I Can't Possibly Be Wrong All the Time

I’ve written a bunch of Game of Thrones articles over the years. Like, over 160. Counting is hard. Rather than make people search through my blog for them (as if you would) I am making them available on this page for handy reference.

Because I’m breaking them into categories, some articles might fit into more than one. I’ll handle that somehow.

Some of the posts have backup supporting materials that I included on my secret double-probation backup supplemental blog, where I’d put a lot of spoilery and way-too-verbose details. I’ll be displaying them here as well.

House Stark

• • In Defense of Ned Stark (my very first Game of Thrones post)
  • In Defense of Jon Snow (It’s actually six parts of one long defense.)
    1. Opening Arguments in Defense of Jon Snow
    2. In Defense of Boring Jon Snow
    3. In Defense of Indecisive Jon Snow
    4. In Defense of Bad Boyfriend Jon Snow
    5. In Defense of Whiny Jon “Emo” Snow
    6. Closing Arguments In Defense of Jon Snow (Finally!)
  • Snows, Love Them or Hate Them (It’s Jon-related. And Ramsay-related.)
  • In Defense of Catelyn Stark
    • Game of Thrones: Book vs. Television Analysis – the Captive Kingslayer
  • In Defense of Robb Stark
  • Medieval History 101: Robb and Joffrey
  • In Defense of Sansa Stark
  • In Defense of Arya Stark (She Needs Defending?)
    • Thoros of Myr: Should I Know Who This Guy Is?
  • Bran Stark: the Witch-King of the North
  • A is for Arya, B is for Brienne
  • Season 5 Reflections on Season 2: House Stark
  • The Winner of Season 5 Game of Thrones is… (Why do I have it here with the Starks? Not because they won anything. I have my reasons.)
  • Wizarding Alphabet: A is for Arya, B is for Bran
  • Arya Stark, Arya Okay?
  • The Queen(s) of the Seven Kingdoms – (you can find the link in House Lannister, for reasons…)
  • Jon and Dany (there should be a song or something about them…)
  • Why are We Rooting For the Starks?
  • “You Starks are Hard to Kill”
  • Hizdahr zo Loraq – the Lost Stark of Essos
  • Scratch a Karstark, Find a Stark
  • Second Looks: Ned Stark
  • HODOR (I actually talk a lot about time travel, fate, free will, and prophecy, but since this also deals with Hodor and Bran Stark, it seemed appropriate here.)
  • Game of Thrones: Redemption (I have it in House Stark for a reason)
  • Northern Politics: the Stark Candidates
  • Second Looks at Jon Snow: Ned Stark 2.0
  • Bran Stark: the Wolf with Wings
  • Jon Snow and Theon Greyjoy: the Reunion (find link under House Greyjoy. Theon doesn’t have to choose, but I had to.)
  • Sansa Stark: Playing the Game Her Way (Links to my Watchers on the Wall feature Sansa article.)
  • Uncle Benjen Stark: A Ranger and a Danger (Watchers on the Wall feature)
  • Defending Dead Direwolves (It’s Five Posts. Actually Six Posts)
    • Defending Dead Direwolves (Part 1 of 5)
    • Lady and Greywind: Defending Dead Direwolves Part 2
    • Shaggydog and Summer: Defending Dead Direwolves Part 3
    • Nymeria and Ghost: Defending Dead Direwolves Part 4
    • Where’s Ghost: Defending Dead Direwolves Part 4.5
    • Defending Dead Direwolves: The Reckoning (Part 5 of 5)
  • Double-Crossing Devils and Mocked Gods (A link to my Ayra/Jaqen H’ghar feature on the Watchers on the Wall site, more or less for Halloween.)
  • He Wants to Erase this World, and I am its Memory (Links to a post on Watchers on the Wall, talking about Bran as the prize, the victory condition that the Night King is after. Sort of.)

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 House Lannister

• Sandor Clegane: Surly When Called “Ser”
  • Sansa and Sandor. Uh. What?
• In Defense of Jaime Lannister
  • Jaime, Cersei, and that (Un)Holy Sept
• In Defense of Joffrey Baratheon (Yes, JOFFREY) (find link under House Baratheon, because the irony amuses me.)
• In Defense of Tyrion Lannister
• Season 5 Reflections on Season 2: House Lannister
• Bronn: Loveable Rogue or Unreliable Cutthroat?
• The Lighter Side of Tywin Lannister
  • Tywin Lannister – Did I Make This Up?
• Filling the Joffrey-Sized Hole
  • After-Action Report: Stannis Baratheon’s Snowbound SNAFU (Here as a backup piece to a Joffrey article)
• The Queen(s) of the Seven Kingdoms
• In Defense of Qyburn
• Joffrey: Visionary? Prophet? (Link will be found in House Baratheon, for ironic reasons.)
• The Return of the Hound: Breaking the Broken Man
• Silent Bob (AKA Gregor Clegane)
• Cersei Lannister, the Queen Who Played with Wildfire
• Cersei, Dany, and the Two-Edged Sword of Religion (find link down in the Magic, Mysteries, and Religion section.)
• Where Are My Lions?!? (In Game of Thrones)
• Buddies of Westeros: Bronn and Podrick (Links to my Watchers on the Wall post about Tyrion Lannister’s hireling and henchman)
• The Wicked Witch of Westeros (Links to my Watchers on the Wall post about Cersei Lannister)

