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Season Finale: Game of Thrones –“Fire and Blood”
“Fire and Blood” June 19th, 2011 “There you will see what life is worth when all the rest is gone.” Earlier this week, I rewatched last week’s penultimate episode, “Baelor,” with my brother who was...
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Game of Thrones –“What Is Dead May Never Die”
“What Is Dead May Never Die” April 15th, 2012 “They are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.” This central idea has been at the heart of Game of Thrones from the very beginning: the children...
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Game of Thrones –“Blackwater”
“Blackwater” May 27th, 2012 “The worst ones always live.” The discourse around this week’s episode of Game of Thrones has been fascinating to watch. For fans of the series, particularly those with...
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Season Premiere: Game of Thrones –“Valar Dohaeris”
“Valar Dohaeris” March 31st, 2013 “You’ve got to invent a story about where the ship is going and why.” As Sansa and Shae look out on Blackwater Bay imagining where the ships are going, it’s hard not...
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Game of Thrones –“And Now His Watch Is Ended”
“And Now His Watch Is Ended” April 21st, 2013 “Influence is largely a matter of patience.” As Olenna Tyrell sits in her garden at King’s Landing, she schools one of her young charges on the silliness...
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Game of Thrones –“Kissed by Fire”
“Kissed By Fire” April 28th, 2013 “You swore some vows. I want you to break them.” As Ygritte seduces Jon Snow in a conveniently located hot springs, I found myself at odds with the story unfolding...
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Season Finale: Game of Thrones –“Mhysa”
“Mhysa” June 9th, 2013 “Here only the family name matters.” As Varys explains this fact to Shae, he’s being pragmatic: he’s trying to help someone whose very existence at King’s Landing threatens her...
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Game of Thrones –“Breaker of Chains”
“Breaker of Chains” April 20th, 2014 “I will not become a page in someone else’s history book.” As is often the case with watching Game of Thrones as a book reader, I left “Breaker of Chains” with...
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Discourse of Thrones: Jaime, Cersei, and Confronting Rape
Discourse of Thrones: Jaime, Cersei, and Confronting Rape April 21st, 2014 When I wrote my review of “Breaker of Chains” on Sunday afternoon, I certainly knew that the scene between Jaime and Cersei...
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Game of Thrones –“Oathkeeper”
“Oathkeeper” April 27th, 2014 “You want to fight pretty, or do you want to win?” Later this evening, a feature will go live at The A.V. Club that focuses on some of the changes between A Song of Ice...
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