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Game of Thrones Season 8 ending predictions

Related imageTime for some GoT season 8 speculation :p. At least we now know the ‘Last Battle’ with the armies of the dead will be at Winterfell, aptly named like Hodor, which again shows GRRM knew what he was doing when he started publishing the whole shebang 27 years ago.

As to my speculative bona fides (and some of you may remember this 😉 ) … After book 5’s release in 2011 (and then when Jon Snow’s stabbing was filmed in season 5 (2015)), I predicted he’d be back, unlike Ned and Robb before him, which would be GRRM’s signal that Act 3 was underway …

So, without further ado, how might GoT end?

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Posted by on November 5, 2018 in Book Reviews, Passive Media, TV reviews

 

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Noah (2014, dir. Darren Aronofsky): biblical tale meets Jackson’s Lord of the Rings plus Aronofsky’s trademark psychology

Noah2014PosterPrimeval story-telling meets latest big budget Hollywood CGI extravaganza in Darren Aronofsky’s NOAH, which recasts the Biblical-Babylonian myth in the mould of Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS – though adding Aronofsky’s trademark exploration of the psychopathic toll that the experience would have had on the protagonist (played by a grizzledly intense Russell Crowe). Ambitiously dives headlong into themes of good vs. evil, human depravity, environmentalism, family ties, and of course, mass catastrophic extinction by drowning. Seriously entertaining.

Next up: Christian Bale as Moses in Ridley Scott’s EXODUS …

 
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Posted by on March 29, 2014 in Film Reviews, Passive Media

 

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