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House Baratheon

• In Defense of Stannis Baratheon
  • Stannis Baratheon’s Backstory, Seasons 1 – 3
  • Unconventional Warfare in HBO’s Game of Thrones (Seasons 2 and 3)
  • Legitimacy of Power in Game of Thrones
• Regarding Renly Baratheon
• In Defense of Joffrey Baratheon (Yes, JOFFREY)
  • End of Season 3 Game of Thrones Scorecard: Joffrey Baratheon’s Approval Rating
• Medieval History 101: Robb and Joffrey (find link under House Stark)
• Melisandre: Hot or Not?
• A is for Arya, B is for Brienne (find link under House Stark (because of Arya))
• Season 5 Reflections on Season 2: the Wandering Monarchs
• Second Looks – Stannis Baratheon
• The Queen(s) of the Seven Kingdoms – (you can find the link above in House Lannister)
• Joffrey: Visionary? Prophet?
• Ser Davos – Here’s to Good Old Dave
• Second Looks: Melisandre

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House Greyjoy

• In Defense of Balon Greyjoy. Wait, What?
  • Balon Greyjoy’s Backstory: Seasons 1-3 in HBO’s Game of Thrones
• In Defense of Theon Greyjoy. WHAT? (It’s more a defense of Theon’s Season 3 storyline.)
• Defending Theon Greyjoy
• Game of Thrones Screener Leaks: Paying the Iron Price (or the Ironic Price)
• Regarding Reek
• The Extended Life and Stormy Death of Balon Greyjoy
• The Drowned God and the Tides of Religion (find the link under Magic and Mysteries, since this is more cultural than Greyjoy-specific.)
• Jon Snow and Theon Greyjoy: the Reunion (links to my Watchers on the Wall post)
• Castles: Ironborning and Stormborning (An article on the Watchers on the Wall site, mostly about Theon.)

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House Targaryen

• The Targaryen Candidate (It’s Daenerys-related.)
• Valyria: Doom, Dragons, and Steel
• In Defense of the Unsullied
  • Meereen Melee: After Action Report
  • Daznak’s Pit: After Action Report
• Season 5 Reflections on Season 2: the Wandering Monarchs (look for link under House Baratheon)
• Daenerys Targaryen: Breaker of Chains (and Wheels)
• The Queen(s) of the Seven Kingdoms (find link up in House Lannister)
• Jon and Dany (there should be a song or something about them…) (look for link under House Stark – because Jon)
• In Defense of Ser Jorah
• Aegon Targaryen (A more random than most Game of Thrones post)
• Mourning Ser Arthur Dayne
  • RIP, Ser Oswell Whent
• Cersei, Dany, and the Two-Edged Sword of Religions (find link down in the Magic, Mysteries, and Religion section.)
• Viserys the Tragically Impatient
• Daenerys Targaryen: Queen of the Ashes? (Links to my Daenerys article on the Watchers on the Wall website)
• Daenerys Targaryen and the Defense of the Realm (Another one of my Watchers on the Wall posts)
• Ser Jorah Mormont: Formerly of the North (Links to my Watchers on the Wall post about Ser Jorah)
• Varys, the Spider in Winterfell (Links to my Watchers on the Wall post about Lord Varys)

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House Martell

• In Defense of Prince Oberyn
• In Defense of the Sand Snakes
  • The Sand Snakes: Go Go Dornish Rangers!
• Dorne: All Sand and Dying Grass

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 House Arryn

• Littlefinger and the Lies of Power (I have Baelish here, because I refuse to create a section for House Baelish. I refuse!)
• Littlefinger, Lies, and Limits
• I Did Warn You Not to Trust Me (A Littlefinger-centric post on Watchers on the Wall)

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House Tyrell

• The Queen(s) of the Seven Kingdoms (find link up in House Lannister…)
• Who are Those Guys Again? The Fashionable Tyrells in Game of Thrones (Find link in Fashion and Culture below.)
• Margaery Tyrell: Walking in Ned Stark’s Bootprints

