Westeros Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Courtesy of HBO, we now have the official poster for season 5…. and it’s quite a sight to behold, to say the least.Featuring Tyrion Lannister’s familiar figure at the bow of a ship or boat surrounded by mist, the familiar (and increasingly-large) figure of Drogon, Daenerys’s great black dragon, hovers into view. It’s very eerie, and a very tantalizing glimpse of what’s to come for Tyrion, a glimpse that confirms speculations following the release of the trailer for the upcoming season. Season 5 will premiere on April 12th in the US, April 13th in the UK.Speaking of tantalizing glimpses, HBO’s “The Sight” campaign—somewhat controversial among fans, for its randomly distributed, extremely short, and mobile-only focus—has come to an end with two (randomly distributed) sneak peeks at brief scenes from the upcoming season. You’ll find them below the cut, as the official Game of Thrones channel very kindly had mercy and posted them online:read on >>>Visit the Site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night's_King666 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Courtesy of HBO, we now have the official poster for season 5…. and it’s quite a sight to behold, to say the least.Featuring Tyrion Lannister’s familiar figure at the bow of a ship or boat surrounded by mist, the familiar (and increasingly-large) figure of Drogon, Daenerys’s great black dragon, hovers into view. It’s very eerie, and a very tantalizing glimpse of what’s to come for Tyrion, a glimpse that confirms speculations following the release of the trailer for the upcoming season. Season 5 will premiere on April 12th in the US, April 13th in the UK.Speaking of tantalizing glimpses, HBO’s “The Sight” campaign—somewhat controversial among fans, for its randomly distributed, extremely short, and mobile-only focus—has come to an end with two (randomly distributed) sneak peeks at brief scenes from the upcoming season. You’ll find them below the cut, as the official Game of Thrones channel very kindly had mercy and posted them online:read on >>>Visit the Site! awesome !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaston de Foix Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 What's the basis for saying that's Drogon and not Viserion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clair de lune Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I like the poster, but it just feels a little lazy once you look closer and realize the image of Drogon is from the S4 finale and I'm pretty sure that image of Tyrion is from his trial. Still, cool final product, definitely gets me excited for the stories in season 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konradsmith Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 What's the basis for saying that's Drogon and not Viserion? Because it's this image of Drogon from ep. 406. http://www.farfarawaysite.com/section/got/gallery4/gallery1/hires/86.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel_Rose Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I like how it hints at darker, grimer things. Also, the prospect of Tyrion and Dany meeting will excite many viewers. It actually makes me very excited to see it happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dragon has three heads Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I like the poster, but it just feels a little lazy once you look closer and realize the image of Drogon is from the S4 finale and I'm pretty sure that image of Tyrion is from his trial. Still, cool final product, definitely gets me excited for the stories in season 5Well spotted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protar Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Despite the images being taken from previous episodes it's a cool scene. If I'm not mistaken it's the scene from the Bridge of Dream where Tyrion glimpses Drogon through the fog, but here made much more explicit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gertrude Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Meh. I've not really been impressed with their posters for any season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCon's Red Beard Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Not the Dragon I was expecting Tyrion to meet. :/ The poster is ok. Definitely better than the poster from last year (with that terrible gradient), but... not even the better poster of the world would compensate for characters many of us wanted to see and won't. :dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickStormborn Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Despite the images being taken from previous episodes it's a cool scene. If I'm not mistaken it's the scene from the Bridge of Dream where Tyrion glimpses Drogon through the fog, but here made much more explicit. Tyrion does not glimpse Drogon through the fog. What he sees is quite specifically noted to be PALE, and Drogon is hundreds of miles away (perhaps a thousand). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bauer 24 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Tyrion does not glimpse Drogon through the fog. What he sees is quite specifically noted to be PALE, and Drogon is hundreds of miles away (perhaps a thousand).So what does he see? