Helleeeeeooooooo, nerds! And welcome to season 6!
No, you haven’t accidentally forgotten to watch the season 6 premiere. (Well, unless you are reading this on the 25th, in which case you might have!)
In honor of the #GoT50 hashtag–meant for a diehards-only fifty-day re-watch of Game of Thrones‘ first 5 seasons–we are unfurling the first Twitter post of 2016 two days early, and summarizing (as only Twitter can) the experience.
Now… this didn’t go precisely as I had hoped. Honestly, there were not as many actual diehards as one might expect–certainly not the sort of who tackle this re-watch one day at a time, for fifty days. So the gathering was scattered, to say the least, and …
Well, if you’re the sort who hates Twitter posts that that feature only a handful of people… this may not be the Twitter post for you. I grabbed what I could.
I do want to thank some of the diehards, because without them this project would have quite literally gone nowhere. @BeautyBrienne, @NiceQueenCersei, @LordSnow, @_Mauy, @AlysonMiers, @screenreviewer, @cyotha, @PootzMaGoo, @TheTect0, @GHOST_OF_JS, @jkozal, @GameOverRos, @klairedelune13, @SerWhiteWalker, @GoT_Tyrion, @caitlynwinn, @heathen_king … and a large handful of others that basically made this possible.
See y’all in the NEXT Twitter post. In, oh… about 3 days or so.
We’re BACK, baby!
Hodor!
Jon Snow Reborn 2016
Christ, we’ve waited so long…..
Fifty blades of Hodor!
Tyrion’s first episode blond hair was too obvious, that’s why they changed it.
Benjen Stark is indeed a thing…one I hope we’ll see more of 🙂
Looking forward to Tuesday, Axey!
Great post, as always, Axey! Thanks for putting in the hard work to compile all these. This was a fun journey to relieve, and I’m glad I was able to provide you with some usable material.
#GoT50 started out strong, but towards the end it did start to feel a little bit like a death march (which is … appropriate, given the show it was dedicated to). There were many in the ranks at the beginning, but one by one, people started falling away. I managed to write something for every episode, but towards the end it was definitely the imminent promise of Season 6 that was sustaining me … and the idea that if I didn’t write something for every episode, I would be irked at myself in some weird way.
Luckily, the long wait is over! Looking forward to an influx of fresh material, starting tomorrow!
An Axey twitter post before the season even starts?!? Awesome!!!
Thanks! 🙂
The twitter recap is one of my favourite part.
Can’t wait to see it.