Wednesday 20 July 2016

Game Of Thrones: Lord Snow

It's episode three and I'm struggling to really think of an angle to really write about this episode as it's all rather a bit well bitty.

Also despite the fact we meet a few new characters everyone else continues basically doing what they've done so far. Ned is staid and moral, the King is brash, Cersei and Joffery show flashes of humanity before flipping back to hating and scheming, summing up their philosophy neatly with "Anyone who isn't us is our enemy"

We do get the first real straight forward mention of the concept of seasons that last literal years. (It does offer up quite a few questions. If a winter lasts literal years how does any plant life survive?)

It's again unclear how much time is passed when get news of Danerys pregnancy, in particular these sections suffer because there is no sense of how far the tribe has travelled. Of course most notable here is the fact that the power balance between Danerys and her brother is very starting to shift, much to his annoyance.

Of the new characters it's the former Mayor of Baltimore that is the most interesting at this stage. And yes that's how i'll know him until I actually remember his proper name. He's clearly a sneaky tricky type who for some reason feels the need to hold most of his meetings in brothels.

Arya's sword instructor is an entertaining character but is so larger than life he does feel a lit bit out of place, almost as if he's wondered in from The Princess Bride by accident.

So not a lot really comes to mind to speak about here, so it's onwards, though from memory things start to get moving again in the next instalment.






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