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El Dorado News-Times
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Characters converge on Westeros in ‘Game of Thrones’ season 7
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Summer may be kicking into high gear in most parts of the country, but winter is about to arrive in prime time. That’s good news for millions
of diehard fans who can’t wait to see what happens in the Seven Kingdoms this season.
The Lannisters, Targaryens, Starks and the rest whisk viewers back to Westeros and beyond in the season premiere of “Game of Thrones,” air- ing Sunday July 16, on HBO. Based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series of fantasy novels, the sweeping drama chronicles the lives of several powerful families that inhabit a fictional medieval-esque universe.
By the end of last season, many of the key characters were on the move and, after following several distinct storylines for the past few seasons, fans are hoping things will finally come together this season. For years, the Stark family motto, “winter is coming,” has loomed over the series — a warning of what’s to come. In season 7, winter has arrived, and the characters battle for control of the Iron Throne in an epic war that will surely take out some key players by the time the dust, or snow, settles.
Writers had to pack all of the action into just seven episodes this season,
which presented a serious challenge. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, executive producer David Be- nioff explained their approach.
“So it’s really about trying to find
a way to make the storytelling work without feeling like we’re rushing
it — you still want to give the char- acters their due, and pretty much all the characters that are now left are all important characters,” Benioff said.
Among the leaders marching off
to war is the newly minted King of the North Jon Snow (Kit Harington, “Pompeii,”2014),who’smanaged
to unite the North and retake the Starks’ ancestral home of Winterfell. He’s joined by a small but formidable group of loyal friends, such as tough- as-nails wildling Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju, “The Fate of the Furi- ous,” 2017) and small-but-fearsome Lyanna Mormont (Bella Ramsey, “The Worst Witch”).
It was once believed that Snow was the late Ned Stark’s (Sean Bean, “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” 2001) bastard son, but it’s recently been revealed that he is actu- ally the son of Stark’s sister Lyanna and the long-dead Rhaegar Targaryen, giving him a legitimate claim to the throne, although he doesn’t know it yet. However, fans who believe that this makes Jon safe this season should be on notice that Harington told the publication Games Radar that his character was in “mortal danger like anyone else.”
Also this season, Jon’s long-lost half-sister, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke, “Me Before You,” 2016), crosses the Narrow Sea
after years in exile in a
bid to reclaim her birth-
right. She arrives in
Westeros alongside her
Dothraki, Unsullied,
Dornish, Tyrell
and Greyjoy al-
lies — as well
as her dragons,
of course.
The Mother
of Dragons is
poised to take
the Iron Throne,
but first it ap-
pears she’ll
retake her
rightful place
at erstwhile
Targaryen fortress
Dragonstone.
If Daenerys wants to sit on the
Iron Throne, she’ll likely have to face ruthless, and some might argue mad, Queen Cersei (Lena Headey, “300,” 2006), who destroyed the Great Sept of Baelor with wildfire at the end of last season. She and her lover-brother, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster- Waldau, “Black Hawk Down,” 2001) are left to rule and defend their king- dom after the deaths of their three children.
Fan favorite Peter Dinklage (“The Station Agent,” 2003) portrays Cersei andJaime’sbrother,Tyrion,whonow serves as an adviser to Daenerys. Only time will tell if the Lannister siblings will be reunited, but it’s doubtful it would be a happy reunion. Cersei despises Tyr- ion, blaming him for the death of their mother, who died giving birth to him, and now for the death of her father, whom Tyrion murdered in season 4.
Tyrion’s estranged wife Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner, “Another Me,” 2013) is also a major player in the fight for the Iron Throne. Heavily featured
in the season 7 trailers, Sansa has helped Jon unite the North, and she has a number of scores to settle in the South. All the while, she’s shadowed by Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish (Aidan Gillen, “The Wire”), a brothel owner and political wheeler and dealer.
Sansa’s sister Arya (Maisie Wil- liams, “The Falling,” 2014) is finally making her way back home after years of training with the Faceless Men. Meanwhile, Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright, “Closed Circuit,” 2013) is presumably the only one who knows Jon’s true parentage.
Numerous other characters will come together this season, and, if the past is any indication, some of
them may not make it out alive. For now, the ensemble cast
also includes Alfie Allen (“SoulBoy,” 2010) as The- on Greyjoy, Gwendoline
Christie (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” 2015) as Brienne of Tarth, Jerome
Flynn (“Ripper Street”) as Bronn, and Conleth Hill (“Two Down,” 2015)
as Lord Varys. Pilou As- baek (“Borgen”) con- tinues his role as new
villain, Euron Greyjoy.
Kristofer Hivju as seen in “Game of Thrones”
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