From the Maester’s Desk – Endgame: The Arms of the Kraken
“We do not sow” Paraphrasing Olenna Tyrell, those are words that strike fear in the heart, because violence is implicit in them. These aren’t farmers who work t...
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House Targaryen of Valyria and Westeros
Fire and blood, the blood of Old Valyria, the three heads of the dragon. In Westeros, the Targaryens are the pinnacle of dynasties; they made kings surrender th...
The Curious Nature of Love on Game of Thrones – A Video Essay
Interpersonal bonds tend to be, uh, fraught on Game of Thrones, to say the least. In a show famous for its complexity and brutality, we’ve watched plenty ...
From the Maester’s Desk – Endgame: The Blood of the Dragon
Through seven seasons, Game of Thrones has boasted a huge ensemble cast of memorable characters, and though many of them are fan favorites or integral to the pl...
The Writing On the Wall: Violence Is a Disease
“Violence is a disease. You don’t cure a disease by spreading it to more people.” “You don’t cure it by dying, either.” The world of Game of Thrones is a brutal...
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 Royal Rumble: Ranking the Kings and Queens of Game of Thrones
When people talk about Game of Thrones, they often leave off the “s” in thrones. They think only of the Iron Throne in King’s Landing, the King of the And...
The Kraken and the Squid – You Win Or You Die
We finally get to the episode in which Cersei says the show’s name … yet we don’t discuss that subplot of Game of Thrones much. Instead, we ta...
The Kraken and the Squid – A Golden Crown
In our latest The Kraken and the Squid video, we celebrate Viserys’ delicious crowning and Nolan finds a few more characters that he … doesn’t disli...
From the Maester’s Desk – Endgame: Lannisters Always Pay Their Debts
The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones is still a year away at least, but in the meantime we have plenty of material to theorize about the endgame for t...