GoT Nabs Two Saturn Awards and Sets Records for Sky Atlantic;Alan Taylor Wants to Return 

picked up two awards at the 41st annual Saturn Awards Thursday night including Best Limited Run Television Series. Their second award of the night went to Maisie Williams (congratulations!) for Best Performance for a Younger Actor in a Television Series. Emilia Clarke was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series. A hearty congratulations to all the cast and crew! Follow the link for the full lineup of winners and nominees!

season 5 finale also became Sky Atlantic’s most watched entertainment program ever with a record-breaking 3.1 million views. This figure includes the 2am simulcast and 9pm broadcast on June 15th, as well as Sky+ recordings, and on demand viewings over the following 7 days. Sky is Europe’s leading entertainment company featuring live broadcasts and streaming.

) took to zaptoit to convey that he wants to return to the world of Westeros.

Taylor directed the infamous season 1 penultimate episode “Baelor” as well as the following Season 1 finale, Season 2 premiere, and Season 2 finale. Taylor says:

I want to. I keep telling them I want to. We actually had a conversation — David and Dan and I — about next season. It’s just making it happen for real.

Due to scheduling conflicts, Taylor was unavailable to return to Season 6 and commented:

It was Season 6 that we were talking about, and it wasn’t going to happen. I wanted it to happen, but it’s just a schedule thing. I’ll keep pinning my hopes on the next season.

We will too! Hope to see you soon, Alan! Head on over to zaptoit for the full interview!

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It would be great to get Alan Taylor back for the last season. It would be fitting for a first season director to help bring about the inevitable reunion of certain characters.

Does anyone have final HBO numbers for the states? Curious if they broke the 20 million mark.

“It would be fitting for a first season director to help bring about the inevitable death of certain characters.”

Hahaha I stand corrected. I was actually trying to remain a little positive but I guess that’s a waste of time at this point.

Congratulations to Maise Williams. A well deserved award IMHO. She has always sold me on the character completely.

Off topic but, does anyone think we will eventually get that scene with the mad king, Brandon and Rickard stark that was shown in a season 1 trailer but never seen.

I’d love an all-star roster of past directors back for season 7 (pt. 1 & 2? probably). Taylor, McClaren, Nutter, Sapochnik, Sakirov, Bender undoubtedly. And then for no reason other than morbid curiosity: Jody Foster.

Congratulations to Maise Williams.A well deserved award IMHO.She has always sold me on the character completely.

Agreed. This makes me like Saturn Awards.

…missed that! But if it exists, I’m sure a weirnet vision wouldn’t be out of the question.

I’m hoping next season. If we’re getting Tower of Joy we’re sure to get that scene too.

Yes! Alan Taylor.That would be great.I hope Neill and Michelle will make comeback too for the season 7.I love their work.

It would be fitting for a first season director to help bring about the inevitable reunion of certain characters.

Wich one doyou mean? I would love to see Tyrion/Jaime/Cersei again together or Arya/Sansa.Which means it’s unlikely to happen.

Alex Graves too I hope (although it is very unlikely, probably due to PR stuff).

Mostly Jon and Arya. Martin said that he intended for several of the characters to be together at the beginning, split apart, then come back together towards the end (like LOTR). The story never lets you forget the bond between Jon and Arya and I feel like they’ll see each other again. But other than them, Jaime and Cersei, all the Stark kids, Howland Reed and everybody, Theon and his dignity, and Clegane and Clegane (Gethype).

Oh Jon and Arya. Books really highlights the importance of their relationship. They seems to think about one another constantly throught the books. In the show not so much. They were supposed to be lovers in the original script (a bit weird), but that’s a bit changed to some degree. Well Ygritte is a lot like Arya…wild, Gendry is not so different from Jon. George maybe kept some parts and instead of their romance… he went to Ygritte and Gendry.

I would like it to happen,but I think they will never see each other again.That would be one of the biggest tragedies in the aSoIaF and GoT.I can see reunion like Jon/Bran or Sansa/Rickon yes, but not all of them.

Speaking of show. Jon’s mother will be revealed by someone else…I don’t we’ll see Howland ever in the show. Unless you believe HS=HR theory. I agree about Jaime, Theon and Cleganebowl.

My fantasy GoT Director’s list would go like this:

Ep. 1 – Alan Taylor Ep. 2 – Alik Sakharov

I’d love that. D&D have never talked about it, I think, and I can’t recall them ever being asked about it. Hopefully they cut it out with hopes to use it in the future.

For everyone, who wants to know what this is about.

