Thursday, June 20, 2013

GAME OF THRONES SEASON 3 FINALE REVIEW (SPOILERS!)


This is a full spoiler review on Game Of Thrones Season 3 YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

This season is based on the first half of George R.R Martin’s A Storm of Swords and it follows the book completely apart from minor differences which only add to the experience. It brought us very interesting and unfinished storylines for the most part which is understandable for it’s the first half of the book.

Now if you are wondering why I will not talk about Tyrion, Sansa, Arya, Jamie, and Catelyn is just because I felt I had to talk about the season finale more than the season as a whole (which was awesome).

Robb was the star of the season, he had won every battle but he just kept making the wrong choice! He married the other chick when he promised to marry Walder Frey’s daughter so then he wants his support. The whole time he was in Walder Frey’s house the atmosphere just felt off and tense, when the wedding came things started to calm and then Arya shows up wanting to get in, they shut the door and guards come in.

I kid you not, when episode nine came it just hadn’t mattered that I’d read the book, in the middle of what is called The Red Wedding this guy goes up to Robb’s pregnant wife and stabs her in the belly, the musicians pick up crossbows shoot everyone including Robb and everyone including those who read the books were shocked, there is no way where you can watch that scene and just be fine with it.

Catelyn, Robb’s mom get’s Walder Frey’s wife and begs him to let Robb go otherwise she will kill his wife. Robb meanwhile is holding his dead wife and he’s given up, he lost. This is the moment where everyone is like “Come on, let him go!”, Walder looks at his wife, looks at Catelyn and says “Fine, I’ll find another”. There. Catelyn cut’s his wife’s throat, this guy comes up to Robb, stabs him, they even kill the direwolf! Catelyn screams, this guy comes behind her and cut’s her throat.

People have been getting a lot of reactions about this, the scene was so gruesome and their favourite character just died. Robb had the right to go for the throne, Joffrey killed his dad! Then he gets backstabbed by none other than Walder Frey. It was such a tragic and historic moment in television and I would actually understand if that was the end for some people. Some people will not take Game Of Thrones as well as expected and this episode was the whole meaning of boundary.

That scene where Bran kills the wildlings and Jon Snow admits being a crow and kills every one, that GREAT scene is completely overshadowed by the scene that Robb’s whole arc was about, Robb’s arc was about the Red Wedding building up, him making the wrong choices and when you do that in Game of Thrones, you win or you die.

I actually thought that that’d be it, the next episode Mysha is just the aftermath of this whole tragedy, but for some reason my brain didn’t get it, that scene where Arya see’s the direwolf’s head sown into Robb’s body there was no human being who felt sorry for Arya.

The season finale was great as well, there was a scene between Tyrion and Tywin and the standarts weren’t as high, however, the ending where Daenerys get’s a whole city of slaves to call her mother and you just now that she and Stannis are on the ladder.

So overall

“With drama, gruesome and the aftermath of one of the most shocking events in tv, Game of Thrones was at its best!”

10/10 (Masterpiece)

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