Get your cosplay ready and your panel ideas lined up, because tickets for Con of Thrones 2019 are now on sale! This’ll be year three for the premier convention for fans of Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the epic worlds of George R. R. Martin. Con of Thrones is returning […]
Continue reading →Announced two weeks ago, Con of Thrones, the fandom’s biggest annual gathering of fans and stars of Game of Thrones, will be returning next summer. Next year the con will make its home in Nashville’s Music City Center, with the dates set for July 12-14, 2019. Year three will once again be produced by Mischief […]
Continue reading →We’ve been dying to share the news with you, and now it can be told: Con of Thrones will return in 2019, from July 12-14! Join your fellow Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire fans at the incredible Music City Center in the heart of Nashville, TN. We’ll be gathering for […]
Continue reading →By Chris Wright, aka James Rivers, with Petra We’ve reached the thrilling conclusion of our survey results! In Part 4, we’ll learn how respondents rated each of Game of Thrones‘ 67 episodes. We’ll also take a final look at differences in how men and women (and other groups) see the show. If you want to […]
Continue reading →By Chris Wright, aka James Rivers, with Petra We’re onto Part 3 of our Game of Thrones survey results, in which we learn that of two formerly Essos-dwelling female characters, only one’s lethal acts are consistently seen as justified. We’ll review nearly four dozen events on the show – various beheadings, imprisonments and mass killings […]
Continue reading →By Chris Wright, aka James Rivers, with Petra Part 2 of our Game of Thrones fandom survey results finds three strong women — Daenerys, Cersei and Sansa — among respondents’ favorite AND least favorite characters. And a question gauging the morality of 40 characters reveals that a man normally associated with “black and white” comes […]
Continue reading →All of us at Watchers on the Wall had a blast at this year’s Con of Thrones. Maybe we had too much fun. When we arrived to our Watchers podcast on the third and final day of the convention, during the first morning hours, it was after a night of partying with other attendees and […]
Continue reading →It’s not too often you get to make a celebrity’s day, but when Watchers on the Wall sat down for an exclusive interview with Game of Thrones star Esme Bianco at this year’s Con of Thrones, that’s exactly what happened. She began to answer the question of who should sit on the Iron Throne versus […]
Continue reading →Actors: they’re just like us. They have favorite movies, they ride the subway — and they really want the long-hyped Cleganebowl to happen. “Definitely the Hound and the Mountain,” Joe Dempsie said in an exclusive interview with Watchers on the Wall during last weekend’s Con of Thrones, when asked which duos he’d like to see […]
Continue reading →By Chris Wright, aka James Rivers, with Petra Results of the Game of Thrones survey posted in April here at Watchers on the Wall — and discussed Sunday at Con of Thrones — support the idea that A Song of Ice and Fire readers find the show’s more recent seasons less compelling than do non-book […]
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