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erm.. not really lah. I just like chicks who are stylo milo and fuckable looks.
BTW, it should be spelled as Khaleesi. :P
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Yup..red heads are hot...
lots of nice chicks in game of thrones.
i guess i like her best.
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Feeling guilty now,,looking at these young chicks,,but they are growing fast....Ang mor gals really age faster..
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'Game of Thrones' Sparks Intense ReactionsFans vent online over wrenching plot twist in Sunday's episode
Game of Thrones surprised viewers with game-changing plot developments in last night's episode, and fans have immediately taken to Twitter with their own strong reactions. Last night's "The Rains of Castamere" featured the infamous and bloody Red Wedding, prompting viewers including Ed Sheeran, Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz, Seth Meyers and Zach Braff to share their shock over the big twists. A parody Twitter account called Red Wedding Tears also popped up, retweeting fans' tortured reactions.
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The Stark clan is fast becoming a scarce breed.
"Game of Thrones" fans watched in horror as the Lannisters treacherously slaughtered King in the North Robb Stark (Richard Madden), his pregnant bride Talisa (Oona Chaplin), matriarch Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) and what was left of Robb's army.
Even the Stark direwolves succumbed to the crossbows of troops commanded by Lord Walder Frey (David Bradley) at what was falsely presented as a festive occasion -- the wedding of his surprisingly lovely daughter Roslin (Alexandra Dowling) to Robb's foolish uncle, Edmure Tully (Tobias Menzies).
All seemed well when the bride and groom were noisily spirited off to consummate their nuptials in a pagan-like custom. A sword needs a sheath, and a wedding needs a bedding, as lecherous Lord Frey put it.
But then the doors to the great dining hall abruptly closed, the music turned macabre and the bloody massacre of the Starks began. Desperately attempting to save eldest son Robb, Catelyn grabbed Frey's wife and brandished a dagger. "Let him go or I will cut your wife's throat," she warned.
"I'll find another," Frey replied nonchalantly.
With that, Lord Roose Bolton (Michael McElhatton) dispatched Robb, whispering: "The Lannisters send their regards."
And Catelyn -- screaming with rage, shock and fear -- succumbed to a slit throat in a scene "Thrones" fans will never forget. Neither will Stark allies in the North, apparently.
Escaping the carnage was young Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), who arrived late at the wedding in the custody of Sandor the Hound; Clegane (Rory McCann). Disguised as a hog farmer, he planned to turn Arya over to her family in exchange for a reward.
So much for that idea! (Arya did kindly promise the Hound that she'd run a blade through his skull at a later date, however.)
Another Stark child still breathing is crippled Bran (Isaac Hempstead Wright), whose blossoming gift to enter the minds of other creatures proves a lifesaver.
After taking refuge in a tower, Bran and his small entourage hear wildlings about to kill an elderly horse breeder loyal to the Night's Watch. Who's ordered to carry out this murderous act? It's Bran's half-brother Jon Snow (Kit Harington), a former Night's Watch member who switched sides and joined the wildling army.
When Jon can't bring himself to behead the innocent horse breeder, wildling girlfriend Ygritte (Rose Leslie) does the killing with an arrow. This prompts the other wildlings to turn on Jon for his traitorous inaction.
Now it's Bran to the rescue as he enters the minds of wolves and sets them on the wildlings. Jon then escapes on horseback as betrayed lover Ygritte stares in hurt and anger.
Meanwhile, across the sea, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) strategizes on how to capture the walled slaver city of Yunkai. Arguing about tactics are her military leaders Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen), Barristan Selmy (Ian McElhinney), Grey Worm (Jacob Anderson) and hunky Daario Naharis (Ed Skrein), recently of the Seconds Sons mercenary company.
It's finally decided that Daario will enter Yunkai by the back gate, kill the guards, bring in his new comrades and unlock the front gate so Daenerys and her army can attack. At first the plan appears to work, but Daario, Jorah and Grey Worm are soon surrounded.
We learn that all is well, however, when the trio returns somewhat bloodied but otherwise intact. Yunkai's slave troops would rather surrender than fight for their masters, so Daenerys swiftly captured the city without risking her army or fearsome young dragons.
The Lannisters deviously destroyed Robb Stark and his army at a wedding/massacre, but can the Lannisters retain the Iron Throne with Daenerys on the march? Only next Sunday's season finale will tell.
