"Game of Thrones" - HBO Series Coming in 2011

[Bob]

So the list of new characters for season 5 has been announced, according to the AV Club, and I am putting the list under the spoiler tag for anyone who would rather not know.

• Prince Doran Martell – Doran is described as the major new player this year, appearing in multiple episodes. The fiftysomething prince uses a wheelchair, is reclusive, and rules wisely. It appears the show is looking to continue the trend it started with Pedro Pascal, and cast Latino actors for the Martell clan.

• Prince Trystane Martell – Trystane, the handsome fiance of Princess Myrcella, is being aged up to 18.

• Areo Hotah - Doran's personal bodyguard will appear throughout the season, assisting the prince with his duties. The show is particularly looking for a black actor to fill the role.

• Obara Sand – The eldest and most athletic Sand Snake will be having a major fight scene with a series regular character—not one who crosses her path in the books. This is an interesting change.

• Nymeria Sand – Nymeria is described as "mixed race," with her father being the fairer Oberyn and her mother being darker skinned. The second oldest of these Sand Snakes, she's beautiful, emotional, and very strong.

• Tyene Sand - The youngest of the Sand Snakes that we meet uses her wits and seductive powers, and is less of a physical fighter than the other Sand Snakes. She is just as deadly as her sisters, however, but her weapon is poison.

• High Sparrow - The books' pious head of a religious movement will be appearing in several episodes in season five.

• Septa Unella – The show is looking for a character actress to play the imposing and unrelenting Septa who spends a lot of time with a major series character next year.

• Maggy the Frog- A fortune teller in A Feast For Crows, she'll be in one episode next year.

• Lollys Stokeworth – Just last week in "Mockingbird," Bronn announced his intention to marry Lollys, whom Tyrion considers "dimwitted." It looks like the sellsword will still be around next year.

• Yezzan - A sleazy Meereenese slave owner.

• The Waif – The strange child from the books that Arya encounters will likely be played by an older actress, one in her later teens, and we understand the show is specifically looking for a woman of East Asian descent for the part.

So....

I know Imrahil hates Dorne, but he might take some cheer in the fact that Quentyn is nowhere in sight for at least one more season (if not altogether). I'm actually looking forward to the Dorne stuff because it kind of made my eyes glaze over in the books and I'm hoping the show will condense it all and make it a little more understandable.

Also, is Maggy the frog the fortune teller who gives Cersei her terrible prophecy?

More names that I will never remember while watching next year.  Woot

[lassieface]

I've just started skipping anything involving them.

But...But...You can't do that? Can he do that? I genuinely don't remember if anything important happens in them.

[Rainbow Dash]

And if the popular fan theory about Euron is true, he is already in the show.

[lassieface]

This made me laugh...via the Game of Thrones subreddit



"These were guesses, so I hope that I haven't spoiled any future events, such as the possible reveal that Stannis and Davos are drift compatible."

[BBQ Platypus]

Season 6: Daft Punk stacked on top of each other as Ser Robert Strong.

[The Lurker]

http://www.nerdist.com/2014/06/groove-to-game-of-thrones-theme-song-thanks-to-this-80s-remix/

[Ortega]

You know i could make a "splitting-headache" joke right now, but i just think its too soon.....

[Rainbow Dash]

[Bob]

Well, that was......painful looking.

Wouldn't that count as a tie?

[JimJ]

Well, that was......painful looking.

Wouldn't that count as a tie?

Even if both of them are dead, it was pretty clear who died first.

[wurwolf]

This made me laugh a lot, one because of last night's episode, and two because Lena's painted thumbnails make it look like Pedro Pascal is wearing googly eyes.

Also, this is from the newbie review at the AV Club:

Next week's episode will stand out because of the break from format; if season four's flair for endings is any indication, the season finale ought to leave the audience collectively without its breath. And yet I don't think either hour will end up topping "The Mountain And The Viper."

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[RandyMistie]

I love GOT, it is NOT your grandfather's Lord of the Rings... I have not read as far as the HBO series has got, (GOT, get it?), but my wife has, so she often gives me subtle spoilers. Like when I was all like, "The Prince of Dorn will so totally kill the Mountain!" and she pursed her lips and slightly shook her head, and I got all sad inside.... "...but what of Tyrion, my favourite character....?"

SpOILer AleRt!

She spoiled it for me, and now I take it out on you!

Here is something I, as something of a biologist thought to myself as I watched the latest Antepenultimate episode, Grey Worm is an unsullied. It was established that the Unsullied were "de-balled", "Gelded", castrated before puberty. Now, we do not know if it was "Pillar and stones" but I must say as someone who has studied these things....

If your testes are removed before puberty.... you don't develop muscles and bone structure like Grey Worm has done. Lord Valayrys(?), the bald eunuch, HE looks like someone who was castrated before puberty. Soft and lilting. The testes are all about the testosterone, which grows the hair, the muscles, hard-wires the brain for hunting, deepens the voice, and builds the strong facial bone structure that the females of the species like.

Now, on the upside; in the 7th century the old Caliphs, and Sultans would "de-ball" a man well into his twenties to guard his harem. The thought was that if you cut a dude's balls off he would lose his desire.... not so after puberty. The result was, that the women in the harem enjoyed their eunuch guards for hours on end, as they could never... climax... They became human dildoes. Breathing machines for their ever erect penises.

I'm sorry was that.... indelicate...?

[Rainbow Dash]

I really wish they had held off Jorah's dismissal till next season.  With all the stuff going on in this and the next two episodes, it really loses all impact.

[David]

Well, that was......painful looking.

Wouldn't that count as a tie?

Even if both of them are dead, it was pretty clear who died first.

First and... more thoroughly.

[Bob]

Well, that was......painful looking.

Wouldn't that count as a tie?

Even if both of them are dead, it was pretty clear who died first.

I say throw a flag and challenge the ruling on the field.  Go to the replay camera.


First and... more thoroughly.