If, in your excitement to see the midseason premiere of The Walking Dead, you missed the preseason HBO featurette for Game of Thrones Season 4, fear not. We have it here for you. Happily it is not simply a collection of the featurettes we’ve already posted here. It’s a terrific setting of the stage and a peek under the curtain for the upcoming season.

Featurette: Game of Thrones- Season 4: Ice and Fire: A Foreshadowing

Nice eyes. Well, that’s something. More climactic events, excellent! And am I the only one who thinks that  Brienne’s laugh about biting off a man’s ear was just a little disturbing? Though it’s great, if also a bit disconcerting, to see Gwendoline Christie and other cast members actually smile; there isn’t a lot of smiling in Game of Thrones…

Game of Thrones Season 4, starring Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey, Kit Harington, Jack Gleeson, Natalie Dormer, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Charles Dance, Richard McCann, Sophie Turner, and Maisie Williams, premieres Sunday, April 6 at 9/8c on HBO.