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Spoilers for last night’s Game of Thrones below:
“You’re almost there. And you’re afraid you won’t make it. The closer you get, the worse the fear gets.”
A confession: although I did not see last night’s Game of Thrones in advance, I knew what was going to happen. Everyone you know who read the source books, who cryptically told you, “Oh, just wait,” after Ned died—they knew what was going to happen. It is perhaps the single scene of the books (to date) we thought of first and most often when we learned HBO would make Game of Thrones into a series.
If you had no idea what was coming, if it’s any consolation, I don’t think that knowing made it any better. “The Red Wedding,” as it is known in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, was delivered in an episode that was brutal, heartbreaking, impeccably well-constructed, horrifying, and appropriately cruel. It was, like the betrayal itself, ruthless and efficient and left no doubt about the finality or ugliness of the crime.
Yet showing the Red Wedding—the brutal massacre of Robb, his mother Catelyn, and (in an addition to the books) his wife and unborn child—may not have been the cruelest thing that “The Rains of Castamere” did.
The cruelest thing, really, was that before more Starks met an untimely end—and the Stark war effort was seemingly quashed—the episode brought the long-suffering Stark family closer together than since Ned Stark made a huge mistake and went to King’s Landing. Arya came within steps of her brother and mother’s corpses; Bran was literally a shout away from Jon Snow, the half-brother he was on the road seeking. Yet by episode’s end, Arya was bereft and the Hound’s prisoner, and Bran sent Rickon away while he went off on his quest. In a series with a cast of dozens, “The Rains of Castamere” refocused on the central family (all but Sansa anyway), teased us with the idea that the Starks might be partially reunited, then ended with them more deeply separated than ever.
The episode was a nightmare, and it played out like one, beginning with a sense of vague anxiety that turned real and inescapable. That conversation between Arya and the Hound earlier highlights it: as he intuits the fear she’s feeling, it’s as if he’s describing an anxiety dream, one of the one in which you find yourself running slower the closer you get to your goal, or the closer your pursuer gets to you.
In this case, the bogeyman is the larger forces arrayed against the Starks. There are too many, their tentacles reach too far, and while Robb can push his pieces around on his battle map as much as he likes, the masterstrokes happen off the board—in this case, the Lannisters have gotten to his ally Bolton, who tells Robb as much as he finishes him off. The title of the episode, “The Rains of Castamere,” is the mournful song the wedding band starts playing as the bedding ceremony turns into a bleeding ceremony—and it’s also, as we learned earlier, a ballad that tells of the cruel ends met by people who cross the Lannisters. Robb, as we’ve heard before, may have won every battle he fought—but he’s lost the war, and is definitively outplayed in the game of alliance, treachery, politics, and back room dealing, the game of thrones.
The butchery would have been staggering regardless, a brutal reminder that when season one told us, through Ned, that no one is safe on this show, it really meant it. But I was really impressed with how director David Nutter realized it on the screen. This was unpretty violence, an inglorious mob hit, carried out without poetry or the chance for glorious ends. The closest Robb and Talisa get to a heartrending goodbye is his watching the light go out of her eyes.
It’s ugly in the best sense of the word. One thing Game of Thrones is always great at is showing war and violence for the unromantic thing it is, so it’s not surprising it should dash the hope that this story would end in a glorious Stark military victory.
And Michelle Fairley’s fantastic performance captures the horror, with the edge of desperation, anguish, and madness of a woman who has lost her sons (she believes all of them), lost her grandchild, may have lost her daughters, and for all she knows, is witnessing the extinction of the house she belongs to–all through the petty act of a crude old man. It’s pointless, as is her cutting the throat of Frey’s wife–but she does it, and the blood gushes out sloppily and the woman dies, and quickly her own throat is cut, and the blood gushes out sloppily and she dies.
(MORE: Game of Thrones Watch: Dragons and Eagles and Bears, Oh, My!)
All this is unromantic and ignoble, like the shooting of a trapped wolf in a stall. And it was an excellent touch, letting us see the carnage in that way, through Arya’s eyes (though again, she was spared seeing the death of another parent directly). We knew Robb as a handsome avenging son, and Catelyn as a long-suffering matriarch, but it’s Arya who’s the emotional connection to the story, and her survival in this way is more heartbreaking than the deaths themselves.
