Take the Black Live: Game of Thrones series finale preview

Welcome to Take the Black Live, your one-stop shop for all news and opinions on Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire, and genre fiction. Today is a melancholy episode, as we preview the 73rd and final episode of the show.

Some of our topics include:

• HBO only released two photos from the upcoming episode, but they’re good and rich, particularly the one of Daenerys. We get way too into analyzing its compositional and historical aspects.
• Let’s be real: Daenerys has to die now, right? Who’s doing the deed?
• I know this is supposed to be focused on the series finale, but we can’t help talking about Daenerys’ heel turn in “The Bells.” Do we think it was earned?
• After Game of Thrones is over, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss are moving on to a galaxy far, far away. What are we hoping for from their new Star Wars trilogy?

HBO is giving us as little to go as possible, but you can do a lot with a little.

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