Series high for this episode:  12.48 milion for initial tune-in and 18.4 million for the all-in count.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-thrones-draws-series-high-ratings-bells-1210474

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Fandom has been working with the admins of Game of Thrones Wiki to help support the editing efforts around Season 8. As part of that I wanted to let you know about a Discord server that we created to get everyone in one place and help support that editing.

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Feel free to join. Staff will be available to all editors each episode to provide any support that's needed!

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For anyone who didn't see it already, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is running a series of charity auctions, one of which is GoT-themed:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Game-of-Thrones-Direwolf-Plush-Grey-Wind-Shaggydog-Westeros-10-Coin-Set/253288878907

Just like the Starks, they want to be together at home. The Night King in wants to take back his old home/land from the Children of the Forest have taken and must to get some variation.  

The Children of the Forest is the one to start this problem in experiment this human. It assumed that the Children in captured an incent human and in buried dragonglass in guy’s chest. I am sure the Children can't control this new blue eyed-human. He got trauma, changed his is emotion state, and evolved a negative character that got more power-magic than the Children.

Do you think the Old Gods were not involve – incent – this event. The Children roped the Night King on side the weirwood tree. Do you think the Old Gods have told the Children, “hey lil green-girls, you shouldn’t do this, it’s a bad idea…he might be a little pissed?”  Or do you think, the Old Gods have slept hangover a bender this whole time. I don’t think so.

What about this old 3-Eyed Raven – before the Bran. Does his timeline follow the Children experiment? He should fix this…

My own theory, I believe the Night King came from the Starks family and lived at Winterfalls. He wants to take back the North and crack inside the crypt and show everyone these secrets that happen. I always thought they had some dark secrets about Starks family. Specific why they need a Stark person to guardian of Winterfalls.

Plus, this history of why Bran the Builder in create the Wall, Winterfalls, and Citadel…. They could have killed all these the Night King, White Walkers, and Wights over thousands of years ago when they could have killed them easy-weak enough. Instead they pushed him go top North and build the Wall.

Know the Night King have built up power/magic and create an army that now is come back… What do you think?  

Fannotation:

