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Watchers on the Wall Awards LIVE!

Posted on by Sue the Fury

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We’ll be announcing the winners of the first annual Watchers on the Wall Awards tonight at 8PM Eastern Time. Join us as we podcast live with our friends from Game of Owns, and find out which of your favorites will take home the awards as we celebrate the best of Game of Thrones season 4.

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Sue the Fury
Susan Miller, Editor in Chief of WatchersOnTheWall.com

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  3. A hearty hodor and hello to all of you! Please exit the red carpet, grab a drink, and find your seats– the festivities will start soon!

  7. Turncloak,

    I thought you hated Cersei?? I remember you saying that she deserved the Walk of Shame…or maybe I’m getting confused with someone else.

  9. Shylah:
    A hearty hodor and hello to all of you! Please exit the red carpet, grab a drink, and find your seats– the festivities will start soon!

    Do I have time to pee? 😉

  10. My computer works better sometimes than others – can you say go when it starts? Not seeing anything yet – thanks

  13. aurane waters:
    Turncloak,

    I thought you hated Cersei?? I remember you saying that she deserved the Walk of Shame…or maybe I’m getting confused with someone else.

    I hate book Cersei yes. But Lena Headey is a wonderful actress and has done a fantastic job. Even if I disagree with some of the show choices to take away some of the evil deeds she has done

  20. Shylah,

    Y’all think of everything!
    Wait, you don’t have any Tyrion impersonators waiting in the wings to take me out for one of the show-skits, right?

  26. It begins!

    The lack of a video component and the multitude of voices makes it difficult to distinguish them, especially when they are talking over each other, even though I do listen to Game of Owns. Hopefully it’ll get clearer as the show goes on.

  31. Wow, very shocked here, although I think I voted for her, so happy, happy, happy here.

    Thought that Rose would win, but they were all great.

  41. Giants and Mammoths take the best Visual Effect scene beating out sailing under the Titan of Braavos

  42. How did I totally miss the voting for Best Actress? I check the site daily! Grrr…bummed I missed it but so much activity lately. Hoping for a Maisie win, she was fantastic all season (and seasons past) but could see Lena taking it, too.
    GO RORY!

  47. And the funniest quote is “what the fuck’s a lommy?”

    beating out “every fucking chicken in this room”, and “lots of people have swords. Lots of cunts”

  59. Winner of funniest scene is The Hound and Arya talking Lommy and the naming of swords.

    Beating out fuckin chicken and Jaime waving his golden hand

  61. So, chickens won nothing? Seriously?

    At least it was a funny scene, although I’m not sure we needed categories for both Funniest Quote, and Funniest Scene.

  62. What the fuck is with the Lommy’s…

    Winning both quote and scene!
    I did love the swords line, but that whole chicken scene was so brilliant, imo.

  64. Oberyn visiting Tyrion’s cell was the best scene of the season, so I’m glad it won, though I’m surprised it was that close.

  66. 3 Votes!!! Wow!

    Ok, well all of these would have been worthy winners, but I’m happy with the Oberyn scene winning, because it is the sort of scene that I was worried about, so I’m glad they pulled it off, and also I voted for it.

    Oberyn sweeping the board! (So, did Lommy, but the less said about that the better).

  67. Wait.
    Which dramatic scene only lost by 3 votes?

    I’d guess the Night’s Watch vows at the Gate.

  68. The winner is “You raped her, you murdered her, you killed her children”

    Beating out the hounds chicken line by 4 votes and Alliser Thorne’s Battle Speech by 8 votes

  69. 4 votes, and 4 votes. That is so, so close again.

    I didn’t see that winning at all. Tyrion quote for me, I think. Also, I think The Hound’s chickens being in so many categories split his vote. Giutted that it didn’t win any, because it really deserved to.

  70. Obvious win was obvious.

    Oberyn wins again!

    Edit: Although, he probably wouldn’t be so happy winning this!!

  73. Wow. I hadn’t realized Pedro did everything in his fight with the Mountain. I knew he’d trained in Wushu in preparation for the role, but I just assumed some of the movements were done by a double. Very, very impressive!

  75. Yeah, pretty even category here, so I wasn’t too bothered what won, but happy that it was the one who I voted for who did it.

  79. Rory. Thank Fuck.The Hound deserved something after being robbed in the other categories. One of these years The Dink will win, but nice that someone else gets more recognition.

    Good Luck to him in the future.

  80. I voted for Peter Dinklage, but I must say that I’m stoked that Rory McCann won Best Actor. He had an exceptional year, and he was a great part of the ensemble since the beginning. Richly deserved.

  84. AfuckingMEN! So happy Rory took it! Amazing season for him. He was fantastic from the start but the past two seasons have been a real boon for Sandor fans.

  85. Well Done Sophie.

    Wait, Maisie wasn’t second. How???

    Edit: Third, not bad.

    Ooh, that isn’t nice for Emilia. Ouch.

  88. Wow…I am surprised! Pleasantly for sure because Sophie deserves the recognition but didn’t think she was given the best stuff to work with this season. I think it had more to do with the pacing of her story, maybe more Dontos interaction would’ve helped, but very happy to see her get props from the fans!

