It is an astounding testament to the series' successes. Can you all remember the time when the first teasers for season one were arriving, or even the news that HBO was "looking into it"? A lot of people assumed it was going to be a quick cash-grab, trying to wring money out of the post-LordoftheRings fantasy craze.
But there was also a lot of anticipation, and not only to see how much blood and nudity HBO would dare keep in: the trailers had Sean Bean, revealing a perfect casting for the role of Ned Stark.
Even now, with his on-screen time somewhat limited in the series lately (no spoilers from me), his shadow still looms large over everything in it.
Therefore, once again I'm going to use a gallery of ten close-ups of one of my favorite thespians to make a quiz. Click through the images and guess which movies (or shows) they're from! No competition, no prizes, just for fun, try to see how far you get without using IMDb.
And I'll post the answers next Thursday (earlier if someone has all ten of them right).
And here he is as Ned Stark, about to try and avoid an entire country from cluster-stumbling itself into an epic civil war, just before it will be sliding into an even more epic supernatural disaster.
This picture doesn't count yet for the quiz, but all others do. So please browse through the gallery. Click on the edge of this picture to get the next one, and see how many of them all you can identify!
And here the quiz starts, with picture number one:
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