Stannis narrates a golf tournament, Kit Harington fans chewed out for rudeness, and other funnies
By Dan Selcke
Stannis Baratheon may have died in Game of Thrones Season 5, but actor Stephen Dillane lives on, and was snapped up the people behind The Open Championship to narrate videos for the golf tournament, which will be starting in Scotland this Thursday. There are a number of videos up on GolfChannel.com that feature Dillane rasping about golf in an incredibly serious fashion, but this one, about what makes Scotland a good place for the tournament, takes the cake. It’s hard to hear some Game of Thrones references in there.
“There’s something mythical about this land, as if the castles were once melted by dragonfire.” Okay, what Game of Thrones dork wrote this? Fess up.
Elsewhere, YouTube funny man James Pippi has made a fun little video about Game of Thrones obsessives and the legal resources that may be available to them.
If anyone’s feeling adrift during the long wait for Season 7, you know who to call.
Or maybe this will hold you. Now that Season 6 is over and done with, it’s a good time to look back on all of the adorable GIFs illustrator Eran Mendel made to go along with each episode. Watch as he makes torture, murder, and pyromania seem adorable.
“The Red Woman”
“Home”
“Oathbreaker”
“Book of the Stranger”
“The Door”
“Blood of My Blood”
“The Broken Man”
“No One”
“Battle of the Bastards”
“The Winds of Winter”
So, the one for “The Door” has to be the best one, right?
Finally, award-winning theatre producer Richard Jordan has accused Game of Thrones fans of a heinous crime: rudeness. His comments were brought on after he saw a performance of Doctor Faustus, which stars Game of Thrones star Kit Harington (Jon Snow) in the lead role, at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London. Apparently, he saw theatergoers chatting, using their mobile phones, and eating McDonald’s throughout the performance. He was not pleased, and was pretty sure what brought this particular set to the show.
"What amazed me most was this audience, many of them Game of Thrones fans, could see nothing wrong in talking, eating and taking pictures throughout the show – or complaining when asked to stop."
An article in The Telegraph claims that Jordan’s complaints are common of theater lovers who are seeing more carousing in audiences for shows that feature young, popular actors like Harington. Of course, the entire point of casting an actor like Harington is to get people (particularly young people) who normally wouldn’t see live theater into a seat, so this kind of thing might be inevitable.
Or maybe it’s a sign that society is on the verge of collapse. Or that Jordan is touchy. Whatever—McDonald’s sounds good right about now…