Arya will wake up from the merciful hit the Hound put on her. But the nightmare isn’t over.
Now a quick hail of bullets:
* I have no quibbles with the way the Red Wedding was adapted from the books, but for non-readers, one aspect that was underemphasized here was the ceremonial offering of bread and salt when the Starks and Tullys arrive as guests. In the books, this is not just a symbol of hospitality but essentially a religious offering: to harm a guest once they’ve eaten your bread and salt is an unholy abomination. In the book, in fact, Catelyn urges Robb to eat as soon as the arrives at The Twins, to ensure this protection; I wonder if it was cut so as not to foreshadow the ending too heavily.
* I’ve given the other stories short shrift, for obvious reasons, but Bran as a warg = much more interesting Bran.
* Besides the obvious sense of foreboding in the episode, there were some interesting parallel stories of mercy (or the lack thereof): Jon refusing to execute the old man (and did Ygritte plant her arrow in the tree on purpose?); Arya insisting that the Hound spare another old man (and knocking the old man out, to spare him, much as the Hound would knock her out later).
* And more foreshadowing: “We’ll lose the war and die the way Father died. Or worse.” “Show them how it feels to lose what they love.”
* After all this, Dany’s taking of Yunkai seemed like kind of an afterthought, but it did give us some scenes of large-scale swordplay badassery of a kind Game of Thrones generally doesn’t.
* Talisa’s mild horror at watching the bedding ceremony is, in a way, an inversion of the early scenes in which Dany witness the bloody celebration at her own Dothraki wedding–but here, it’s the Westerosi who are being seen, from outside eyes, as barbarians. As it turns out, not without justification.
* “I can always see what’s going on beneath a dress”: should we take from this that Robb wanted to hide the further offense of Talisa’s being pregnant, and that Walder Frey saw through it?
* “You know all that from staring at marks on paper? You’re like a wizard.” The one thing, as Sam once told us, he’d dreamed of being. At least someone besides Walder Frey should get what they want this episode.
* Rather than make you wait too long for this post—again for obvious reasons—I rushed it out faster than usual. If anything new occurs to me, or if something I wrote strikes me as especially stupid after sleep, I’ll update later.
The usual request/demand, this week more than ever: no spoilers of future events (or possible events) from the books. Thanks for playing nicely.
“You’re almost there. And you’re afraid you won’t make it. The closer you get, the worse the fear gets.”
A confession: although I did not see last night’s Game of Thrones in advance, I knew what was going to happen. Everyone you know who read the source books, who cryptically told you, “Oh, just wait,” after Ned died—they knew what was going to happen. It is perhaps the single scene of the books (to date) we thought of first and most often when we learned HBO would make Game of Thrones into a series.
If you had no idea what was coming, if it’s any consolation, I don’t think that knowing made it any better. “The Red Wedding,” as it is known in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, was delivered in an episode that was brutal, heartbreaking, impeccably well-constructed, horrifying, and appropriately cruel. It was, like the betrayal itself, ruthless and efficient and left no doubt about the finality or ugliness of the crime.
Yet showing the Red Wedding—the brutal massacre of Robb, his mother Catelyn, and (in an addition to the books) his wife and unborn child—may not have been the cruelest thing that “The Rains of Castamere” did.
The cruelest thing, really, was that before more Starks met an untimely end—and the Stark war effort was seemingly quashed—the episode brought the long-suffering Stark family closer together than since Ned Stark made a huge mistake and went to King’s Landing. Arya came within steps of her brother and mother’s corpses; Bran was literally a shout away from Jon Snow, the half-brother he was on the road seeking. Yet by episode’s end, Arya was bereft and the Hound’s prisoner, and Bran sent Rickon away while he went off on his quest. In a series with a cast of dozens, “The Rains of Castamere” refocused on the central family (all but Sansa anyway), teased us with the idea that the Starks might be partially reunited, then ended with them more deeply separated than ever.
The episode was a nightmare, and it played out like one, beginning with a sense of vague anxiety that turned real and inescapable. That conversation between Arya and the Hound earlier highlights it: as he intuits the fear she’s feeling, it’s as if he’s describing an anxiety dream, one of the one in which you find yourself running slower the closer you get to your goal, or the closer your pursuer gets to you.
