Almost exactly one week ago, the first trailer for season six unexpectedly dropped on us like a dragon crashing a slave-pit party. While the smoke has mostly cleared by now, we here at the Wall are still collecting our thoughts – and catching our breath! – by the bombshell, and we thought quickly jotting down […]
Continue reading →December 3 and February 14 are two dates that Game of Thrones fans should have indelibly etched into their collective consciousness: these are the days that HBO dropped the first two teases of the show’s highly anticipated sixth season onto the Sullied and Unsullied world. We convened an original powwow at the Wall two months […]
Continue reading →Editor’s note: From time to time, we welcome new blood into the fold here. Our newest addition to the Watchers on the Wall staff is an old friend and familiar face in the Game of Thrones online community. Please give a warm Watchers welcome to WinterPhil! -Sue the Fury Well, this is different. The people all […]
Continue reading →Let’s do a quick and dirty Murder of Crows, shall we? In case you haven’t noticed, there’s been a huge deluge of set photos, spy reports, and casting leaks announcements for season six. As exciting as all this is in and of itself, it’s rendered all the more magical once one stops to consider that […]
Continue reading →Almost exactly a month ago, HBO announced that Game of Thrones would be returning for at least one additional season, making its grand total eight years (with the possibility of even more seasons to come!). Four weeks is a lot of time – just enough, it turns out, to let the news sink and to […]
Continue reading →Today’s the big day – Watchers on the Wall turns a whopping one-year-old! To celebrate the occasion, I’ve asked each of the Watchers to share her favorite memory from the past 12 months, or, conversely, what stands out the most to him about being a crow. The answers I’ve received are sometimes funny, sometimes heartfelt, […]
Continue reading →Nearly five months ago, we asked a simple enough question: what if Game of Thrones’s fifth season sucks? It seems only natural, now that season five has come and gone, to attempt to answer that question – and it seems only right to once again invite along the kindly folks from Tower of the Hand, […]
Continue reading →We had fun doing a joint roundtable with the Tower of the Hand crew a few months back, but we decided to hold off on doing a follow-up until we came across a suitably irresistible topic that would justify the colossal task of synchronizing schedules and herding two litters of cats. As it turns out, […]
Continue reading →Just in case Game of Thrones’s big return wasn’t enough – or the fact that this season is set to stray away from the source material in some pretty substantial and elongated ways – we decided to conduct something of an experiment here at the Wall and keep an open journal of first impressions right […]
Continue reading →What happens when you strike up a conversation that is so potentially fraught with charged emotion and several layers’ worth of analysis? You need two websites to help each other wade through the minefield and reach a (more or less) coherent answer to the question at hand. Thus, please welcome the good folks of Tower […]
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