GAME OF THRONES, Season 3
Year of Release: 2013
JR's Rating:
(9.8 out of 10, Impressive)
JR's Rating:
(9.8 out of 10, Impressive)
⭐️ HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ⭐️
"Family, Duty, Honor"
"I want to fight for the side that fights for the living. Did I come to the right place?"
- Jon Snow to Mance Ryder
The season begins where it ended. Samwell Tarly is spared but the message is clear of a greater and more dangerous threat for the entire of Westeros. As much as men (and woman) are waging towards their claim for the throne, this greater danger is making its presence known. The question is when and how. While Jon Snow is already aware of this, he gets conflicted with how to fight for his cause as a newly developed love, an eventual violation of his oath, would hinder him down. Down the wall in Westeros, we are left with Robb Stark, Stannis Baratheon, and Joffrey Baratheon still at odds while a Queen Daenerys is sparing the advocacy of breaking chains, going against slavery in a bid to gain the trust and love of the people. Who would live and die is a continuing question. The true Game of Thrones is just getting heated up.
🚩🚩🚩SPOILERS AHEAD 🚩🚩🚩
Here are 5 of my most memorable moments and 3 of the most standout
from the third season of Game of Thrones:
✅ A Compassionate Margaery Tyrell
- It might be so short but Margaery Tyrell's show of compassion towards kids who lost their fathers at war was a very pivotal scene as what is deemed as a very gory and violent series. It's a show of how some people can be good despite other's aren't. It's a balance to a ruthless Joffrey who was once engaged to a lovely Sansa Stark. Sad for Sansa to be left, but Margaery is very fit to be queen.
✅ Jaime and Brienne Sword Fight
- It might be the start of an unlikely friendship between Jaime and Brienne but their sword fight is a well-orchestrated piece of art in this season of Game of Thrones. It's choreographed and directed very well. It doesn't end badly, where one dies, but it's a twist in was supposed to be a treatise between the Starks and Lannisters. Bad though that Jaime's sword hand would get cut off soon.
✅ The Climb
- It's one of the most ambitious scenes I have thus seen far. Jon and Ygritte, Jon's forbidden love interest, climb towards the high Northern wall of Westeros in a bid to get to the other side as they prepare to invade Castle Black. It was a vertigo and acrophobic moment as we also go through the enduring climb with the wildlings. It was enduring indeed as Ygritte and Jon have to even save themselves from an avalanche that might end their life. What's better than a hot and steamy cave sex is seeing the top of the wall with the one you love.
✅ The Rains of Castamere
- Ugh, that dramatic yet tragic scene we can't really unsee. The tune symbolic of Lannister supremacy amongst any house who comes to overrun them. In what seems to be a treacherous turn of events, the Starks, specifically Catelyn, Robb and her wife Talisa, would suffer defeat against their former Frey and Bolton cronies. Suspicious of the play of the Lannister tune, Catelyn did only what a mother can do at that moment, spare her son from all the havoc that is set to come. Unfortunately, Talisa would be stabbed at her womb, Robb get shot multiple times with crossbow while Catelyn would have her throat be slit. The silence at the credits is just but fitting for a shocking twist of events for some of the characters we invested our time and emotions with.
✅ Astapor and the Unsullied
- We know Daenerys as the breaker of chains for freeing slaves and sometimes even killing their slavers. Once stepping foot at Astapor, Daenerys is clear on getting the Unsullied to have them with her in her claim of Westeros. Her witty exchange of the Unsullied with one of her dragons was unexpected but definitely worthwhile as she still got her dragon and the Unsullied after her dragon slayed the offensive Kraznys. Unexpected even that Daenerys would pretend not knowing Valerian, a very smart move. Despite giving the Unsullied the freedom to leave, it was decided that they would be fighting alongside her as she goes one town to another to continue freeing each and every slave at Slaver's Bay. That next town being Yunkai which she would invade with the help of the powerful Second Sons.
➕Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy)
- Remember being a strong head of an army ransacking a vulnerable Winterfell for the benefit of his house, Theon Greyjoy suffers the worst fate a hostage can possibly handle. Unlike his ruthless vibe from the earlier season, he is but a pitiful character in this season onwards. Physically abused and mentally deranged might not suit a lord but it's one of the highlights towards this strong character's development. He's very versatile even identifying as "Reek" to the bastard Bolton.
➕Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister) & Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth)
- I'll cheat on this one and have them both be identified as one entity because they wouldn't really stand out with the absence of the other. Jaime and Brienne might be unlikely partners romantically but their love-hate chemistry is just but likeable. They are your typical partners in crime especially when each of them would have to endure their punishing fates. We know there is ought to be more between them and we hope there is more between them. There's a heart inside Jaime Lannister after all, despite hating him the past seasons, I guess his relationship with Brienne made us see a softer side of him. Brienne, on the other hand, may be a woman but her strong demeanor makes her almost equal with the mains, in fact a very definition of a knight itself. If I'll mention a scene, their best one together would have to be when Jaime gone back to save Brienne from a death-defying battle against a bear.
➕John Bradley (Samwell Tarly)
- Who doesn't love Sam. The best friend of Jon Snow, who started as a rejected heir to his father's inheritance, has always been frightful and graceless. In short, the epitome of awkwardness. While he would be seen afraid and vulnerable at the sight of a wight at the beginning of the season, the opposite would be shown when he would fight against a more powerful white walker in defense of a more vulnerable Gilly. Imagine when you are already presented as weak then you'll have to defend someone weaker, that takes too much effort. But this is just a beginning, we'll have more of the stronger Samwell Tarly in the wars and battles to come.