In this case, the bogeyman is the larger forces arrayed against the Starks. There are too many, their tentacles reach too far, and while Robb can push his pieces around on his battle map as much as he likes, the masterstrokes happen off the board—in this case, the Lannisters have gotten to his ally Bolton, who tells Robb as much as he finishes him off. The title of the episode, “The Rains of Castamere,” is the mournful song the wedding band starts playing as the bedding ceremony turns into a bleeding ceremony—and it’s also, as we learned earlier, a ballad that tells of the cruel ends met by people who cross the Lannisters. Robb, as we’ve heard before, may have won every battle he fought—but he’s lost the war, and is definitively outplayed in the game of alliance, treachery, politics, and back room dealing, the game of thrones.
The butchery would have been staggering regardless, a brutal reminder that when season one told us, through Ned, that no one is safe on this show, it really meant it. But I was really impressed with how director David Nutter realized it on the screen. This was unpretty violence, an inglorious mob hit, carried out without poetry or the chance for glorious ends. The closest Robb and Talisa get to a heartrending goodbye is his watching the light go out of her eyes.
It’s ugly in the best sense of the word. One thing Game of Thrones is always great at is showing war and violence for the unromantic thing it is, so it’s not surprising it should dash the hope that this story would end in a glorious Stark military victory.
And Michelle Fairley’s fantastic performance captures the horror, with the edge of desperation, anguish, and madness of a woman who has lost her sons (she believes all of them), lost her grandchild, may have lost her daughters, and for all she knows, is witnessing the extinction of the house she belongs to–all through the petty act of a crude old man. It’s pointless, as is her cutting the throat of Frey’s wife–but she does it, and the blood gushes out sloppily and the woman dies, and quickly her own throat is cut, and the blood gushes out sloppily and she dies.
(MORE: Game of Thrones Watch: Dragons and Eagles and Bears, Oh, My!)
All this is unromantic and ignoble, like the shooting of a trapped wolf in a stall. And it was an excellent touch, letting us see the carnage in that way, through Arya’s eyes (though again, she was spared seeing the death of another parent directly). We knew Robb as a handsome avenging son, and Catelyn as a long-suffering matriarch, but it’s Arya who’s the emotional connection to the story, and her survival in this way is more heartbreaking than the deaths themselves.
Arya will wake up from the merciful hit the Hound put on her. But the nightmare isn’t over.
Now a quick hail of bullets:
* I have no quibbles with the way the Red Wedding was adapted from the books, but for non-readers, one aspect that was underemphasized here was the ceremonial offering of bread and salt when the Starks and Tullys arrive as guests. In the books, this is not just a symbol of hospitality but essentially a religious offering: to harm a guest once they’ve eaten your bread and salt is an unholy abomination. In the book, in fact, Catelyn urges Robb to eat as soon as the arrives at The Twins, to ensure this protection; I wonder if it was cut so as not to foreshadow the ending too heavily.
* I’ve given the other stories short shrift, for obvious reasons, but Bran as a warg = much more interesting Bran.
* Besides the obvious sense of foreboding in the episode, there were some interesting parallel stories of mercy (or the lack thereof): Jon refusing to execute the old man (and did Ygritte plant her arrow in the tree on purpose?); Arya insisting that the Hound spare another old man (and knocking the old man out, to spare him, much as the Hound would knock her out later).
* And more foreshadowing: “We’ll lose the war and die the way Father died. Or worse.” “Show them how it feels to lose what they love.”
* After all this, Dany’s taking of Yunkai seemed like kind of an afterthought, but it did give us some scenes of large-scale swordplay badassery of a kind Game of Thrones generally doesn’t.
* Talisa’s mild horror at watching the bedding ceremony is, in a way, an inversion of the early scenes in which Dany witness the bloody celebration at her own Dothraki wedding–but here, it’s the Westerosi who are being seen, from outside eyes, as barbarians. As it turns out, not without justification.
* “I can always see what’s going on beneath a dress”: should we take from this that Robb wanted to hide the further offense of Talisa’s being pregnant, and that Walder Frey saw through it?
* “You know all that from staring at marks on paper? You’re like a wizard.” The one thing, as Sam once told us, he’d dreamed of being. At least someone besides Walder Frey should get what they want this episode.
