HBO has officially released the information concerning the last two episodes of this season, confirming the title of episode nine and revealing the title of episode ten. We also now have the official synopses of both episodes as well!
Episode 9 of this season is titled, as previously reported, “The Dance of Dragons” and will air on Sunday, June 7th. It will be written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss and directed by David Nutter.
We’ll tuck the rest beneath a cut as the info does contain spoilers!
It’s that time of week again, that wondrous day in which your favorite video critics, personalities, and people who sit in front of a camera weigh in on this week’s episode, “The Gift,” which one could say confidently was a less contentious episode than the previous week’s.
We will start this week with our friend Jonathan of Gay of Thrones, who may never use the actual names for anything, and whose ball slang confuses the lay person, but who cares.
This week’s new episode of Game of Thrones marked the debut of Yezzan, who purchased Tyrion and Jorah from slavers, and Hunger has an interview with the actor who plays him, Enzo Cilenti, as part of their Game of Thrones: Newbies are Coming series. (Check out their other interviews with Alexander Siddig, DeObia Oparei, Jessica Henwick and Toby Sebastian.)
Cilenti is something of a different take on Yezzan than the man in the books who was dubbed “The Yellow Whale.” He tells Hunger:
Telltale’s Game of Thrones series follows Stark bannermen “The Forresters” (briefly mentioned in ASOIAF) throughout various settings and stories that have been previously critiqued for mirroring The Starks to a fault. This leads to a sense of predictability of what’s to come that only gets stronger in episode 4 “Sons of Winter.”
For the first time since Season 2 an episode of Game of Thrones aired on Memorial Day weekend, and the numbers say there is a good reason why HBO tried to avoid this holiday in the past. The numbers are in, and they have dropped significantly compared to previous weeks: 5.40 million people watched the first airing of episode 507. The drop in Season 2 was 12 per cent from the episode before, this time it’s 13 per cent.
Season 5 of Game of Thrones may not be over but preparations for season 6 are well under way, and casting season has begun! And the first casting breakdowns have found their way to our inbox, thanks to some great sources.
There’s a bit of a twist this year though. Since past role descriptions have leaked, the show has wised up and left the names off the write-ups this year.
But that’s not a problem for Game of Thrones fans, is it? We love a good casting puzzle. And some of these parts are obvious, even without the names.
Let the casting speculation begin!
I didn’t have a Twitter pun this week. Next week though!
But this one gave us Gifts aplenty.
We’re on the back stretch, with another Benioff/Weiss-penned episode, and it was strong. As per the norm, I, your axeyfabulous @Axechucker did the usual thing, compiling, sorting, responding, and (as I am wont to do on occasion) pontificating whilst questioning various moralogical morasses. Your only task is to read. And to answer, if you will or may.
Come at me, bro.
Here, then are your weekly tweets!
Episode 279 – The Gift
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The gift of “The Gift” has been given, your hosts meeting minutes following its Sunday night premiere. Winter is coming (and with it a collection of trouble in the North), King’s Landing is in chaos — a podcast simply does not know where to begin. Let’s dive in.
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Welcome back to the written recap round-up! Last night’s exciting episode was a solid installment to prepare us for these last few episodes of season 5. Sansa sought help, Stannis marched forward, and Sam the Slayer upheld his vows (technically) in the seventh episode: “The Gift.”
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One of the high points of this week’s new Game of Thrones episode, “The Gift,” involved the first meeting of two longtime leading characters, Tyrion Lannister and Daenerys Targaryen. Showrunner and writer David Benioff talked to Entertainment Weekly about the climactic moment in a new interview.
Creatively it made sense to us, because we wanted it to happen. They’re two of the best characters of the show. To have them come so close together this season then have them not meet felt incredibly frustrating. Also, we’re on a relatively fast pace. We don’t want to do a 10-year adaptation of the books, we don’t want to do a nine-year adaptation. We’re not going to spend four seasons in Meereen. It’s time for these two to get together. It’s hard to come up with a more eloquent explanation, but this just felt right. [Varys] puts Tyrion’s mission out there [in the season premiere] and the mission ends in Meereen.