Happy New Year, all you Game of Thrones Watchers out there! To kick off the exciting year ahead of us (is it April yet?), it’s time for another GoT giveaway. This one celebrates the central family of the show, House Stark, with an array of prizes up for grabs. This week’s worldwide giveaway will have […]
Continue reading →“If we don’t put aside our enmities and band together, we will die. And then it doesn’t matter whose skeleton sits on the Iron Throne.” During Jon Snow’s shaky introduction to Daenerys Targaryen in the seventh season of Game of Thrones, Ser Davos Seaworth succinctly contextualized the political realities in Westeros. Queen Daernerys had come […]
Continue reading →Back in 2006 (how time flies!) author George R.R. Martin decided to change the title of the seventh ASOIAF novel, then named A Time for Wolves, to A Dream of Spring. I have to agree with him that the new title fits better- spring does come after winter after all- so it implies that there’s […]
Continue reading →Interpersonal bonds tend to be, uh, fraught on Game of Thrones, to say the least. In a show famous for its complexity and brutality, we’ve watched plenty of (fairly) conventional relationships break down over the course of seven seasons. In this video essay, however, I take a look at the bonds that have survived thus far and, more specifically, examine how hitting […]
Continue reading →Through seven seasons, Game of Thrones has boasted a huge ensemble cast of memorable characters, and though many of them are fan favorites or integral to the plot, the most important of them all (the ones the “Song of Ice and Fire” surely alludes to) are Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen. Both of them had humble […]
Continue reading →With the imminent arrival of the new season, we have several amazing Game of Thrones giveaways lined up over the next few weeks. We’re kicking things off this week with a two-day affair featuring unique ceramic steins that celebrate that the two houses at the center of Game of Thrones: House Stark and House Lannister. […]
Continue reading →On Twitter today, HBO unveiled three new promo videos teasing Game of Thrones season 6 featuring the sigils of three great houses- and the threats to each of those families. We’ve gathered up all three clips here for your enjoyment.
Continue reading →The second day of our week-long Dark Horse giveaway features the Great House of Stark, the proud wearers of the fierce direwolf sigil. Times are dark for House Stark, with the King in the North fallen, but the wolves will come again…or will they? We’d like to thank our readers for the fantastic response […]
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