Comic-Con 2019, Day 2: The Infamous Coffee Cup

Mallory: It's Friday! By this point in the con, the crowds are much crowdier, the lines for everything are much longer, the cosplay is starting to come out ... we're in the full swing of things, folks.

Today, I went to the last ever Game of Thrones panel in Hall H. The crowd was jam-packed, many bedecked in braided platinum blonde wigs or draped in furs and leather, though I do have to say, I've seen a surprising lack of GoT cosplay so far — I was expecting everyone to have gone Full Sansa by now! Still, the excitement in the air was palpable, and when the cast panelists were announced — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), Liam Cunningham (Davros), Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark), Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm), Conleth Hill (Varys), and John Bradley (Samwell Tarly) — the crowd roared.

Here's where I confess that I'm not a huge fan of the was too excessive for me (among other things) and quit watching. I liked reading about , though, so I kept up with it. Honestly, I was just hoping to hear David Benioff and D.B. Weiss talk about the choices they made, especially around the series finale. Alas, days before the con started, HBO released an updated list of panelists and . Still, I attended the show's first Comic-Con panel in 2011, and I thought attending this (presumably last) panel would be a nice bookend.