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCon's Red Beard Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 So what does he see? None of Dany's dragons. He sees, whatsoever, Viserion in one of the released chapters of tWoW, during the battle of Meereen, but that's a lot of time later. He never got to see Drogon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protar Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Tyrion does not glimpse Drogon through the fog. What he sees is quite specifically noted to be PALE, and Drogon is hundreds of miles away (perhaps a thousand). I do not remember the exact quote, but I remember that the description is ambiguous but doesn't really make much sense to be anything else other than a dragon. I would not say the Rhoyne is thousands of miles from Slaver's Bay, not even one thousand. And dragons can probably roam really far. In any case it is a common interpretation of the scene, and it looks like that's D+D's interpretation as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Grumpy Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 The Sorrows came my mind when I saw it but I was sure that that flying thing wasn't Drogon, due the distance between Meereen and the Sorrows, I mean it's huge. Yeah he flies but not sure if he got enough time to do it. Anyways, cool poster :dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnar of Skagos Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 This is such a Young Griff tease for god's sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickStormborn Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I do not remember the exact quote, but I remember that the description is ambiguous but doesn't really make much sense to be anything else other than a dragon. I would not say the Rhoyne is thousands of miles from Slaver's Bay, not even one thousand. And dragons can probably roam really far. In any case it is a common interpretation of the scene, and it looks like that's D+D's interpretation as well. Common interpretation =/= correct. I would argue that it's not even ambiguous - it's simply a misdirection. Drogon is not in Slaver's Bay. His lair is north-east of Meereen in the Dothraki Sea, as per the Lands of Ice and Fire character journeys maps which shows Daenerys Targaryen to be hundreds of miles away from Meereen as of the end of ADwD. That puts Drogon a LONG way from the Sorrows - potentially a thousand miles, although that would be a liberal estimate. We know from Dany's final chapter that Drogon returns to his lair every single sunset without fail. It makes absolutely no sense that it would be Drogon. More logically, it's some creature that is intended to deliberately evoke dragon imagery without actually being a dragon itself. The fact that its wings are pale should explicitly separate it from being Drogon. If anything, it may foreshadow an encounter with Viserion. Now you can keep believing that it's Drogon if that's what you want to do, but there's no actual textual evidence to support that assertion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireAndBlood. Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 People actually think that was Drogon? A half seen shape flapped by overhead, pale leathery wings beating at the fog. The dwarf craned his head around to get a better look, but the thing was gone as suddenly as it had appeared. Is it just the word "leathery"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCon's Red Beard Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 The Sorrows came my mind when I saw it but I was sure that that flying thing wasn't Drogon, due the distance between Meereen and the Sorrows, I mean it's huge. Yeah he flies but not sure if he got enough time to do it. I dunno if we would even have the Sorrows as we have them in the books. What the purpose for them in the show would be? Give Jorah greyscale? Just having them navigating some oddly magical river with some mysterious fog is... random. And unnecessary. Common interpretation =/= correct. I would argue that it's not even ambiguous - it's simply a misdirection. Distance aside, I think it's meant to put the imagery of dragons in Tyrion's mind and in our minds so we could realise a "real" dragon is just right there: Aegon (hey, Red or Black, yadayadayada...). They're in the Sorrows when Tyrion reveals who YG really is. People actually think that was Drogon? Is it just the word "leathery"? No. It's the fact many want Tyrion to be associated with dragons to make him a secret Targaryen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protar Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Common interpretation =/= correct. I would argue that it's not even ambiguous - it's simply a misdirection. Drogon is not in Slaver's Bay. His lair is north-east of Meereen in the Dothraki Sea, as per the Lands of Ice and Fire character journeys maps which shows Daenerys Targaryen to be hundreds of miles away from Meereen as of the end of ADwD. That puts Drogon a LONG way from the Sorrows - potentially a thousand miles, although that would be a liberal estimate. We know from Dany's final chapter that Drogon returns to his lair every single sunset without fail. It makes absolutely no sense that it would be Drogon. More logically, it's some creature that is intended to deliberately evoke dragon imagery without actually being a dragon itself. The fact that its wings are pale should explicitly separate it from being Drogon. If anything, it may foreshadow an encounter with Viserion. Now you can keep believing that it's Drogon if that's what you want to do, but there's no actual textual evidence to support that assertion. Well whatever the actual in-book interpretation is, that scene was clearly the inspiration for the poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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