* Rather than make you wait too long for this post—again for obvious reasons—I rushed it out faster than usual. If anything new occurs to me, or if something I wrote strikes me as especially stupid after sleep, I’ll update later.
The usual request/demand, this week more than ever: no spoilers of future events (or possible events) from the books. Thanks for playing nicely.
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'Game Of Thrones' Robb Stark Speaks: Richard Madden Addresses Shocking Developments
As soon as he wrapped the bloody "Game of Thrones" scene in which his character, Robb Stark, was killed, actor Richard Madden went straight to the airport and flew home to London.
"And I cried the whole way," Madden said in a recent phone interview. "I was the crazy boy on the plane crying."
In an interview with a small group of journalists on Friday, Madden talked about how difficult it was to film the Red Wedding, a tragic event that was even bloodier on the screen than it was in the George R.R. Martin book.
Not only did Robb Stark, the King in the North, perish in Sunday's episode, but Robb's mother, Catelyn (Michelle Fairley), also died -- all of which tracks with what transpired at those cursed nuptials in "A Storm of Swords," the third book in Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. As payback for Robb not marrying one of his daughters, Lord Walder Frey engineered the deaths of the Starks -- but even those who've read the books may have been shocked by the third significant death at the so-called Red Wedding.
In the episode, Robb's pregnant wife, Talisa, was also murdered, thus eliminating the Stark clan from competition for the Iron Throne (at least for now). As fans know, Talisa (Oona Chaplin) is a new character; in the books, Robb married Jeyne Westerling (who did not die in "A Storm of Swords").
Below, Madden talks about filming Robb's final moments, working with his great friend Fairley and the tears that were shed on set that difficult day. He also offers thoughts on why Talisa had to die and discusses what the King in the North had in common with his ill-fated father, Ned. Don't miss HuffPost TV's interview with Fairley.
As soon as he wrapped the bloody "Game of Thrones" scene in which his character, Robb Stark, was killed, actor Richard Madden went straight to the airport and flew home to London.
"And I cried the whole way," Madden said in a recent phone interview. "I was the crazy boy on the plane crying."
In an interview with a small group of journalists on Friday, Madden talked about how difficult it was to film the Red Wedding, a tragic event that was even bloodier on the screen than it was in the George R.R. Martin book.
Not only did Robb Stark, the King in the North, perish in Sunday's episode, but Robb's mother, Catelyn (Michelle Fairley), also died -- all of which tracks with what transpired at those cursed nuptials in "A Storm of Swords," the third book in Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. As payback for Robb not marrying one of his daughters, Lord Walder Frey engineered the deaths of the Starks -- but even those who've read the books may have been shocked by the third significant death at the so-called Red Wedding.
In the episode, Robb's pregnant wife, Talisa, was also murdered, thus eliminating the Stark clan from competition for the Iron Throne (at least for now). As fans know, Talisa (Oona Chaplin) is a new character; in the books, Robb married Jeyne Westerling (who did not die in "A Storm of Swords").
Below, Madden talks about filming Robb's final moments, working with his great friend Fairley and the tears that were shed on set that difficult day. He also offers thoughts on why Talisa had to die and discusses what the King in the North had in common with his ill-fated father, Ned. Don't miss HuffPost TV's interview with Fairley.
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since i know what is happening, so i say to myself, kill them all already, what is taking them so long.
Then when it start, shit, that was too violent.
holy shit.
They dun have to make it more violent than the book.
Young people watch that show too.
Then when it start, shit, that was too violent.
holy shit.
They dun have to make it more violent than the book.
Young people watch that show too.
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As the wedding band played, Sunday night’s Game of Thrones audience was neatly divided into two groups: readers of the original novels who knew exactly what was about to happen and those who only know the battles of Westeros through TV—which is to say, they had no idea. With the runaway popularity of the TV series (the premiere of its third season set an online-piracy record earlier this year), the most surprising plot twist of all may be the fact that the second group was so large. In the history of the internet, has a larger population of rabid know-it-alls ever been so good at keeping a secret?
Here comes the spoiler. There’s still time to turn away.
The famous scene from last night’s episode, known as The Red Wedding, ends with the death of the boy-king Robb Stark—one of the few sympathetic characters in a series lousy with antiheroes and villains—along with his mother, pregnant wife, pet direwolf, and most of his loyal comrades in arms. In one fell swoop, a hero, his mother, his true love, his dog, and his friends are all savagely murdered. It’s the kind of moment that actually seems to punish viewers’ enthusiasm for the show itself.