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House Tarly

• Sam the Slayer, Sam the Player (find the link down in the Night’s Watch section. Just because.)
• The Busy Life of Randyll Tarly

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House Frey

• In Defense of the Freys

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House Bolton

• Snows, Love Them or Hate Them (find link up in House Stark, since this is Jon and Ramsay related)
• Risky Rewards from Roose Bolton
• Defending Ramsay Bolton

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The Wildlings

• In Defense of Craster (Well Now I’ve Gone Too Far)
• Who Hasn’t Eaten Crow, Now and Thenn?
  • Land of the Free (Folk) – The Wildlings in Seasons 1-3 Game of Thrones
  • Thenns: Free Folk or Free to Eat Folk?
• The North Remembers Ygritte: A Valentine’s Day Post
• Game of Thrones Wildcards: the Wildlings

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The Night’s Watch, the Others, and the Frozen North

• The Wall! Huh! Good Gods, Y’all! What is it Good For?
• Defending the Wall: the Scythe
  • Another Look at the Scythe in Action
• The North. Remember?
  • King’s Landing’s Loss of Prestige in the Title Credits of Game of Thrones
• Fence Sitting: the Hazardous Neutrality of the Night’s Watch
• Sam the Slayer, Sam the Player
  • Sam Tarly’s Story: Game of Thrones Seasons 1 thru 4
  • Oaths. They Make You Swear and Swear…
• Where are the Others? Are they LOST?
• White Walkers and Wights: Not Watertight?
• In Defense of Olly (it’s a 5 post series, defending Jon Snow’s Wildling-hating steward…)
  1. In Defense of Olly: Opening Arguments
  2. In Defense of Olly the Killjoy
  3. In Defense of Olly the Conspirator
  4. In Defense of Potato Olly
  5. Closing Arguments In Defense of Olly
• Second Looks: Fist of the First Men
• Winter isn’t Coming. It’s Here
• The Long Decline of the Night’s Watch: Now Their Watch Has (Nearly) Ended
• In Defense of the Man Who Murdered Jon Snow (another article on the Film School Rejects website.)
• In Defense of Smalljon Umber
• Winter and the continuation of War by Other means in Game of Thrones
• Think of the Children! (Of the Forest, I mean)
• Tomorrow Night’s Watch
• Wights, Wards, and the Wall. What’s Up With That?
• Thinking About the Night King (An Other-related post on the Watchers on the Wall site.)
• The Winter War to Come (links to a White Walker army-centric post on the Watchers on the Wall site.)
• Be Very, Very Quiet. We’re Hunting Wights (links to my Watchers on the Wall post about the great wight heist)

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Seasonal Analyses

• Season 4 Recap: Balancing the Lannister Books (It’s my article on the Film School Rejects website. Got paid!)
• Season 5 Reflections on Season 2 (5 parts)
  1. Game of Thrones: Season 5 Reflections on Season 2
  2. Season 5 Reflections on Season 2: the Wandering Monarchs (look for link under House Baratheon)
  3. Season 5 Reflections on Season 2: House Lannister (look for link under House Lannister)
  4. Season 5 Reflections on Season 2: House Stark (look for link… must I tell you?)
  5. Final Relections on Season 5 Reflections on Season 2. Yes, I Said Reflections Twice. Three Times.

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Fashion, Culture, Music, Society (Trust me, these articles are great. Trust me!)

• Who Are Those Guys Again? How to Tell Friend From Foe in Game of Thrones. (Usually.)
• Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown in Game of Thrones
• Can We Hear About Something Other Than Castamere’s Weather? Or Bears?
• Who are Those Guys Again? The Fashionable Tyrells in Game of Thrones
• Law and Order: Westeros
• Election Update: Democracy in Westeros
• Bronze, Iron, and Steel: the Metalurgy of Game of Thrones
• A Political Post in November! (Links to my Watchers on the Wall post, talking politics leading into Season 8 Game of Thrones)
• Winterfell: Coming Together to Fight the Night King. Or Each Other. (Links to my Watcher on the Wall feature about the political difficulties in Winterfell at the start of Season Eight.)

