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Continue reading →When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground. Cersei Lannister said those words midway-through the very first season of Game of Thrones, after Lord Eddard Stark revealed his suspicions about Robert Baratheon not being the father to Cersei’s children. Suspicions that the queen decided to confirm […]
Continue reading →When people talk about Game of Thrones, they often leave off the “s” in thrones. They think only of the Iron Throne in King’s Landing, the King of the Andals, Rhoynar, and First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm. There is more than one throne in their world and more […]
Continue reading →The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones is still a year away at least, but in the meantime we have plenty of material to theorize about the endgame for the surviving characters of the series. Heroes, villains and innocent people have died in a plethora of different ways: poisoned, cut down, burned, stabbed, […]
Continue reading →In the most recent season of Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister checked off a major item from her royal To Do list: Kill Sansa Stark Make Jaime do whatever I want Win – in general Pay back the Iron Bank of Braavos The crown’s overall debts were established early on in the series, and gradually […]
Continue reading →A universal feeling no one ever wants to experience is that of disappointment. It can be a quiet feeling, a monstrous one, or something in between. Regardless of the veracity of the feeling, disappointment is fundamentally rooted in a loss of expectation, positivity, and hope. That feeling that can easily sink one’s stomach, heart, and […]
Continue reading →Game Of Thrones will leave behind a plethora of legacies but arguably its most potent one will be its penchant for upending conventional narratives that have for so long defined the fantasy genre. The execution of Eddard Stark (Sean Bean) at the end of “Baelor” and the slaughter of the Starks at the Red Wedding […]
Continue reading →Valar Morghulis, The seats of power within the world of Game Of Thrones are thoroughly dominated by men. Six out of the seven kingdoms on the continent of Westeros operate under a strict male primogeniture system. In such a system, the eldest male child is the one who inherits the family’s seat of power. One […]
Continue reading →Game of Thrones is a pretty geeky show, so you’ll find plenty of geeky charts and infographics all over the internet, showing everything from size comparisons in Westeros to how each book chapter corresponds to each episode in the adaptation. They are nothing new. And yet, there is a new chart detailing the screen time […]
Continue reading →The common people pray for rain, health, and a summer that never ends. They don’t care what games the High Lords play. -Ser Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen) One of the most prominent themes in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire is that of the plight of the common folk. A Game […]
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