  90. Kells,

    I think Sophie won because of her hardcore fans. Her material doesn’t merit the win imo but she is a very good actress

  91. Knew it 🙂 Personally felt The Children was better as there was no climax to Watchers, but when all of the episodes were so good I couldn’t complain that much at all about the winner.

    Edit: Thought The Children would come second, so wrong there. Everything else sounds right though.

  92. I was pleased that Sophie won, since this year the writers let her actually have her own story (after an unpromising beginning).

  93. Thank You. Overall, relatively happy with the results, but there were a few disappointments for me (cough, Lommy). I’ll leave it now though because it is 2.30am here, and I need some sleep, so I will post in the main thread with my thoughts tomorrow (well today really).

  94. Turncloak: He didn’t. Pedro had a double. That was a mistake by podcast

    Pedro did a lot of his fight, but he did have a double for some of it. I didn’t really find the right moment to jump in there and contradict.

  96. Turncloak,

    Agreed and I get wanting to see our favorites win. I went back to look at the voting because I totally missed the BA category and I am glad I did. It got pretty nasty with all the Maisie bashing. It was a Sophie vs. Maisie fest and jeezuscrist, people need to get over that shit! I think its possible to like both actresses without pitting them against each other.
    Both are great in their roles. One is a flashier, grittier role and one more subtle but both young ladies do a great job.
    Sansa’s arc this season was played wonderfully by Sophie but I just didn’t feel it was strong as Arya or Cersei’s story lines. Still, happy to see the actress get props!

  97. Sean C.,

    This was the part where Sansa started to become interesting to me in the books as well. The only thing I din’t like was the made Sansa look better at the expense of LittleFinger

  98. Kells,

    People forget that they’re friends in real life. I think Sophie might have had a boost this year as people felt sorry for her as she got so much stick in the past. In all honesty, there wasn’t much between them, maybe Sophie shaded it this season, but it was close.

    Lena should absolutely walk it next year, so hopefully those kinds of arguments won’t happen again.

    Now, I really do need to go to sleep, so I’ll clock off now.

  99. Turncloak:
    Sean C.,

    This was the part where Sansa started to become interesting to me in the books as well. The only thing I din’t like was the made Sansa look better at the expense of LittleFinger

    I was always interested in Sansa’s story in the books. On the show the writers consistently cut her key story and robbed her of major moments, and they kept doing that right up until she left King’s Landing.

  100. Jeb:
    Kells,
    Lena should absolutely walk it next year, so hopefully those kinds of arguments won’t happen again.

    I don’t know if she’ll walk away with it. Arya’s arc is shaping up to be pretty interesting.

  101. Sean C.: I was always interested in Sansa’s story in the books.On the show the writers consistently cut her key story and robbed her of major moments, and they kept doing that right up until she left King’s Landing.

    THIS! I didn’t read a lick of text until after the first season and admit that I wasn’t uber keen on Sansa’s story line aside from hardcore shipping her with Sandor. Yes, I am one of those fans! 🙂
    Sansa repeatedly was kicked in the teeth by the writers who turned a lot of her arc into plot points for other characters or eliminated key facets (I still wish we had more Dontos, her belief that he would “save” her) all together.
    Not to make it text vs. show, but I can get how its not easy to convey her internal struggles without using other characters as a catalyst. Getting her out of KL, her hope and promise that she is finally safe only to have it ripped from her again is so pivotal to Sansa learning that she has it in her to play a part (albeit reluctantly) in the game. “Life is not a song…”
    It will be interesting to see how the show lets it develop, how she adapts and if the writers let the story be about her own maneuvering.

  102. Sean C.,

    Can you elaborate on which key Sansa moment they cut out?

    I know they cut out her refusing to kneel to Tyrion. That was for the best as the amount of hate the character would receive for that would have been huge.

  103. Turncloak:
    Can you elaborate on which key Sansa moment they cut out?

    I know they cut out her refusing to kneel to Tyrion. That was for the best as the amount of hate the character would receive for that would have been huge.

    Her refusal to kneel is a huge one, along with, more generally, the changes they made to the wedding arc which completely soft-pedalled it and made a ludicrous false equivalency between her and Tyrion. The whole Sansa-Tyrion marriage on the show was terribly handled, and aimed at keeping Tyrion squeaky clean, completely ignoring that it makes no sense for Sansa to be pals with him, something GRRM understood. He’s her enemy. The show, which is supposed to be mature, has a major problem with the idea that sympathetic characters aren’t going to be on the same side (so do many readers, of course). I would much rather they keep her refusal to kneel, rather than pander to people who think Sansa should be more cooperative with her own abuse.

    The changes they made to her whole escape arc completely gutted it, as well, removing all of her own participation. There’s a nonsense idea in the book fandom that Sansa just sits around doing nothing while in King’s Landing, but in the show that’s actually true. The entire discourse around chivalry and the nature of heroism is lost as well, because of their cutting pretty much all significant interactions with Dontos and the Hound. In the show she just sits around, listening to people talk, serving as the butt of jokes about how dumb she is and crying occasionally, until Dontos drags her out of King’s Landing unawares. Then the show tries to pretend she was actually learning stuff the whole time, even though they never actually showed that, to cover their tracks for how badly they botched seasons 2 and 3.

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