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There's Another New 'Game of Thrones' Spinoff


We know you’re missing Game of Thrones so much that you’re fighting the temptation to re-watch every episode starting with season 1—but HBO heard our cries and answered our prayers. We’re getting another spinoff miniseries to tide us over until season 8 premiers either next year or in 2018—and it’s totally different than The Game Revealed spinoff we filled you guys in on a few weeks ago. When you preorder the 7th season of Thrones on Blu-ray release (out on December 12th) you’ll receive the mini series bonus disk for free. Best day ever? We think yes.

The spinoff is called Conquest & Rebellion, and it will center around the entire history of Westeros, from the love affairs, the betrayals, the violent wars and the tearful deaths. The sad news is the series won’t feature your beloved Kit Harington or Emilia Clarke or the rest of the cast you know and love, but don’t worry, they’re not getting replaced. The miniseries is animated, and you can get a feel for it by watching the first chapter, titled ‘Valyria’s Last Scion: House Targaryen’ below:

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In order to watch the the entire miniseries—and the narrations by the voices of Jaime Lannister, Sansa Stark, Euron Greyjoy, Varys, and Littlefinger—you’ll have to buy the season 7 set. (But let’s be honest, we were going to do that anyways.) We would definitely recommend using this miniseries to help you win GoT trivia and to school all of your friends when they ask about what happened to the rest of Ned’s family.

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'Game of Thrones' Is Planning to Shoot Multiple Endings for Season 8


With the lethal combo of people leaking plot points on social media and hackers threatening to reveal secrets before episodes even air, avoiding Game of Thrones spoilers is a battle similar to, well, one you’d see on Game of Thrones.

That’s why the show isn’t taking any chances when it comes to season 8. The HBO series is going to extreme lengths during filming to throw off fans (and those pesky hackers) by filming multiple scenes and endings.

“They’re going to shoot multiple versions so that nobody really knows what happens,” HBO’s programming chief Casey Bloys explained during an appearance at Moravian College in Pennsylvania, according to The Morning Call. “You have to do that on a long show. Because when you’re shooting something, people know. So they’re going to shoot multiple versions so that there’s no real definitive answer until the end.”

Filming multiple endings to a show, while complicated, isn’t as crazy as it sounds. Yes, it’s a lot of extra work and money to shoot scenes that aren’t necessary, but it’s an old trick other shows have done before. Dallas did this so fans wouldn’t find out who had killed J.R., and Thrones even used this tactic last season. Vulture points out that Kit Harington has mentioned “the show shot multiple fake scenes for season seven to throw paparazzi off the trail.”

So, in other words, when people start leaking major plot points in season 8, take everything with a grain of salt. (But have no doubt that anything is possible in the twisty world of Game of Thrones.)

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'Game of Thrones' Star Gwendoline Christie Admits Tormund's Love for Brienne Continues Off Screen, Too


In a recent interview with Seth Meyers on Late Night, actress Gwendoline Christie, who plays Brienne on Game of Thrones, spilled some rather uncomfortable details about those looks she gets from Tormund. You know, the looks.

Apparently, actor Kristofer Hivju stays in full Tormund character, even after the director says cut—and yes, that includes his creepy stares. “He likes to continue being in character even off set,” Christie shared with Seth. “He will start chewing a sandwich wildly at me, start masticating wildly at me, really kind of making love to that sandwich as he eyeballs me. So it’s strong. Eyes like lasers pouring right in.” Like this, we assume:

Christie explains that she is a classically trained actress, so she rarely starts laughing during a scene, but this is the one time where she completely loses it. As she tells Seth, Tormund’s looks are “possibly the one time that I dissolve without fail.” She continued, “No one told me that this was gonna happen. In the script it simply said, ‘Tormund gives Brienne a look.’ I was not expecting the power, the magnitude, of intense sexual intention to pour out of a man’s eyes and cover me.”

Tormund’s looks may have met their end in this season’s Game of Thrones finale, so we’re eagerly awaiting to see what happens next season. (To be completely honest, though, we’re not really sure if we should be rooting for more looks or for no looks at all.)