And there was plenty of outrage on Sunday night, proof that the secret had been kept for more than a dozen years. (The third novel, on which this season of the TV show is based, was first published in 2000.) A Twitter account, @RedWeddingTears, popped up to aggregate the anguish and vows of vengeance against a story and its creators for upsetting their expectations:
Having a deep Game of Thrones-related depression and psychological distress.
— Angeline Fuentes (@AngelineFuentes) June 3, 2013
Game of Thrones literally just tore my heart out and stomped on it. I’m gonna throw up man.
— Ben Biggers (@biggerben19) June 3, 2013
IT’S BEEN HALF AN HOUR AND IM STILL THROWING UP #GAMEOFTHRONES
— Adrian Wong (@NothingsWong) June 3, 2013
For a medium that does little more than encourage its users to tell everyone, everything, all the time, the Internet has actually gotten remarkably good at dealing with spoilers; the big SPOILER ALERT all-caps warning is fairly ubiquitous. Even so, it’s remarkable to consider the restraint required to create Sunday’s moment of collective shock. Nearly two decades after the publication of the first book, there are more than 8.5 million print and digital copies of Martin’s fantasy series in the hands of readers. Taking steps to preserve the plot has become a staple of the fan culture since the debut of the HBO (TWX) version of the series three years ago. Websites that post recaps or traffic in discussion of Game of Thrones typically offer safe spaces for first timers and separate venues for a more experienced audience. Even on Reddit, not generally known for genteel manners, the administrators of the forum on the series offer no fewer than 12 filters and settings to help readers guard against unwanted spoilers.
It’s hard to feel good about the world after emerging from an hour of slit necks and puncture wounds at a wedding. Odd, then, to think that Games of Thrones could at the same time help restore the sense that common decency, consideration, and, well, politeness is possible—even on the Internet.
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'Game of Thrones' recap: The Red Wedding
It happened. RW. The Scene Which Shall Not Be Named.
The showrunners decided to call this ninth episode of Game of Thrones' third season "The Rains of Castamere." And that's a fine and suitable title. But fans are always going to call it by its other name: The Red Wedding.
Tonight Thrones reached a crescendo of sorts. This hour concluded with a scene book-reader fans have alternately anticipated and dreaded since the show was first announced. I don't think it's hyperbole to say it's one of the most shocking, brutal and disturbing sequences ever put on television.
The hour was directed by David Nutter, who's known as "the pilot whisperer" due to his track record for shooting pilots that later go on to become successful series (examples: Without a Trace, Smallville, Arrow). He previously directed Thrones episodes "A Man Without Honor" and "The Old Gods and the New," and will helm next week's finale "Mhysa." Nutter told me he prepared for this particular episode for an entire year and the prospect rather terrified him. Yet he approached it like a general over the five-day shoot of The Twins scenes and drew praise from the actors. More on the making of this episode in this week's print edition of Entertainment Weekly, and see the end of this recap for links to exclusive interviews with the showrunners, George R.R. Martin, Richard Madden and Michelle Fairley. Now let's take a walk down a very dark path...
Robb's tent: "Are you sure about this?" asks Catelyn, a prophetic statement. "It's dangerous." Robb's mom is worried about his plan to go after the Lannister home of Casterly Rock. Saying it's dangerous is almost laughable -- everything rebellious Team Robb is doing is dangerous. Seems Robb has learned a thing or two over the course of the last few seasons because he's actually asking for mom's advice. Robb and Catelyn like the plan, but it hinges on Lord Walder Frey giving them more troops. Mom gives her blessing: "Show them how it feels to lose what they love." The shadows in this scene are outnumbered by the foreshadows.
The Twins: Lord Walder Frey passes along a ceremonial tray of hors d'oeuvres. In the Seven Kingdoms, it's said that you cannot harm a person in your home once they've partaken of your "bread and salt." You would think they could have at least picked something a bit more appetizing -- bread and butter, maybe, or bread and some virgin olive oil, or hell, cheese and crackers. Like many aspects of Thrones, this custom is loosely based on actual medieval practice (Martin talks about it in our interview).
