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...
Category: Features
What is plot armor and is it really a problem? – a video essay
Within the Game of Thrones fandom, the term “plot armor” has popped up a time or two in discussions surrounding some of the less positively received...
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.” ...
Rethinking Rhaegar: Hero or Villain?
Rhaegar Targaryen: the man, the myth, the legend. He is one of the most mysterious characters in A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, but one who has a huge ...
Jon Snow, the reluctant leader archetype, & why he shouldn’t be king – a video essay
In my latest video essay, I discuss how Jon Snow fits the archetypal role of “Reluctant Leader”… and how that’s precisely why I don̵...
From the Maester’s Desk – The Show Must Go On
Recently, at the primetime Emmys red carpet, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin expressed his opinion that Game of Thrones could’ve continued for ...
Looking Forward, Game of Thrones Season 8 Part 1: My Theory is Better Than Yours
Actually, it’s not. I just wanted to piss somebody off with the title. Ohhhhh yeah… the Watchers have allowed Oz, the Court Jester (a.k.a. the Village Idiot, th...
The Fall of Viserion
In Westeros, dragons are the end all and be all of power. Aegon the Conqueror only is known as “the conqueror” because he and his sisters landed in the Blackwat...
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...