Episode 261 – Back in Black
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Today, Sandor Clegane and his new friend Arya ford the Trident with the help of a handy fistful of IOUs. Further North, Jon Snow finally returns to his brothers and Castle Black.
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Game of Thrones fans have been waiting for a standalone HBO service for a long time, and it appears that HBO is working hard to make that happen by mid-April, according to Variety.
HBO has announced that the online video service will be called HBO Now, and Apple is in talks with the network to be one of its partners, in bringing HBO Now to the Apple TV device.
Variety also reports HBO’s in talks with Google and TiVo to partner up with the new service.
Nerdist turns out some great parodies but their new take on Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” is really slaying. So to speak.
Chock full of clever lyrics, “Blank Page” stars Nick Mundy as George R.R. Martin warning fans “I get off on killing everyone you love” in the song.
The video also features Emily Rudd as Daenerys, and Brandon Hillcock as Jon Snow.
Check out the clip:
She is the First of her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons.
She could also be a focal point of Season 5, which if done right, could be a highlight of the season. But regardless, by the time it’s all said and done and despite the mountains of titles, a man is beginning to believe most of us, in the end, will all just hate her…
We can expect a wild ride if the newest sample from Catch the Throne is anything to go by. HBO released today a snippet from Anthrax’s contribution to Vol. II of the mixtape.
The band’s guitarist Scott Ian says of the music, “[You] see the Mountain onscreen, it shouldn’t be harps and lutes.” The mixtape is set to have each track inspired by part of season 4. With the Mountain mention, can we assume their song is inspired by Gregor Clegane or perhaps more specifically the Mountain-Viper duel?
Last week, Killswitch Engage released a sample of their House Martell-inspired song, “Loyalty.”
Check out Anthrax’s track here:
The promotional season for Game of Thrones is in full swing, and new interviews are being conducted regularly. We’ve rounded up the latest notable ones for you.
First up is John Bradley. In an interview with IGN, John teased at some of Sam’s developments in the upcoming season. He says that up until now, Sam had found solace in the Night’s Watch, away from the militaristic tendencies of his father, Lord Randyll. He had achieved a sense of place and protection from the outside world. With Stannis now in the mix, that old reality catches up fast with Sam, and he will be “knocked down a few pegs”.
Jonathan Pryce, Richard Madden, Nathalie Emmanuel and Nina Gold all have their say on Season 5 below the cut!
This is a guest post and survey by WotW reader James Rivers.
If the top parlor game ahead of a new season of Game of Thrones is theorizing which new characters will show up who weren’t publicized ahead of time, the runner-up is likely predicting the episode titles.
The 40 so far have included the obvious (“Blackwater,”) the
wink-wink-nudge-nudge to book readers (“Baelor,” “The Rains of Castamere,”) the double-entendre’d (“Kissed by Fire”), and now and then the misinterpreted-as-a-double-entendre-when-it-really-wasn’t (“Mhysa”). Unfortunately none are as straightforward as those that Friends used to do (or else the season two premiere would have been called, “The One Where Tyrion Crashes Joffrey’s Party”).
The early Season 5 episode titles could leak any day now, so before they do, let’s put our heads together and see what the WatchersOnTheWall community can collectively come up with.
It’s pretty simple: Fill in the blanks below. The survey will remain live until March 6th, at noon Eastern Time– or until the first batch of titles leak/are released, whichever happens first. Then we’ll compile the results and see how close everyone came to the mark. This Friday, we’ll reveal the results of the survey.
The survey is under the cut!
The newest behind-the-scenes video from Game of Thrones gives a special look at the creation of Dorne’s unique weaponry, with commentary from GoT weapons master Tommy Dunne.
After the record-breaking news from the UK, we now have a nugget concerning season four box set sales Stateside.
Variety reports that Game of Thrones: The Complete Fourth Season is toping both of its sales charts for the week of release. That is, it sold more Blu-rays than any other show OR movie, and more home video (Blu-ray and DVD combined) than the competition.
The rest of the top 5 are all new releases of movies, not shows. 54% of the Thrones sales in the first week came from Blu-ray, which was thus slightly preferred over the DVD edition. Unfortunately, official absolute numbers of copies sold have not been reported.
Once more we go down memory lane to see what was going on three years ago. Much like we are now expecting S5 to hit the screens, we were eagerly expecting the sophomore season of Game of Thronesi back then.