Game of Thrones Season Five Trailer #2: The Wheel

“Lannister. Baratheon. Stark. Tyrell. They’re all just spokes on a wheel. This one’s on top, then that one’s on top and on and on it spins. Crushing those on the ground. I’m not going to stop the wheel. I’m going to break the wheel.” And just like that, Daenerys enters the Game of Thrones monologue hall of fame. Let’s be clear, Dem Thrones is the most interesting TV Show on, period. You wanna battle out for that “Best” title? Go head homie. I’ll be over here enjoying some Arbor Gold in the brothel that Petyr Baelish left behind in King’s Landing while you’re working out those semantics. Don’t worry about the fact that half of the most compelling characters we started with are dead as a muthafucka now, season five expands the world even more on top of a world you needed a TI-86 calculator to keep track of anyway. Now, my fellow Senators, I’ll direct you to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Calhoun, who is less than optimistic about Thrones moving forward because of the quality drop-off of the books in the series.

I would counter that the goodwill that Benioff & Weiss (the showrunners) have built over the first four seasons and the problems with the source (Books 4: Feast for Crows and 5: Dance of Dragons”) give these cats a lot more license to go way left and improve upon the mythology. These dudes are prime to go off script. Think of this as every time Kanye West shows up at an awards show without the white tears and 40 think pieces the next day. As I’ve written before, your…