Calling Bullshit On The Game Of Thrones Season Six Teaser Trailer

[divider type=”thin”] Okay, I’m starting to come over to Jordan’s side a bit. HBO is just getting their rocks off on trolling us at this point. Coming off their Emmy Award-winning, but universally accepted weakest season, Game of Thrones enters new territory where there isn’t a source material on the shelves to pull from. For the first time, both book readers of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones TV fans are in the same boat: having no fucking idea what is coming. To be fair, Season 5 of Game of Thrones wasn’t bad for TV, but it was probably a C- for a Game of Thrones season. Lots of story lines that just didn’t work, boring set pieces, implausible plot movements; all things that used to be Game of Thrones’ strengths. Not to mention the repeated brutalization of women characters that had little to no impact on the story outside of people throwing their arms up at the show. But TV’s most popular TV show is trucking ahead with the story that has engrossed us for so many years already.

Before we can talk about the new teaser trailer, we have to talk about the Season 5 finale that left your boy Jon Snow bleeding out and staring towards an unwelcoming heaven similar to Jack at the end of Lost. Now, we all know what came next: Is Jon Snow actually dead, or will he be brought back to life? There are some strong feelings on this, but there is a popular wisdom that can’t overlook the fact that somehow Melisandre made her way back to Castle Black and that, as a Red Priestess, …