Take the Black Live: First image and info for Game of Thrones season 8!

It’s time for another episode of Take the Black Live, the show where myself and Cheryl Wassenaar talk about all things Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire, fantasy, sci-fi, and what have you. With James Hibberd’s Entertainment Weekly cover story on the final season of Game of Thrones out and about, there’s a lot of news to go around, so let’s get to it.

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Here’s some of the many topics we hit:

• We have the first on-set photo from Game of Thrones season 8. What are Jon and Dany getting up to in season 8, sartorially speaking?
• Hibberd basically described the season 8 premiere, and it has a lot of parallels to the very first episode of the series. What do we make of that?
• Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss gave a new justification for ending Game of Thrones where they’re ending it. Do we buy it?
• We also got a lot of news about HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series. What do we make of the new hire?
• Hilariously, it looks like George R.R. Martin is speaking a bit out of turn when it comes to the prequels, at least if his blog posts are any indication.
• In non-Game of Thrones news, I yell for a minute about the nonsense happening over on The Walking Dead. Strap in.

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