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Season 6
24 Apr. 2016 The Red Woman The fate of Jon Snow is revealed. Daenerys is brought before Khal Moro. Tyrion gets used to living in Meereen. Ramsay sends his dogs after Theon and Sansa. Ellaria and the Sand Snakes make their move. Cersei mourns for Myrcella.
1 May 2016 Home Bran trains with the Three-Eyed Raven. Tommen meets with Cersei. Tyrion makes a bold move. Theon leaves while at Pyke new issues arise. Ramsay's brother is born. Davos asks Melisandre for a miracle.
8 May 2016 Oathbreaker Daenerys arrives at Vaes Dothrak. Sam and Gilly sail for Horn Hill. Arya trains as No One. Varys finds information on the Sons of the Harpy. Ramsay receives a gift. Tommen meets with the High Sparrow. At Castle Black, a miracle occurs.
15 May 2016 Book of the Stranger Sansa arrives at Castle Black. Tyrion makes a deal with the slave masters. Jorah and Daario sneak into Vaes Dothrak. Ramsay sends a letter to Jon. Theon arrives at Pyke. Cersei and Olenna Tyrell plot against the High Sparrow.
22 May 2016 The Door Sansa and Jon make plans. Arya is given another chance to prove herself. Jorah confesses a secret to Daenerys. Tyrion meets with a red priestess. Yara finds her rule tested. Bran discovers the origin of the White Walkers.
29 May 2016 Blood of My Blood Bran and Meera find a new ally. Gilly meets Sam's family. Arya makes a difficult choice. The Lannisters and Tyrells march against the High Sparrow.
5 Jun. 2016 The Broken Man Jon and Sansa gather troops. Jaime arrives at Riverrun. Olenna Tyrell plans to leave King's Landing. Theon and Yara plan a destination. Arya makes plans to leave.
12 Jun. 2016 No One Brienne arrives at Riverrun. Arya seeks shelter. Jaime meets with Edmure Tully. Cersei challenges the Faith. Sandor Clegane hunts for revenge. Tyrion faces the consequences of earlier decisions.
19 Jun. 2016 Battle of the Bastards Jon and Sansa face Ramsay Bolton on the fields of Winterfell. Daenerys strikes back at her enemies. Theon and Yara arrive in Meereen.
26 Jun. 2016 The Winds of Winter Cersei and Loras Tyrell stand trial by the gods. Daenerys prepares to set sail for Westeros. Davos confronts Melisandre. Sam and Gilly arrive in the Citadel. Bran discovers a long-kept secret. Lord Frey has an uninvited guest. Contribute to This PageThe sixth season of Game of Thrones was formally commissioned by HBO on April 8, 2014, following a substantial increase in audience figures between the third and fourth seasons.[2] The fifth and sixth seasons were commissioned simultaneously, the first time HBO has done so for a major drama series. The season consists of ten episodes. It began filming in late July 2015 and concluded on December 17, 2015.[3][4] David Benioff and D.B. Weiss returned as executive producers and showrunners for both seasons five and six, having signed a new two-year contract with HBO in early 2014. The season premiered on April 24, 2016. Season 6 is mostly based on the hitherto unreleased sixth novel of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter, along with a significant amount of material from the fourth and fifth books, A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, which run concurrently but follow different sets of characters. OverviewThough Cersei has been shamed and humbled by the Faith of the Seven, she is not ready to give up just yet. Sansa Stark and Theon Greyjoy escape from Winterfell. Despite their victory over Stannis Baratheon, Roose and Ramsay's hold on the North is weakened by Sansa's escape. Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully continues to hold Riverrun against the Lannisters in Robb Stark's name. Ellaria Sand's poisoning of Myrcella Baratheon will have consequences. Arya Stark is blinded for the unsanctioned killing of Meryn Trant using a Faceless Men disguise. Despite escaping Meereen alive, Daenerys is captured by a Dothraki khalasar. Despite his efforts to counter the coming White Walkers, Lord Commander Jon Snow has been betrayed and stabbed to death by his own men. Samwell Tarly is sent by Jon Snow on a journey to the Citadel in Oldtown (accompanied by Gilly), to become a maester and find a way to defeat the White Walkers. With Theon considered dead and the rest of Westeros locked in a power struggle, the Greyjoys plan their next move. Bran Stark continues to hone his powers in greensight, under the tutelage of the Three-Eyed Raven. Winter has come. Westeros braces for a winter which may become a new Long Night, as the White Walkers and their army of the dead are poised to