I too am super excited about this season. I hope it lives up to expectations. I just re-watched S5 to get back up to speed.
Arise John Snow! You still know nothing, but soon you will.
Looks pretty cool. Thanks, TroutMan.
Those who liked the first Daario might want to see Deadpool; Ed Skrein, the actor who played him, has a prominent role in it.
For those who don’t regularly follow the Baker’s Dozen game thread - a recent category:
Major changes that probably won’t be seen on this season’s Game of Thrones
- Reba McEntire joins the cast as sassy mountain woman Catsuppa Gravy and sings the show’s new theme song, “A Way Down East in Westeros”
- Plot elements taken from the published sixth and seventh volumes
- Tyrion Lannister becomes a monk.
- After becoming a monk Tyrion Lannister falls for a very clingy princess (Sarah Silverman)
- Olenna Tyrell starts getting naked every week.
- New catchphrase: “You know everything, Jon Snow.”
- Ned Stark returns to the series and repeatedly tells other characters that Tahiti is a magical place.
- Hodor
- The dragons learn to talk (voices of Eugene Levy, Kevin Hart, and Arianna Huffington).
- Donald Trump buys the Iron Throne
- Author George R. R. Martin arrives and has sex with all the beautiful naked women one after the other.
- King Tommen grows a pair.
- Episode 3, “How Much is that Dragon in the Widow?”, will be filmed live in front of a studio audience.
Game of Thrones played an amusing role in last night’s episode of “Limitless”: Brian bribed the chief officer of a Russian prison into letting his girlfriend out by arranging for a 15 minute conversation with GRRM in which he would reveal how the entire saga would end.
Oh, but first Brian had a three hour conversation with GRRM in which he helped him “work out some difficulties.” Hmmmmmm. 
Given her fondness for family and need for power, I’d always expected Cersei to pull an Agrippina and seduce Joffrey. Never happened, but I wonder if she might try Tommen this year. She’s not as fresh and lovely as Margaery, but she’s not locked up and she does know a thing or two about mind games.
Not sure how I like Varys in Daenerys’s capital city. I’m not so sure that the head of the KGB could self exile to Buenos Aires and immediately form a network to rival the one he had at home.
Ian McShane has pissed off some “NO SPOILERS!” fans by giving away what they felt was too much about his character.
So his response to angry fans:
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“I was accused of giving the plot away, but I just think, get a fucking life. It’s only tits and dragons.”
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If George R.R. Martin is still looking for a title for Novel 7, I just don’t think he can do better than TITS AND DRAGONS.
I’d say on a range where 1 is “It isn’t happily ever after for Sansa and Joffrey” and 10 is “Robb and his mom and thousands of others get murdered by Walder Frey at Robb’s uncle’s wedding” Ian went about a 5.
For more about the hubbub WITH the spoilers, go here.
For more about the hubbub WITHOUT spoilers, go here.
When New Yorkers are promised dragons, there should be fucking dragons. Good thing only about 30 people showed up for this GoT promotion.
Eh, all they did was complain to a journalist. I was expecting some beheadings at least.
I’m have expecting season 6 to be when the show goes totally over the cliff.
Tits and Dragons indeed.
Ha! Did Martin appear as himself on the show?
Sorry, no. You don’t even ever hear his voice.
What have we been seeing the last 5 years again?
A pretty good story, with tits and dragons (and violence).
I fear they’ve run out story now though.
Based on the most recent trailer, I disagree. There are so many interesting story developments strongly hinted at, including past events that had only been vaguely referred to way back in the first part of season 1, that I’m getting steadily more excited about the upcoming season. I think they still have plenty of story to tell!
I hope you’re right, I guess we’ll see next month.
I think there’s a somewhat valid criticism that there’s too much story, particularly in the books. Tying everything together and finishing all the open story lines is more of a challenge than coming up with enough story.
No kidding. Last we saw Gendry (Robert Baratheon’s bastard son), he was rowing a boat to King’s Landing, and that was two seasons ago, going on three.
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