I definitely believe that HS=HR, so I’m just waiting for HR to give up the charade lol. And I don’t blame you for thinking that Jon and Arya won’t see each other again, considering the track record of this series. But I think it’s gonna happen. Some good things will definitely happen in the end, along with all of the obvious bad shit that’s gonna go down. I would go so far as to say that Arya could be a candidate for the younger, more beautiful queen to cast Cersei down. Especially because compared to Dany, Sansa and Margaery, Arya is the only one who doesn’t want to be queen now or ever before. She’s the least obvious candidate and therefore the most likely. She’s like Jon that way. I’m aware of Martin’s original idea to have her and Jon together and I still think that it could still happen. Jon and Arya as king and queen of Westeros.

I was talking about it couple of days ago.If those three boys from the recent casting news are truly Ned, Brandon and Robert.Yeah, they could use it. To show a bit of background about, how Robert’s Rebbelion started and fall of Targaryens.Otherwise I struggle to see why would they do this.

I would greatly appretiate Rhaegar and Lyanna flashback. Knight of the Laughing Tree and how this romance started before we approach ToJ flashback.Littlefinger already mentioend Tourney of Harrenhal so maybe…

There should be even some Ned scenes from season 1.Those scenes were cut from the show too.Isaac talked about it in one interview, so maybe, they will use those too in the near future.Ned’s confession before weirwood tree or something like this.

I definitely believe that HS=HR, so I’m just waiting for HR to give up the charade lol. And I don’t blame you for thinking that Jon and Arya won’t see each other again, considering the track record of this series. But I think it’s gonna happen. Some good things will definitely happen in the end, along with all of the obvious bad shit that’s gonna go down. I would go so far as to say that Arya could be a candidate for the younger, more beautiful queen to cast Cersei down. Especially because compared to Dany, Sansa and Margaery, Arya is the only one who doesn’t want to be queen now or ever before. She’s the least obvious candidate and therefore the most likely. She’s like Jon that way. I’m aware of Martin’s original idea to have her and Jon together and I still think that it could still happen. Jon and Arya as king and queen of Westeros.

Arya is politely described as ugly in the books. More likely to be Sansa IMHO. Although… she could wear a beautiful face!

There are actually conflicting accounts of how people see Arya. I mean she’s described as horseface and awkward when she was younger but later (especially when she was forced to dress nicely) she’s described as pretty. She’s also compared to Lyanna a lot, who they said had a “wild beauty”. And I feel like she’s described that way to throw us off the scent lol.

I would love to see this reunion, but maybe we’ll be pleasently surprised.

I’m pretty much neutral to HS=HR theory at this point.There are some pros and some cons to this theory(more cons),but I just struggle to see how would crannogmen support The Seven, instead of the Old Gods.

Since we’re talking about this. I’ve seen a theory based on the HotU scene from the show. When Dany was in the Throne room.Only one window was remained intact…”Seven Pointed Star” with blue rose in the middle of it. This could mean a lot of things, including that Jon is the true king (Rhaegar and Lyanna were married) or he’ll be crowned by HS in the light of The Seven.

The strange thing is that blue rose seems to be connected to Dany in the show. Ned/Robert scene in the S01 talking about Dany, Daario and Dany in S03 and this one.SOme people thinks these are clus to R+L=D. It’s interesting neverthless.

Plenty of candidates from obvious ones Dany,Margaery to less obvious Arya,Sansa.I would say, it’s between Dany and Sansa.If I had to bet, it would be Dany. I just can’t see Kit and Maisie in any type of romance on the show, not to mention that I don’t want to see incest again and especially not in my favourite House Stark. I know that there is some history of incest even among Starks. I like their brother/sister relationship and how they can relate to one another in the books.But that’s it.

Hence why I just left him off the list. Why get anyone’s hopes up?

Jon and Arya would be incestuous in that they’re probably cousins, but that’s pretty common outside the Targaryens. Tywin and his wife were cousins and

Alys Karstark’s uncle tried to marry her to his son.

And by the time Arya and Jon see each other again they’ll be very different people.

Oh and congrats to Maise, she definitely deserves many awards.

Happy about the show and Maisie getting some well deserved awards.

I’d like to see Alan Taylor returning as director, yeah. Same with Alex Graves and Neil Marshall.

Emilia Clarke is featured in the Sunday Times Culture magazine but unfortunately it’s hidden behind a paywall

Emilia is awesome. She must be almost every men’s dream (mine too) with her personality,looks,talent etc , but this a bit too much. … “is on the verge of becoming quite possibly the most famous British actor who ever lived.”

They’ll be very different,but I don’t think it means any romantic connection between them.It’s pretty hard to imagine Kit and Maisie in any romantic scene.If there is any romance for Jon in the future,it will be Daeny.All those parallels between them and build up to their meeting.Jon and Arya grew up together as brother and sister.Another problem.

Marrying Arya and Jon like it´s sometimes suggested is maybe a bit too much of a stretch, but granted, it could be possible in a logical, almost political way in Westeros.