strike against the Wall and the realms of men. In King's Landing, Queen Cersei Lannister has been publicly shamed by the Faith of the Seven and awaits her trial for regicide and incest. Even Grand Maester Pycelle has abandoned her, and called her uncle, Ser Kevan Lannister, to rule as the new Hand of the King. Even though Cersei has been released to their custody, her inept leadership nearly destroyed House Lannister's hold on the throne and they have no intention of ever letting her wield power again. Kevan and Pycelle must attempt to mend the damage Cersei did to the Lannister-Tyrell alliance. The Lannisters and Tyrells on Kevan's small council maintain a shaky truce as they attempt to deal with the ongoing debt crisis to the Iron Bank of Braavos, as well as the rise of the fanatical Faith Militant due to Cersei's blunders. Cersei meanwhile, though seemingly humbled, still has a few schemes she will attempt to play to regain control. In the North, the Boltons have triumphed over King Stannis — but in the distraction, Sansa Stark and Theon Greyjoy have escaped, desperately jumping off Winterfell's castle walls. Brienne of Tarth, who executed Stannis, must now deal with the consequences of putting her vow to avenge King Renly before her oath to protect Sansa. In the Riverlands, after the Red Wedding the remaining Tully forces (who were not present at the massacre of their Northern allies) pulled back to Riverrun castle - where they have been hopelessly besieged by House Frey's army ever since. The garrison is under the command of Robb Stark's great-uncle Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully, and is the last bastion of Robb's short-lived independent kingdom that remains unconquered. Riverrun's garrison may be surrounded and alone, fighting for a dead king, but their defenses are formidable, they have enough food supplies to last for years, and their commander is one of the most experienced and skilled generals in Westeros. The Lannisters and their Frey allies cannot let the siege of Riverrun continue to drag on if they are ever to claim real control over central Westeros. In Dorne, Ellaria Sand's poisoning of Cersei's daughter, the Princess Myrcella, may now force Doran Martell into the war against the Iron Throne he has been fervently trying to avoid. Across the Narrow Sea, in the Free City of Braavos, Arya Stark killed Meryn Trant without the Faceless Men's permission — but without the proper training, the use of one of their masks has poisoned her and rendered her blind. Her training continues, as now the blind little girl must learn to rely on her other senses to survive. In Slaver's Bay, Daenerys Targaryen's attempt to liberate Meereen has resulted in massive bloodshed, with the former slave masters conspiring to retake the city. In a large scale ambush on the opening day of the games in Daznak's Pit however, Daenerys climbed onto Drogon's back to try to escape the danger — but she could not make him return to the city. Instead, the young dragon flew north to the southern border of the Dothraki Sea, the lands of his birth, where the stranded Daenerys has been surrounded by a hostile Dothraki khalasar numbering in the thousands. Jorah Mormont and Daario Naharis have set out to search for her. Meanwhile, back in the city Daenerys's advisors Tyrion Lannister, Missandei, and Grey Worm are joined by Varys in attempting to hold together rule over the city wracked by the ongoing insurgency until Daenerys returns — if she returns at all. At the Wall, Lord Commander Jon Snow attempted to prepare for the coming of the White Walkers by letting as many wildlings through to the south as he could — but tens of thousands more were killed and resurrected as undead wights at Hardhome. The leading Night's Watch officers, increasingly upset at Jon's proposed alliance with the wildlings, have staged a mutiny "for the Watch" and stabbed Jon multiple times until he fell. Just before the mutiny against Jon Snow, he sent away Samwell Tarly to go to the Citadel in Oldtown in order to train to be a new maester to replace Maester Aemon after his passing. Samwell takes Gilly and her young son with him, rather than leave them in the path of the White Walkers. Oldtown, Westeros's second largest city, is located in the southwest of the Reach, not far away from Sam's former home, the House Tarly castle-seat at Horn Hill. Samwell and Gilly, however, face a long and difficult sea voyage before they get to the Citadel. Distracted by the political intrigues in King's Landing, the exhausted lords of Westeros must now