Until then, watch Gwendoline Christie’s full interview below:

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This 'Game of Thrones' Death Pattern Discovered by Reddit Is Completely Mind-Blowing


Game of Thrones is perhaps most well known for being unafraid to kill off series stalwarts—and, of course, for having extremely detail-oriented fans. So it was only a matter of time before those fans would sift through all of the many deaths we’ve seen on the show and devise a theory that makes them all interrelated.

According to Redditor razobak09, as spotted by HelloGiggles, the pattern goes like this: Characters on GoT die in ways that mirror their most important moments on the series. For instance (and, obviously, spoilers), Ned Stark used his sword, Ice, to behead the Night’s Watchman deserter before being beheaded by Ice himself; Tywin Lannister ordered the Red Wedding, where numerous Stark men were killed by crossbow-wielding musicians before his own death by crossbow at the hands of his son, Tyrion; and Roose Bolton killed Robb Stark with a knife to the heart before then being stabbed in the heart by his son, Ramsay.

But wait, there’s more: Jon Snow stabs his Night’s Watch brother, Qhorin Halfhand, and later, he’s fatally stabbed by Night’s Watch brothers (and brought back to life, but still). And Stannis Baratheon killed his brother, Renly Baratheon, with the help his female assistant so-to-speak, Melisandre; then, Stannis was later killed by his Renly’s female assistant/devotee, Brienne of Tarth. And so on.

It all makes sense when you think about it, especially since Game of Thrones makes a point to focus on revenge, complicated sub-plots, and dramatic death scenes. Now that season seven has ended and we’re starved for any details we can possibly pick up about the future, all we have to do is figure out what every remaining character has done to others—and then maybe, we’ll be able to figure out how they die. (Perhaps we could start with Arya’s kill list?)

Should be easy enough with all of this time we have to kill (pun intended) before the next and last season, right?

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This 'Game of Thrones' Theory Explains Why Tyrion Was So Weird About Jon and Dany


The highlight—or lowlight, depending on your stance—of the Game of Thrones season finale was when Jon and Daenerys finally had sex. This, erm, union was a long time coming; show-runners have been teasing their sexual tension since the beginning of the season. (That cave scene, anyone?) Of course, the fact they’re related—Dany is Jon’s aunt—is why some fans don’t ship their coupling, but the other half of the GoT army doesn’t care. After all, this show started with an incest scene between Cersei and Jaime Lannister. Blood relatives sleeping together apparently isn’t a big deal in this world.

What is a big deal, however, is the fact Tyrion was lurking outside the room where Jon and Dany were getting it on. Why was he out there? Was he just grossed out? Pissed off?

According to this new Reddit theory by a user named AchievementJoe, it’s much deeper than that. AchievementJoe thinks Tyrion betrayed Jon and Dany during his meeting with Cersei—and that’s why he was pacing outside the room. So…is it guilt?

“I’m thinking Tyrion may have told Cersei before she walked back into the Dragon Pit to just tell Daenerys and Jon what they wanted to hear so that the meeting ended in good terms,” AchievementJoe writes. “It seemed to be an important aspect of the meeting to tell a lie. So I’m thinking Tyrion actually knows that Cersei won’t back down and that she plans to attack while they are away and that is why he is so disappointed while Jon and Dany are doing the dirty because he knows that the truce is all a facade.”

Come to think about it, the beginning of the finale sort of hinted Tyrion would commit some kind of betrayal. Remember when he told Jon he should learn to lie to powerful people? “Have you ever considered learning how to lie every now and then? Just a bit?” he said. He was literally talking about how great lying is before doing some lying himself.

Well, lying might not be the best word for this; Tyrion essentially hid a part of the truth. So when will Jon and Dany find out the full story? When Cersei just straight-up doesn’t come to Winterfell? Regardless of when it happens, we’re scared for Tyrion. You don’t want to piss off Dany. She has an army of dragons.

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Who Is Left on Arya Stark's Kill List From 'Game of Thrones' and Why?


Spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned!

