A few months ago, I wrote about how much I loved the Game of Thrones game from Telltale Games. I particularly loved the female characters in the game, especially Mira, the daughter of House Forrester and handmaiden to Margaery Tyrell, who must survive the manipulative landscape of ...
Seriously. Fuck this shit.
Kill the Boy was a relatively quiet episode of Game of Thrones, focussing on a few plotlines in satisfying detail. Compared to last week’s offering, it was radically uneventful, with very little bloodshed, but everything felt tenser, weightier, as the show dug deeper into three particular ...
The Sons of the Harpy was an episode with a lot of violence, and not much cohesive action. It felt like a collection of scenes that reflected on the past and prepared for the future, rather than an episode that moved things forward, and although the scenes were enjoyable in isolation, they ...
This post contains spoilers for The High Sparrow and for A Dance With Dragons. I don’t think this can be said forcefully enough: Sansa’s plotline this season is not about empowerment. It’s about the idea of empowerment being used to manipulate her, while she continues to be a ...
In The House of Black and White, Game of Thrones took a sharp turn away from the books, changing or inventing material for pretty much every plotline. The results were, unsurprisingly, hit and miss. In some cases, the show provided intriguing alternatives to the book’s plotlines, ...
Game of Thrones is back! And, as far as first episodes go, this was a good one. Well-paced, enjoyable to watch, and (gasp) relatively unoffensive, the episode did an excellent job of reintroducing us to the various characters and setting up their plot-arcs for the season. Although I went into ...
A couple of weeks ago, the showrunners for Game of Thrones confirmed what fans have already suspected for a while: the show is going to overtake the books. While George RR Martin continues to work on The Winds of Winter and then A Dream of Spring, the TV show will plough ahead with the outline ...
I’ve been writing on Feminist Fiction for over three years now, and that means there are some pretty old opinions floating around here that still get read fairly frequently (especially if they happen to be about Sansa Stark). Usually I let those posts and opinions stand as they were and ...
A video of new Game of Thrones cast members was released at San Diego Comic Con last week, featuring the faces of new characters including Doran Martell, some of the Sand Snakes, and Trystane Martell. But notably missing was Arianne Martell. Arianne Martell, for non-book readers, is the eldest ...