brace for the rise of the kraken — the ironborn led by House Greyjoy. Early in the War of the Five Kings, Balon Greyjoy declared the Iron Islands' independence and raided the North while the Stark's army was fighting in the south. Having remained relatively uninvolved ever since, the ironborn's massive fleet remains at full strength, a fact lost on the major powers of the mainland, who have been nearly exhausted fighting each other. All of this changes with the sudden return of Balon's exiled younger brother Euron Greyjoy — cunning, ruthless, manipulative, and more than a little insane, he strikes fear even into the other ironborn. He pushes for the ironborn to launch massive new offensives against the other kingdoms, not simply to raid, but to hold and conquer territory, as Euron's ultimate ambition is nothing less than to conquer all of the Seven Kingdoms. He is opposed by Balon's daughter Yara Greyjoy, who urges that the Iron Islands must preserve their strength and engage in diplomacy with the mainland if they are to survive. And as the winds of winter begin to sweep through the south, far Beyond the Wall the young Bran Stark has been staying with the last of the Children of the Forest and his new mentor, the Three-Eyed Raven, in order to hone his abilities. Bran will not walk again, but he has learned to fly. ProductionAdaptationWhile prior seasons followed a format of adapting roughly one book's worth of material per year (or one large book across two seasons, in the case of Season 3 and most of Season 4), Season 5 heavily condensed together most of the fourth and fifth novels in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons. The fourth and fifth novels did occur simultaneously, and were originally intended to be one massive novel (the fourth novel focuses on events in the Seven Kingdoms and the Free Cities, and the fifth on events at the Wall, in the North and in Slaver's Bay, with the last third outpacing the fourth novel). The result is that by the end of Season 5 most - though not all - storylines in the TV series caught up with the current novels, including:
Season 5 was heavily condensed, however, and two entire books worth of storylines simply could not fit into a single season. Therefore, several subplots were pushed back until Season 6, including:
Some of these subplots were not omitted entirely but pushed back to Season 6, however this will inevitably lead to some changes compared to the novels, because they were originally interlinked with events happening in the other storylines. Particularly, Cersei's decisions as regent directly affected the Greyjoy, Martell, and Riverrun storylines, and to an extent the Braavos subplot (due to the banking crisis). Given that Cersei has already been arrested in the TV series, some of these choices may be shifted to her uncle Kevan Lannister, the new Hand of the King, loosely drawing on the long small council chapter from late in the fifth novel which hasn't been adapted yet. It also isn't clear why Jaime would leave King's Landing again to deal with Riverrun now that Cersei is arrested. Therefore, Season 6 isn't really "entirely new material" because many subplots were adapted at an uneven pace - though the TV series has always been speeding up or slowing down the rate of different storylines: Jaime's storyline from the third novel was moved up to the end of Season 2 (because he had little material in the second novel), and Bran Stark's storyline from the fifth novel was actually moved up to Season 4, when other characters were still on their material from the late third novel. Jon Snow's subplot was actually delayed for some time - in the third novel, the Battle of Castle Black occurred immediately after Jon returned to Castle Black, which was quickly followed by Jon's election as Lord Commander: due to the mechanics of splitting the third novel in half, Jon returned to Castle Black in the Season 3 finale but the battle didn't occur until the climax of the Season 4 finale, which necessitated pushing the Night's Watch election to the beginning of Season 5 (had this occurred at the pace it did in the novels, Jon's election would actually have happened in the middle of Season 4). Nonetheless, Season 6 will mostly draw upon the as-yet-unpublished sixth novel, The Winds of Winter - certainly for Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen's storylines, as the final chapters of the fifth novel were the cliffhangers of Jon being stabbed by his own officers and Daenerys being surrounded by the Dothraki khalasar. George R.R. Martin did give