article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Where do you go from here?
article_snippet.sent: It's the most high-profile premiere yet, airing simultaneously in 170 countries for the first time.
article_snippet.sent: (HBO is a Time Warner company, like CNN.)
article_snippet.sent: CNN sought out "Thrones" aficionado Doug Gross, a writer for Nerdwallet and a former CNN employee, who had a few thoughts on the matter (beware, TV fans, he has read the books).
article_snippet.sent: CNN're going to start seeing some of the show's major story arcs coming together," Gross said (as confirmed by the executive producers).
article_snippet.sent: Executive producer David Benioff told Rolling Stone, "We are starting to build to a crescendo, which means the battles have to get bigger and things have to get more dramatic.