Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 8 “Hardhome”
Writers: David Benioff and D.B. Weiss
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Runtime: 60 minutes
Content Warnings: TV-MA: Adult Content, Adult Language, Graphic Violence
Synopsis: Arya makes progress in her training. Sansa confronts an old friend. Cersei struggles. Jon travels.
Video Preview: Episode 8 Preview on Youtube
*Note: this post is for all viewers so please use spoiler coding when discussing spoilers.*
For our first casting speculation post this year, we’ll focus on a character we weren’t ever sure would make the leap to Game of Thrones: Randyll Tarly.
As we learned last week, season 6 casting has begun and there’s a call for a character that’s a perfect description of Randyll, Samwell Tarly’s stern father who sent him to the Wall.
From our casting post:
Father. Aged 50’s to 60’s, he’s one of the greatest soldiers in Westeros- a humorless martinet, severe and intimidating. He demands martial discipline in the field and in his home. It’s described as “a very good part” for next year and that he’s “centrally involved” in a protagonist’s storyline.
In the books, Randyll is described as “the finest soldier in the realm,” and “iron-willed and shrewd.” He has a reputation for blunt speech, and is said to be lean and balding with a “short, bristly grey beard.”
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Finally, it is time to share tale of the chance meeting of Lion and Dragon, in the lower pits of Meereen. In Northern Westeros a lady carves her fate, strategic tools at the ready.
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Can you believe it? There’s only three episodes left! As you breathlessly await Episode 8, come re-explore Game of Thrones Episode 7 “The Gift” with me, Dame Pasty. I guarantee at least one laugh but sobbing is strictly prohibited. Spoilers are back in this week and they’re at the very end for the Unsullied.
Video after the jump.
Author George R.R. Martin talked about his absence from the show with Entertainment Weekly (EW) saying that he won’t be penning an episode for the sixth season of Game of Thrones either. Martin also canceled his San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) appearance as well as cut back on media interviews to focus solely on finishing the sixth installment of A Song of Ice and Fire: The Winds of Winter.
It’s that time of the week, Gatewatch faithful: Time to doff our caps or dip our heads in solemn reverie – one part eulogy, one part celebration for the wonderful talent we get to see onscreen. Curtain Call time, and today we celebrate the incomparable Peter Vaughan.
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“Why should the people trust a queen who can’t keep her promises?”-Daenerys Targaryen
From the HBO Game of Thrones official synopsis, “Arya makes progress in her training. Sansa confronts an old friend. Cersei struggles. Jon travels.”
HBO’s Game of Thrones (typically, and before this current season) 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.
The community grows, and with it, the creativity of its people. Beneath the cut is our interview with the Game of Thrones themed rock band Daenerys and the Targaryens, recorded Sunday, May 17th following a concert and Game of Owns live show in Denver, Colorado. Please enjoy!
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HBO has released 6 new photos from “Hardhome,” the eighth episode of Game of Thrones season 5.
The episode synopsis: Arya makes progress in her training. Sansa confronts an old friend. Cersei struggles. Jon travels.
New HQ photos below the cut!