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  • Game of Thrones: Characters Who Should Return as Wights in Season 7

    I’ve just finished my revisiting Game of Thrones season 6 articles, which you can read on the site now, and those things are behemoths. Exploring subtext and recapping narratives over thousands upon thousands of words has sapped away my already strained cognition and yet with Game of Thrones season...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 6 Part 3: Across the Narrow Sea

    There’s a misconception about Star Trek movies that entered the common parlance many years ago and has since become seen as fact. The soundbite claims that all even-numbered films are good while the odd-numbered instalments are bad. This just isn’t true for Trek but it does ring true –...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 6 Part 2: The South

    Season six of Game of Thrones proved to be the show’s most eventful to date and in no area more so than the south of Westeros. From the Twins to the Riverlands, from King’s Landing to Dorne, the region was a hotbed of show-shifting events and deaths as characters...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 6 Part 1: The North

    The phenomenon that is Game of Thrones returns next month for its penultimate season and, just like the last few years, I’ve been watching the previous season in preparation. When watching the show for a second time, away from all the hype and media buzz, it’s a different experience...
  • TV’s Having An Absolute Blinder

    Westworld, Planet Earth II and Still Game have combined in recent weeks to ensure that I have been thoroughly enjoying my time spent watching TV. Despite the return of many series, that are regular features on my watching list,in the last month or two (NCIS, The Flash etc) I...
  • Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 3 – Review/Recap

    Welcome once again to Out of Lives review/recap of Game of Thrones. This weeks episode played out a little slower than the previous two episodes, but what it lacked it shock value it made up for in story. Episode 3 also reintroduced us to some old characters and treated us to a vision...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 5 Part 3: King’s Landing and Winterfell

    For the past three weeks I’ve been looking back over the fifth season of acclaimed fantasy drama  Game of Thrones after re-watching it and give it an informal review/ share some spoilery thoughts now that we have the benefit of hindsight. This is the third and final part of...
  • Revisiting Game of Thrones Season 5 Part 2: Across the Narrow Sea

    For the next few weeks I’m looking back over the fifth season of acclaimed fantasy drama Game of Thrones after re-watching it and give it an informal review/ share some spoilery thoughts now that we have the benefit of hindsight. In this part I’m looking specifically at the events...
  • Game of Thrones: Season 6 Episode 2 – Review/Recap

    OH MY, WHAT A TREAT US ‘GAME OF THRONES’ FANS HAD THIS WEEK. Episode one of season six left a lot up in the air concerning some of our main players, but what it lacked in character development it more than made up for in shock value. With those thoughts and...