Robb begs Frey's forgiveness for breaking his word. Frey brings out his brood of homely daughters, each looking like a refugee at a shelter for abused women. He explains Robb could have had his pick of any one of them (including a two-for-one bargain on the ginger twins). The man has so many offspring he can't remember all their names. "Any man would be lucky to have any one of you," Robb smoothly reassures. Frey gives his performance a sarcastic slow clap, then wants to get a closer look at Robb's wife Talisa.
"Very pretty," Frey says. "Prettier than this lot." He accuses her of trying to hide her figure under a dowdy dress. "You wanted to hide her you shouldn't have brought her here in the first place," Frey says and gets all lecherous -- moreso. "I say he betrayed me for firm tits and a tight fit, and I can respect that. When I was your age I would have broken 50 oaths to get into that without a second thought."
It's all Robb can do not to kill him. But what Frey is saying should actually come as a relief. Frey can't understand love, but he can understand breaking oaths and being a perv. That's close enough. "We'll put this mess behind us," Frey says.
It happened. RW. The Scene Which Shall Not Be Named.
The showrunners decided to call this ninth episode of Game of Thrones' third season "The Rains of Castamere." And that's a fine and suitable title. But fans are always going to call it by its other name: The Red Wedding.
Tonight Thrones reached a crescendo of sorts. This hour concluded with a scene book-reader fans have alternately anticipated and dreaded since the show was first announced. I don't think it's hyperbole to say it's one of the most shocking, brutal and disturbing sequences ever put on television.
The hour was directed by David Nutter, who's known as "the pilot whisperer" due to his track record for shooting pilots that later go on to become successful series (examples: Without a Trace, Smallville, Arrow). He previously directed Thrones episodes "A Man Without Honor" and "The Old Gods and the New," and will helm next week's finale "Mhysa." Nutter told me he prepared for this particular episode for an entire year and the prospect rather terrified him. Yet he approached it like a general over the five-day shoot of The Twins scenes and drew praise from the actors. More on the making of this episode in this week's print edition of Entertainment Weekly, and see the end of this recap for links to exclusive interviews with the showrunners, George R.R. Martin, Richard Madden and Michelle Fairley. Now let's take a walk down a very dark path...
Robb's tent: "Are you sure about this?" asks Catelyn, a prophetic statement. "It's dangerous." Robb's mom is worried about his plan to go after the Lannister home of Casterly Rock. Saying it's dangerous is almost laughable -- everything rebellious Team Robb is doing is dangerous. Seems Robb has learned a thing or two over the course of the last few seasons because he's actually asking for mom's advice. Robb and Catelyn like the plan, but it hinges on Lord Walder Frey giving them more troops. Mom gives her blessing: "Show them how it feels to lose what they love." The shadows in this scene are outnumbered by the foreshadows.
The Twins: Lord Walder Frey passes along a ceremonial tray of hors d'oeuvres. In the Seven Kingdoms, it's said that you cannot harm a person in your home once they've partaken of your "bread and salt." You would think they could have at least picked something a bit more appetizing -- bread and butter, maybe, or bread and some virgin olive oil, or hell, cheese and crackers. Like many aspects of Thrones, this custom is loosely based on actual medieval practice (Martin talks about it in our interview).
Robb begs Frey's forgiveness for breaking his word. Frey brings out his brood of homely daughters, each looking like a refugee at a shelter for abused women. He explains Robb could have had his pick of any one of them (including a two-for-one bargain on the ginger twins). The man has so many offspring he can't remember all their names. "Any man would be lucky to have any one of you," Robb smoothly reassures. Frey gives his performance a sarcastic slow clap, then wants to get a closer look at Robb's wife Talisa.
"Very pretty," Frey says. "Prettier than this lot." He accuses her of trying to hide her figure under a dowdy dress. "You wanted to hide her you shouldn't have brought her here in the first place," Frey says and gets all lecherous -- moreso. "I say he betrayed me for firm tits and a tight fit, and I can respect that. When I was your age I would have broken 50 oaths to get into that without a second thought."
It's all Robb can do not to kill him. But what Frey is saying should actually come as a relief. Frey can't understand love, but he can understand breaking oaths and being a perv. That's close enough. "We'll put this mess behind us," Frey says.
