Episode Tens are usually quiet episodes in Game of Thrones seasons. The big moments from the last couple of episodes are very neatly tied up with some new plot threads dangled to keep you interested in the next season. While those fresh threads were teased in this episode, a lot more than just quick little tie-ups happened this week. Yeah, I can see why the producers submitted this for a writing Emmy.
We’re down to the last episode of the season on Sunday night. On the one hand, this means I can start reading A Storm of Swords without having to worry too much about spoilers. On the other, that means we have to wait another ten months for more episodes of Game of Thrones. After this season, I’m not sure I can wait that long for more GoT.
And waiting is a good enough segue to bring us to the final Friday of Ice and Fire of the season. Many of my GoT watching friends aren’t big fans of sitting through the nearly two minutes-long title sequence. I, on the other hand, love it. I love the guided tour of key locations in Westeros and Essos. I like that we’re not stuck with only a title card like so many other shows. And I love the theme song.
So for today’s Friday of Ice and Fire, I found a whole pile of great Game of Thrones theme song covers for you to listen to.
The ninth episode of each season of Game of Thrones has a bit of a reputation. After all, each of the three previous ninth episodes have been absolutely epic episodes. Seasons One and Three had game changing moments to end the episode. Season Two had a big budget epic. This season’s ninth episode is closer to the latter than the former which is probably appropriate given that the director of Blackwater came back for The Watchers on the Wall.
Let’s get this out of the way first: SPOILERS!
There was no other possible choice for this week’s edition of Fridays of Ice and Fire. As soon as we saw this week’s episode, we all knew that the reaction videos were coming. Fortunately, the book readers had us covered again. It’s as if they take a sadistic pleasure in watching us suffer, much in the same way that GRRM loves making us suffer.
So here are a few fan reaction videos. Once again: Spoilers.
Normally, I try to wedge in a little bit of an intro for these posts before I put in the jump from the home page to the full post. Today, I don’t feel up to doing it. If you watched this episode, you’ll understand why. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch it and come back.
Sometimes real science and unreal fiction don’t always work together but that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy the internal science of fiction. Take, for example, Game of Thrones. Well, it is Friday of Ice and Fire so you had to know that this was likely to be a GoT post.
PBS’ It’s Okay To Be Smart takes a look at some of the various bits of science unique to the Song of Ice and Fire franchise to see if it could work in our reality. Today’s video looks at the science of GoT’s seasons, the geography and geology of Westeros and Essos, forging Valyrian steel and more.
If you’ve kept up with this season of Game of Thrones, you’d know why a Law & Order mashup would be very appropriate. The folks at Double Prizes cut together the Law and Order: SVU intro with Game of Thrones and even gave a little scene starting with the famous Law & Order thunk-thunk sound.
By the way, if you haven’t seen the last couple of episodes: spoilers.
Welcome to Game of Thrones: A show with so much plot that even the narrative-heavy, transitional episodes have all sorts of important things to talk about. Even if Tyrion didn’t move one step closer to life or death, even if nothing new happened at Castle Black, even if Arya is still only wandering through the wilderness with Sandor Clegane, enough is happening that would make you think that this little setup episode is still one of the best of the season.
What’s this? A double dose of Friday of Ice and Fire? I saw this video yesterday and couldn’t bring myself to not show you this week. That’s why you’re getting two editions of Friday of Ice and Fire for the price of one.
A YouTuber by the name of NicksplosionFX has recreated the Game of Thrones intro using scenes and maps from Super Mario World. He’s even got a 16-bit version of the theme for the video. The whole thing is just awesomeballs.
We’ve featured videos from YouTube’s Man at Arms before but now I can do it for Fridays of Ice and Fire. In a recent episode of the show, swordsmith Tony Swatton forged his own copy of Jon Snow’s sword, Longclaw. I never would have guessed that replicating a sword would involve so much work I couldn’t even imagine how swords were made centuries ago.
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