Ironborn
21. No One Walks Away from Me
22. Truth
23. The Army of the Dead
24. Winter Is Here
While you could make a stab at the meaning just from the titles alone, listening to the tracks, you can hear motifs from earlier in the show that would seem to foreshadow exactly what we can expect.
Take ‘Truth’, for example. If you go back and listen to ‘Dragonglass’ from earlier in the season – the track that played over the first time fans were given a hint that Dany and Jon were gonna potentially be bumping uglies – and then listen to ‘Truth’, you can hear the similarities. So that, plus the title, would seem to indicate that the duo are finally going to find out that they’re auntie and nephew, and that Jon has a much stronger claim to the throne than Dany does.
So that, plus the title, would seem to indicate that the duo are finally going to find out that they’re auntie and nephew, and that Jon has a much stronger claim to the throne than Dany does.
Then there’s ‘No One Walks Away From Me’, which features a heavy influence from ‘The Light Of The Seven’, so the smart money here would be on this being something Cersei says to Jamie when he finally announces that he’s had enough of her mad, mad, mad, MAD ways.
Some of the others are less easy to fully figure out, but the final two tracks warrant attention together. ‘The Army Of The Dead’ and ‘Winter Is Here’ both seem to aim towards a none-too-happy ending for the season.
‘The Army Of The Dead’ in particular sounds like it will be accompanying a particularly frantic and ominous action sequence, so that, coupled with the follow up of ‘Winter Is Here’, and we are putting our best guessing hats on to wager that it will result with The Night King and his new pet dragon destroying the wall and leaving Westeros open to the encroaching deceased battalion.
All clips via Water Tower Music
The season finale, titled ‘The Dragon & The Wolf‘, will be almost 80 minutes long, so there is A LOT to pack in there. The trailer for the episode is suitably epic, and we’ve already listed out a series of things we expect the final episode of 2017 to answer, as well as who we’d put our money on to die before the end credits roll.
Whatever happens, it will be all anyone will be talking about early next week.
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