Monthly Archives: August 2017
GoT: Gilly Revealed a Game-Changing Targaryen Secret
Full spoilers for Game of Thrones: Season 7 episode "Eastwatch" continue below. This post also includes key speculation and book spoilers about the parentage of Jon Snow. Read on at your own risk.
If only Samwell Tarly could not have cut Gilly off right then. Thank goodness he and Shireen taught her to read, though, because she just half-revealed one of the most game-changing, mic drop bits of information Game of Thrones has ever seen.
For context, Gilly was reading from Maester Maynard's book in Oldtown when she comes across a line that reads: "Maynard says here that he issued an annulment for Prince Rhaegar and re-married him to someone else at the same time in a secret ceremony in Dorne."
Game of Thrones Assembles Its Avengers in New Promo
Full spoilers for Game of Thrones' "Eastwatch" continue below.
The Fellowship of the Wall. The Magnificent Seven. The Westeros Avengers. Whatever you want to call them, Game of Thrones has assembled quite the dream team to go North and... well, not defeat the Night King, but take one of his wights captive and try to bring him to Cersei Lannister and try to convince her to stop fighting in Westeros and instead defeat the army of the dead.
It's not the most concise plan (or the most likely), but it is set up for one of the coolest moments on Game of Thrones, and all seven of them are front and center in the promo for next week's episode. With increasingly few fan-favorite characters still alive, the showrunners decided to band them all together in R'hllor's great quest and send them out into the wilds of the north of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. If they couldn't do it alone, one can hope they can accomplish it together.
Game of Thrones: What Littlefinger’s Mystery Letter Says
Full spoilers for Game of Thrones: Season 7 "Eastwatch" continue below.
The seeds of dissent are suitably sowed between Arya Stark and her sister Sansa, and Littlefinger took one very low blow to make them all the more realized.
In Game of Thrones' latest episode, "Eastwatch," Sansa and Arya find themselves taking opposite life approaches that set themselves in conflict to one another. In a mysterious moment, Arya follows Littlefinger back to his room, where she sees Maester Kressen give Petyr Baelish a letter from Maester Lewin's archives that supposedly only has one copy. Arya finds it, reads it and sees it's signed by Sansa, and what she reads definitely rubs her the wrong way.
Annabelle: Creation Tops Weekend Box Office
Annabelle: Creation debuted atop the North American box office this weekend with an estimated $35 million, ahead of earlier projections in the $25 million range but still the lowest debut yet in the Conjuring shared universe.
In 2013, The Conjuring opened with $41.9 million, 2014's Annabelle bowed with $37.1 million, and 2016's The Conjuring 2 earned $40.4 million in its opening weekend. As you can see, both sequels made just a bit less in their debuts than their respective predecessors. Annabelle: Creation reportedly only cost $15 million to produce so it's still going to end up a win for Warner Bros.
In addition to their Annabelle followup opening at No. 1, Warners also held second place at the weekend's box office with Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk earning an additional $11.4 million. The World War II film has now cracked the $150 million mark domestically.
Rainbow Six Siege’s Next Update Gets Release Date
Rainbow Six Siege's latest update, Operation Blood Orchid, will be released on August 29 for PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One.
According to Ubisoft, Operation Blood Orchid features a new map set in Hong Kong, several new customization items, and three new Operators. While the map will be free to all players as of August 29, the three new operators will be available only to season pass holders on that date. Everyone else will be able to purchase the Operators on September 5.
Ubisoft will share more details about Operation Blood Orchid during its livestream at Gamescom on August 26.
Zelda: BotW’s Ending Is Slightly Different in Japanese
Warning: This article contains spoilers for the ending of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
The English dialogue during the final encounter with Breath of the Wild's Beast Ganon implies that defeating him will destroy Ganon once and for all, but in Japanese the line tells a different story.
The line in question, spoken by Zelda as Ganon assumes his beast form, goes like this in English: "Ganon was born out of a dark past. He is a pure embodiment of the ancient evil that is reborn time and time again... He has given up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form." That final line makes the encounter sound final, but the Japanese text seems to say the opposite.
Why Skull and Bones Isn’t an Assassin’s Creed Game
There's a specific reason why Skull & Bones isn't an Assassin's Creed game, and the game's creative director, Justin Farren, has come forward to explain why.
In an interview with GameSpot, Farren said the team over at Ubisoft Singapore did not want to make a game "about being an assassin, about being in a crowd," but instead wanted focus "on the details and intricacies of the ship" and bringing "the ship to life and make it a character of its own."
However, Ubisoft Singapore did take plenty of inspiration from Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag's naval gameplay, specifically the way people responded to their ship in that game, the Jackdaw. The studio wants "people to really develop a relationship" with their ship in Skull & Bones, just like with the Jackdaw, "and invest in its customization and everything that comes with it."
South Park Turns 20: How South Park Changed the Way I Thought About Cartoons
In 1997, I was a high-school senior when one of my friends brought in a VHS cassette of a show taped off of Comedy Central the night before to one of our regular lunchtime get-togethers. We convened in our (very cool) history teacher’s classroom because she had a TV in there and, as my buddy said to our group, “You all have to see this.”
The show was South Park, and the dichotomy of the crude, childlike animation and the TV-MA-rated language coming out of the mouths of third-graders Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny – not to mention the weekly violent end that the latter would inevitably meet – hooked my friends and I instantly.
Apatow on Why Movie Studios Make Fewer Comedies Now
Director, producer, writer and all-around comedy royalty Judd Apatow recently weighed in on why there are fewer comedy movies today.
When asked in an interview with Vulture why we're not seeing more big budget funny movies, Apatow said it's a little more complicated than just blaming studios. "When you make the list of the best movies of all time, you’re always going to put Airplane! on it. And if movies like that aren’t being made right now, it’s because people aren’t smart enough and funny enough to make them," he said. "I don’t think it's a result of studios or audiences rejecting anything."
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