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Saturday, November 30, 2019
Friday, November 29, 2019
Baltimore Comic-Con 2020 Tickets On Sale!
Next year’s Baltimore Comic-Con will take place at the Inner Harbor’s Baltimore Convention Center on October 23-25, 2020. In advance of the holiday season (and in response to numerous inquiries from fans!), tickets for the show are now on sale. Get that special someone a unique gift this holiday season.
Tickets currently available include:
VIP*
Weekend Pass
Friday only
Saturday only
Sunday only
As always, children 10 and under are free with a paid adult admission!
* VIP ticket holders receive the following package items and benefits:
Exclusive early admission to all 3 days of the show
2020 Baltimore Comic-Con t-shirt
2020 Baltimore Comic-Con yearbook
$40 gift voucher to the Baltimore Comic-Con Exclusives table
Show-exclusive Frank Cho print
Limited time offer! Between now and January 1, 2020, the Baltimore Comic-Con is offering a 10% discount on all ticket sales.
In addition to this great opportunity to purchase tickets to the 2020 event, fans in the Baltimore area will not want to miss the show’s host store Cards, Comics & Collectibles’ annual Thanksgiving Sale!
70% off Modern and Bronze Age Back Issues!
50% off Paperbacks and Hardcovers; Single Cards; Action Figures; HeroClix; Statues; Models; Toon Tumblers; and more!
30% off Gold and Silver Age Comics and Premium Back Issues
20% off Card Packs and Boxes; Recent Cover Price Comics; New This Week Items!
Sunday only deals!
80% off Modern Back Issue Bins!
60% off Paperbacks and Hardcovers!
Store hours during this sale are:
Friday: 11am-7:30pm
Saturday: 11am-7pm
Sunday: noon-5pm
TICKETS
General Admission and VIP Package tickets for Weekend, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are now on sale! Visit https://purchase.growtix.com/e/Baltimore_Comic_Con_2020/36674/279044 for more information and to purchase your advanced tickets now, and as always, kids 10 and under get into the show free with a paid adult General Admission!
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Thursday, November 28, 2019
Watchers on the Wall Awards: Best Dramatic Scene of Season 8
We hope everyone has refreshed your memory of your favorite scenes from Game of Thrones season 8 in our newest giveaway post because today we’ll begin choosing the Best Dramatic Scene of the final season! This year was packed with important moments, and our preliminary round was intense, with dozens of initial nominees for fans to choose from. Some may be controversial choices, but surprises and passionate debate have always been a part of the Game of Thrones experience. The final five, as voted by the fans are:
The climactic sequence of “The Long Night” – Theon and Jorah fall, and Arya kills the Night King
In the battle of Winterfell, the Dothraki charge, their flaming arakhs go out and the dead come
The people in Winterfell ready for battle to the sound of “Jenny of Oldstones”
Jon kills Daenerys and Drogon destroys the Iron Throne
The knighting of Brienne of Tarth by Jamie Lannister
You can view results from the first round of voting HERE!
Final round rules: To choose the winner, cast your vote in the poll below. In the finals, unlike the preliminaries, fans have one vote to cast. At the end of one week (Thursday 12/05/19 at 12PM ET), the scene with the most votes will be the winner! The results of the polls will be revealed during the live Watchers on the Wall Awards ceremony, specific date to be announced in the near future!
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Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Enter to Win Game of Thrones The Complete Series and Season 8 on Blu-ray!
Here it is, Watchers: the giveaway to end all Game of Thrones giveaways! Our favorite show has ended but the watching lives on with the home release of Season 8, and the arrival of Game of Thrones The Complete Series. They land on December 3rd, one week from today, just in time for the holidays. The Complete Series contains all eight seasons, with bonus features including the exclusive Game of Thrones: Reunion Special hosted by Conan O’Brien, the Game of Thrones: The Last Watch documentary chronicling the making of the final season, all-new deleted scenes, featurettes and more.
Thanks to the folks at HBO, we’re giving away a stack of Blu-ray sets to our readers, including:
- one winner will receive Game of Thrones: The Complete Series on Blu-ray
- one winner will receive Game of Thrones Season 8 on 4K Ultra HD
- three winners will receive Game of Thrones Season 8 on Blu-ray
What do you have to do to enter? Tell us your favorite moment of GoT Season 8! Post it in comments here and you’ll be entered in the giveaway. We’re accepting entries for the next seven days, and we’ll announce the winners on 12/3/19. For the complete rules and even more ways to enter, keep scrolling!
