Kontroversial Keith: Saying It and Meaning It.
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Game of Thrones: What Will Euron Greyjoy’s Role be in Season 7?
In season 6, Euron Greyjoy made a pretty quick, but critical impact upon arriving, slaying his brother Balon and later claiming the Iron Islands for himself. As his niece and nephew flee to join Daenerys’ forces, Euron instructs the rest of the Iron Born to construct him a fleet of a thousand ships. From that…
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Game of Thrones: Did Jon Snow Avenge the Red Wedding?
In Season 6 Episode 10, the Northern lords gather to proclaim Jon Snow the King of the North. After Lady Mormont shames the lords and declares her allegiance to Jon Snow, other lords quickly rise to join her. I believe Lord Manderly states that Jon Snow “avenged the Red Wedding.” While the scene is powerful…
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Game of Thrones: Season 6 Episode 10 The Winds of Winter Review
The show starts off with the trial of Ser Loras Tyrell where he is tried for essentially being gay. He admits to his guilt and accepts his fate in casting away the Tyrell name. Virtually, everyone important is at the Sept except Tommen, Ser Robert Strong, Qyburn, Pycelle and Cersei Lannister. Because it also is…
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Game of Thrones: Dark Sansa Emerges
Many people were severely disappointed in Sansa Stark’s story arc in Season 5 where many people expected Sansa to start playing the Game of Thrones and manipulate those around her. Instead, her story takes two twists from the book where she gets married off to Ramsay Bolton and worse yet relentlessly raped. So rather than…
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Game of Thrones: The Great Game
Tyrion finally will get to his quote about “The Great Game” in Episode 10 of season 6. But what exactly is the Great Game? Why should Daenerys be terrified? And why is Tyrion encouraging her to be terrified?
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Game of Thrones: Season 6 Episode 9 Battle of the Bastards Review
Easily, the most anticipated episodes of the season, Battle of the Bastards certainly lived up to and perhaps exceeded all hype. Certainly, this episode is not for the weak of heart, especially once we get to the North. Director Miguel Sapochnik is becoming my go-to director for creating intense, heart palpitating moments, considering he already…
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HBONow Goes Down; Game of Thrones Fanbase Rages
HBONow had a highly embarrassing outage right on the night of the most highly anticipated Game of Thrones episode of the season. It’s the dread that every developer faces who has to deal with capacity issues but it also demonstrates the possible lack of knowledge the non-technical people have in understanding their audience at the…
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Game of Thrones: Explaining the Arya Stark Plot
Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 8 ended in a slightly controversial and perhaps anti-climatical manner with Arya Stark declaring her identity to Jaqen Hagar and departing the Faceless Men for Westeros. In retrospect, fans of the show have criticized her plot as being boring, pointless and perhaps even a waste of time with the…
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Game of Thrones: Various Predictions on Jon Snow, Littlefinger, Sansa Stark
I read a potential spoiler the other day that talked about Littlefinger talking to Jon Snow and revealing something important in Episode 10 of the current season. No one really has any clue what that detail is but I have a guess that made me think a bit about the larger picture about where more…
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Game of Thrones: Season 6 Episode 8 No One Review
GoT E8 starts off with Lady Crane, playing Cersei still, mourning her dead son Joffrey. There’s more emotion in the way she portrays Cersei and she receives a sound applause for her efforts. Her portrayal is similar to how Arya suggested it as the grieving mother. Thereafter she returns to her chamber to find Arya…