Game of Thrones – The Houses « All Things Andy Gavin

With the premier of Game of Thrones, the HBO series based on what is perhaps my all time favorite Fantasy series, fast approaching, the network has been releasing all sorts of goodies. Now I’ve posted about this before, but these books, and it looks like the show, are so darkly delicious that I fell I must share.

Power (above) is new trailer.

Fear and Blood (above) is another new trailer for the show in general.

Then we have a whole series of videos on some of the most important Great Houses. Like Dune before it, Game of Thrones is a story about the interplay of politics and loyalty among a number of great factions. This was frequently true during the late middle ages, and to some extent the series is based a bit on the War of the Roses.

The Starks (above) are the moral center of the story.

House Baratheon holds the throne… for now.

The Lannister’s you love to hate — except for Tyrion who rules.

House Targaryen knows all about dragons.

Above is a more detailed video on Jaime Lannister.

and above Robb Stark.

Above is Littlefinger.

and above about the world in general.

For a review of episode 1, click here.

9 comments on “Game of Thrones – The Houses”

Ahmer Younas says:

March 17, 2011 at 3:52 pm

Hi there, Nice work on this website!!!

I was actually thinking about starting this series. Just gotta finish Two Towers and a Dean Koontz novel I am reading right now. Im gonna try to get the epub version for my sony ereader. I dont have HBO but will try to get the seasons.

agavin says:

March 17, 2011 at 3:53 pm

The books are stunningly good. You do have to give it a few pages (50-100) to get rolling, but once it does… wow.

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