The final season of Game of Thrones series seems to be hexed and what happened last night is a certain proof of this claim. As we know that the first episode was leaked by piracy site, earlier last week and now for our surprise, the second episode too got leaked on Sunday late night, ahead of its official airing time on Monday morning. While the first episode of the final season was leaked by piracy website Tamilrockers, the second episode was leaked on Amazon Prime in Germany.
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Despite of so many efforts and so many precautionary measures taken by HBO to dodge the spy drones while filming and also ensuring the prevention of leaking of the climax in other ways, it left everyone shocked as Amazon Prime Video in Germany reportedly released this week’s episode, around six hours before its scheduled time. The leak took Internet in a fire as many people watched the entire episode and managed to upload it to different torrent sites before it was taken down. Though it was taken down from the website soon after, it made its way to several torrent sites for free download.
It became more shocking that all this comes after extremely drastic measures placed by the makers to avoid any leakage ahead of its premiere. Earlier, four episodes of season five had arrived online much before the broadcast time. It was also reported that not only the showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss shot several versions of the final episode to keep the cast in dark about the fate of their characters but also, the producers shared only essential parts of the script with the cast members on a special app.
The first episode titled Winterfell had shown the union of the Stark siblings: Arya, Sansa and Jon Snow besides the arrival of Daenerys Targaryen’s huge army. The episode had ended with a gruesome scene showing the young Lord Ned Umber, after being turned into a White Walker was pinned to a wall. Though he was killed soon after but was found surrounded by several severed pieces of human arms arranged like the Night King’s sigil.
However, despite all the efforts, the first episode was leaked after some hours of its premiere and now the second episode is also out before its official scheduled premiere. The season eight is the final and last season of the GOT series with longer and fewer episodes to bring the most popular TV show to a much-deserved end. Hope people will avoid the pirated version and go for the official ones at the suitable platform so that the series can get what it deserves.