the TV producers an outline of events that will happen in the final two unpublished novels - though at the same time, they don't have access to hundreds of pages of source material anymore (for pulling specific lines of dialogue, etc.) Though Martin has released about half a dozen preview chapters from the sixth novel, it isn't clear how much of a basis they can be for any material in the TV series, due to existing differences between the book series and the adaptation. Also, until the book is released, there is no way of analyzing the adaptation process fully (e.g., if the actions of one character in Season 6 are actually a condensation of the actions of two different characters in the sixth novel). FilmingIn Northern Ireland, production ran from late July to late December 2015.[5] Interior shooting returned to the show's headquarters, the Paint Hall Studios in Belfast. Meanwhile, location shooting took place at the following locations: Garron Point (previously Runestone)[6], the Winterfell set in Moneyglass[7], Magilligan (reprising its part as the Dothraki Sea)[8], the Castle Black set at the Magheramorne quarry[9], Ballintoy (returning as Pyke)[10], a rural sept set in Larne[11], Glenarm (previously the Vale)[12], Carnlough Harbour (as a Braavosi canal)[13], Shane's Castle (once more as the foundations of the Great Sept of Baelor)[14], Carncastle (previously the fields around Winterfell)[15], Aghanloo Wood, Saintfield (as the site for "The Battle of the Bastards"[16], a climactic Northern battle[17][18], which demanded the show's lengthiest shoot for a battle scene)[19], the Riverrun set in Corbet[20] (newly built, since in the third season the castle was realized only with Gosford Castle's gardens, an interior hall set and a distant matte painting), the Knocklayd Mountain quarry, Ballycastle in County Antrim, and Murlough Bay.[21] Ever since Croatia was introduced into the production for the second season, it has been the main source of locations outside of Northern Ireland, yet this season only returned to the country for a brief shoot in Dubrovnik, which reappears as King's Landing.[22] Previously, Dubrovnik had been both King's Landing and Qarth, while Klis, Split and Šibenik depicted Meereen and Braavos. This season turned to new Spanish locations instead.[23] In Spain, filming took place between late August and late October.[24] In Girona[25], the locations were the Sant Pere de Galligants abbey's exterior (as a Braavosi bridge)[26], the Plaça dels Jurats (as a Braavosi theater stage)[18], the streets of Ferran el Catòlic, Sant Martí and l’Escola Pia (as Braavosi street markets)[27][28], another local street (as an alley in Oldtown)[29], and the Girona Cathedral's exterior (as the Great Sept in King's Landing)[30]. Still in Catalonia, they filmed in the Santa Florentina Castle (as Horn Hill)[31], Montgrí Castle and Besalú.[32] Later locations where the Bardenas natural park in Navarre[33] (as the Dothraki Sea) and the Zafra Castle in Guadalajara (as the Tower of Joy)[23]. In Peñíscola[34], all filming spots posed as Meereen: the Portal Fosc (as a dilapidated street), the Plaza de Santa María (as a granary)[20], the Parque de la Artillería (as a garden)[35] and the Plaza de Armas. In Almería[36], filming took place at a new Vaes Dothrak set in Pechina[37], on the Tabernas Desert (as the Dothraki Sea)[38], on the Gypsum Karst of Sorbas[38], at the Mesa Roldán Tower[39] (as Meereen), and at the Alcazaba[40] (as Sunspear)[41]. Finally, filming without any of the cast briefly took place at the Alcázar of Seville (returning as the Water Gardens) and at the Roman bridge of Córdoba (once more as the Long Bridge of Volantis).[42] When the TV series began in Season 1, there were two simultaneous filming units - which is unusual for most TV shows, which have only one filming unit - called Wolf Unit and Dragon Unit. In Season 3, production expanded to include three filming units, with the new third one called Raven Unit. Season 4, however, switched back to using only two filming units, and Raven Unit was disbanded. Wolf Unit and Dragon Unit continued to film through Seasons 4 and 5. For Season 6, however, the TV series once again expanded to employ three simultaneous filming units: the new third filming unit was now called "White Walker Unit".