Hey youtubers it’s Charlie, my Game of Thrones Season 4 countdown continues.
Last week in my Dead Character montage I asked you to pick which video I’d do next and
overwhelmingly you all wanted to talk about Winds of Winter.
I’ve also got some new information about Season 4 episode titles so I’ll do that
first.
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So the first thing, Season 4 Episode titles.
Episode 1 is called Two Swords, Episode 2 is called The Lion and The Lion and The Rose,
Episode 3 is called Breaker of Chains and Episode 4 is called Oathkeeper.
What do all of those mean in terms of the story, here’s where things might get a little
spoilery.
So just turn the volume down for a sec if you don’t want to know anything.
The episode 1 title Two Swords is a reference to the melting down of Ned Stark’s two-handed
valyrian greatsword Ice into two smaller blades.
We saw an image of this in the trailer.
One of the blades is named Widow’s Wail and is given to Joffrey as a wedding present
and the other larger blade is named Oathkeeper and is given the Jaime until he gives it to
Brienne.
The Episode 2 title The Lion and The Rose is all purple wedding.
I won’t mention the crazy spoiler here, but the wedding ceremony and the wedding reception
will take up the entire episode.
This will be one of the first major events of the season.
If you didn’t see it, the showrunners said that there would be multiple Red Wedding level
climaxes this season, not just one.
So Episode 2 will be the first one.
I am planning on doing a couple videos just for The Purple Wedding, because it’s going
to be awesome.
The Episode 3 title is Breaker of Chains.
Every title has multiple meanings but the first that come to mind here are one, Tyrion’s
Chains after the last episode and two Daenerys trying to break the slaves chains in Mereen.
So one person is getting thrown in chains and another group is coming out of chains.
If you remember in the trailer we saw Tyrion marching to his tribunal in chains and we
also saw Dany and her men at the beginning of a battle.
The breaking of those slaves chains could come in a different episode from this battle
though.
After she moves into this giant pyramid, also from the trailer.
It’s also possible that breaker of chains could imply that some Maester chain’s could
be broken, but this seems like it will be mostly a Dany Tyrion Episode.
The Episode 4 title Oathkeeper is all about the sword from Episode 1.
But it’s name also kind of informs Brienne’s quest to find Sansa who they think has been
kidnapped.
There have actually been some behind the scenes pics from these scenes.
Look at Podrick smoking.
I wonder where you buy cigarettes in Oldtown.
You can turn the volume back up, spoilers over.
Now let’s talk Winds of Winter.
They’ve actually released bits of chapters and George RR Martin reads from it sometimes
at public events.
The new excerpts they’ve posted on his blog is an Arianne Martell POV chapter and a single
paragraph from a separate Tyrion Chapter.
It’s totally free to read, so check it out.
The Tyrion paragraph has some potential spoilers in it if you haven’t read Dance With Dragons,
so I won’t read it here.
But I will post it on twitter and tumblr.
You can find links to my social in the description.
Here’s the full list of people with POV Chapters in Winds of Winter.
Arianne Martell, which you can read now.
Theon Greyjoy which you can also read right now, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Victarion Greyjoy,
Barristan Selmy, he actually read from his chapters at an event last year and lastly
Tyrion Lannister.
So again I’ll post links to both those Preview chapters on Twitter and Tumblr.
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the comment so only I can see it.
So if you want to talk about spoilers in the comments, just add the word spoiler to your
comment and it will hide it from everyone else until I make it visible.
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