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Warning: Spoilers for Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 1 below
When you play the game of thrones, you win… or you get roasted Ned Umber-style. (RIP teeny, tiny boy.)
Game of Thrones: Season 8 has only just begun, but Twitter users are already launching their red-hot, post-premiere roasts and takes.
From Bran sitting in a courtyard all night to Cersei missing out on those elephants, here are some of the funniest Twitter reactions to the Thrones premiere heard round the world.
On that very Harry Potter-esque dragon riding scene
On Sansa throwing shade and getting shut right down
Sansa, throwing shade at Khaleesi:
“What do dragons eat anyway?”Khaleesi, breaker of chains, the First of Her Name, The Unburnt, Sipper of Tea, and Blocker of Shade:
“Whatever they want.”
ADVANTAGE: Khaleesi. #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/a0O8FsX3aD
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 15, 2019
On Dany being the low-key worst
dany: lol jon u know i’m gonna have your sister burned alive if she doesn’t bend the knee in like [checks watch] the next 5 min right
also dany: jon why doesn’t your sister like meeee
— Angie J. Han (@ajhan) April 15, 2019
dany: “nice to meet-“
bran: “bitch your dragon got fucking merked we don’t have time to fuck around” #gameofthrones
— 𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞 (@stormbornjedi) April 15, 2019
On the elephant in the room
On the lack of elephants in the room (!!!)
On Bran being y’know being Bran 
Bran: we don’t have time for this Dany & Jon, we need to get moving the others are coming
also Bran: let me sit stationary in the courtyard in the snow all through the night so I’m ready for jaime to arrive at 3:26pm the next day whilst enigmatically staring into the distance
— liz (@lannisterholic) April 15, 2019
I still can’t get over Bran. You gotta be some kind of petty to sit outside all night waiting for the dude that tried to kill you. #GameofThones #DemThrones
— Krystal, not Kay (@KSpenceMedia) April 15, 2019
On waiting to see Jaime get wrecked next week
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