Adult-skewing animation dominated the animation portion of the 2016 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
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Adult-skewing animation dominated the animation portion of the 2016 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
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The new "Powerpuff Girls" revival gets its first Emmy nod, and so does the last episode of "Phineas and Ferb."
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Add a Comment“The Winds of Winter,” the finale to the sixth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones was one of the most thrilling episodes of television ever. It was triumphant, revelatory, sad, powerful – all the feels. Ramin Djawadi’s score was extraordinary, and brought a tear to my eye. And after six years we started to see […]
Season Six of Game of Thrones is about to air. One of the great pleasures of watching the show is the way in which George R. R. Martin, the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, and the show-producers, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, build their imagined world from the real and […]
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Winter is coming… and it’s bringing souvenirs. With this month’s return of HBO’s Game of Thrones, it’s time to plan all the viewing parties or whatever your celebration ritual might be. Revels! Comics Beat was invited to get hands on with the sheer tidal wave of merchandise, both current and upcoming, for one of cable’s most rabid […]
"The gods won't mind. They spill more blood than the rest of us combined."
10 Days of Thrones: in anticipation of the new Game of Thrones season I’ll be posting a new illustration everyday… today is Ygritte!
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10 Days of Thrones: in anticipation of the new Game of Thrones season I’ll be posting a new illustration everyday… today is White Walker!
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10 Days of Thrones: in anticipation of the new Game of Thrones season I’ll be posting a new illustration everyday… today is Arya Stark!
10 Days of Thrones: in anticipation of the finale Game of Thrones season I’ll be posting a new illustration everyday… today is Sam Tarly!
What if Donald Trump sat on the Iron Throne and ruled over Westeros? One YouTube creative, known as huw parkinson, decided to produce a hilarious piece called “Winter is Trumping.”
The video embedded above features the Republican presidential candidate interacting with Daenerys Targaryen, Tyrion Lannister, and the men of the Night’s Watch. The season six premiere episode of Game of Thrones will air on April 24.
Click on these links to watch HBO’s first teaser and the second teaser. For more parody humor, follow these links to watch the “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Trump” video and a clip from the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show.
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By: Nicholas Eskey Every week, companies announce new, nerdy toys that threaten to drain our bank accounts and fill every spare inch on our shelves. To help you decide what is buy-worthy, we have decided to dedicate ourselves to highlighting the best of the best. Welcome to the new weekly toy preview! Without further stalling, […]
The Walt Disney Company has now won 16 consecutive animation awards at the VES Awards.
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George R.R. Martin announced on his blog that he has not finished the manuscript for the sixth installment of the A Song of Ice and Fire series. The Wall Street Journal reports that it’s unlikely that The Winds of Winter will be ready for release prior to the premiere of the sixth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones show.
Here’s an excerpt from Martin’s blog post: “Yes, there’s a lot written…But there’s also a lot still left to write. I am months away still… and that’s if the writing goes well. (Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn’t.) Chapters still to write, of course… but also rewriting. I always do a lot of rewriting, sometimes just polishing, sometimes pretty major restructures.”
According to The Gothamist, “television viewers will be wholly ahead of book readers—we can safely say there will never be another Red Wedding reactions video-type occurrence again.” The first episode of the new season will air in April 2016. Follow this link to watch the season six teaser trailer. (via Variety)
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For the first time, the television adaptation will outpace its source material in full
HBO has unveiled a new teaser trailer for Game of Thrones season six. The video embedded above offers glimpses of Isaac Hempstead Wright and Kit Harington in the roles of Bran Stark and Jon Snow.
Some of the new actors who have joined the cast include Essie Davis, Pilou Asbæk, Max von Sydow, Ian McShane, Richard E. Grant, and Freddie Stroma. Entertainment Weekly reports that the first episode of the new season will air in April 2016.
Here’s more from EOnline: “HBO has finally released the first teaser for season six of and our boy Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) is front and center. But don’t expect any insight into the fate of the fallen hero—or even any footage of the new season. Instead, get ready to relive Jon’s brutal death, along with all the other misery that’s befallen the people of Westeros in the last five seasons. Seriously, those poor, poor people.” (via A.V. Club)
Add a CommentSo Walter White; Loras Tyrell; and Obara Sand, daughter of Oberyn Martell, walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “who do you fight for?” ReedPOP just announced a bunch of new guests for New York Comic Con 2015. On the filmed media front, fans will get to lovingly gaze upon Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, Marvel writer […]
How can you say it’s far friends m GRRM’s vision of the story when he hasn’t finished it yet and we don’t know how much of the actual story planned for the books the showrunners decided to keep? We already know that the origin of Hodir’s name came from GRRM, for example.
This is the first season of Game of Thrones I completely enjoyed. There were episodes of season 5 I liked (such as the attack of the White Walkers, which is mentioned in the Martin books but not actually shown). Mostly I’ve found the torture of characters unnecessary and most of the series has been characters who are vile torturing characters who are not vile. The so-called Red Wedding was a perfect example of what I’ve hated in the series as it just celebrated death and destruction. Burning the child at the stake (which does not happen in the books) is another example of the series wallowing in torture. I was put off at the end of episode one when they attempt to kill a ten year old boy because he knows too much, and the death of Ned Stark finished any investment I had in the show. But in season 6 I actually enjoyed it, beginning with the resurrection of Jon Snow and all that followed. There was also the fact that the series for too long had twice as many characters as needed and only after winnowing them down has the story become manageable. But it took a hell of a long time to get there.
I don’t think I agree with this take at all. While the show made some big steps into having a plot beyond the “shocking” developments of last season, this picture you paint of the books is disingenuous. What’s so brilliant about the books isn’t their brutality, or their insistence on “realism” (whatever that means), but on how they subvert genre expectations. Ned Stark didn’t die to make the reader sad or to provoke shock, he died asking the reader questions about what it means to be a hero and a protagonist. IMHO Martin’s books have always had a thematic richness that’s been hit or miss on the show. I’m happy it’s going in a better, more telegenic direction. It’s much more watchable. But while the story and characters and performances have been superlative on the show, it still lacks the courage to tackle the big questions Martin deals with in the books.
It sounds like diverting from the books into a crowd pleasing sit-com. George RR Martin always stressed that good people lose and sleazy deceitful people come out ahead. I’ll bet he had Ramsey become king.
I don’t know if I agree with this either. The series only has about 10-15 episodes left. It had to start taking a turn in a positive direction, and removing some characters. I would even think this was part of GRRM’s plans (although I haven’t read the books). It seems like women were horribly treated and underrated in the beginning and now they’re getting their due. Also, you say it’s so great that women are getting better treated now in the show, but then state how awful it is women aren’t writing or directing it anymore. Well which is it??