Arya Stark is kicking ass and taking names. Season by season, she’s been slowly ticking off each and every one from her infamous kill list—proving that, next to the Night King and Viserion (that scene on the Wall, wow), she might be the most deadly character in Game of Thrones. And as we all saw on tonight’s season 7 finale, hell hath no fury like an Arya Stark scorned. Westeros’ favorite assassin is showing no signs of easing up on her quest for revenge.

After leaving fans in suspense the entire season, we finally saw an end to the Arya x Sansa feud, which—as one major fan theory predicted—ended up all being for show. How come? So the Stark women could corner Littlefinger and bring him swift justice in the form of a dagger to straight to his neck (much like the way he held that very same weapon to Ned Stark’s in season one, and the way Lady Catelyn was murdered in the Red Wedding).

So, with Littlefinger and his scheming out of the way, let’s go back through who’s still left on Arya Stark’s kill list and why they’re there. If she’s going to get through them all, season 8 is going to be busy…and bloody.

The Hound
Why he’s on the list: He killed the butcher’s boy.
Status: She had the chance to kill him, but instead left him to die after he was wounded in battle with Brienne of Tarth. As we know, he came back from the brink of death and is now fighting for Daenyrs. So it remains to be seen if he’ll be an exception.

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Cersei Lannister
Why she’s on the list: For her role in Ned Stark’s death.
Status: Evil as ever. Here’s hoping Arya gets her before the Night King.

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The Mountain
Why he’s on the list: For torturing people at Harrenhal.
Status: Dead then risen from death by Qyburn. Now he’s a half-alive personal killing machine for Queen Cersei—and his brother the Hound had some choice words for him in the Season 7 finale. Perhaps this moment had more foreshadowing than it let on.

The Red Woman / Melisandre
Why she’s on the list: She kidnapped Gendry while they were with the Brotherhood Without Banners.
Status: Old as hell but still alive, thanks to the Lord of Light. And her magical necklace.

Beric Dondarrion
Why he’s on the list: He sold Gendry to Melisandre.
Status: He’s died and been resurrected at least six times, but following the Red Priest’s death, he’s now on his last life. And stuff at Eastwatch isn’t looking good…

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Ilyn Payne
Why he’s on the list: He’s the one who actually beheaded Ned Stark since Joffrey didn’t swing the sword himself. Kinda sucks for him since he was just following orders, but Arya’s kill list grants no leniency.
Status: Alive. We think? We haven’t actually seen him since season 2.

And a look at those who have been already X’ed off…

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Walder Frey
Why he was on the list: He killed Arya’s mom, her brother, Robb, and Robb’s direwolf in the Red Wedding.
How he was offed: Arya baked his sons in a pie, fed it to him while wearing one of their faces, and slit his throat. Savage.

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Joffrey
Why he was on the list: Oh, beside the fact that he was the literal worst? He’s the one who sentenced her father to death.
How he was offed: As she revealed to Jaime in her dying moments, the privilege of this kill—by poison at Joffrey’s own wedding—belongs to Lady Olenna.

Tywin Lannister
Why he was on the list: He was the mastermind behind the Red Wedding.
How he was offed: By Tyrion, with a crossbow, while his dad was on the toilet (the best game of Clue if we ever heard one)

Thoros of Myr
Why he was on the list: He, too, took part in selling Gendry to Melisandre.
How he was offed: A wight grizzy bear got to him North of the wall and he froze to death.

Meryn Trant
Why he was on the list: He killed Syrio Forel, Arya’s water dance teacher.
How he was offed: Arya steals a face from the Hall of Faces and stabs him repeatedly in a Braavosi brothel.

Polliver
Why he was on the list: He killed Lommy (one of Arya’s friends from the group going to the Night’s Watch), he stole Needle, and he tortured people at Harrenhal.
How he was offed: By fluke, Arya and the Hound ran into him at an inn—and Arya seized her chance for revenge.

Rorge
Why he was on the list: Wait, Rorge who? Yeah, it’s been awhile since we saw this dude. He was one of the criminals taken from Harrenhal—and he threatened to rape Arya.
How he was offed: Arya got him! She stabbed Needle right through his heart after he tried attacking her and the Hound while they were on the run.

And now, the wait until 2019. We know that technically winter is here, but can it still come a little sooner?

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