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Guest Essay: Exploring the Red Wedding and Dead Fetuses
After perusing interviews with the cast in the wake of “The Rains of Castamere”, writer and editor Marc N. Kleinhenz came across a couple of sentiments that he fundamentally disagreed with, which brought to mind the larger question of necessity-vs.-gratuitousness, particularly around the way the Red Wedding was depicted. He decided to sit down and [...]
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Episode 22 – Dark Wings, Dark Words – Analysis
Pathways of Communication in “Dark Wings, Dark Words” by Tyler Davis Much has been written about the creative choices showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have made when compressing, eliding or otherwise circumnavigating portions of Martin’s novels in order to successfully adapt them. I contend that the real difficulty of their task holds in the [...]
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Episode 21 – Valar Dohaeris – Analysis
Here now is Tyler Davis (aka NousWanderer) with his in-depth thoughts and analysis of the Game of Thrones season 3 premiere episode, “Valar Dohaeris”. Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Freedom and Duty in Westeros by Tyler Davis Charlie Kaufman: [voice-over] I am pathetic, I am a loser… Robert McKee: So what is the [...]
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A Flight of Sorrows writing line-up revealed
We previously reported the news that the folks behind Tower of the Hand were releasing a book entitled A Flight of Sorrows, containing a collection of Song of Ice and Fire essays. Now, with one month to go until its release, we can reveal its writer line-up… and it contains a familiar name. Yes, yours [...]
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Episode 16 – The Old Gods and the New – Essay
Here is Pearson Moore’s essay on episode 16, “The Old Gods and the New”. Spoiler Note: This essay contains some backstory elements that have not yet been addressed on the show but are covered in the books. Something Borrowed, Something Blue: A Second Look at Game of Thrones 2.06 by Pearson Moore Some god old, [...]
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Episode 15 – The Ghost of Harrenhal – Essay
Pearson Moore digs into some of the themes and parallels that can be drawn from this week’s episode of Game of Thrones, in his essay on “The Ghost of Harrenhal”. Only Death Pays For Life: Supernatural Symmetries in GoT 2.05 by Pearson Moore “Only death may pay for life.” The saying is not new. We [...]
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