• Sansa in Weirwood, Littlefinger voiceover about "fight every battle, always, in your mind"
• Jon Snow on mission beyond the Wall
• Crowds in KL (you can see the Red Keep) cheering Lannister soldiers with Lannister banners
• Shots of Cersei and Daenerys in their castles; Apparently Daenerys coming ashore on Dragonstone - or perhaps Eastwatch-by-the-Sea?; Arya riding shot
• Jaime walking along castle wall (brief); LF looking menacing, sword sharpening again. Look really hard through the glare, there's a dead man wearing Tyrell clothing. It seems that Jaime just captured Highgarden.
• First really new stuff: Daenerys walking along the volcanic rock formations on the beach of Dragonstone. Jon Snow voiceover: "For centuries our families fought together, despite their differences, together. We need to do the same if we're going to survive.
• Daenerys walks into Dragonstone castle, sees Stannis's tattered and abandoned flaming stag banner, she pulls it down to the ground with her hand. Tyrion is beside her.
• Vast sweeping aerial shot of Dragonstone island, showing the whole castle in all its glory from a distance better than ever before. Dragons fly in towards it.
• Some old reaction shots.
• New shot of Grey Worm in Unsullied armor with face mask, looking at crack in rock at base of the sea; he turns back and nods.
  • is this how the Unsullied are going to take Casterly Rock? Tyrion knows the layout (books and TV series mention that Tywin put him in charge of the drains and sewers); sort of re-using the Meereen ploy? Logical.
• Brienne and Podrick standing in Winterfell courtyard. Safe to assume their Riverlands story remnants have been abandoned.
• Sandor Clegane, turning his head frantically in a snowy scene apparently fighting.
• Battle scene: the Unsullied, one falls to the ground dead with an arrow in him; siege of Casterly Rock?
• Re-used quickshot of Dothraki cavalry charging Lannister shield wall.
• Night time battle with ships on fire, someone jums off top deck firing a bow.
• A large group of Lannister archers cock their bows and fire offscreen in unison; Jaime and Bronn are in the background on horseback commanding them.
• A flock of ravens fly beyond the Wall, over the army of the dead, the Night King turns his head to react to them, then we see Bran coming out of a warging trance; apparently Bran is monitoring the movements of the army of the dead with birds (many assumed this was going to happen eventually, it's how the Last Greenseer observed things).
• Bran stark in a wooden wheelchair, in front of a weirwood heart tree. Assuredly at Winterfell (there isn't a godswood near the Wall itself). A man comes to see him, back to the camera, grey hair and balding - possibly a maester, but dressed in black robes.
• Jon voiceover continues: "Because the enemy is real, it's always been real."
• Beric Dondarrion in snowy scene, lights his flaming sword.
• Bright day at sea. A vast fleet displaying Greyjoy heraldry on their sails, - can't tell if it's Yara's fleet or Euron's. Next shot shows them heading in to King's Landing without opposition, so more probably a delegation from *Euron's* half of the ironborn.
• Better version of shot from earlier trailer of Unsullied bursting through castle doors; now clear that the men inside aren't desperately trying to hold it, but are themselves Unsullied, opening the door.
  • Yes, definitely the old Meereen sewers ploy, which makes complete sense: Tyrion tells Grey Worm of a sewer outlet into the sea, he sneaks in with a small number of Unsullied and opens he gates to their man army (who were attacking the impregnable entrance to distract the guards, getting peppered with arows in the previous shot). Unsullied flood into castle with Lannister frescoes - this is assuredly Casterly Rock.
• Daenerys looks over Dragonstone walls in brief shot.
• Vast sweeping shot of a burning battlefield, probably dragons. Jaime is alone and frantically fleeing through the flames on his horse. He charges carrying a spear (or banner?)
• More shots of the night time sea battle with flaming catapult shot hitting the ships (I assume it's projectiles)
• Tormund fighting beyond the Wall.
• Previous shot of Daenerys flying Drogon over charging Dothraki horde.
• New shot: Yara and Theon look up from heir ship deck as the night sky lights up, apparently from incoming projectiles. Their costumes are not full armor so it seems they were caught unawares. Yes, then we see the firey projectiles actually hitting their mast.
• Many Lannister soldiers setting up into phalanx formation.
• Vast shot of Jon Snow and the Wight Hunt group surrounded beyond the Wall on a rocky outcropping by seething horde of wights. John facing camera, Beric visible with his flaming sword.
• Another brief shot of Missandei and Grey Worm kissing.
• 1:22 - A large man with long hair, POSSIBLY Sandor, drawing a sword. Seems to be the ruins of the Dragonpit (from set photos). Sun is behind head so you can't see face.
• Jon and Davos talking.
• A White Walker beyond the Wall, apparently crossing swords with Jon Snow (well, ice sword)
• A small boat reaches shore, a figure staggers out back to the sea and sinks to his knees. Apparently Theon, having barely escaped Euron's attack with his life, but Yara is gone.
• REALLY good closeup of Drogon's face showing off the CGI detailing.
• Apparently Jon's group circling up in blinding snow for a last stand.
• Sansa Stark voiceover - even I admit this gave me tingles: she quotes off a famous quote from the books that Ned Stark taught his children, about how the Starks have honor and don't fight with their vassals but respect each other: "When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives."
  • Great they used this quote, but where was that when they forgot to have "the North Remember" last season and none of the great lords like the Manderlys fought against the Boltons? Shame.
• Sansa says this over a shot of a lone figure wearing winter gear desperately fleeing on a horse. Possibly Jon, badly wounded? (Pure guess)
• Jon slices what seems to be a wight beyond the Wall. But they keep their distance? And behind them, fires burning?

The Wild Wolf - Game of Thrones Prequel Fan Film

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/31/game-thrones-jim-broadbent-season-7

Game of Thrones has cast its first new season 7 role. 

The fantasy hit has signed Oscar winner Jim Broadbent for the eagerly anticipated penultimate season, EW has learned exclusively.

The veteran British performer’s credits range from the films Time Bandits, Brazil and Bridget Jones’s Diary, to his Emmy-nominated title role on the series Longford, to a recurring role in the Harry Potter franchise (he played Horace Slughorn). Broadbent also won the best supporting actor Oscar for his role in the 2001 film Iris.

So who does Broadbent play on Game of Thrones?

That’s where our news stops and your speculation begins. We only know that Broadbent’s role is “significant.” The spoiler-averse GoTteam doesn’t want to say anything yet about who the actor is playing on the series. Some vague casting descriptions have leaked in recent weeks, but oftentimes such character rundowns sent to casting agents are deliberately inaccurate because producers assume the notices will wind up online.

I think he could be Howland Reed

         Sunday, September 18, 2016 at 8:00 PM (EST)

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I was able to attend the special premiere showing - at Herald Square in NYC on March 15 - of the special 20 minute featurette, "The Dance of Dragons (Histories & Lore)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3nKLrLwIT4

The video was introduced in a surprise appearance by its scriptwriter, Dave Hill, one of the four current staff writers on the TV show and the guy who's been writing the Histories & Lore videos since Season 2 (Bryan Cogman wrote them in Season 1 but then switched to a supervisory role over them as he was promoted to staff writer in Season 2).

