WiC Weekly: Aug 9th-15th

Welcome back to WiC Weekly, your weekly rundown of everything that’s happening in the world of Game of Thrones, and sometimes beyond. This week’s top stories:

Casting a young Ned Stark could mean that we’re in store for flashbacks, weirwood visions, dreams, and more…but it’s probably a weirwood vision.

Some new images from Northern Ireland heat up the is-Jon-Snow-dead debate.

Ani Bundel gathered together some evidence to paint a picture of what might go down in King’s Landing next year. Maybe the theme of Season 6 will be “everything is on fire.”

Martin specifically invoked the “The Scouring of the Shire” from The Lord of the Rings when discussing what kind of ending he’s going for.

The clock is ticking on whether we’ll see The Winds of Winter before Game of Thrones Season 6 debuts.

You know what they say: there’s no horse so dead it won’t benefit from a good beating.

The Tower of Joy, young Ned Stark…Season 6 could be chock full of flashbacks.

I really do feel for Maisie here. Big clunky contacts can’t be fun. I’d recommend Lasik surgery, but I think Westeros is a few hundred years away from that.

It’ll be good to see crotchety old Walder Frey again, assuming Bradley is indeed visiting Belfast to film scenes for Season 6. I mean, I hate the character, but Bradley plays the grumpy old villain so well.

Your entries were entirely too much fun to sort through. We may have to hold more contests.

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