GOT: Season Five is Coming

Winter is here, but season five of HBO's Game of Thrones will not start until April 14th.  In the meantime, you have a new trailer showing the full breadth of the new season.  It is impressive, with scenes of a wedding and funeral, the plight of the remaining Stark children, fierce battles across the sea and far to the north, and talks of a new leader, be it a man or woman who can eventually unite the land.  Certainly plenty to enjoy and ponder. 

If you would like to dissect each piece of the trailer above, I recommend you visit DenofGeek for an enlightening tour.   For instance, you can learn about the Brazen Beast serving Daenerys Targaryen in Meereen (picture  below).  And the website compares the images to the underlying books, to give you some idea if the story is still on track.  As with more and more trailers these days (such as the latest Star Wars installment), we get plenty of speculation.  And yet, as someone who has not read all of the books, I still expect plenty of surprises in the new season.