Game of Thrones Dropped Three New Teasers For Season Six
“Queen of nothing.” #GoTSeason6 premieres 4.24.16 #GameofThrones https://t.co/TeSFwowwTy
— Game Of Thrones (@GameOfThrones) January 22, 2016
I don’t know who runs promotional marketing for Thrones or what he/she is paid, but whatever it is, it needs to be doubled. Every single piece of promo I have ever seen from that show the past few years has given me raging Throners that sends me into a binge-rewatching spiral. These teasers were no different.
But, maybe I’m giving them too much credit, because the show also pretty much hypes itself. I could not be more excited for the debut of Season 6 of Game of Thrones. For one, now that we’re in the unchartered waters of being past the books, for the first time ever everyone watching Game of Thrones with a completely blank slate. Spoilers aren’t now an overly curious Wikipedia search or dickhead Internet book-reading commenter away: we all can share our shock and surprise together.
And secondly, up until now, Game of Thrones as these three teasers points out, has an entirely new dynamic. Up until now, Thrones has been a show about maneuvering powerbrokers; seemingly omnipotent houses battling for supremacy, throwing massive amounts of money and bodies at each other in strategic ways until one trumps over the other. For the first time in the show’s history, the three main houses all stand vulnerable and looking very, dangerously powerless. Dorthraki surrounds Daeny with her only hope of rescue being two bickering warriors who are Taylor Swift circa 2012 obsessed with her. House Lannister is fractured between Tyrion lording over a foreign city that’s eating away at itself, a Queen who was just publicly humiliated by a collection of barefooted priests with daggers, and a one-handed Jamie who just watched his daughter die. And the Starks only surviving members will be Zombie Jon Snow, Sansa fleeing through the North with Reek in the worst buddy-cop duo of all-time, Eyeless Arya, and Bran who on the current aging trajectory his actor is on, will be 67 years old by the time the season debuts.
The show now isn’t about a clash of the titans anymore as much as it is knocked-down heavyweights trying to pick themselves up off the mat. This opens a lot of new and exciting possibilities: new smaller houses becoming power brokers, civilian uprisings, fringe family members trying to get at the center of their House. Season Six is scheduled to premiere April 24th and in the words of Bart Scott.
PS: Might do a Game of Thrones podcast this season if people would want one. And by “might do if people would want one” I mean “am absolutely doing it because I’m dying to do one but am still working out the details for it.”
Twitter is @CharlieWisco