Game Of Thrones Photos Preview The Finale But Don't Spoil Episode 6, Season 8

The end has almost arrived: Game of Thrones concludes this weekend, and we're taking a look ahead at what to expect. You'll find what HBO has offered us below, but we also have a look at Young Griff from the books and Daenerys's descent into madness. One of those is set to play a major role in the finale (hint: it ain't Young Griff), which will seek to wrap up the series and, perhaps, give us some answer about who will sit on the Iron Throne. To help you get ready, be sure to check out our guide to which characters are still alive.

The long-awaited series finale of Game of Thrones is just two days away. Season 8, Episode 6 premieres on HBO this Sunday, May 19, marking the end of both this six-episode season and the series overall that started back in 2011. We've already gotten a preview trailer, which initially debuted right after Episode 5, and now has HBO has released photos from the next episode--but they're a bit different than we are used to getting each week. There are Episode 5 spoilers ahead, but you can safely take a look even if you don't want to know much about Episode 6.

HBO is usually quite reticent to spoil the upcoming episode with its previews; these aren't exactly modern movie trailers giving away major story beats and moments. The brief Episode 6 teaser kept the specifics to a real minimum, and now the preview photos are doing the same. They don't give away anything that wasn't already in the trailer, and just as notably, HBO has only shared a mere two images, which is far less than we typically see. Clearly, the network wants whatever is coming to be a surprise (although this does nothing to deal with the possibility of leaks, which have been a problem all season long).

The first of the two photos features Tyrion, who can be seen standing amongst the rubble in King's Landing. He doesn't look particularly pleased, just as you'd expect; he put his support behind Daenerys and believed in her, and he even put his life at risk to free Jaime in the hopes of preventing a massacre of innocents in the city. Dany opted to go Mad Queen instead, and now Tyrion is faced with having to live with this reality that Varys tried to stop. (While it's too late to save those who have died, Varys may have been planning to poison Dany, which could make her reign as the leader of Westeros a very short one.) More than looking just shocked, he looks deeply sad--though whether that's because Varys was right or because of some new development in Episode 6 remains to be seen.

The second photo matches up with a shot from the preview trailer. Dany, standing victorious on the edges of the burning city, faces away from us with her back to the camera as her army stands in formation all around her. If there was any question about how many troops she had remaining after Episode 3's battle, it looks like she's doing just fine in that regard.

Her troops appear to be in full support of her, and we know from the preview trailer that the Dothraki in particular seem pleased with the outcome of the battle. But we still haven't seen Dany's face in Episode 6, or really, since she made her fateful decision to destroy the city. Seeing if she has any remorse will have to wait for this Sunday, though it's too late to undo her actions. Queen of the Ashes might be the best she can hope for at this point. Whatever her attitude, her decision to burn them all (as her father, the Mad King, once attempted to) has confirmed Game of Thrones isn't what we thought.

In the meantime, we have Episode 6 theories about where things in the finale and an Episode 5 breakdown.