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I have avoided the series for so long, thinking that it was just more Millennial crap.. But I started binging about a week ago.

TRONDHEIM, Norway (Storyful) — Norwegian police have done Westeros a huge favor: they caught and arrested the notorious Night King Sunday night just before the premiere of the final season (of Game of Thrones). Photos and mugshots posted to Facebook by Trondheim Police show the Night King safely in custody.

With the seventh season of HBO's Game of Thrones at its halfway point, Westeros is at war yet again. In the last two episodes (episodes 3 and 4), the forces aligned with Daenerys Targaryen and Cersei Lannister have met upon the fields (and seas) of battle at last. Things have not gone entirely according to plan for either side. In fact things have gone so wrong, so fast that I thought it might be time to convene the Ars Technica Board of Fictional Military Historic Analysis—with its charter members, Jon Nichols and Steve Skaggs, two special operations professionals now in...

If you have seen both, please fill in the blank. If you want to include a couple sentences, OK-fine :) If you liked "The Tudors", you'll _________ "Game of Thrones".If you haven't seen them and are going by what you've heard, well....I'd be glad to hear from you on any other subject... But not this one :)

It is the moment Game Of Thrones fans have been patiently waiting six seasons for. The sensational new trailer released on Wednesday shows the moment Daenerys finally unleashes her dragons on Westeros. The enthralling 90-second teaser shows all of the main players gearing up for the final battle for the Seven Kingdoms.

The second episode of Thrones’ sixth season gave us the reveal we all saw coming. [Warning: Spoilers!] What version of the Lord Commander this is, however, remains to be seen.

The endless plotting and cruel twists in the fortunes of the characters in Game of Thrones have kept audiences glued to their screens. Yet hidden among the rush for power depicted in the fantasy series, there may be one character who has been largely overlooked. Mathematicians have discovered that Tyrion Lannister and Jon Snow are the show's most important characters, while an unlikely candidate joins them as another key player, namely Sansa Stark.

5 Questions That Will Hopefully Get Answered In Season 6 of 'Game Of Thrones' Game of Thrones is coming! New episodes of HBO's epic fantasy drama is set to return in April. And that intel makes me all kinds of happy. Like Oberyn Martell in a brothel, happy. Also, with the release of the season 6's teaser trailer - my brain has gone into hyper-drive imagining all of the the twist and turns this next season can possibly take. This has also lead me to explore the fact that I have so many unanswered questions about the Season 6 of...

Game of Thrones will change the way sexual violence is depicted on screen following a barrage of complaints about a controversial rape scene last season. Critics and viewers were outraged after Sansa Stark, played by 19-year-old English actress Sophie Turner, was raped by Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) on their wedding night. The scene, which aired in May, was part of a story arc which did not appear in the novels. It was criticized for being gratuitous, played for shock value and serving no narrative purpose. But, speaking at an event at Fox Studios Australia, director Jeremy Podeswa, who directed the...

Game of Thrones' sixth season is premiering next April. (Spoilers ahead, if that's a concern for you.) HBO shared the new season's first promotional image on Twitter this morning, and it features the bloody visage of a character that currently seems to be hovering somewhere between alive and dead: Jon Snow, former Stark bastard and Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. When we last saw Snow, he was being lured into a trap by disillusioned members of his brigade and stabbed to death in a display of brutal mutiny. Of course, there's been a ton of speculation about his true...

Pressure is growing for a boycott of Game of Thrones after a popular character, Sansa Stark, was raped in the latest episode. However, the actress who plays the role, Sophie Turner, has defended the scene – which does not appear in the books – saying she ‘kinda loved’ filming it. The demand for a boycott has been led by US Senator Claire McCaskill, who tweeted her distaste with the show.

A prince strips a posing group of prostitutes naked one by one as he selects a companion for the night. It sounds like a scene from a porn film, but this was the latest episode of the epic fantasy drama Game of Thrones, based on the novels of George R R Martin. The start of the gory series’ fourth season on Monday even managed to shock its own fans. ..................................................... Campaigners warned it could lead to young people being ‘desensitised’ to content once considered shocking and being influenced by the behaviour they displayed. Miranda Suit, of Safermedia, said: ‘What are...

President Obama has already seen (at least some of) “Game of Thrones” season four, even though the season doesn’t premiere until April 6. But when you are the president of the United States you get all kinds of good stuff like a mansion and people letting you win at basketball and early access to softcore HBO shows. In the April issue of Vanity Fair, “Game of Thrones” co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss confirmed to writer Jim Windolf that the president gets early screeners of the episodes:

An investigation by The Daily reveals that federal government agencies bought 1,002 ergonomic chairs from 2005 to 2011. All but 194 of them were Aerons. Uncle Sam spent at least $497,494 on the chairs during that period, at an average cost of more than $500 each. Among the evidence of the federal government’s unbridled enthusiasm for pricey chairs: – The State Department spent $128,036 on 235 Aerons in December 2009 to furnish its Bureau of Overseas Building Operations in Arlington, Va. – The Army dropped $82,925 on 194 Raynor Eurotech Ergohuman chairs in August 2007 for Fort Sam Houston in...

Yes, putting Obama’s head on a stake and using it in a movie or in decapitation scenes would warrant apoplectic Progressives and Liberals to grasp their crotch and jump up and down like small children waiting in a long line to use the bathroom, but putting Bush’s head on a stake is an exercise in effigy conservation. Surely a cadre of FBI agents would descend on the light hearted pranksters who dared to use a facsimile of Obama’s head; since no less than ten agents were sent to Florida to investigate whether George Zimmerman displayed traces of racial bigotry while...