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008 Archivesend is near, but also it looks fabulous.

With Game of ThronesSeason 8 seemingly just around the corner—c'mon people, let's get that release date locked down—on set photos of the HBO saga are finally beginning to trickle their way to the fans. The first to hit: a stunning photo of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.

In a November cover photo for Entertainment Weekly, Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington pose in the snow, looking cold and super intense; that makes sense considering Season 8 is set to be cold and, you guessed it, super intense.

Check out the photo:

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Pretty great, right? Well, appreciate what you can get because it sounds like HBO is, as expected, fighting tooth and nail to prevent any unintentional photo leaks.

According to EW, while at the first table read, cast members were warned to not "even take a photo of your boots on the ground of the set" so as to prevent spoilers.

The King of the North and the Mother of Dragons totally get why we're all obsessing over the final season, by the way—largely because it sounds like everyone on set is obsessing over it too.

“It’s relentless; scenes that would have been a one-day shoot five years ago are now a five-day shoot,” Harington tells EW. “They want to get it right, they want to shoot everything every single way so they have options.”

"Every choice, every conversation, every attitude, has this air of ‘this is it.’ Everything feels more intense," Clarke agrees.

Sign us up. Then get some action shots of that ice dragon, please!

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