South, at King’s Landing, the Crown, or specifically Cersei Lannister’s conflict with the High Sparrow and his militant order that have taken over the church reaches it’s tipping point while a coup in nearby Dorne leads to another faction emerging to challenge the rue of the Lannisters. Beyond the wall, Bran Stark continues his training, learning to channel his prophetic abilities into an ability to glimpse the past. Its no spoiler to say that up North, the resurrection of Jon Snow at the wall sets in motion an arc that reunites members of the Stark family before they go head to head with the Boltons to reclaim their home seat of Winterfell and with it, the rule of the North. Familiar faces will forge new alliances to bolster their strategic chances at survival, while new characters will emerge to challenge the balance of power in the east, west, north and south.Īs ever, the season deals with multiple plots, involving groups of characters across different regions of the continents of Westeros and Essos, linked in one way or another in the struggle to claim the Iron Throne.
This year, after the shocking developments at the end of Season 5 - including Jon Snow’s bloody fate at the hands of Castle Black mutineers, Daenerys’ near-demise at the fighting pits of Meereen, and Cersei’s public humiliation in the streets of King’s Landing - survivors from all parts of Westeros and Essos regroup to press forward, inexorably, towards their uncertain individual fates. The most-watched series in HBO history and a worldwide TV phenomenon, Game of Thrones returns with another power season. It was as if someone lit a fire under the show…or to be more exact, a dragonfire. While before we’d get probably at least one “OMFG” moment every Sunday to light up twitter, Season 6 threw 3 or 4 of them our way in a single episode. While the endgame has been shared between author and showrunners, not having to conform to the published text has truly unshackled the show. Then the show only went and passed George RR Martin’s work. But until the end of Season 5, there was always a guide to the show, a structure from the text that we knew would provide a backbone to the series. For those familiar with the books, it’s been a curious thing to see how the show takes it’s own steps, which aspects are used, recycled, merged or discarded entirely.
Fascinating characters, storylines and locales. Game of Thrones has always been enthralling.
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