Episode 251 – The Hounds
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Tansy and The Peach greet our well-worn travelers to the Stoney Sept, amidst rubble, disorder, and watered wine. In the North, a race to the Wall’s summit leads Jon’s companions to a chilly fate.
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HBO has just unveiled its latest Game of Thrones project with a teasing tweet, and this is going to be a special one for fans.
According to the website, The Game of Thrones Compendium will be “the world’s first collaborative, crowd-sourced compendium,” resulting in a printed and bound edition.
And what exactly are they crowd-sourcing? The Game of Thrones Compendium is gathering the best of the fandom’s original offerings, including “artwork, photographs, crafts, music and analysis.” The compositions and creations will then be reviewed by a Council of Editors, and if accepted, may then be a part of the printed book.
This is especially exciting for us here at Watchers On The Wall as one of our own, Zack Luye of Game of Owns, is a member of the Council.
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 to the giveaway so far, and we also want to thank Dark Horse Comics for providing the official Game of Thrones products for you all to enjoy.
Contest rules, and details on today’s giveaway below!
Recently at the British Independent Film Awards, actress Sophie Turner chatted on the red carpet with HeyUGuys and hinted at what’s in store for her character in season 5.
When asked about scenes for the upcoming season, Sophie shares there’s one scene that she’s done that was “super, super traumatic” and the type of scene that was “really kind of horrible for everyone to be on set and watch.” She goes on to explain how those are her favorite scenes, as an actress.
This week, we’re celebrating the end of a very long year for the Watchers On The Wall. There’s been a great deal of change and adjustment with the creation of the site, and we’re grateful for your loyalty and enthusiasm. Game of Thrones fans are a bunch we’re proud to be among.
As a thank you to our readers, we’re having a five-day-long giveaway, with a host of prizes generously furnished by Dark Horse Comics, the creators of Game of Thrones‘s high-quality line of licensed products.
Every day, we’ll be featuring a Great House from the world of Game of Thrones, kicking things off today with the blood of Old Valyria, House Targaryen.
We’ll be capping off the week on Friday with a grand finale featuring a variety of Houses, loads of swag, and one very special grand prize. Be sure to check in every day to see what amazing GoT merch we’re giving away, and to enter to win!
Unfortunately the giveaway is open to US residents only. We’ll have other giveaways in the future that will be worldwide.
Contest rules, and details on today’s giveaway below!
Malko speaks!
Freshly-cast Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje spoke to Vulture about the (not quite) auditioning process that landed him the role of Malko for the upcoming fifth season of Game of Thrones.
Thrones loyalist Marcelo Córdova alerted me to the Vulture interview on Twitter. Here is the interview in its entirety.
A few interesting tidbits after the break:
Location shooting of the fifth season of Game of Thrones headed to another area of Northern Ireland this week: the coastal town of Bangor, not far from Belfast.
Sightings have been popping up on Twitter, pointing toward filming occurring out in the Walled Garden at Bangor Castle, located close to the Leisure Centre Complex.
No, the Sand Snakes’ armor wasn’t supposed to be nippled, says Game of Thrones‘s Emmy-winning costume-designer Michele Clapton.
That info and more was shared this week after Clapton appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a Spark Talk on the show’s costuming and armor. The designer shared additional thoughts with NYMag’s The Cut, offering insights into Sansa’s style transformation and Arya’s new look for season 5.
The 2015 Writers Guild Awards nominees have been announced and season 4 of Game of Thrones has been recognized by the guild in two categories.
The show is up for an award in the Drama Series category with show writers David Benioff, Bryan Cogman, George R.R. Martin, and D.B. Weiss sharing the nomination. GoT will face tough competition from the writing teams of The Good Wife, House of Cards, Mad Men and True Detective.
Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have been accused of many things over the course of Game of Thrones’s four seasons, from being egomaniacal rewriters to bold television visionaries.
The one question that tends to get lost in the kerfuffle, however, just may perhaps be the one consideration that will dominate more than any other as we enter into what is undeniably the final stretch of the show’s lifespan: has the production been shortsighted from the very beginning, despite having a huge swath of pre-existent material to draw from? And are the show’s numerous recastings the prime example of this?
It’s a question so loaded with potential ramifications, only a murder of crows is capable of answering it.
(Warning: there may be some minor points of discussion that could be considered light spoilers. Please proceed at your own caution.)