“The gods spill more blood than the rest of us combined.”
The official synopsis:
Bran trains with the Three-Eyed Raven. In King’s Landing, Jaime advises Tommen. Tyrion demands good news, but has to make his own. At Castle Black, the Night’s Watch stands behind Thorne. Ramsay Bolton proposes a plan, and Balon Greyjoy entertains other proposals.
A few days ago, the possible title of the fourth episode of Game of Thrones season 6 popped up on the HBO Asia website, and today another title has appeared.
According to HBO Asia’s schedule, the fifth episode of the season will be “The Door.” This episode will be the first of two GoT episodes directed by Jack Bender in season 6.
Note from the author: unfortunately, my Anatomy of a Throne series, which took one scene and broke down its adaptation process from page to screen, is no longer possible, given the fact that Game of Thrones has now managed to surpass the book series that it is based upon.
As such, it is time to return to the original column that I had initially deconstructed the show with, It Is Known, though with a twist: since those original articles also relied heavily on the source material for its analysis, this new round will instead focus on one particular thematic development or another, using it as the prism through which to view the entire episode. Think of this, then, as a hybrid between Anatomy of a Throne and It Is Known, produced exclusively for the enjoyment of all you Watchers on the Wall.
If you’d like to see what the original column was all about, I have compiled ebook versions of both the first season and second season installments. (A third – and, also, final – installment has been trapped in the seven development hells since 2013.)
“The Red Woman,” the first episode in Game of Thrones’s history to not have a corresponding novel to (largely) draw from, ended up delving into hitherto unexplored narrative territory for both literary and television fans, but it didn’t end up providing the answers that all and sundry had expected (we’re looking at you, still-dead Jon Snow); instead, it chose to drop something of a bombshell about Melisandre, the titular red woman.
We have two giveaway winning announcements to make today, for our Game of Thrones giveaways we began last Wednesday.
Our first giveaway was for a signed copy of the informative and colorful Game of Thrones Pop-Up Guide to Westeros.
Our next giveaway offered up a Daenerys & Drogon action figure from the Funko Pop! Rides series.
After one week, and hundreds and hundreds of entries, it’s time to announce the winners!
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Official episode synopsis: Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright) trains with the Three-Eyed Raven (Max von Sydow). In King’s Landing, Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) advises Tommen (Dean-Charles Chapman). Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) demands good news, but has to make his own. At Castle Black, the Night’s Watch stands behind Thorne (Owen Teale). Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) proposes a plan, and Balon Greyjoy (Patrick Malahide) entertains other proposals.
Photos below the cut!
Game of Thrones Season 6 has returned and so has your weekly collection of recap and review videos from around the web! Dorne is certainly a topic of discussion, but were any other topics that elicited strong reactions? Watch and discuss!
Our friends Sandrine and Americ at HappyCool are here with a lively discussion of the season 6 premiere. Please check below the cuts for more video and reactions.
We know the titles of the first three episodes of Game of Thrones season 6, and now we might know the fourth.
According to the episodes page for HBOAsia‘s website, the title of episode four this season is “Book of the Stranger.” Though the title is unconfirmed by HBO USA at this time, it’s unlikely that HBOAsia would have added the title to their system without it being provided to them, and we’ve seen this title nowhere else.
The phrase is not a direct reference from the A Song of Ice and Fire novels. The Stranger is one facet of the Seven, the new gods of Westeros, but the Stranger is the least popular one as he represents death.
Entertainment Weekly has two new interviews with the famous men with two last names on Game of Thrones. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau teases his upcoming face-off with the High Sparrow while Isaac Hempstead Wright reacts to Bran’s new storyline in Season 6.
El Punt Avui reports that Girona, used for location filming in Season Six, is capitalising on the success of Game of Thrones has brought it and has already begun negotiations with HBO for Season Seven.
Guess who’s back!~ Back again!~ Axey’s back!~ Tell a friend!~
TWITTER TIME. If you don’t know what this is, well, that means you’re new. Come sit at our hearth and partake of our meat and mead, and prepare yourself for a trip down Red Woman memory lane… in 140-character increments.
As per, I gather Tweets hashtagged #GameOfThrones, #TheRedWoman, and (new this year) #GoTs6. (For people with more to say than the space taken up by #GameOfThrones will allow.)
We’re still using Storify; it had a few rough patches last season, but smoothed out toward the end. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND using the SLIDESHOW option to view this (UPDATE: just add /slideshow to the STORIFY URL and that should pull it up) (thanks, Alf!) (Or even click HERE. Bam. Slideshow!) … I recommend it especially if your browser is slowed to a crawl by the lumbering size of this sucker. (It’s smaller than last year’s posts by just a bit, so hopefully that helps too.)
Onward!
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