White Walkers

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I started reading A Dance with Dragons last night. I’m only barely in, but it’s good so far.

I was thinking about the TV series again, and it’s interesting that they chose to call the Others “White Walkers”. I wonder, if Lost hadn’t been so recent or so popular, would they have called them Others as they’re called in the books? I can see why they’d change it for the show, even though I think it would be kind of cool to have Ben and the smoke monster north of the wall.

And I just stumbled on this, which is hilarious. This is how we get from Game of Thrones to The Goonies in three paragraphs.

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.

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  1. Many of the characters in the books also call them the “white walkers” (e.g. Osha [1], the wildling woman who becomes a servant at Winterfell). It’ difficult to tell if she realizes that the white walkers of today are the same as the Others, who were supposed to have perished thousands of years ago.

    1. Though she doesn’t make me feel safe.

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