With a script from George R.R. Martin (with, doubtless, input from the executive producers, the director, and limitations based on shooting schedules, budget, and total run time) and direction from film director Neil Marshall, the episode starts with a slow, quiet sense of dread as we meet different characters who will be affected by what’s [...]
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Every week I’ll be bringing you a comic book cover that I feel eclipses others out there—to the point I might just have to own it when released!
This week: A Game of Thrones #8! A secret discovered!
Read More“Blackwater” approaches, and with it the suspicion of many fans that it may be the episode most faithful to the tone and character developments of the novel, as it features King’s Landing — an area that has, besides some reduction in scale, largely remained fairly closely following the novel — and is written by George [...]
Read More“The Prince of Winterfell” seemed to be — from previews and title — an episode that was going to focus rather more on Theon Greyjoy in Winterfell. This had been, up to now, one of the brightest spots in the season, and certainly led to some expectations… and those expectations were largely wrong. It’s that [...]
Read More“A Man Without Honor” introduced us to a somewhat confusing explanation on the history between the wildlings and… well, everyone else. I touched on it briefly in my review, but it seems like a good subject to go into in more depth. The history goes back eight thousand years (as common lore puts it, though [...]
Read More“A Man Without Honor” is in many ways a quiet episode, more concerned with moving pieces into place than big shocks and surprises… but they manage them just the same, especially in the final ten minutes of the episode. While I can’t say the episode is wholly successful in its aims — there are various [...]
Read MoreWhat was it like to be involved in a show with such a large production scale?
It was amazing, obviously! It’s so epic. I wasn’t aware of how big it was going to be, and then I started to read the books and I thought it was really interesting. Then I got on set and I [...]
[Note: We're dispensing with the recaps, because ... well, there's a million of them! That said, there are spoilers for the series below, and occasionally there'll be hints about things yet to come in the novels, so beware]
To say that this episode is uneven in its quality is, apparently, something that engenders a great deal [...]
It seems useful, given what’s transpiring in Game of Thrones, to discuss how the show has depicted the ironborn. All in all, the focus on Theon’s storyline has been one of the most rewarding parts of a second season adaptation which has yet to gel together the way that the first season geled together, and [...]
Read More[Note: There are spoilers both for the TV show and the novels]
A sudden turn in the stormlands leads Catelyn to flee with Brienne of Tarth, while Littlefinger moves in to convince the Tyrells to make an important choice. Meanwhile, Tyrion learns of a dangerous new weapon that the queen is preparing, and determines to [...]
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