Episode 318 – Tales of Old Nan
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Back, to go forward. Into Feast we move, joining two Stark siblings in their latest and perilous futures.
Liam Cunningham shares his thoughts on Shireen’s death and Game of Thrones fan theories
Liam Cunningham chats about Davos’ role in Game of Thrones season 6 and the social relevance of Shireen’s sacrifice, and shares his thoughts on some ridiculous-maybe-not-so-ridiculous fan theories.
Game of Thrones Memory Lane 210: Valar Morghulis
“Valar Morghulis,” written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and directed by Alan Taylor, wraps up Game of Thrones season 2’s many storylines in a satisfactory (or else deliberately unsatisfactory) manner. Having watched all the way through season 5, however, it’s also fair to call “Valar Morghulis” a compilation of retrospectively excruciating scenes that leaves one shouting advice to the characters on screen.
New Game of Thrones season 6 character portraits!
Entertainment Weekly has more goodies for us today! In advance of their special GoT double-issue, the magazine is releasing character portraits featuring six leading actresses from the show, along with a few choice soundbites about season 6.
The women of Game of Thrones cover Entertainment Weekly this week!
Entertainment Weekly is focusing on Game of Thrones in a new double issue, going behind the scenes with season 6, with six of the show’s starring actresses taking the forefront in new profiles.
“The women are rocking this season — and I’m not just saying that because they’re on your cover,” HBO programming president Michael Lombardo is quoted as saying to EW. “Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) always does, but also Brienne (Gwendoline Christie), Arya (Maisie Williams), Sansa (Sophie Turner), Cersei (Lena Headey), Margaery (Natalie Dormer), and other characters too, like Yara (Gemma Whelan). They power this season. It’s organic to the storytelling, yet a radical shift. It’s the women that are the hope that we’re watching as the chess pieces move this season, and it’s very exciting.”
Sophie Turner talks Sansa’s future on Game of Thrones, Amanda Peet stops by Conan and more
Sophie Turner teases Game of Thrones season 6 and Sansa’s future in a new Wall Street Journal interview. The actress discusses the depiction of women on the show, the new season and more.
On Conan this week, Amanda Peet (aka Mrs. David Benioff) talks to Conan O’Brien about Jon Snow and dream Game of Thrones roles.
The Game of Thrones cast also lay out what they can and cannot promise you if you win the lottery to attend the season 6 premiere and after party (hint: don’t get your hopes up for a flaming sword).
Anatomy of a Throne: “Blackwater”
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.
Episode: “Blackwater” (209)
Scene: Wildfire ambush
The Battle of the Blackwater may not have been the first big battle scene shown in the books – there is one witnessed firsthand at the end of A Game of Thrones, and two more fought “off-screen” – but it is easily the most involved, sprawling, and dramatic conflict yet encountered in all five published novels, occupying water and land, castle battlements and makeshift bridges comprised of devastated ship hulls. In the book, it takes six chapters to unfold; in the series, it consumes this week’s entire episode (the first time a single story thread is allowed such a luxury).
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Benioff and Weiss say Game of Thrones won’t spoil the books
Well, this news is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser, after all the fretting fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire series have been doing the last few years.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the showrunners of Game of Thrones address the issue of the show passing the books and calm worries about possible spoilers.
“People are talking about whether the books are going to be spoiled – and it’s really not true,” David Benioff says in the new interview. “So much of what we’re doing diverges from the books at this point. And while there are certain key elements that will be the same, we’re not going to talk so much about that – and I don’t think George [R.R. Martin] is either.”
Game of Thrones Memory Lane 209: Blackwater
Where is Stannis in the rear commanding the battle from atop a high hill? Where is the clash of navies on Blackwater Bay? Where’s Tyrion’s chain? Where’s…
Uh, never mind. Feast your eyes on the beautiful, beautiful wildfire explosion that shot Game of Thrones into the cultural stratosphere.
Welcome back to Watchers on the Wall’s Memory Lane series where each and every Game of Thrones episode is reviewed prior to the start of Season 6! I’m BryndenBFish, and I’ll be your tour guide for this episode. What was all that book wankery at the start? We’ll touch on all that at the end. For now, we’ll be looking back to 2012 and Game of Thrones’ penultimate episode that saw Stannis Baratheon and Tyrion Lannister meet in epic battle. Directed by Neil Marshall and penned by George R.R. Martin himself, “Blackwater” is Game of Thrones at its absolute finest. Instead of focusing on multiple locations and storylines, “Blackwater” directs our entire attention to one location: King’s Landing.
Lena Headey on Cersei’s “dark” relationship; Alfie Allen hints at Game of Thrones season 6
Alfie Allen continues to promise more “Greyjoy action” next season and shares his thoughts on Sansa’s wedding night, Theon’s moral ambiguity and Game of Thrones‘ less-than-cheery outlook on life. Additionally, Entertainment Weekly has shared another season 6 interview tease with viewers today, this one featuring Lena Headey.