They also offered a few insights into possible character motivations left unexplained by the show.
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Game of Thrones is HBO’s most popular show, having averaged a whopping 23 million viewers for season six across all platforms, which include initial showings on the pay channel itself, plus repeats and DVR views as well as streaming on HBO’s two digital services, HBO GO and HBO Now.
“I’m not sure she thinks Jon is capable of running Winterfell and the North”, she laughed.
“I’m about to check into the Bates Motel very soon”, Rihanna said in a video played during the “Bates Motel” panel. And I concur. He’ll make the right decisions, the moral decisions, but whether they’ll benefit anyone is something else.
Tension rises with rapid shots of more sets and props being made – intercut with a setup of the first episode’s table read.
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“I had’t seen it and we sat down to watch it and all of a sudden my daughter was in a heap on the sofa clutching the stag as she watched my surrogate daughter burn”, said Cunningham before going on to joke that he felt like a bad father after that. “I knew I was going to be killed, but I didn’t expect the outpouring of emotions”.
Turner, said she’d like to see Littlefinger on the throne. “It would be fun and quirky, sadistic, and we like that kind of thing”, she reminded fans.
Ramsay Bolton actor Iwan Rheon had the best response when moderator Rob McElhenney asked why his character is “such a lovable scamp?”
“I think we should melt the thing down and have a democracy”, he said.
“A Song of Fire and Ice” author George.R.R. Martin is not always on the same boat as the producers of his novel series’ TV adaptation, “Game of Thrones”, especially when it comes to deviating plotlines. You can enjoy the bloopers reel below, but be aware as swearing abounds and Peter Dinklage finds one word incredibly impossible to pronounce.
On Monday, the cable network (via The Hollywood Reporter) announced that “Game of Thrones” season 7 will premiere in the summer of 2017.
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“Winter is here, and we’ve got to shoot in places with trees and wait for the leaves to turn”, Benioff told Comic-Con’s packed 6,5000-seat Hall H. In the absence of information, you get a warm bath of adoration – and none more than for Kristian Nairn, the giant of a man who, until this season, played the gentle Hodor.
