Curtain Call: Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen’s run as Petyr Baelish serves as an excellent reminder to us all that it takes a truly great actor to play a villain that evokes the kind of emotio...
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From the Maester’s Desk: The True Enemy Is Here
The article contains spoilers from ASOIAF, including a sample chapter of The Winds of Winter. “The Other said something in a language that Will did not know; hi...
Littlefinger, Catelyn Stark, and Trust on Game of Thrones
I did warn you not to trust me These words from Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish, uttered ironically in Season One of Game of Thrones, came back to haun...
The Wild Blue Rose: Who Was Lyanna Stark?
Beautiful, and willful, and dead before her time Lyanna Stark. The L in R+L=J. The woman whose memory Robert Baratheon fought for and cherished until the end of...
Glass Candle Dialogue Season 7, Episode 7: “The Dragon and the Wolf”
This last day of August, it’s with with a mixture of geeky enthusiasm and poignancy that Petra and I delve into the almost feature-length Game of Thrones season...
Game of Thrones Ratings: Season 7 Overview
Here we are, Ladies and Sers, survivors of another Game of Thrones season. Phew. The Sunday finale saw the viewership record broken once more, and broken well. ...
Ned, Littlefinger, and the Advantage of the Home-Court
by Joe Buckley In Game of Thrones, many characters are used to represent many themes. We have our warriors, our lovers, our mothers and our brothers. Thanks to ...
Game of Threads: The Dragon and the Wolf
And so passes another season of Game of Thrones. The finale did not disappoint, especially on the costume front. With such drastic changes to the characters&#...
The Writing On the Wall: The Fires Of Faith
“The Lord of Light never spoke to me. I don’t know anything about him, I don’t know what he wants from me.” “He wants you alive.” “Why?” “I don’t know.” Faith. ...
Cersei Lannister: The Young and the Beautiful
“I will be queen, though?” asked the younger her. “Aye.” Malice gleamed in Maggy’s yellow eyes. “Queen you shall be . . . un...