Khaleesi/Danerys Targaryen (4/18/15)

It's the seventh (and final) day of Game of Thrones week here on My Slow Mo Cat! Every day this week, in honor of the premier of the 5th season of Game of Thrones, Emily (aka the Slow Mo Cat) is impersonating a different Game of Thrones character.

Day 1: Drogon
Day 2: Jamie Lannister aka The Kingslayer
Day 3: Tyrion Lannister
Day 4: Grand Maester Pycelle
Day 5: Arya Stark
Day 6: A White Walker
Day 7: Khaleesi/Danerys Targaryen

Was there any other way this week could end? Emily, though she did spot on impersonations of the other six Game of Thrones characters, ends this week with the one nearest to herself: The Mother of Dragons herself, Danerys Targaryen. Regal and stately with a burning intensity to her, and a will to change the world for the better, Emily and Dany have much in common. Rather than recreate a specific scene as she did with the other characters, Emily chose to simply embody the grace and danger that Dany projects. When looking at Emily sitting on the couch/Iron Throne, one can easily imagine that dragons swirl about her head while a horde of Unsullied await her command. A fitting finale to Game of Thrones week!!!

Emily is Danerys Targaryen, the Mother of Dragons!

White Walker (4/17/15)

It's the sixth day of Game of Thrones week here on My Slow Mo Cat and we are taking a break from the usual Fast Friday posting to finish up our work in Westeros. Every day this week, in honor of the premier of the 5th season of Game of Thrones, Emily (aka the Slow Mo Cat) is impersonating a different Game of Thrones character.

Day 1: Drogon
Day 2: Jamie Lannister aka The Kingslayer
Day 3: Tyrion Lannister
Day 4: Grand Maester Pycelle
Day 5: Arya Stark
Day 6: A White Walker

Emily decides to stretch her acting abilities to the limits. After a quasi-restive impersonation of Arya Stark, Emily decided that she would try her paw at a more challenging role: A White Walker. Of all the characters in Game of Thrones, there are non less like Emily than these fearsome ice-zombies. Where she is covered in fur, they are covered in some kind of creepy ice-skin. Where she is warm and full of love, their cold hearts were given over to the snow lands long ago. Where she lives south of The Wall, they live north of the wall. Where she is totally find with letting humans inhabit Westeros, they are not sold on the proposition and, when winter comes, they will most likely obliterate all in their path, unless some dragon queen from across The Narrow Sea comes over and breathes fire all over their pale white patoots...or something. Just sayin'.

Emily decided that, for her White Walker scene, she had to incorporate "The Screech" and felt the best way to capture that was to show how a White Walker would react to someone scratching it on the head. The answer: with annoyance. She captures the icy spirit of these mysterious beings as well as their viciousness.

Full White Walker Impersonation:

Arya Stark (4/16/15)

Welcome to the fifth day of Game of Thrones week here on My Slow Mo Cat. Every day this week, in honor of the premier of the 5th season of Game of Thrones, Emily (aka the Slow Mo Cat) is impersonating a different Game of Thrones character.

Day 1: Drogon
Day 2: Jamie Lannister aka The Kingslayer
Day 3: Tyrion Lannister
Day 4: Grand Maester Pycelle
Day 5: Arya Stark

Emily shows she has what it takes to waterdance like everyone's favorite little assassin. Again with the help of The Rainbow Snake, she shows what it would be like if Arya was attacked by one of Danerys' dragons, and how Arya would defend. With grace and agility, she dodges the first fire-blast, and uses needle to get between the beasts scales. Truly a battle to remember.

Emily as Arya:

Grand Maester Pycelle (4/15/15)

Welcome to the fourth day of Game of Thrones week here on My Slow Mo Cat. Every day this week, in honor of the premier of the 5th season of Game of Thrones, Emily (aka the Slow Mo Cat) is impersonating a different Game of Thrones character.

