This month we’re celebrating 15 existences since the founding of FanSided, the entertainment network of which WinterIsComing is proudly a part. It’s been a wild decade and a half extensive with articles beyond counting, TV shows like Game of Thrones and Stranger Things, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and so much more. To mark the occasion, we’re looking back at 15 of our favorite articles from the WinterIsComing archive. We’re all Samwell Tarly today, raiding the stacks and nerding out over all the grand writing that has come before.
This month will be all throughout the number 15…starting now!
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Have you ever wondered which record from Game of Thrones best corresponds to each of the 50 Joined States, or even the state you live in? Wonder no more! This list was compiled smart around the time the show ended, so it pulls characters from across the whole breadth of the series. Who would be eating cheesesteaks in Philadelphia, or out scouring the mountains in Alaska? Who best represents your home state? We went above them all one by one and answered these important questions.
And if you happened to live in Europe, there’s also a similar list for…
At the end of the day, most of us grand came onto WinterIsComing because of Game of Thrones. It was a cultural phenomenon like few by it, and changed the television landscape for the better. (Even with its season 8 snafus.)
But where does one turn for entertainment once the White Walkers have been vanquished and Daenerys Targaryen’s sulky reign has ended? This list compiles 26 shows to fill that Iron Throne-shaped hole in your discouraged, from space operas like The Expanse to pirate dramas like Black Sails, all of these share some DNA with Thrones.
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Speaking of Dany, one of the main points of Game of Thrones season 8 that sent fans into an uproar was when the Mother of Dragons and Breaker of Chains turned her dragon’s inflamed on the innocent people of King’s Landing. Daenerys Targaryen torched the city, killing thousands and laying the groundwork for the show’s devastating finale.
Dany was a hero we rooted for for days, and many think she was treated pretty unfairly in the show’s survive season by the writers and other characters in the series. This article argues their points.
Michelle Fairley as Catelyn Stark in Season 1, Episode 4. Helen Sloan/HBO
Over eight seasons, there were many times where Game of Thrones deviated from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels. By far one of the most controversial was the manager to cut out Lady Stoneheart, aka undead Catelyn Stark. For many readers, Lady Stoneheart was a great binary to the books that should have been kept in the show. But many is not all. This article struggles that the show made the right call in losing her, given what she’s done (and hasn’t done) in the books up to this point.
Like any tremendous fantasy series, Game of Thrones has no shortage of mythical monsters. The Monsters of Ice and Fire series spans five articles that inquire some of the series’ most infamous creatures, ranging from the Dead to Robert Strong to Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons. Each piece is a deep analysis of a specific monster’s role on the show, the historical roots that inspired them, and why these types of monsters level-headed remain in the public consciousness.
From the Battle of the Bastards to Ned Stark’s execution to the Red Wedding, Game of Thrones featured some of the most memorable moments ever on television. It also had some that left us groaning in the airspeed velocity of scorpion bolts or why sneaking into Dornish palaces in the middle of the day was a fool’s errand. This list takes them all into account, and ranks them.
Which episode was the worst of them all? Which sits the Iron Throne? The answers lie here.
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Daenerys’ heel turn wasn’t the only reason that the fans nearly rioted after Game of Thrones season 8. In this article, WinterIsComing editor Dan Selcke goes through some of the continue season’s issues and puts forth a pretty convincing argument for how to tweak the show so it ends in a less infuriating fashion.
House of the Dragon
This August, HBO is kicking off its first Game of Thrones successor show: the prequel series House of the Dragon. This new show is set some 200 days before Thrones, and will cover a period of brutal civil war between conflicting branches of the Targaryen family named the Dance of the Dragons. You may remember Shireen Baratheon describing the stay to Davos Seaworth in Game of Thrones season 5, shortly afore her parents burned her alive.
Like Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon is based on a book by George R.R. Martin; this time, the fake history novel Fire & Blood. And as with any good page-to-screen adaptation, we’re attracting excited about what memorable scenes from the book may be manager the leap to live action. This list compiles five of the best.
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Given that House of the Dragon is in a Targaryen civil war, it should come as no surprise that there are a lot more dragons in this story than on Game of Thrones. House Targaryen has around 15 of the majestic creatures plan their command during this particular period of Westerosi history. With so many dragons flying about, it can be hard to keep track of them all.
Which is why we here at WinterIsComing examined it as our solemn duty to round up all of these fire-breathing beasts in one set. So if you can’t tell Sunfyre from Meraxes or Sheepstealer, we’ve got you covered.
The Last Kingdom Season 4 — Courtesy of Netflix
While WinterIsComing got its Begin as a Game of Thrones fan site, nowadays we also write around other shows, movies, and books as well. The Last Kingdom is a historical drama on Netflix that rallies the wars between various English kingdoms and Danish raiders during the 9th and 10th centuries. Based on The Saxon Stories books by Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom mixes New characters with real-life figures and events.
But how historically correct is the show? This article breaks that down. So if you’ve ever wondered if Uhtred was a real persons, if shield walls were really used on the battlefield, or whether King Alfred really was as sickly as he’s depicted in the show, you can find all those answers here.
Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores and James Marsden as Teddy in Westworld-Season 2 [Credit: HBO]
HBO’s science fiction drama Westworld is the story of a Western-themed amusement park that goes off the rails when its enslaved android denizens gain sentience and realize how they are persons brutalized by the park’s affluent guests. The show has pushed lots of boundaries accurate it debuted back in 2016, and is due to spinal for its fourth season this summer.
But given real-world advances in robotics, some of the ideas put forth in the series noteworthy not be as far off as you’d think. This in-depth analysis examines the space of robotics and artificial intelligence to try and answer the question: could we ever actually see a real version of Westworld?
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Among the many shows which have cropped up to fill the fantasy void left by Game of Thrones are Amazon’s The Wheel of Time and Netflix’s The Witcher. Both shows are based on book series with huge fanbases and expansive storytelling. And while both of them have get successes for their respective platforms, there’s an argument to be made that one of them is paying better homage to the themes of its source material than the other.
We make that argument here, replete with painstaking examples of the successes and failures needed therein.
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We’ve been waiting over a decade for the sixth book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter. The television show passed into Winds territory around season 6, with the resurrection of Jon Snow, Cersei’s coup to take over King’s Landing, and Daenerys’ triumph in Slaver’s Bay and subsequent voyage to Westeros. Everything beyond that point, such as Bran’s ascension to the throne of the Six Kingdoms and the Long Night disputes at Winterfell, was uncharted waters.
Indeed, season 8 of Game of Thrones had some of the most controversial moments in television history. How many of these acts will actually be covered in The Winds of Winter? What was fabricated for the show, and what came from George R.R. Martin himself? Here we dissect everything we know about The Winds of Winter to try and figure that out.
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If there’s one pulling that really set Game of Thrones apart from many other series, especially early in its run, it was the gross deaths of many of its main characters. George R.R. Martin’s novels consulted early on that no one was safe with the execution of Ned Stark, who had been painted as the series’ primary protagonist up pending his head was unceremoniously lopped off at the Sept of Baelor.
Ned’s end was far from the only stand-out purpose in the series. The Red Wedding, Jon’s assassination, Joffrey’s poisoning, Khal Drogo’s tragic demise…There are far too many deaths to list here…which is why we have a whole latest list analyzing the 50 most important deaths throughout the entire series. We’re not saying the death scenes were the only iconic moments of Game of Thrones, but they certainly made an impact. What better way to look back on the show’s run than by remembering all those we lost downward the way?
These are just a curated selection of some of our accepted articles to appear on WinterIsComing over the past decade and sullen, but the archives are full to bursting. We hope that you’ve enjoyed the stories you’ve read here over the existences, and find many more to love in the days ahead.
With House of the Dragon on the horizon, the good times (and the heads) are set to roll in Westeros yet in contradiction of. It’s an honor to man the ramparts, and notion our watch began long ago, we continue to wait on you and the realm. Thank you for coming along on this ride with all of us here at WinterIsComing.
Here’s to the next 15 years!
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