Given the chance to rate this season of Game of Thrones,
I'll give it an impressive 9.8/10.
#GameOfThrones #HBOOriginals
#2013Series #TVReviews #JRTVReviews
"I want to fight for the side that fights for the living. Did I come to the right place?"
- Jon Snow to Mance Ryder
🚩🚩🚩SPOILERS AHEAD 🚩🚩🚩
Here are 5 of my most memorable moments and 3 of the most standout
from the third season of Game of Thrones:
✅ A Compassionate Margaery Tyrell
- It might be so short but Margaery Tyrell's show of compassion towards kids who lost their fathers at war was a very pivotal scene as what is deemed as a very gory and violent series. It's a show of how some people can be good despite other's aren't. It's a balance to a ruthless Joffrey who was once engaged to a lovely Sansa Stark. Sad for Sansa to be left, but Margaery is very fit to be queen.
✅ Jaime and Brienne Sword Fight
- It might be the start of an unlikely friendship between Jaime and Brienne but their sword fight is a well-orchestrated piece of art in this season of Game of Thrones. It's choreographed and directed very well. It doesn't end badly, where one dies, but it's a twist in was supposed to be a treatise between the Starks and Lannisters. Bad though that Jaime's sword hand would get cut off soon.
✅ The Climb
- It's one of the most ambitious scenes I have thus seen far. Jon and Ygritte, Jon's forbidden love interest, climb towards the high Northern wall of Westeros in a bid to get to the other side as they prepare to invade Castle Black. It was a vertigo and acrophobic moment as we also go through the enduring climb with the wildlings. It was enduring indeed as Ygritte and Jon have to even save themselves from an avalanche that might end their life. What's better than a hot and steamy cave sex is seeing the top of the wall with the one you love.
✅ The Rains of Castamere
- Ugh, that dramatic yet tragic scene we can't really unsee. The tune symbolic of Lannister supremacy amongst any house who comes to overrun them. In what seems to be a treacherous turn of events, the Starks, specifically Catelyn, Robb and her wife Talisa, would suffer defeat against their former Frey and Bolton cronies. Suspicious of the play of the Lannister tune, Catelyn did only what a mother can do at that moment, spare her son from all the havoc that is set to come. Unfortunately, Talisa would be stabbed at her womb, Robb get shot multiple times with crossbow while Catelyn would have her throat be slit. The silence at the credits is just but fitting for a shocking twist of events for some of the characters we invested our time and emotions with.
✅ Astapor and the Unsullied
- We know Daenerys as the breaker of chains for freeing slaves and sometimes even killing their slavers. Once stepping foot at Astapor, Daenerys is clear on getting the Unsullied to have them with her in her claim of Westeros. Her witty exchange of the Unsullied with one of her dragons was unexpected but definitely worthwhile as she still got her dragon and the Unsullied after her dragon slayed the offensive Kraznys. Unexpected even that Daenerys would pretend not knowing Valerian, a very smart move. Despite giving the Unsullied the freedom to leave, it was decided that they would be fighting alongside her as she goes one town to another to continue freeing each and every slave at Slaver's Bay. That next town being Yunkai which she would invade with the help of the powerful Second Sons.
➕Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy)
- Remember being a strong head of an army ransacking a vulnerable Winterfell for the benefit of his house, Theon Greyjoy suffers the worst fate a hostage can possibly handle. Unlike his ruthless vibe from the earlier season, he is but a pitiful character in this season onwards. Physically abused and mentally deranged might not suit a lord but it's one of the highlights towards this strong character's development. He's very versatile even identifying as "Reek" to the bastard Bolton.
➕Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister) & Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth)
- I'll cheat on this one and have them both be identified as one entity because they wouldn't really stand out with the absence of the other. Jaime and Brienne might be unlikely partners romantically but their love-hate chemistry is just but likeable. They are your typical partners in crime especially when each of them would have to endure their punishing fates. We know there is ought to be more between them and we hope there is more between them. There's a heart inside Jaime Lannister after all, despite hating him the past seasons, I guess his relationship with Brienne made us see a softer side of him. Brienne, on the other hand, may be a woman but her strong demeanor makes her almost equal with the mains, in fact a very definition of a knight itself. If I'll mention a scene, their best one together would have to be when Jaime gone back to save Brienne from a death-defying battle against a bear.
➕John Bradley (Samwell Tarly)
- Who doesn't love Sam. The best friend of Jon Snow, who started as a rejected heir to his father's inheritance, has always been frightful and graceless. In short, the epitome of awkwardness. While he would be seen afraid and vulnerable at the sight of a wight at the beginning of the season, the opposite would be shown when he would fight against a more powerful white walker in defense of a more vulnerable Gilly. Imagine when you are already presented as weak then you'll have to defend someone weaker, that takes too much effort. But this is just a beginning, we'll have more of the stronger Samwell Tarly in the wars and battles to come.
Given the chance to rate this season of Game of Thrones,
I'll give it an impressive 9.8/10.
#GameOfThrones #HBOOriginals
#2013Series #TVReviews #JRTVReviews
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Time Published: 16 May 2019 (8:00 PM)
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