Political Update: Westeros
“If we don’t put aside our enmities and band together, we will die. And then it doesn’t matter whose skeleton sits on the Iron Throne.” ...
Author: Patrick Sponaugle
Haunted Houses, Dealing with Devils and Mocking the Gods
Season Six finally saw the return of Arya Stark to Westeros, after her time studying abroad with the mysterious and murderous Faceless Men. Once back in the Sev...
Bran Stark: The Long Fall
In the first episode of Game of Thrones, young Brandon Stark climbed to the top of Winterfell’s walls with a specific purpose: the retinue of King Robert ...
Cersei Lannister: Bittersweet Expectations
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground. Cersei Lannister said those words midway-through the very first season of Game...
The Long Night, and possibly a Long March
With the breaching of the ancient Wall that spans the northern frontier of the Seven Kingdoms, the realms of men are facing another Long Night. The supernatural...
Checks and Balances: Arya, Braavos and Debt
In the most recent season of Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister checked off a major item from her royal To Do list: Kill Sansa Stark Make Jaime do whatever I wan...
Taking Tormund To Task
At the conclusion of the seventh season of Game of Thrones, the laconic leader of the White Walkers directed his resurrected dragon to attack the Wall, the prim...
The Sellsword and the Squire
Game of Thrones features multiple characters who facilitate analysis when comparing them to someone else. Arya and Sansa, for example, are two sides of the same...
Ser Jorah Mormont: the Exile’s Return
In the Game of Thrones Season Seven finale, the Stark and Targaryen coalition leaders made their plans for transplanting the Targaryen troops from the middle of...
The White Walkers: Whys, Whats, and Other Thoughts on the Endgame
Where once stood the Night’s Watch fortification of Eastwatch-By-The-Sea, there now remains a huge, gaping hole in the ancient Wall that separates the Nor...