1 Week Until Season 5 of Game Of Thrones!

Season 5 of Game of Thrones starts next week, at 9pm EDT on HBO. The titles of the first seven (of ten) episodes have been revealed:

1. The Wars To Come
2. The House of Black and White
3. High Sparrow
4. The Sons of The Harpy
5. Kill The Boy
6. Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken
7. The Gift

As we have been doing in Season 3 and Season 4, we will blog our reactions to every episode of Season 5 before the next one airs. This is an exciting season for Game of Thrones fans like yours truly because the story will almost certainly advance past what has currently been revealed in the source material of the books written by George R.R. Martin. Season 5 will cover material that appears in A Feast for Crows (widely regarded as the worst book of A Song Of Ice and Fire) and A Dance With Dragons (the most recently published book which generally received mixed reviews from fans for expanding instead of resolving story lines). The issue is that these two books cover the same period of time in the story but only some characters appear in each book. Obviously, the television series has to move the story forward with all the character simultaneously.