Hair Today, Queen Tomorrow: We All Missed A Major Sansa Stark Easter Egg In The 'Game Of Thrones' Premiere

Raise your glasses — check the wine isn't poisoned — then make a toast to the King in the North. That's right, HBO's Game of Thrones is back and winter has well and truly come. Focusing on the ice side of its Ice and Fire saga, the Season 7 premiere kept most of its action toward the north of the Seven Kingdoms.

As Jon Snow shored up his alliances with the northern houses, his sister/cousin Sansa seemed a little peeved as his management style. However, as Sansa scowled into the distance, and with a scheming Littlefinger by her side, did anyone notice the Stark girl's ties to a certain Queen of the Andals?

Bad Hair Day

Over the past seven seasons, we have seen Sansa embrace quite the eclectic wardrobe and have more hairstyles than Rachel from Friends. However, eagle-eyed fans of the show noticed Sansa's premiere perm was a subtle throwback to a post-bob Cersei Lannister.

With her new Power Bitch haircut and her lessons from Cersei in the bag, is Sansa Stark becoming a dangerous piece of the chessboard in the north? Sure, Sansa was quick to cast off the assumptions that Jon was becoming a bearded King Joffrey, but we could be seeing the Stark heiress slowly morph into her former (proposed) mother-in-law.

If you remember back to this particular exchange, it seems that Sansa's hairstyle has even more of an underlying message:

Sansa: "You're the military man, but I know her. If you're her enemy, she'll never stop until she's destroyed you. Everyone who's ever crossed her she's found a way to murder."Jon: "You almost sound as if you admire her."Sansa: "I learned a great deal from her."

Red is dead.

While I don't think the fiery red-head will be making moves toward King's Landing to sit herself in that spiky chair, this is Game of Thrones we are talking about and literally anything could happen. Clearly Sansa is a long way off becoming as deranged as Cersei and blowing up Winterfell with wildfire, but you can draw comparisons between the two women when you look at those around them. Sansa seems to have her very own Sandor Clegane in the form of Brienne of Tarth.

For those who just think it is just a coincidence that Sansa has started channeling her inner Cersei, haven't you learned by now? Nothing is left to chance in Westeros, and earlier this year, actress #SophieTurner revealed to Refinery 29 that Sansa's appearance always means something:

“There’s always a pattern, It’s never random. Sansa’s hair is constantly reflecting the people she’s learning from, or mimicking, or inspired by at the time...When she’s Cersei’s prisoner, and she’s kind of absorbing all her manipulative techniques, it’s reflected in her hairstyle, and when she’s finding the spirit of Margaery in herself, she wears her hair like Margaery.”

That being said, as important as Sansa may seem, she was never included on #GeorgeRRMartin's original pitch of the "Big Five" who have a free pass to the end of the saga. Sure, she may be influential to the current storyline, but we can't guarantee that Sansa's shaky placement up north this season won't also spell doom for her. She may currently think that she has the upper hand over Petyr Baelish, but chances are he wants her to see it like that.

It has certainly been a long road for Sansa, but her dark side has always been there. From her bratty days of watching the butcher's boy lose his life, to covering when Littlefinger kicked Lysa out the moon door, Darth Sansa has always been lurking in the shadows.

As for her seemingly new injection of Cersei influence, we probably shouldn't expect Sansa to go wooing Bran for nooky in the Winterfell tower, but there are already elements of Cersei's calculating prowess seeping into the girl that was Sansa. As Ramsay said before his kennel club demise, a part of him would always stay with Sansa, so expect more of her villainous streak to start bleeding through — I'll fetch the blonde hair dye ahead of Season 8.

(Source: Refinery 29)