Please don't bother us while we gaze into the future.

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It is a pattern with which we have become quite familiar: HBO trickles out tiny droplets of information about the highly-anticipated final season of Game of Thrones—or the many prequels currently in development—and the internet goes wild. Yet, the latest crop of images, released yesterday, are actually very telling. Sure, to the untrained eye, they may look like a series of portraits of the lead actors brooding off into the distance, a lot can be gleaned if you know what to look for (and we do).

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