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<b>Game of Thrones</b> SEX EDUCATION – YouTube

George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones Season 3 most terrifying Sex Education possible plus
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<b>Game of Thrones</b> gets official 'Night's Watch' – Crave

High-end watchmaker Ulysse Nardin has teamed up with HBO to produce an official, limited

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'Game of Thrones': OK Cupid reveals which characters are most compatible – Entertainment Weekly

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Could the Kingslayer and the Maid of Tarth be on the road to romantic bliss? Those who have read every published word of A Song of Ice and Fire may know the answer — but regardless of whether these two characters will hook up at some point, the Game of Thrones fans at OK Cupid certainly seem to think they should.

Just for fun, the site’s dating gurus calculated the compatibility of three couples who are currently betrothed on the show, as well as Jaime and Brienne (whose relationship is purely platonic…for now). After filling out OK Cupid surveys for each character, the engineers compared questionnaires to figure out which pairs made the most romantic sense. They then shared those results exclusively with EW. The resounding winner: Jaime/Brienne, who are 84 percent compatible, according to OKC’s algorithm.

Though the one-handed bear and the armored maiden fair are better suited for one another than any other couple in this survey, Jaime’s brother Tyrion and his unwilling future bride, Sansa Stark, also scored well. OKC says the tween and the Imp are 80.15 percent compatible. Not bad, especially compared to Sansa’s compatibility with Loras Tyrell, the man she once hoped to marry. Those two scored only 39 percent compatibility, most likely because Sansa’s not a dude.

Loras and his intended, Cersei Lannister, are only 54.18 compatible…probably because Cersei, also, is not a dude. The queen did, however, score better with Loras than she did with her own brother — Cersei and Jaime’s incestuous love wasn’t enough to raise their compatibility above 31.

Finally, OK Cupid crunched the numbers for Cersei’s (and Jaime’s) son Joffrey and his betrothed, Margaery Tyrell. It seems that psychopathy and shrewd manipulation don’t mix; the pair got a measly 38 percent compatibility rating. Worth noting: That’s eight points lower than Joffrey’s rating with Sansa, to whom he was once engaged.

Obviously, these numbers should be taken with several shakers of salt; they were calculated based on surveys filled out by nerds who work for a dating website rather than the nerds who write for Game of Thrones (or George R.R. Martin, the King of the Nerds). But even if the survey-takers skewed things in favor of Jaime and Brienne, I can’t complain; those two deserve a fun hot tub scene to balance out their super-serious confessional hot tub scene in episode 5.

Read more:
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‘Game of Thrones’ recap: Love Unbearably

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Pairing 2013 NBA Playoff Superstars with Their 'Game of Thrones' Doppelgangers – Bleacher Report

You simply cannot have a list like this and not have Daenerys Targaryen. She is becoming the most captivating, cunning and dangerous woman on TV. She is not to be, I repeat not to be trifled with.

She once lost everything but now she he is Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Lady Regnant of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, Khaleesi of the Great Grass, the Breaker of Chains, and most importantly, the Mother of Dragons

As the Mother of Dragons she is going form kingdom to kingdom, using her three dragons to kick butt and take names. She has an army the “Unsullied” ad the “Untested” to back them up. The Unsullied are veteran soldiers, who only care about winning. The “Untested” haven’t completed their training but are being set loose to be “blooded,” which I think means, unleashing more killing.

You don’t want to be on the wrong of Daenerys. You really don’t want to be this guy.

Spoelstra lost everything when Miami gave up essentially the whole team to gain his three dragons, LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade (or their dragon names, LeDrogon, Rhaedywane and Chriserion. ( I know technically Wade was there before but he was a free agent and no analogy is perfect). 

Then he got his “Unsullied,” players like Shane Battier, Chris Andersen and Ray Allen. Now he’s “blooding” the likes of Norris Cole against the helpless Chicago Bulls.

She’s bad and so are the Heat, who have won a ridiculous 46 of their last 50 games. They’re pretty much just scorching everyone who is in their path.

Fire breathing dragons tend to generate Heat anyway. 

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Thrones' Writers on Why We Watch – Daily Beast

Game of Thrones, now in the midst of its third swashbuckling season on HBO, is a masterclass in TV storytellinga sprawling, suspenseful fantasy epic for the small screen. It’s also one of the most addictive shows on television. Earlier this month, showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff talked to The Daily Beast’s about bingewatching, the future of TV, and how they transformed the original George R.R. Martin novels from “crack on paper” to crack on premium cable. Excerpts:

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Rose Leslie playing Ygritte and Kit Harington playing Jon Snow in episode one of Season 3 of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’. (Helen Sloan/HBO)

The idea that people will be able to rewatch each episode, or binge-watch them all at once, or pause and rewind—does that in any way factor into the process of putting the show together?

Weiss: So many people binge watch that it definitely impacts the level of complexity you can deliver in a show, for the simple reason that it’s easier to keep track of multiple plot threads in larger, uninterrupted chunks.

And of course, we’re very aware of the many different ways in which people watch TV now — the HBO Go experience, for example. It can serve as a sort of Cliff’s Notes for the show — in a positive way, not in the way most Cliff’s Notes were actually used. Someone who may have shied away from the scope of the thing before might now feel safe wading in, knowing that answers to their questions are there with a slide and a tap.

Why do people binge-watch TV so much these days—beyond the fact that technology enables it? Is it something about the shows themselves?
Weiss:
I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We’re like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there’s no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it’s only natural that shows should start to take it into account.

Do you ever binge-watch anything?

Weiss: I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of Breaking Bad I haven’t seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would kill me. I watched all five seasons of The Wire in a month, and she was not happy about it.

Benioff: I watched the first four and a half seasons of Breaking Bad in two intense half-marathon bursts. What Vince Gilligan and his team have created with that show is nothing short of American art. I don’t have enough superlatives to throw his way. When I met Vince I was hoping he’d be a douchebag so I could hate him with a clear conscience, but the sad truth is that he’s the nicest guy in the world.

Why is Game of Thrones so addictive?
Weiss:
Well… we hope it is. George designed the books that way, literally — they were crack on paper to us — and we have been trying to follow suit. There’s no great secret — it’s just about continuing to raise pressing questions about characters you care about, as you answer others. All things remaining equal, a life or death cliffhanger is going to mean more when the person hanging from the cliff is someone you’ve known for dozens of hours instead of just one. And when “death” is a real possibility.

It seems that TV is the only thing we actually pay attention to for any length of time these days…
Benioff:
Yes, which worries me. Speaking for myself, I’m a much worse reader at 42 than I was at 22. It’s been a long time since I stayed up all night finishing a novel, and that’s depressing. That said, I would put Season Four of The Wire or any of the seasons of Breaking Bad against 99% of contemporary fiction, and pick Simon and Gilligan as the victors in terms of complexity of storytelling, depth of characters, and memorable dialogue.

We have some sense of how the technology of television will change over the next decade. But how will the content change–the storytelling? Every previous technological development had an effect on the creative side of the equation.
Benioff:
Maybe there’s a Rashomon-type story where a season-long murder mystery is told from ten different perspectives, and each perspective is a separate character. Watch in whichever order you’d like. Or maybe there’s a way to merge television viewing and video game playing, so you’re taking control of a certain character and making decisions for her. All I know is we won’t be the ones coming up with the newfangled storytelling systems. We’re having a tough enough time with the oldfangled systems.

What’s next for you guys?
Benioff:
If HBO keeps us around, we hope to see this show through to the end. After that, I hope to sleep for a year or two.

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