Twitter welcomes back 'Game of Thrones' with jokes and roasts

Season 8 has premiered. No one is safe.
By Alison Foreman  on 
Twitter welcomes back 'Game of Thrones' with jokes and roasts
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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

On Dany being the low-key worst

On the elephant in the room

On the lack of elephants in the room (!!!)

On Bran being y'know being Bran 🙄

On waiting to see Jaime get wrecked next week

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Alison Foreman

Alison Foreman is one heck of a gal. She's also a writer in Los Angeles, who used to cover movies, TV, video games, and the internet for Mashable. @alfaforeman


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