Day 1: Drogon
Day 2: Jamie Lannister aka The Kingslayer
Day 3: Tyrion Lannister
Day 4: Grand Maester Pycelle

Emily has sharpened her talents as an actor this last week. After three days of impersonating vibrant characters much like herself, she decided to try being like a character who is nothing like her: Grand Maester Pycelle. In GoT he is almost a character within a character; virile and surprisingly fit for his age, but affecting a hunched, doddering demeanor to conceal his true abilities, mental and physical. Emily, for her part, is a 14 year old cat who defies her age day in and day out with feats of physical prowess cats half her age would be thrilled to accomplish.

To fully embody Pycelle she chose to reenact the scene where, after pretending to be a complete old ninny to Roz, we see Pycelle pacing in his chambers preparing for the day only to slump once again before exiting. She does "the slump" hunching over and curling up in a bundle.

Pycelle Impersonation:

Tyrion Lannister (4/14/15)

Welcome to the third day of Game of Thrones week here on My Slow Mo Cat. Every day this week, in honor of the premier of the 5th season of Game of Thrones, Emily (aka the Slow Mo Cat) is impersonating a different Game of Thrones character.

Day 1: Drogon
Day 2: Jamie Lannister aka The Kingslayer
Day 3: Tyrion Lannister

Before Sunday's season premier, we had last seen Tyrion in full flight, allowing himself to be locked in a crate so he could escape from the certain death that awaited him in Westeros. Emily, was at first unsure if she could even pull off a Tyrion impersonation. How could she embody all those character complexities? Wouldn't her performance be compared to that of Peter Dinklage? After quite a bit of cajoling, I convinced her to give it a shot and boy did she do great!

For Tyrion, Emily chose to reenact the scene where he emerges from his crate after a long journey from King's Landing to Pentos. Embodying all of the curiosity and cleverness of Tyrion, under the cover of night, Emily pokes her head out of the box/crate and surveys her new life.

Jamie Lannister/The Kingslayer (4/13/15)

Welcome to Game of Thrones week on My Slow Mo Cat. Every day this week, in honor of the premier of the 5th season of Game of Thrones, Emily (aka the Slow Mo Cat) is impersonating a different Game of Thrones character.

Day 1: Drogon
Day 2: Jamie Lannister aka The Kingslayer

When Emily fights, it is always fair and square and on the up and up. For this Game of Thrones impersonation, Emily enlisted the (grudging) assistance of her sparring partner, The Rainbow Snake. To accurately recreate the scene in the Throne Room where Jamie slays The Mad King, Emily/Jamie perched herself/himself high upon the sofa staring out, from a window in the Red Keep looking over the city that the Mad King/The Rainbow Snake wanted to burn. Behind her The Mad King/The Rainbow Snake slinks away after having told her/him not only of his plan to kill everyone in King's Landing, but also giving her/him the command to kill Tywin, her father. Emily/Jamie, after thinking over her/his desperate situation turns and, noticing that the Mad King/The Rainbow Snake's back is turned, leaps and does away with the crazed ruler. As Emily and The Rainbow Snake tussle, if you squint your eyes just a little, the couch and other accouterments of modern life slip away and you will find yourself transported to Westeros; where steel, stone, fire and ice rule.

Emily's Kingslayer Impersonation (with help from The Rainbow Snake):

Drogon the Dragon (4/12/15)

It's Game of Thrones week here on My Slow Mo Cat. Every day we will see Emily doing her best impressions of various Game of Thrones characters. To start it off, Emily takes a crack at embodying the spirit of the deadliest (living) dragon in the seven kingdoms: Drogon.

Displaying her ferocity and her fangs, Emily opens wide her gaping maw. When her mouth is at full stretch, it is not hard to imagine flames shooting from it, melting stone, bones, and all else. Harkening back to that primordial time when reptiles and mammals shared a common ancestor, Emily searches deep in her genetic code for the link to that many-scaled creature. With the heat of potential flames in her veins, and the will to rain fire down upon her enemies, she is truly a cat-dragon greater and more fearsome than all others. She. Is. Drogon!

Full video of her Drogon Impersonation: