HBO to celebrate Game Of Thrones' 10th anniversary with month-long special event

April 17 marks 10 years since you first borrowed somebody’s HBO credentials (and/or logged on to some unscrupulous website) to see the first episode of Game Of Thrones, making it a full decade since the happy Stark children all got a cuddly wolf puppy to love, a decade since Sansa first glimpsed the adorable Joffrey Baratheon, and a decade since Jaime Lannister fondly considered the things he does for love. To celebrate the occasion, and possibly to remind viewers that there was once a time when Game Of Thrones was pretty much universally lauded, HBO has announced a month-long event called The Iron Anniversary that will feature a bunch of HBO Max stuff, a “MaraThrone” on HBO (it’s a play on “marathon”), and some kind of special prize giveaway for people “who were married in Westeros-themed ceremonies.” Finally, a Game Of Thrones wedding will result in something other than a knife in the gut and confused questions from your relatives (“Isn’t that the show about incest?” No Nana, it’s the show where a teenager gets sold to a barbarian warlord and then gives birth to dragons, and also yes, there’s some incest.)