However, most importantly, it doesn´t fit one of the huge underlying matters of ASOIAF/GoT, which is the importance of family and finding one´s place in the world. I think Martin will reunite Jon and Arya, but not to fortify a political claim/ let her be Queen and him the chosen hero, but to prove that miracles happen, even in Westeros, and that there is nothing stronger than the bond between people who love eachother. Even though they may not really be brother and sister after all… By marrying Arya with Jon, GRRM would completely throw this message over board, reducing it to a maybe affectionate marriage (yes), but most of all a POLITICALLY motivated/convenient union. This would contradict all of what he was trying to get across.

Think of LSH, which seemed to be introduced to explicitly show that the bonds of family can and will endure past the point of death, even if revenge for the lost is the sole motive of the return. If he had wanted to introduce her just for the “noose” and “sword”-part, Beric or any other guy/woman would have sufficed, but LSH is needed to show that there must be some sort of justice for the loved ones, even though these were already beyond the point of saving. It´s a bond that lasts unconditionally, so reducing LSH to a monster seeking blind, brutal revenge still gets this point across: If everything else is lost, once you have forgotten what your name or your purpose was in life, your family is the only thing that still matters.

There would be other examples and different approaches (sometimes even twisted or unhealthy ones) to that matter like Jaime/Cersei, Oberyn/Elia etc., but that would go beyond the scope of a WOTW-post. The point is: even if there is no immediate gain to expect from loving someone/your family in the cruel world that is Westeros, it should be held high unconditionally. Marrying Jon and Arya because it would now have the profitable element of being a suitable solution for Westerosi-problems could falsify this statement to quite some extent.

So the problem is not the marriage of siblings per se, which truly is a common thing among noble houses, but the unsettling feeling that a calculated poltical decision was the last catalyst for a love that should exist in a similar form even without gains and advantages.

Jon and Arya would be incestuous in that they’re probably cousins, but that’s pretty common outside the Targaryens. Tywin and his wife were cousins and

And by the time Arya and Jon see each other again they’ll be very different people.

If R+L=J then aren’t Dany and Jon some kind of cousins? They would certainly have a shared bloodline from Aerys II and Rhaella albeit Jon’s would be mixed with Stark’s.

Since a couple of people have posted their thoughts on a beautiful final season director list, I figure I’ll join in as well. It’s a mostly mindless exercise in fun, and those are the best. 😛

I’m writing this based on sort of a cross between my worst-case idea of S7 being literally just a ten-episode sendoff and my best-case scenario of S8 being a thing that exists: I’m going the route of there being 14 episodes split into 2 sets of 7, because why not. Also, I’m not going to include S6’s new directors, simply because I want to roll with a hype list based on previous directors only.

7×01: Alan Taylor (start things off in style) 7×02 & 7×03: Michelle MacLaren (develop things at a good clip)

7×04 & 7×05: Alex Graves (some climax; some character)

7×06: Neil Marshall (a big, semi-organized battle)

7×07: Alan Taylor (close things out with pizzazz)

7×08: David Nutter (huge events at the beginning of the end)

7×09: Miguel Sapochnik: (throw him the money and watch the magic unfold)

7×10: D&D (no, I’m serious: they nailed the feel-good beats in “Two Swords”)

7×11: David Nutter (summarily rip those feel-good beats asunder with further tragedy)

7×12: Miguel Sapochnik (the action-intensive side of a last, chaotic battle)

7×13 & 7×14: Alan Taylor (the winding-up of the battle and the politically charged end)

There are reasons I don’t think this could ever happen, including but not limited to the show’s understandable love of clumping together the episodes their directors each handle. I imagine that makes the craziness that is producing this show a bit easier to keep tabs on and that makes “7×08-7×12″ or so more difficult to envision. Still, it’s an exercise in mindless fun!

When it comes to flashbacks, I most want to see Rhaegar but I also dread bad casting – that whoever they get to play him won’t measure up.

Thanks, I’m not good at working out familial relatives ( from a small family, me!).

Not sure that Jon + Dany would necessarily end in “romantic” match either, just something important to the story.

Show is very clear in this parallels with Jon and Dany. Three possible scenarios:

Either story is trying to set them up as king/queen, lovers or simply leaders of people against the dead. Perhaps it could be combination of all those three options. I don’t think they will fight one another, because there is simply no point of doing that… White Walkers are threat to everyone. It seems to me like they’re almost Yin/Yang of GoT/ASOIAF … they complement each other in many ways.I’m not a Dany/Jon shipper.I ship Night’s Watch mutineers and White Walkers.I’m very keen for this loveable meeting. 😀

Jon/Arya it’s worse, because they grew up together as brother and sister. It’s hard for me to imagine them being a romantic couple.Jon knows nothing (nothing new 😀 ) about his possible family relations to Dany. I’m not a big fan of incest relationships, but Jon/dany is acceptable one.

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