Game Of Thrones - Season 3 (Review)

         To complete your engineering here in Pune University, you need to write three reviews, one every year, for the first three years. So, here's my review on Game Of Thrones - Season 3.

         As much as I love Game Of Thrones, I'm glad George R.R. Martin isn't involved in the making of other TV series like Dexter. This man could've killed off Dexter in the fourth season itself. Only Game of Thrones can possibly survive this slaughter of important characters. Despite all the supernatural stuff, warging and dragons, Game Of Thrones is actually more real than other TV series. And that's because GoT does not portray the good as immortal, which adds the element of realism. As children, we're forced to believe that the 'good' always overpowers the 'bad', which is far from truth. One thing we figure out after the end of this season is that, in the "Game of Thrones" everything, from Victory, Defeat to Iron Throne is temporary.


         The third season starts with Jon Snow among the wildings, Tyrion with his war wounds separated from the Lannisters, Davos surviving the Battle of Blackwater, the fall of Winterfell, and the rise Daenerys Targaryen. Oh yes, and obviously, the DRAGONS. Tywin is back as the Hand Of King, Jamie and Bernie are on their way towards King's Landing, and Arya along with her friends, towards Riverrun. Later, they are taken by the Brotherhood without Banners.
 
        "Valyrian is my mother tongue", these words, though spoken in Valyrian were as mesmerizing as her dragons. If I'm not wrong this was the fourth episode when Daenerys takes control of the Unsullied. And as Daenerys says "Dracarys", the dragon decides the fate of Kraznys. All his other slave masters are killed too. This is easily one of my favorite episodes of all time. Meanwhile, Lord Beric sentences the Hound to 'Trial by Combat', which is followed by the intense sword fight between the two. These two moments triggered the season which never really took the downward curve.


        All the characters are portrayed so well, that you actually end up sympathizing with them, like Jamie Lannister and Theon Greyjoy. And just when everything looked perfect, George R.R. Martin decides to kill off the man who never lost a battle, Robb Stark. Hailed as the king in the north, butchered like a disobeying slave, the Lannisters will always remember him as their worst nightmare. With him out of the picture, Stannis suddenly looks like the only hope against the Lannisters. The season ends with Bran's warging abilities coming to the rescue of Jon Snow, and Jon Snow reuniting with the Night's Watch.

         5000 years from now, when some people discover these books somewhere under the rocks, they might actually believe it to be a true story.

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