The young assassin and wannabe knight stand in the background but if their medieval influences are anything to go by, they could end up leading the final battle.
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Game of Thrones – Analysis and Comment
The original origins of some key characters names might give hints to their fates in Game of Thrones.
We’ve watched the youngest Stark daughter grow from a tomboy to a trained killer. Now she’s come into her own.
For HBO, online piracy is not the huge issue it represents for the platforms that screen its content.
Human civilisation is threatened by long-dead organisms, whether as White Walkers or petrol.
For all its queer characters, Westeros is a gender binary world.
The vast majority of stories told in movies, in books and on television conclude with happy endings – and this has real-world political consequences.
Facial recognition is a crucial skill, but difficult to test accurately. Researchers are taking advantage of the popularity of Game of Thrones to test the limits of our ability to identify a familiar face.
Before you attribute a trait to a famous ancestor like George Washington or Marie Antoinette, you might want to see how much DNA you actually share with these people. It’s not what you thought.
Our current golden age of TV storytelling is influenced by comic books, in particular, one writer: Chris Claremont pushed boundaries and gave audiences strong female leads and deeply involved dramas.
Films can be used to help understand international relations concepts.
The HBO series can tell us a lot about how we view the Medieval world.
Expectations were high for the latest project from the creator of The Simpsons.
It is time we talked about one of the most unsung motifs in American fiction.
Cloud services became popular due to the benefits they can offer to users, but their adoption can be opposed by IT departments.
Linguist Alison Long helped translate a best-selling novel into the latest BBC television drama.
Ursula le Guin gave us an anarchist society on another world; we brought it back to Earth.
Busloads of people rubber-necking their favourite movie location can be a pest, but fan tourism is a growing business.
A scholar argues that like many sacred books, the popular television show encourages men and women to reflect on their lives and choices.
All men must die, so the young women have grown up to take control.
They are too well-behaved on Westeros – real-life queens often resorted to tears, temper tantrums and toilet humour.
Who has the biggest map – and what are they plotting on it?
Classic conflict analysis can tell us whether there’s a chance that the warring factions can reach a peaceful resolution. Probably not, is the answer.
In history, as in historical fantasy, women have an uneasy and dangerous path to power.
The problems some people had trying to watch Game of Thrones via the internet shows we still have a long way to go before we can live-stream major events to a mass online audience.