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‘The Witcher’ is the first big R-rated high fantasy TV show to come out after ‘Game of Thrones’, and love it or hate it, ‘Game of Thrones’ kind of changed everything, at least where fantasy TV is concerned.
Spoilers for episode 2 of Game of Thrones! Get out now if you haven’t seen it! You good? Okay then. Episode 2 was a comparatively slower paced episode, allowing us to explore the characters and their relationships perhaps for the last time before the White Walker invasion. It featured great individual moments, like Podrick’s surprisingly great singing skills, Sansa and Theon’s reunion, Bran forgiving Jamie for crippling him, and Brienne being finally made a knight of the seven kingdoms. But the best moment and the one that probably shocked fans the most was Arya and Gendry finally consummating their long-standing crush. …
No, this isn’t an April Fools joke! This weekend, specifically March 31st, a new Game of Thrones promo was released. Although it features a lot of footage taken from the main trailer, the new promo also features tantalizing new details that have us salivating for the new season in just two weeks. Some specific new aspects of footage look to finally be confirming fan theories and giving us the season we’ve been waiting for. The promos were not released online but in true internet fashion, they’ve been posted online anyway through shaky cam footage filmed on TV screens. Check out the clip …