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Magic and Mysteries

• Defending Magic in Game of Thrones
• In Defense of the Warlocks in Game of Thrones
• By the Old Gods and the New: Religion in Game of Thrones
• Melisandre: Hot or Not? (Find the link under House Baratheon)
• Game of Thrones and the Stakes of Raising the Dead (another article I sold to the Film School Rejects)
• The Militant Faith of the Seven in Game of Thrones
• In Defense of Qyburn (find link under House Lannister, since he’s one of their minions, right?)
• Your Future is Dark and Full of Terrors: Prophecies in Game of Thrones
• Cersei, Dany, and the Two-Edged Sword of Religion
• HODOR (The link is found under House Stark, the topic includes time travel, fate, free will, and prophecy, so seemed appropriate here as well.)
• The Drowned God and the Tides of Religion
• Game of Thrones: Magic of Ice and Fire

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Places

• Valyria: Doom, Dragons, and Steel (Find the link under House Targaryen)
• From the Swamps to the Heights, Some Things in Westeros Just Aren’t Right

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Trailers

• Game of Thrones Trailer Analyses (Yes, More than One) and Special Feature
  • Spoilery Analysis of the Season Four Game of Thrones Trailer
  • Crackpot Theory Spoiler Post For Game of Thrones – Book Edition
• Season 5 Game of Thrones Trailer Analysis (Non Spoilery)
  • Season 5 Game of Thrones Trailer Analysis (Spoilery)
• Second Trailer for Game of Thrones Season 5: Non Spoilery Analysis
  • Speculative Analysis Based on Second Trailer for Season 5 Game of Thrones
• Season 6 Game of Thrones Trailer Analysis (Non Spoilery)
  • Season 6 Game of Thrones Trailer Analysis (Spoilery)
• Season Seven Game of Thrones Trailer Breakdown: Unnecessary and Obsolete (It’s non-spoilery, in that we’re past the books, yo.)

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Miscellaneous!

• Trick or Treat: Tricks and Threats in Game of Thrones
• Game of Thrones, Tricker and Treatier (More of that thing I posted last time)
  • Stark Shenanigans (THIS IS SPOILERY. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.)
• Game of Thrones: Thanks? Thanks!
• Arya Sure That’s How It’s Pronounced?
• The Orcish Perspective on Game of Thrones (This post spawned a Twitter account for Sauron’s orcs, who are watching the show on Sauron’s cable-connected Palantir. The orcs have been tweeting out their perspectives, and I’ve been aggregating them.)
  • We Orcs Thought You Should Know…
  • Sauron and Game of Thrones
  • The Orcish Opinion of the Wildlings
  • The Moria Orcs Did Some Game of Thrones Binge-ing
  • The Orcs and Jon Snow
  • The Orcs and the Iron Islands
  • The Orcs and Season 5 Game of Thrones Promotions
  • Orcs and Kings in Game of Thrones
  • Season 5 Orcish Recaps
    • The Orcish Views on the Start of Season 5 (of Game of Thrones, of Course)
    • Orcish Views on the House of Black and White
    • Orcish Views on High Sparrow (the episode, not the smelly dirty shoeless guy)
    • Orcish Views on the Sons of the Harpy (the episode, not those masked clowns.)
    • Orcish Views on Kill the Boy
    • Orcish Views on Unbent, Unbowed, Un- OH MY SAURON!!!
    • Orcish Views on The Gift (Game of Thrones)
    • Orcish Views on Game of Thrones’ Hardhome
    • Orcish Views on The Dance of Dragons (Game of Thrones)
    • Orcish Views on the Mother’s Mercy. (There was mercy on Game of Thrones? We orcs missed it!)
• We Don’t Get to Choose Who We Love
• Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Stark
• Dungeons and Dragons: Game of Thrones from the Gamer Perspective
• Watching the Watchers that are Watching the Watchers on the Wall
• Show of Hands; Hands Up, Hands Down
• Game of Thrones Screener Leaks: Paying the Iron Price (or the Ironic Price)
• That Time I Got Spoiled About Game of Thrones
  • The Time I Talked to Twitter About, I Kid You Not, Game of Thrones Abuse
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to Westeros
• Kingslayers in the War of the Five Kings: Way More than Five
• No One Weeps for Spiders or Whores
• Return to the Riverlands
• Kinslaying: It’s what all the cool kids are doing on Game of Thrones
• Game of Thrones and Guards: Get Good Ones
• Westeros Romance: the Roses are Blue, but the Blood is Still Red
• Game of Thrones: Redemption (find it under House Stark, for reasons…)
• Game of Thrones: The Four Feuding Families
• Game of Thrones: You Win or You Die. Unless You Die And Still You Win.
  • Forgotten, But Not Gone. Mostly
• Death Has the Last Laugh: Fools in Game of Thrones

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Spoiler Policy

I try not to have spoilery dicussions on this blog, but I know it’s hard. Should anyone want to go into such details of things from the books that have not yet made it into the show, I have a blog post set up specifically for that on my backup blog: Safe Place For Spoilers

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