Hey, everyone! I can't believe I've managed to post a review on the right day, during the day! It almost feels like I'm doing something wrong. Anyway, like I said on Thursday, today is a review of the 3rd series of HBO's Game of Thrones, which ended in the UK last night. If you're yet to watch the series, I suggest you stop reading after watching the trailer which I've included here for the fun of it. If it's the last episode you haven't watched, there really isn't much for me to ruin in the last episode, so you *should* be safe. Anyway, exercise caution!
If
you haven’t yet watched the third series of GoT yet, I don’t recommend you read
much further.
The
third series of Game of Thrones premiered on 1st of April this year
(UK) and has been a rollercoaster of a series. With rising tensions between the
Lannisters and everyone else, including themselves, and Daenerys building her
army, the series as a whole has certainly not been a disappointment.
*SPOILER ALERT*SPOILER ALERT*SPOILER ALERT*SPOILER ALERT*
It’s
difficult to say what the main focus of the series has been, being as everyone
is a main character and they’re all at war with each other, but the things that
I think have been the best parts of the series have been:
- My feelings of empathy towards Theon when I ended
the last series being so angry with him for betraying Robb. Of course I feel
empathetic though – he’s been tortured, then freed, but not really freed
because Ramsay Snow is extremely psychotic, then he’s tortured some more and
now he’s a eunuch. None of this is in the books, yet the inclusion of it has
really worked because, I think, if Theon had been absent from the next two
series and told all of this in retrospect, it would seem like there was a huge
gap – not only because it would leave audiences thinking ‘Well why didn’t you
show all of this then? It can’t have been as bad as all that’ and also simply
because he was such a major character in the first two series.
- Daenerys’ takeover of Astapor which was just
incredible. It’s no secret to anyone that I completely adore Daenerys – so I
was always going to be happy when she made the 8,000 unsullied turn on their
own enslavers, and burned a city to the ground with a dragon which is not even
fully grown. Before that though, the part that had me literally cheering was
when she spoke to the unsullied in their own language, turning to their
previous ‘owner’ and screaming that he’d been calling her a whore in her mother
tongue. That, ladies and gentlemen, was beautiful.
- Jaime Lannister becoming one of my favourite
characters. He’s grown as a person, realising he can’t just use his father’s
name to get out of trouble. More than that, he walked away from a bear and a
huge group of angry men without the use of his fighting hand.
- Cercei’s face when she was told she is going to be
married to Sir Loras Tyrell.
- When Arya told the Hound completely calmly that
one day she’d put a knife through his eye. That was great.
- Daario Naharis.
- When Jaime came back and went to Cercei. As much
as I dislike her most of the time, that part was really quite endearing and
heart-warming.
- The Red Wedding scene. Now, I didn’t enjoy this
part because it was heart-breaking and left me feeling devoid of any emotion
for at least a day, however, it was extremely well done. The things which made
it most crushing were the fact that Jeyne Westerling had just told him that she
would name their son after Eddard Stark. God, the last fifteen minutes of that
episode were awful. In a good way, sort of.
The
only issue I have with the Red Wedding being so explosive is that it made the
final episode seem dull. There were clearly some good things which happened and
I did enjoy it, perhaps I am still slightly devoid of emotion after last week’s
episode as well. The ending to the series was heart-warming, which I
appreciated and I have definitely been left wanting more. The next series is
being filmed and is due to be televised in 2014.
Overall,
I give this series of GoT four and a half pandas, I’d give it five if I didn’t
feel like the final episode felt a bit flat. Feel free to disagree, but it felt
like the kind of groundwork I’d expect from episode 1 of a series.
Drop me a comment below if you agree/disagree, which parts were your favourite? What did you hate? Who is your favourite character? Who do you hate? How many pandas would you give this series? All of that stuff. If I ruined anything for you, feel free to comment but don't expect much sympathy because you were warned on multiple occasions that there would be big spoilers! Thursday will be the last part of The Following, so come back for that!
Have a great week and thanks for reading! Laura
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