There was also a surprise appearance by Liam Cunningham, who plays Davos Seaworth. He also helped introduce the video.

It was very exciting: they closed off Herald Square for this, which is where the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade ends every year. It was right in front of the big flagship Macy's and within sight of the Empire State Building (I move my camera around so you can see this).

About 200 fans were able to fill the chairs they set up on a first-come, first serve basis. Hundreds more crowded around the barriers to watch while standing. Maybe 500 people were there in all (I'm bad at guessing crowds, but you have my photos to check).

I wrote in to their press contact just asking when to line up (they hadn't mentioned what time it was going to be held), and because I mentioned I'm one of the Admins on Game of Thrones Wiki, much to my surprise they wrote me back sending me a Press pass. What did this mean? Well, it meant I got guaranteed seating - in the press pit, eighth row from the front, so I got very good video of the main stage (though it also meant that unlike the fans who lined up, I wasn't guaranteed a free copy of the Blu-ray, and they ran out so I didn't get one - but hey, the event was a one-time only special experience, and my seating this way was ideal for reporting on it.)

There was an event in the morning I wasn't able to get out of work to go to, this "Dragon landing" thing down at Union Square where they added in a fake concrete section of street "broken up" by what would have been a dragon landing, footprints, etc. The first two dozen fans that managed to get to that were seated ahead of the press pit in the "VIP Fan" section.

I was most surprised by the Dave Hill appearance, personally introducing the video he wrote - because the press passes they e-mailed told you in advance that Cunningham was going to be there, but gave strict orders not to publicly post about it until after 8pm when the video started. There was absolutely no forewarning that Dave Hill himself would be there.

I'd already seen the video since the Blu-ray release on Sunday (this being Tuesday), so I was free to focus on the audience reaction, etc.

One thing I noticed was that they actually censored the video in parts - though it says in the end credits that it was censored. This was due to unavoidable rules about public screenings, I don't blame them for that.

Things that were censored included:

• The shot of the dragon Arrax decapitated is cut.
• The shot showing that Queen Helaena's son Jaehaerys was decapitated. This can be a little confusing, because in the process they cut the dialogue indicating that while she chose her 3 year old son Maelor to die, Blood and Cheese then tormented her by killing her older son instead (so she had to live with the grief of keeping the son she'd chosen to die - further driving her mad with grief).
• When Helaena commits suicide by throwing herself into the castle moat and impaling herself on the spikes below, the shot of her actually impaled on a spike is cut (even though it was only presented as an in-video book illustration) - the camera just zooms to the side.
• The shot of Rhaenys's corpse burned to a crisp of ash after Rook's Rest is cut.
• The shot of Daemon's sword plunging into Aemond's eye is edited; as Oberyn's oration states, he plunged the Valyrian steel blade through his eye so hard that it completely impaled his head and came out through the back of his neck. The video zooms in to only show the sword and the to of Aemond's head, so you don't see the blade going into his eye or out the back of the head.
• Shots of the dragons dying in the Dragonpit are edited to take out some of the bloody axe swings.

You know George R.R. Martin has desensitized you to violence when you're surprised they don't show on-screen decapitations in Herald's Square.

But again, they really couldn't get away with that level of violence at a public screening. You'd only have missed it if you knew what to look for in advance.

And the whole event was amazing: they shut down Herald Square itself for a non-holiday right during the busy hours of 6pm - 9 pm on a weekday. Outstanding.

The introduction to the video by Dave Hill and then Liam Cunningham was very nice. My video didn't catch the first few seconds when Hill came out and everyone cheered. During this he cracked a joke about "In answer to the question everyone is asking..." (i.e. Jon Snow's fate) "...no, we don't use actual live dragons to film in the TV series; it's actually all special effects." Liam then came out and spoke briefly but not as much as Hill.

Sadly, there was no opportunity for Q&A, even with my press pass. Tormenting, because Dave Hill proceeded to sit in the audience six rows ahead of me. After the screening was over he quickly left.

Otherwise, when the video ended Cunningham spoke again and they made this dragon-projection against one of the buildings - it was okay but they'd hyped it so much ahead of time we thought it was going to be some kind of dragon-shaped remote controlled drone or something (it would have worked better as a surprise than getting our expectations up, but whatever).

Afterwards I managed to follow the VIP crowd into the cast tent (Hill had departed) and get my photo taken with Liam Cunningham. Security said they wouldn't let me make a quick video or anything because time was short - my intention was to make a joke asking "which dragon burned Byron Swann?", have him say "Vhagar", then play the whole Tyrion dialogue of "But it was actually Syrax"...eh, obscure joke only the book readers would get, probably better I didn't.