[43] According to David Benioff, speaking at the red carpet advanced screening of the Season 6 premiere two weeks before its broadcast: "This season was a beast to make. We shot 680 hours of dailies, which translates to 3.7 million feet of film. We shot in five different countries – Northern Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Iceland, and Canada. We employed 900 crewmembers in Belfast; 400 in Spain. We issued 140 script revisions. We two shot units a day for 22 weeks straight, three units a day for 10 weeks straight, four units for two weeks straight. And none of that would be possible without the greatest producing team on the planet.[44]Thus they briefly switched to using four filming units for two weeks (it isn't clear if the fourth unit had a name), and apparently returned to film some scenes in Canada (possibly on a sound stage again as in Season 5, due to working with the actor-wolves). In the ending credits for Season 6 episodes as they aired, the filming units were listed as "Wolf Unit", "Dragon Unit", "White Walker Unit", and the fourth one named simply "Spain Unit". It is unclear whether White Walker Unit or Spain Unit was the fourth one, which briefly filmed for two weeks - though it was probably White Walker Unit, if the name implies that it dealt with Bran Stark's scenes in the frozen north, while filming in Spain was drastically expanded in Season 6 to take over most of the southern-unit filming that used to be done in Croatia (for King's Landing, Braavos, Oldtown, and more). The budget for the TV series was drastically increased yet again for Season 6, to about $10 million per episode (ten episodes, for a total of $100 million). Back in Season 2, the show averaged only about $6 million per episode. Benioff and Weiss even infamously had to beg HBO in an "awkward" conversation for an additional $2 million to film the climactic Battle of the Blackwater at the end of Season 2 (and thus episode 2.9 "Blackwater" totaled $8 million).[45] CastMain article: Game of Thrones: Season 6/CastStarring
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CrewOn March 27 2015, author George R.R. Martin said he would again not write a script for Season 6, as he wished to concentrate on finishing The Winds of Winter as soon as possible.[46] On June 4, Miguel Sapochnik indicated he was already preparing to direct next season.[47] Jeremy Podeswa made similar statements in June 12.[48] On June 19, the showrunners confirmed that April Ferry would be the new costume designer for Season 6, replacing Michele Clapton, who decided to leave after five seasons.[49] On June 22, newcomer Jack Bender announced he would direct two episodes for season six.[50] The full list of directors and which episodes they would oversee was released in Entertainment Weekly on June 25. There are five directors, each doing two back to back episodes, as in Season 5. Jack Bender and Daniel Sackheim are working on the TV series for the first time, while the other three directors previously worked on the series in Season 5; none worked on the first four seasons.[51] Producers
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GalleryVideosTrailers"The Past is Already Written The Ink is Dry" - Official Tease Targaryen Battle Banner Tease Stark Battle Banner Tease Lannister Battle Banner Tease Hall of Faces Tease March Madness Promo Power Play Marathon "The Real War is Between the Living and The Dead" - Official Trailer Event Promo Official Season 6 Recap Trailer Inside GoTInside GoT - The Best Seat in the House Inside GoT - Prosthetics Inside GoT - Visual Effects OmazeSwords or Metal Band Last Chance Behind the scenesJourney To Spain
Life & Death at Castle Black Blooper Reel Art the ThroneArt the Throne - The Artists - Jeff Nishinaka
Art the Throne - The Artists - Pop Chart Lab Art the Throne - The Artists - CYRCLE
Art the Throne - The Artists - Marcos Chin Art the Throne - The Artists - Tristan Eaton Beginner's Guide
Beginner's Guide - Uncensored Deleted scene"Eating, Drinking, Singing" - Deleted Scene ImagesPromosCharacter posters"I will do what queens do. I will rule." - Daenerys Targaryen "The long night is coming...and the dead come with it." - Jon Snow "I've won every battle, but I'm losing this war." - Robb Stark “There's only one war: life against death.” - Melisandre "I have only two talents in this world: war and women." - Daario Naharis "We don't get to choose whom we love." - Jaime Lannister "If you want justice, you've come to the wrong place." - Tyrion Lannister "If I'm going to die, let it happen while there's still some of me left." - Sansa Stark "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." - Cersei Lannister "Anyone can be killed." - Arya Stark "If you lie to me, I'll pull your guts out through your throat." - Tormund Giantsbane "I'm better than you, I've