Watchers on the Wall staff were polled on their perceptions of season 4 and predictions for season 5. Here are their answers to a series of questions leading up to Sunday’s premiere. Consensus may have built on several questions but as usual WotW staff possess diverse points of view.
With less than a week to go, the Game of Thrones actors and writers are out promoting season 5 with interviews galore. Here are the highlights of the newest interviews including Kit Harington, Nathalie Emmanuel, Carice van Houten, Benioff and Weiss, and the new cast members of House Martell:
Last night, Kit Harington appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers. In addition to talking up GoT, Harington showed his funny side in this hilarious sketch involving mopey Jon Snow attending a dinner party with Meyers. Check it out:
Dying for yet another way to watch Game of Thrones? HBO is working hard to expand their audience via their online standalone service. The newest announcement is that HBO Now launches on Apple TV this month. Video and more details after the break.
There is less than one week to go until the new season, which means that we will once more discuss viewership numbers each week – right after we have covered all the (developing) plot points, of course. A man has to have priorities.
While HBO has decided not to release ratings themselves anymore, we still expect to get our hands on the numbers each Tuesday. In order to prepare for it, we have to refresh our memories as to where things stand after the first four seasons, with the return of Marko’s beloved chart (TM):
This graphics compares the numbers of the initial airing of each of Game of Thrones episode against the viewership of other successful HBO series we have reliable data on. Longer or shorter seasons have been proportionally scaled to fit the 10-episode run of Thrones.
There’s just five days left until the premiere of Game of Thrones season 5! To make the anticipation easier, we’ve teamed up with TVStoreOnline.com for a sweet giveaway.
TVStoreOnline is offering up a prize package to one lucky winner consisting of TWO T-shirts:
The Game of Thrones House Sigils Shirt:
An officially licensed Game of Thrones T-shirt featuring three major Great House sigils, including House Stark, House Targaryen and House Lannister. The T-shirt is black and 100% cotton, and comes in sizes Small through XX-Large.
If your house loyalties lie in the North, then you’ll love prize #2:
The Game of Thrones Winter Is Coming Shirt
This officially licensed T-shirt features the Stark family direwolf sigil and motto. The shirt comes in black and in sizes Small through XX-Large.
Check below the cut to see how to enter, along with a couple of simple methods to gain extra entries. *The contest is open to residents of the USA and Canada only.*
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With just six days to go until Game of Thrones Season 5 is beamed to our TVs, we’ve rounded up a final batch of interviews to help make the wait a little more tolerable.
To start off, here’s a brief video from The Hollywood Reporter in which Emilia Clarke talks about what could happen if Daenerys met Jon and Tyrion.
Lots more below the cut (and mild spoilers).
*This review will contain light spoilers.*
After nine months, Game of Thrones has returned as strong and bold as ever.
The show’s fifth season begins its stride forward by taking us into the past- into Cersei’s youth, showing us the future queen (played by Nell Williams, who has nailed Lena Headey’s expressions) and a friend visiting a fortuneteller in the woods. The flashback is a risky new trick in the show’s arsenal, but it works, fitting right in with the Game of Thrones mix of magic, intrigue, and foreboding.
That isn’t the only dip into history this season, as the show seems intent on bringing the past to the present this year, with more than one reference to long-dead characters who may still hold significance.
I’ll tell you this upfront: the season premiere as a whole isn’t as strong as last season’s first outing. “The Wars to Come” is all about setting up the season, and it does that very well. It’s more reminiscent of the second and third season premieres in that respect, but the pacing is on the slow side. It’s contemplative, giving the characters and the viewers breathing room to take in the new stories that bloom over the next few episodes.
What can you expect from season 5?
First off, our friend Ozzy Man provides a handy (though perhaps a bit of a one-note one, heheh) recap of the first four seasons of Game of Thrones before season five starts.
Game of Thrones picked up another award nomination today and the chance to add to its already overflowing trophy shelf. Nominations were announced for the 2015 Hugo Awards, celebrating the year’s best in scifi and fantasy works.
Game of Thrones is nominated for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form), for the season 4 episode “The Mountain and the Viper” written by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss, and directed by Alex Graves.
Dany’s little dragon, Drogon, has returned this year, only he’s grown a bit. In fact, he’s grown so much that, according to this new interview with TVInsider.com, Game of Thrones is now using two new methods to create the black dragon.
Visual effects supervisor Joe Bauer speaks with TVInsider about the creation of Drogon in season 5, offering a peek at how the biggest of the dragons will be depicted this year.