Peter Dinklage is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend, so be sure to tune in to see how he does. Gwen Stefani is the musical guest for the episode, which airs Saturday night at 11:30PM ET on NBC.
Teasing the upcoming appearance, SNL released these funny new promos with Dinklage and SNL star Cecily Strong.
The question on everyone’s lips this year in regards to Game of Thrones has been, “Is Jon Snow really dead?” As hard as it’s been for us as fans, imagine how difficult it must be for the cast of the show, who have to field questions from viewers about Jon everywhere they go.
Entertainment Weekly has another video for us, as part of their season 6 special issue coverage, addressing the fate of Jon Snow and how the cast handles that question. In addition to the leading actresses (Sophie Turner, Natalie Dormer, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Emilia Clarke, and Lena Headey) featured in the video, EW spoke with several other cast members.
Check it out:
“Chaos is a ladder,” and sooner or later someone falls. In today’s #GoT50 countdown rewatch episode, Game of Thrones set the course for the rest of the season and said goodbye to Ros, an entirely original creation for the pilot who became a long-running character. Here to take us down Memory Lane for “The Climb” is Paige, aka GameOverRos!
On today’s walk down memory lane, it’s the turn of “The Climb.” Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and directed by Alik Sakharov, this episode is a slower pace after the rollercoaster that was “Kissed by Fire.” The pieces begin to move into place for two memorable weddings, Theon continues his evolution into Reek, and the wildlings ascend the Wall.
We’re really on a roll now. Last night, Game of Thrones writer/producer Bryan Cogman again took to Twitter to give us his thoughts on two more of his top 10 favorite episodes.
Last night’s offerings were two episodes in my personal top ten, And Now His Watch is Ended (my number 4), and What is Dead May Never Die (my number 6), so this had me keen for details. As per the norm, you can follow Bryan on Twitter at @b_cogman.
His tweets after the break!
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Liam Cunningham and Carice van Houten tease “astonishing” developments next season and Kit Harington admits that he slipped into “laziness” playing Jon Snow.
HBO’s Game of Thrones brandishes a consistent and high degree of fidelity to the nearly 5,000-page-long source material of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, but there still, of course, are differences. While most of these gaps from the page to the screen are small and detail-oriented, it is nonetheless the case that the most subtle discrepancies often hold the biggest insight into the adaptation process, into the demands of filmmaking, and into the rigors of the literary narrative.
This, then, is the anatomy of a key scene of Thrones – not because of its dramatic importance or visual effects whizbangery, but because of the telling nature of its realization.
There is not one single scene that makes the transition from literary page to filmic episode completely untouched; if there isn’t a reduction in background extras, an omission of horses, or a change in setting, there is, at the very least, the sifting of dialogue, which is the biggest consumer of screen time.
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Sophie Turner discusses Sansa’s journey in season 6 and the evolution of the fandom’s response to her character and Alfie Allen discloses major details about Theon and Sansa’s storyline. Spoilers below.
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Today in our rewatch countdown leading up to Game of Thrones season 6, we’ll be taking a closer look at “Kissed by Fire,” the classic season 3 episode written by Bryan Cogman and directed by Alex Graves. Please welcome Tuesday’s guest writer (and last week’s intrepid trailer screencapper), Manu! -Sue the Fury
“By what right does the wolf judge the lion? BY WHAT RIGHT?”
“Kissed by Fire,” the fifth installment of season three, had the unenviable task of following “And Now His Watch Is Ended,” one of the stronger episodes in the series run (punctuated powerfully with Daenerys’s sack of Astapor). It may be fitting that the previous Game of Thrones episode ended in fire, as the flames offer a powerful motif for its successor.
HBO’s Game of Thrones brandishes a consistent and high degree of fidelity to the nearly 5,000-page-long source material of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, but there still, of course, are differences. While most of these gaps from the page to the screen are small and detail-oriented, it is nonetheless the case that the most subtle discrepancies often hold the biggest insight into the adaptation process, into the demands of filmmaking, and into the rigors of the literary narrative.
This, then, is the anatomy of a key scene of Thrones – not because of its dramatic importance or visual effects whizbangery, but because of the telling nature of its realization.
As is common for HBO’s Game of Thrones, the scene at Craster’s Keep in which a fight breaks out among the Night’s Watch brothers and Lord Commander Jeor Mormont is killed hits all the same notes as George Martin’s novel, A Storm of Swords: the black brothers come limping back to Craster’s after suffering huge losses at the hands of the White Walkers (called, of course, the Others in the books), and the grizzled old wilding provides aid, albeit scant and grudging. When confronted with the possibility of his sitting on a secret larder, Craster becomes angry – and then instantly violent when called a bastard. It is after he charges one of the Watch members, to gut him with his axe, that he is killed, with Mormont similarly being stabbed while attempting to stop his rebelling underlings.
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