"I'm going to open with the two big battles that I was building up to, the battle in the ice and the battle at Meereen — the battle of Slaver's Bay. And then take it from there," George RR Martin said -- in 2012 -- of the opening chapters of his next novel, “The Winds of Winter.”
But wait. Have we already seen these two battles?
For the first time in the history of “Game of Thones,” HBO has not distributed screeners for the season premiere – which tells me they get to Jon Snow’s resurrection pretty quickly.
Last season began with the series’ first-ever flashback. Will this season start the same way?
While “The Walking Dead’s” ratings have been declining since the premiere of the Robert Kirkman-run “Fear The Walking Dead,” the ratings for “Game of Thrones” have been on the rise; last year’s season finale was the most-watched in the series’ history:
Game of Thrones
(Adults 18-49; newer weeks to the left)
(4.1) (3.6) (3.4) (2.5) (3.1) 2015
(3.5) (3.6) (3.5) (3.6) (4.2) 2015
(3.8) (3.7) (3.9) (3.9) (3.4) 2014
(3.9) (3.7) (3.5) (3.4) (3.6) 2014
(2.9) (2.8) (2.6) (2.4) (2.9) 2013
(2.8) (2.6) (2.4) (2.3) (2.4) 2013
(2.2) (1.6) (2.0) (1.9) (2.0) 2012
(1.9) (1.8) (1.8) (1.9) (2.0) 2012
(1.2) (1.1) (1.2) (1.2) (0.9) 2011
(1.2) (1.2) (1.1) (1.0) (0.9) 2011
