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Who Are These Guys Again? The Fashionable Tyrells in Game of Thrones

Posted: June 5, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, TV
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This post will be talking about Game of Thrones, HBO’s excellent adaptation of the existing books in George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire (and now a pre-adaptation of the unpublished future books.)

I usually don’t post about Game of Thrones while the show is currently airing. I try to save all my opinions and observations for the off-season when I need to write about the show as a therapeutic exercise, but rules are made to be broken.

Broken, like chains or wheels are to Daenerys Targaryen.

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Mace Tyrell: Rule breaking? That’s Madness! Madness!

A few years ago, I wrote an article about the different looks of the various military factions in Game of Thrones, a sort of guideline to aid in identifying the groups of armed men that a viewer might be presented with on the show. The key is the distinctive helmets that each group uses. For the most part, that’s all that’s required to tell your Stark from a Stormlander, an Ironborn from a Bolton.

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Summer, the final track of SEVEN: the Game of Thrones Concept Album

Posted: May 4, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Music, TV
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I recently began writing about all seven of the songs from SEVEN, the wonderful concept album from the Manimals, inspired by HBO’s Game of Thrones. (Full details can be found in my initial post.) I have covered six out of the seven, and now I’m on to the final song.

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Summer is not only the name of Brandon Stark’s direwolf, it’s also his point of view song on SEVEN, as well as the final track.

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Good, Brienne’s song from SEVEN: the Game of Thrones Concept Album

Posted: May 4, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Music, TV
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In previous posts, I’ve talked about the excellent Game of Thrones concept album SEVEN from the Manimals. The album features seven characters from Game of Thrones, giving them each a point-of-view song. It’s a delight. (The album. I’m sure my discussions about the songs are tolerable.) Full details can be found on my introductory post.

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This post will be talking about Good, a song from the perspective of the formidable fighter Brienne of Tarth.

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Talk and Half from SEVEN: the Game of Thrones Concept Album

Posted: May 4, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Music, TV
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In the previous two posts, I’ve talked about the excellent Game of Thrones concept album SEVEN from the Manimals, which features the point-of-view of seven characters from the series. You can be introduced to the full idea in my initial post, where I also talked about Daenerys Targaryen’s point-of-view song, Mother.

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This post will be talking about the tracks from SEVEN that correspond to Tyrion Lannister and his sister Cersei: Talk and Half. (Jaime didn’t get a song on SEVEN. But he’s kind of there with Cersei’s. Sort of.)

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Teeth and Lone from SEVEN: the Game of Thrones Concept Album

Posted: May 4, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Music, TV
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In my last post, I talked about the excellent Game of Thrones concept album SEVEN from the Manimals. The album is a collection of songs representing seven characters from Game of Thrones. The post not only described the concept in more detail but also featured a discussion of the song Mother, the point of view of Daenerys Targaryen.

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Jon Snow: Now, I expect you to kill a lot of buttrash Lannisters with this.
Arya Stark: I’ll start making a list!

This post will be covering the tracks Teeth and Lone, which are representative of adorable murder-angel Arya Stark and Jon Snow, the young man who gave Arya her iconic instrument of death, Needle. (The best swords have names, yo.)

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SEVEN: A Game of Thrones Concept Album

Posted: May 4, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Music, TV
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April 24th, 2016 was a big deal for me as a Game of Thrones fan. Not only was the show premiering its sixth season, but the Game of Thrones concept album SEVEN became available. Finally!

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Sunday Night Gathers, and Now My Watch Begins: Season Six Game of Thrones

Posted: April 24, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Blogging, Game of Thrones, TV
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It’s April 24th. Tonight on HBO, the sixth season of Game of Thrones kicks off.

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Finally! Seven Hells, it seems like forever!

Relax, this isn’t going to be one of my huge wall of text essays on the show.

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What Madness is This? Pat is Defending Ser Alliser Thorne?

Posted: April 21, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Blogging, Game of Thrones, TV
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This post will be talking ever-so-briefly about Game of Thrones. If you don’t know who Ser Alliser Thorne is, or why he even needs to be defended, you’ll have no interest in this.

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Okay! We cool kids can talk freely now.

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From the Swamps to the Heights: Some Things In Westeros Just Aren’t Right.

Posted: April 19, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TV
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This post will be my last Game of Thrones post before Season Six! IT’S ALMOST HERE! YES!

Okay, I’ll calm down now.

As I implied, this post will be about HBO’s excellent adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire. If you’re not caught up, I will probably drop some spoilers.

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Sansa: Spoilers are smelly. Like the swamp around Moat Cailin.
Tyrion: Did he say drop spoilers? I’d really rather he not say the word drop.

Season Six of Games of Thrones will be airing in a handful of days. Whew! (It bore repeating. That’s how excited I am.)

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The Long Decline of the Night’s Watch: Now Their Watch has (Nearly) Ended

Posted: April 13, 2016 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TV
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This post will be about the Night’s Watch, the monastic order of wardens who guard Westeros from whatever terrors dwell North of the Wall. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you haven’t been watching Game of Thrones or haven’t read the book series the show is based on. You might as well stop reading now, since what follows will either be spoilery or won’t make all that much sense. I trust you’ll see yourself out.

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Game of Thrones? That show’s ridiculous! Let me explain all of the show’s failings as we head out on our two-week-long patrol.

Now that Those People are gone, I can continue.

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