Take a deep breath and relax, Game of Thrones fans. Our long frozen winter is ending. And with spring comes a new flood of Thrones news, thanks to a giant block of ice, SXSW and some GoT showrunners in a sharing-is-caring mood. This month, we finally learned that season 7 will be premiering on July […]
Continue reading →Today is International Women’s Day — A day to commemorate the movement for women’s rights and to campaign for their enforcement and further reinforcement. In this tumultuous year, for many women this day is particularly special, taking the form of “A Day Without a Woman” — a women’s strike to demonstrate the value they add […]
Continue reading →So, I spent the last 5 months on remote organic farms with little to no WiFi. While going nearly cold turkey on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, E-mail and, of course, Watchers on the Wall was certainly interesting, what I found more noteworthy was living with people accustomed to life with limited WiFi … because they were […]
Continue reading →“Everything ends badly. Otherwise, it wouldn’t end.” –Brian Flanagan, Cocktail 1988 Say that you haven’t thought about it, and I’ll call your bluff. Glad tidings to all ye great and loyal internet Watchers of ice and fire and incestuous Lannister desires, and thank you for joining us at THE great Wall of Walls. A man’s […]
Continue reading →Or alternatively titled, “A guy that only watches Game of Thrones boldly predicts the winners of the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards.” The off-season is dark and full of TV shows I know nothing about. Who better to run through the Emmy nominations and give half-ass, uneducated predictions about who has the best odds of winning? […]
Continue reading →Now that the dust has settled, we’ve had time to properly pick over Game of Thrones season six and its heart-attack-inducing finale. We’ve done our rewatches, wallowed in discussions, and come out on the other side with a stack of ideas about the future of the show, and where we’re headed in season seven (whenever […]
Continue reading →There are castings for Game of Thrones that, when announced, you think “Holy [string of obscenities], we got THEM?!” Actors the fans chose and hoped for, or performers so amazingly gifted there is little dissent even in a fandom likes ours that thrives on debating every little thing. The dream castings. Heading into season 5, we […]
Continue reading →Another Tuesday is here, but the season is over, alas. This means there are no fresh overnight ratings of a new episode – still, we can take a look at the viewership numbers of season six as a whole. First of all, here is the overview graph for the first six seasons of Game of Thrones, […]
Continue reading →Of all those who perished in the Great Sept, it was Margaery Tyrell’s death that hit me the hardest. Not just because we will never get to find out what Margaery’s end game was with the Faith, not because we lost one of Cersei’s best foils nor even because sweet and innocent Tommen lost his Queen, […]
Continue reading →Paying tribute to one of Game of Thrones’ great supporting cast members is no small task; taking on three of them is Herculean. Stepping up to the plate to salute the exemplary work of Julian Glover, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, and Ian Gelder is WotW regular Jared Kozal. – Sue the Fury “The Small Council grows smaller […]
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