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What Fans Think of Ed Sheeran’s GOT Cameo Post Premier Excitement

How big is this Game of Thrones big reveal? And more.

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Singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran’s appearance in the Game of Thrones Season 7 premiere set the internet abuzz. While some viewers were not shocked by the cameo as some hints were doing the rounds for months, others have been (pleasantly or not) surprised.

Sheeran appears within the first 20 minutes of the episode, singing (as his character points out in the episode) a new song. The song, ‘Hands of Gold’, was penned down by author George RR Martin and appears in the third book of the Song of Ice and Fire series.

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Since the song’s appearance on the show, a number of interpretations and theories have popped up on the internet. In the books, the song is linked to Tyrion Lannister’s paramour, Shae, who he murders at the end of season three. New theories link it to the Lannister pair, Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and Cersei (Lena Headey), predicting Cersei’s murder at the hands (or the golden hand) of Jaime.

Information regarding Sheeran’s further appearance and character development (if any) remains hush-hush. Post the excitement of the premier, fans took to social media to analyse whether the ginger-haired Lannister (played by Sheeran) could be more to the show than a passing character. Suprateek Chatterjee, for instance, wrote in an article for The Quint that Sheeran could possibly play Symon Silver Tongue (the original singer of the song in the books).

However, theories aside, there is a sustained and strong dislike towards Sheeran’s in-the-face appearance on Twitter.

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