*This giveaway officially is worldwide; however, since these are Blu-rays, they do have a Region Code and will only work with Region-A compatible players. Region A includes North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Anyone is free to enter but just be aware of player compatibility!*
The Official Rules
How do you enter? You can enter in three different ways, earning up to 3 entries total!
Method #1: Comment on this post, and tell us your favorite moment of Game of Thrones Season 8!
Method #2: Twitter: Follow our Twitter, WatchersOTWall, and retweet the Game of Thrones: The Complete Series/Season 8 Contest tweet (you must do both for the extra entry). If you already follow us, no problem. Simply retweet the contest post.
Method #3: Facebook: Like the WatchersontheWall Facebook page, and Like and Share the Game of Thrones: The Complete Series/Season 8 Post (you must do both for the extra entry). If you already Like our page, again, no problem. Just like and share the contest post and you are entered!
Entries are accepted for a week, until 8AM on December 3rd, 2019. The five (5) winners will be randomly selected among the entrants and announced shortly thereafter.
**This is a worldwide contest** The winners are selected by random drawing. The winners must respond within 72 hours of notification or will forfeit their prize and other winner/s will be selected. The winners must have a valid shipping address.
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From “The Greyjoy Rebellion” Histories & Lore
Game of Thrones: The Complete Series on Blu-ray- Bonus Features include:
· Game of Thrones: Reunion Special: A reunion show shot live in Belfast with the cast, both past and present, hosted by Conan O’Brien and available exclusively on these complete series collections. The reunion special is assembled in segments focused on Houses Lannister, Stark, & Targaryen and concludes with the key players all onstage for their final reflections on the years they shared in Westeros and Essos.
· Bonus content and retail exclusive videos from previously released individual season box sets, totaling more than 15 hours of extra materials for fans to explore when they’ve finished watching the series.
The Complete Series and Season 8 formats also exclusively feature:
· Game of Thrones: The Last Watch: A documentary featured on DVD in two parts by filmmaker Jeanie Finlay chronicling the making of the final season.
· When Winter Falls: Exclusive 30-minute featurette with showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with major stars and behind-the-scenes players, breaking down all that went into the colossal filming of the “Battle of Winterfell” in Season 8, Episode 3.
· Duty is the Death of Love: A compelling look at how the team behind Game of Thrones and its major stars, including Kit Harington, Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke, brought the show to its conclusion in the series finale, “The Iron Throne.”
· Audio Commentaries: Audio Commentaries with cast and crew, including the show’s creators, Benioff and Weiss, on the final season.
· Deleted and Extended Scenes: 5 never-before-seen deleted or extended scenes from season 8.
· Histories and Lore: New animated pieces giving the history and background of notable season 8 locations and storylines, including “The Greyjoy Rebellion” which we exclusively previewed yesterday.
Game of Thrones: The Complete Series on DVD/Blu-ray (along with the Collector’s Edition featuring a stunning Wooden Shadow Box illustrated by Robert Ball), Game of Thrones: Season 8 on DVD/Blu-ray, and Game of Thrones: Season 8 Steelbook Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD versions all arrive on December 3rd. Pre-orders are open now!
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Monday, November 25, 2019
Exclusive Preview From the Game of Thrones Season 8 Blu-ray: The Greyjoy Rebellion
We have an amazing treat for you all today! Game of Thrones: The Complete Collection and the all-new Game of Thrones Season 8 on Blu-ray/DVD arrives on December 3rd- that’s in a week, just in time for the holidays. Today we have the pleasure of previewing one of the six new Histories & Lore features from the home release: “The Greyjoy Rebellion,” narrated by Thrones stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Pilou Asbaek. The video features vivid illustrations detailing the ill-fated uprising of Balon Greyjoy.
