12/27/2022 0 Comments Game of thrones s03e01![]() ![]() Game of Thrones has taken massive steps towards cranking up the show from a looks standpoint. At least it promises to be significantly more interesting (and arresting to look at). Just how low is she willing to stoop? How many compromises will she make? It’s strange that the woman who did basically nothing in the second season except poke around Qarth and whimper about her missing dragons now may have the best potential story arc for the third season. Dany is a woman of high morals when it comes to pretty much everything. It’s an interesting moral quandary (and one of the funniest scenes the show has done with the translator, the slaver, Dany, and Jorah) and a legitimate question. We’ve seen to what lengths she’ll go to get her dragons back, but how far will she go to regain the Seven Kingdoms? For two seasons and who knows how many in-show years, Dany has been adamant about two things: regaining the Iron Throne and getting her dragons back. More than any armed combat, the battle within each man between loyalty and honour versus a lust for power is the true war at the centre of Game of Thrones, and this episode explores that directly. It’s heartbreaking for both men and somehow even more of a betrayal than that of Stannis to his closest companion, Davos Seaworth. ![]() It’s a credit to both actors Dance delivers the words with such pain and fury and hatred that it makes Peter Dinklage’s responding facial expressions, going from prideful and nervous to shattered in the course of a few simple sentences, that much more effective. Being a good hand of the king, saving King’s Landing with a brilliant scheme, destroying Stannis’ fleet, leading the men onto the beaches to repel the invaders, suffering a grisly facial wound… none of that is enough to impress Tywin, who tears into Tyrion with one of the most bloody, heartbreaking speeches in the show’s history. Despite being blessed with the family name and all the money and power that it comes with, he’s the black sheep, the family curse, the physical manifestation of the rot in the Lannister soul. This season, the carcass he rips into is that of his mangled son, Tyrion Lannister. In season one, he ripped into the Kingslayer while ripping into a deer carcass. ![]() She’s got a bit too much of her father in her.Ĭharles Dance may be the show’s best actor when it comes to delivering long, blistering monologues. However, in a clever note, we see that Margaery Tyrell giving a lesson on how to win people over in a way that instantly makes Cersei hate her with a burning passion. King’s Landing is rebuilding, bodies are washing up on the shore, and Joffrey Baratheon is even less popular than he was before the battle – and this is a kid who started a riot and murdered dozens of starving people after being hit in the face with flying poo. The bulk of the episode this week picks up right where the Battle of Blackwater leaves off. ![]()
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