Game of Thrones (season 5) (episodes 9 and 10). Nutter is the only returning director with the rest being first-time "Game of Thrones" directors. This season features more original material than previous seasons. The deviations from Martin's novels are in part attributable to the way the television series has covered most of the novel series' published material and in part to the directors' opinions of the actors' abilities. For example, Sansa Stark arrives at Winterfell to marry Ramsay Bolton in "High Sparrow," a plotline that had been given to a minor character in the novels. In an interview, show writer David Benioff explains that Sophie
Blackwater (Game of Thrones) Blackwater (Game of Thrones) "Blackwater" is the ninth and penultimate episode of the second season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series "Game of Thrones". The episode is written by George R. R. Martin, the author of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels of which the series is an adaptation, and directed by Neil Marshall, his directorial debut for the series. The entire episode is dedicated to the climactic Battle of the Blackwater, in which the Lannister army, commanded by acting Hand of the King Tyrion Lannister, defends the city of King's Landing as King Stannis Baratheon's fleet stages