What Comes After the Long Night: We’re in the Endgame now. And Summer is Coming.
When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. Yes, Cersei. We know. In the season seven finale of Game of Thrones, “The Dragon and the Wolf,̶...
Author: Patrick Sponaugle
On the Fandom Road: Making Connections
My journey with Game of Thrones literally started with a journey. In 1999, I was at LAX waiting to fly back home from SIGGRAPH 99, the graphics conference that ...
“He wants to erase this world, and I am its memory” — the Night King’s goal analyzed
Bran: He’ll come for me. He’s tried before. Many times, with many Three-Eyed Ravens. Sam: Why? What does he want? Bran: An endless night. He wants t...
Fighting the Night King will be hard; coming together to do so might be harder
“The northmen are loyal to Jon Snow. Not to her. They don’t know her. The Free Folk don’t know her. I’ve been up here awhile and I’...
“A Spider in Winterfell” — A surprising role for Varys in Game of Thrones Season 8
It is not a secret the upcoming eighth season of Game of Thrones there will begin calling back to the initial grand political moment seen in the show’s fi...
Heisting Wights: Why the Season 7 setpiece may not have been such a bad idea after all
In every season of Game of Thrones, there are important events that set the tone. Ned’s beheading. The Red Wedding. Anytime Daenerys says “dracarys....
Cersei Lannister’s Journey to Season 8: A Lion, A Witch, and Her Wardrobe
From his first appearance on Game of Thrones (chastising Jaime while skinning a stag) Tywin Lannister was preoccupied with legacy, bringing up the topic every s...
Gold, Ivory, and Steel: what will the Golden Company mercenaries do in Season 8?
Cersei: Highgarden has bought us the most powerful army in Essos: the Golden Company. Twenty-thousand men, horses – elephants, I believe. At the end of th...
Tyrion’s Past, Tyrion’s Future: The Rule of Three
“So power is a mummer’s trick?” “A shadow on the wall,” Varys murmured, “yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man...
Melisandre: Flames, Fates, and Finales
The days are getting shorter and shorter (at least they are here in the northern hemisphere), leading us to the Winter Solstice and the longest night of the yea...