Still kicking myself about coming so close yet oh so far from Dave Hill. I wanted to ask him a few quick specific questions purely about the Histories & Lore: where does Rhaenys fit in the Targaryen family tree? How does the removal of Jaehaerys II affect the "canon" Targaryen family tree? Etc.

Otherwise he specifically mentioned that the video is "an adaptation of Martin's novella The Princess and the Queen" - another point is that the video depicts Rhaenyra's three eldest sons with classic Targaryen features, when yet another prequel novella released after TPATQ, The Rogue Prince, revealed that they all had brown hair and didn't look Targaryen (leading some to accuse that they were bastards - their appearance is a plot point). So I wonder if there was some legal reason he couldn't draw information from The Rogue Prince but had to rely purely on TPATQ. Martin himself has mentioned that the legal relationship of his other prequel novellas to the main show is tricky, particularly the Tales of Dunk and Egg - it's in the past of the main story and mentioned in it so the show can technically mention some things from it, but not verbatim quotes or something (or at least, Martin isn't pressing the issue and letting the Histories & Lore drop references to them).

But this is all just splitting hairs. I was utterly excited by the video and have nothing but praise for Dave Hill. I've been excited about the Dance of the Dragons since...crud, since it was briefly mentioned in passing in the first novel of the main series (in the index of past kings); and like many other fans I was giddy with excitement when the other prequel novellas came out recently -- particularly because we never really anticipated that Martin would take the time to relate them, much less develop a sprawling new story nearly on the scale of the War of the Five Kings (or at least, the Tales of Dunk and Egg era) -- and tales of the Targaryens at their height, rival dragons, etc. All wonderful.

My favorite dragon of all time, living or dead, is officially Caraxes :)

Anyway as I said I managed to make a good video of the event because I was sitting near the front - particularly the parts where Dave Hill speaks.

I edited all the video clips together into one 15 minute long video - not to replicate the featurette, but to illustrate the audience reaction.

Everyone cheered when Dave Hill introduced the video, but I was increasingly surprised that no one was making any noise - no cheering, no giggling or booing or anything. I had assumed people would cheer when each new narrator comes on in the video, famous and missed dead characters on the main show like Catelyn Tully, Oberyn Martell, Joffrey Baratheon, etc. .....

.....then I realized that they weren't making noise because they were bored: 500 people filling Herald Square were watching with rapt attention.

You could hear the proverbial pin drop in one of the major squares in New York City. This was all a ton of new information for them and a gripping, engaging storyline. So there was this awed hush and hundrds of faces intently focused on it. Watch in the video when at times I move the camera back for the audience reaction, just how silent and focused on the video they all are.

Hint Hint, nudge nudge, I really hope that 10 years from now, after a Tales of Dunk and Egg live-action prequel series is finished, we may some day have a Dance of the Dragons prequel series - or Targaryen anthology series, something. The fan demand is there.

So it was a wonderful event and I'm grateful I had the opportunity to go (it helps that I happen to already live in the NYC area -- in comparison I'll never have as many GOT actors coming to conventions near me as fans in Northern Ireland).

Well, head out there and help us work on the new articles related to the "Dance of Dragons" featurette!

Everyone filling into Herald Square

Sitting up front in the press section, looking back at the 200+ seated crowd, and hundreds more crammed around the sides

To my right, the Macy's flagship store

Two cosplayers who attended: as Oberyn Martell (right), and at left, the girl said she was a "female Roose Bolton"

Another cosplayer (non-specific) seated ahead of me in the "VIP Fan" area, because she was able to go to the morning event at Union Square and get even more goodies.

The view north up Broadway, with large crowd massed around the barriers of the seating area to watch.

North up Broadway, crowd stretching as far as I could see

A shot of the main stage and screen with log next to the Empire State Building, at left.

Panoramic image, south-west-north

Panoramic image, north-east-south

To the right of the stage, zoom-in on the street sign: "34th St & Broadway".

Scriptwriter Dave Hill was seated only 6 rows (20 feet!) in front of me, but then left without taking Q&A even with Press (and I had a Press pass!); saddened, after everyone left a few people milled about up front, and I realized I was sitting in Dave Hill's chair where he'd been 10 minutes before. So close in space & time, and yet so far...

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Some cool interviews with Eugene Simon, Ian Beattie and Ian McElhinney at Comic Con in London: https://audioboom.com/playlists/1296918-game-of-thrones-at-comic-con