The animated Histories & Lore also include:
Siege of Duskendale, with Conleth Hill as Varys
The Blackfyre Rebellion with Conleth Hill as Varys
King’s Landing with Conleth Hill as Varys
Maegor The Cruel with Conleth Hill as Varys
The South with Kristofer Hivju as Tormund
Enjoy your exclusive preview of “The Greyjoy Rebellion”:
The Complete Collection and the Season 8 home release will feature new audio commentaries for every episode of the final season, from a variety of Thrones talent. The lineup includes:
Episode 1: Winterfell – Dave Hill (Co-Producer & Writer) and Deborah Riley (Production Designer)
Episode 2: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – Bryan Cogman (Co-Executive Producer & Writer) and Dan Portman (Podrick Payne)
Episode 3: The Long Night – Miquel Sapochnik (Director), Sean Savage (Camera Operator) and Fabian Wagner (Director of Photography)
Episode 4: The Last of the Starks – David Franco (Director of Photography), Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei), Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm) and Pilou Asbæk (Euron Greyjoy)
Episode 5: Bells – Miguel Sapochnik (Director), Fabian Wagner (Director of Photography) and Conleth Hill (Varys)
Episode 6: The Iron Throne – Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Dan Weiss (Executive Producer/Writer/Director), David Benioff (Executive Producer/Writer/Director)
HBO is loading up the Blu-rays for the final season and pulling out all the stops. We’ll tell you more about it tomorrow…when we launch our massive Game of Thrones home release giveaway!
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WiC Watches: Watchmen
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Sunday, November 24, 2019
WiC weekly: November 17-23
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Saturday, November 23, 2019
WiC Watches: The Mandalorian
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Friday, November 22, 2019
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Entertainment Weekly names the Battle of the Bastards to ‘Best of the Decade’ list
Kit Harington as Jon Snow in “The Battle of the Bastards.”
With 2019 coming to a close and a new decade on the horizon, Entertainment Weekly is compiling a look back at the movies, music, TV shows and more that changed the pop culture landscape during the 2010’s. And is anyone surprised that something from Game of Thrones on the list? Frankly, I’ll be more shocked if it’s the only thing that GoT makes this list for.
That “thing” is the legendary Battle of the Bastards, from the Season 6, Episode 9 episode of the same name, in which Jon Snow and Sansa Stark defeat Ramsay Bolton’s forces and take back Winterfell. At that point in its evolution, Thrones had become a show of massive proportions — both in its storytelling and its production values — but in spite of this, people were still unprepared for the epic nature of the battle (and the episode itself) when it premiered in 2016.
“There are certain battle sequences committed to film that are unforgettable, and the Battle of the Bastards ranks with the best of them,” said Netflix executive Channing Dungey, who was interviewed for the EW piece. “Dave [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] devoted a decade of their lives to Game of Thrones, and all that work is evident in what feels like the pinnacle moment of the series. The degree of difficulty here is just massive — night shoots, stunt work, the CGI dragons — and director Miguel Sapochnik delivers all with incredible scope and specificity.”
Action aside, the episode is also a masterful example of the emotional, character-driven storytelling at which Thrones had excelled in earlier seasons, from the moment Ser Davos finds Shireen’s burnt toy stag in the ruins of her funeral pyre to the conversation between Daenerys and Yara in Meereen about doing better than their fathers. And who doesn’t love seeing Ramsay being fed to his own starving hounds by a steely-eyed Sansa?
The episode won seven Emmys, including for writing and directing, and “overnight erased any lingering perception that TV is in some respects less than cinema — while also raising the bar for all competitors to come,” according to the EW piece. We couldn’t agree more.
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Kristofer Hivju Claims There’s an Alternative Ending To Game of Thrones
Kristofer Hivju caused a bit of a stir at the Game of Thrones BFI event this week with a particular announcement. The actor, who played the redheaded wildling Tormund since season 3, claimed that the show shot another ending in addition to the controversial one shown in the series finale, “The Iron Throne.”
“Well, we shot an alternative ending,” he reportedly told Metro. “That was mostly for fun but I don’t know if I’m allowed to tell you about that.” The actor declined to provide details for the outlet such as outcomes or other performers involved in the alternative scenes.
Probably for the simple reason that the “alternative ending” does not exist. (Unfortunately for those who had their hearts set on a juicy Blu-ray extra!)
We checked in with a few sources at HBO today, and they all confirmed that Hivju must have been having a bit of fun with the press at the event. No alternative endings were filmed for season 8.