always been better than you." - Nymeria Sand "Show them how it feels to lose what they love." - Catelyn Stark "Everyone is mine to torment." - Joffrey Baratheon "I will be your champion." - Oberyn Martell "I was never meant to rule." - Robert Baratheon ScreenshotsMedia releasePrior seasons of the TV series released their Blu-ray sets around February to March, to build promotion up for the new season's premiere a month or two after that. Season 7, however, pushed back the filming schedule - given that winter has finally come to Westeros, they need to film later in the colder months of the year for on-location shoots. With Season 7 delayed and set for a mid-to-late summer 2017 release, HBO apparently decided that it was better not to make viewers wait that long for any new material, and it also no longer justified missing the Christmas 2016 shopping season. Thus, the Season 6 Blu-ray set was released early, on November 15, 2016 (in time for Black Friday shopping).[52] Season 6 Blu-ray set contents on display. In prior seasons, each episode was followed by an "Inside the Episode" video featurette also posted on HBO's website, in which the showrunners discuss story elements and the filming crew discusses the practical challenges of actually filming it. In Season 6 this was split into two separate featurette series: the "Inside the Episode" featurettes are now much shorter, primarily consisting of the parts with the showrunners discussing the story; meanwhile, the much longer sections focusing on set production, stuntwork, and on-location filming are now a separate featurette series called "The Game Revealed" - a five-part docuseries. "The Game Revealed" is split up into five installments, each covering two episodes of Season 6 in order. The new slimmed-down "Inside the Episode" featurettes only featuring the showrunners (and some cast members) discussing the story are now integrated into the HBO Now online player, so they play immediately after the main episode's credits end. Meanwhile, "The Game Revealed" featuretttes are also on the HBO Now player but as separate video files. Taken together, both featurette series give as much information as the old "Inside the Episode" featurettes, the new version simply splits up the content: the first focuses on story ideas, the second on how the filming crew realized it. Three other Blu-ray/DVD exclusive featurettes were also included in the home video release:
The release also includes 13 commentary tracks by the cast and crew, and (exclusive to the Blu-ray version) the next set of 18 Histories & Lore videos, and "In-Episode Guide" on-screen notes feature. Deleted scenesThe Season 6 Blu-ray set included three deleted scenes. The first two are not particularly new or substantive, but the third one includes large new sections of the play that Arya sees in Braavos which were cut for time.
In the booksMain article: Differences between books and TV series/Game of Thrones: Season 6Although several plotlines of this season are ahead of the point the novels reached, large parts of it are based on the fourth and fifth novels A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons; it also consists of a few scenes based on the first and third novels A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords, and scenes based on sample chapters of the upcoming sixth novel The Winds of Winter. See alsoReferences
How does season 6 of Game of Thrones end?She burns down the temple of the Dosh Khaleen, leads the whole of the Dothraki back to Meereen, flies around and destroys a slaver ship, makes a deal with the Greyjoys, bids farewell to Daario, names Tyrion her hand, and finally, finally sets sail for Westeros with House Tyrell, some Greyjoy forces, Dorne, the ...
Is Game of Thrones Season 9 possible?Will there be a Game of Thrones season 9? Unfortunately, at this time, there are no plans to revive or reboot Game of Thrones past season 8. And as such, there will be no Game of Thrones season 9. HBO has not said anything about reviving the series.
How much episodes Does Game of Thrones season 7 have?Varying to the previous seasons, which consisted of ten episodes each, the seventh season consisted of only seven episodes.
What episode does Jon Snow become king of the north?In Season 6, Jon ends up as King in the North not because he has sought the title but because others see him as worthy. He admits so himself in Season 7, Episode 2, "Stormborn," explicitly telling the lords and ladies of the North: "You all crowned me your King.
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