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At the onset of Season
4, the newest power player in King’s Landing was Oberyn Martell, a
formidable warrior and passionate lover who set up shop in a brothel. One
season later,
Oberyn is dead, and his replacement as the thorn in the
Lannisters’ side seems almost
calculated to be his exact opposite. The High
Sparrow, played by Jonathan Pryce, is a religious
ascetic and avowed (at
least initially) pacifist — and the head of a zealot mob that destroys the
very establishment Oberyn once frequented. With his ascendancy, Game of Thrones has
ushered in a new thematic focus in Season 5, one that emphasizes the show’s
careful balance between fantasy and realism:… READ MORE >
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