In a way, it’s too bad. While I’m mostly comfortable with the finale, I would have liked to see what else they whipped up just to throw us off the scent.
Oh, and speaking of the Game of Thrones Season 8 home release, we’ll be kicking off a huge giveaway next Monday, so be sure to stop by next week to enter!
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
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Monday, November 18, 2019
Watchers on the Wall Awards: Best Fights and Battles of Season 8
Welcome back for another exciting round of Watchers on the Wall Awards Finals! This week, as part of our ongoing celebration of season 8, we’ll be voting on the best action sequences of Game of Thrones. Every season is packed with action, and the final one was no exception. We break down our voting into Best Battle and Best Fight, and our readers have narrowed down the finalists for our categories today. It’s time to announce the final nominees, and vote!
The nominees for Best Battle are:
Battle for Winterfell (“The Long Night”)
Daenerys battles Euron’s Iron Fleet (“The Last of the Starks”)
Battle of King’s Landing ( “The Bells”)
*These are not the battles in their entirety- they’re too long for most YouTube clips, but this should be enough to refresh your memory! Or get you started on a bender of rewatching favorite GoT clips which is also fun.*
The nominees for Best Fight of Season 8 are:
Arya takes on wights with her customized spear on the ramparts
The Clegane Brothers fight to the death
Jon and Daenerys fight the Night King on dragonback
Jorah Mormont and Daenerys fight off wights together
Lyanna Mormont faces off against a giant
The complete results from round 1 voting for Best Fight can be viewed here.
Both polls are found below, so go forth, debate, consider and vote!
Final round rules: To choose winners, cast your vote in each category in the polls below. In the finals, unlike the preliminaries, fans have one vote to cast in each category. At the end of one week (Friday 11/25/19 at 12PM ET), the battle/fight in each category with the most votes will be the winner! The results of the polls will be revealed during the live Watchers on the Wall Awards ceremony, specific date to be announced in the near future.
Vote for Best Battle:
Vote for Best Fight:
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Sunday, November 17, 2019
WiC Watches: Watchmen
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WiC Weekly: November 10-16
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Saturday, November 16, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
Emilia Clarke defends season 8 and wishes she’d taken home a Daenerys wig!
Emilia Clarke continues her media whirlwind adventure to promote Last Christmas (a truly delightful holiday romcom, if I do say so myself).
Most recently, she was invited onto BBC Radio 1 to chat with Ali Plumb and Greg James about everything from toilet paper preferences to Christmas carols to, of course … Game of Thrones!
On “Movies with Ali Plumb,” Clarke shared some of her fond and funny Game of Thrones memories, like how Peter Dinklage was the best swearer in the cast or how she asked too politely to take home a memento from set (“P-p-p-p-please sir, can I take a wig? Seeing as there’s eight and I played the role for ten years?) and thus never received any.
When asked which one of Daenerys’ lines she’ll never, ever forget she answered, “I’m a Khaleesi, not a queen” but then also suggested ‘We’ll break the wheel togeth-” and then stuck out her tongue and pantomimed being stabbed.
She also discussed her various fan encounters, some of which she described as positive experiences, others … not so much.
“The worst one I got recently – and it really hurt, like it genuinely cut me up a little bit – [was at] the supermarket the day after episode 5 had aired of the last season when Daenerys had just gone out, all out … had a moment” she said. “This woman turned to me and went, ‘I don’t know how you can show your face around here.’ And I literally went *pained gasp* ‘I just need to get some milk.’ It was heartbreaking”
She also appeared on “Unpopular Opinions” to help Greg James assess callers’ (what else?) unpopular opinions, which led to in-depth discussion of the merits of quilted toilet paper, Christmas cards and sleeping in separate duvets.
When it came time for Clarke to offer an unpopular opinion of her own she confessed that she hates the Christmas song “Fairytale of New York” and “would rather never hear that song again in [her] life.”
Game of Thrones came up when a caller named Dan insisted that “the last season of Game of Thrones wasn’t that bad.”
Both Clarke and James, who had clearly been expecting a different take on season 8 from Dan, reacted with enormous relief and appreciation.
“Ayyyyy! You can stay!” Clarke said. “That was about to kill me. I was about to be like, ‘do you need me to kick off? … Dan, thank you! God love you, Dan!”
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