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'Game of Thrones' star and fans left in tears after Red Wedding
Tears at a wedding are not unusual, but the sobs at the nuptials of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey on Sunday's "Game of Thrones" were far from happy as Lord Frey exacted his revenge by killing the Starks and Tullys at the celebration.
The stunning scene had a strong impact on Richard Madden, the man behind the now deceased King in the North, Robb Stark. "I cried the whole way" home, the actor told AccessHollywood.com of his reaction after finishing shooting his death scene.
He wasn't the only cast member upset after the Red Wedding. "I've never been that emotionally exhausted before -- ever," Michelle Fairley, who plays Catelyn Stark, told AH.
The stars weren't the only ones who reacted strongly to the death-filled episode. Fans of the show -- including those who had read the novels and were expecting the bloody onslaught -- were stunned by how the scene played out.
"I was so shocked," wrote reader Pamela Frank Huckabee on our Facebook page. "I sat here with my mouth open while the credits rolled. I couldn't say anything so posted HOLY CRAP on my Facebook page. Wow, I may not sleep a wink tonight."
"I'm totally traumatized after watching the episode. I didn't read the books yet so this took me by surprise," wrote Sumi Moon. "Game of thrones is insanely awesome and Michelle Fairley's acting in this episode was just perfect. This is the second time this series make me cry like a baby, the first one was when Eddard died."
"I'm still reeling from the utter surprise and violence of it all," wrote Katy Richard. "Talisa's demise most shocking of all. All I could do was scream and cry out in horror. There is no central conflict now! The repulsive Lannisters have won. A most depressing reality."
Catelynn Stark (Michelle Fairley) is devastated as son Robb is killed before her eyes on "Game of Thrones."
"Honestly I think they took it too far. His wife isn't pregnant or at the red wedding in the book. I read the books and I wasn't prepared for the brutality of it. It was the most brutal thing I ever saw on a TV show," wrote Michael Poretti.
Some were so upset by the turn of events on "Game of Thrones" they took to HBO's website to complain:
"I have never seen anything as vile, disheartening, hurtful, and revelous in the bloodshed of heroes as this episode," wrote David on HBO.com. "Yeah, winter is coming HBO ... to your ratings."
"So - when you eliminate just about every character that I care about, then continue to kill anyone with any sense of moral compass with such vengeance so as to punish them for even thinking that principles mattered, allow the wretched and evil to win over and over again and gain more power, and basically remove any and all hope of anything good ever happening (because how can I enjoy a show when every character I liked is now dead,) why is it exactly that I should continue watching?" wrote Tony.
Tears at a wedding are not unusual, but the sobs at the nuptials of Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey on Sunday's "Game of Thrones" were far from happy as Lord Frey exacted his revenge by killing the Starks and Tullys at the celebration.
The stunning scene had a strong impact on Richard Madden, the man behind the now deceased King in the North, Robb Stark. "I cried the whole way" home, the actor told AccessHollywood.com of his reaction after finishing shooting his death scene.
He wasn't the only cast member upset after the Red Wedding. "I've never been that emotionally exhausted before -- ever," Michelle Fairley, who plays Catelyn Stark, told AH.
The stars weren't the only ones who reacted strongly to the death-filled episode. Fans of the show -- including those who had read the novels and were expecting the bloody onslaught -- were stunned by how the scene played out.
"I was so shocked," wrote reader Pamela Frank Huckabee on our Facebook page. "I sat here with my mouth open while the credits rolled. I couldn't say anything so posted HOLY CRAP on my Facebook page. Wow, I may not sleep a wink tonight."
"I'm totally traumatized after watching the episode. I didn't read the books yet so this took me by surprise," wrote Sumi Moon. "Game of thrones is insanely awesome and Michelle Fairley's acting in this episode was just perfect. This is the second time this series make me cry like a baby, the first one was when Eddard died."
"I'm still reeling from the utter surprise and violence of it all," wrote Katy Richard. "Talisa's demise most shocking of all. All I could do was scream and cry out in horror. There is no central conflict now! The repulsive Lannisters have won. A most depressing reality."
Catelynn Stark (Michelle Fairley) is devastated as son Robb is killed before her eyes on "Game of Thrones."
"Honestly I think they took it too far. His wife isn't pregnant or at the red wedding in the book. I read the books and I wasn't prepared for the brutality of it. It was the most brutal thing I ever saw on a TV show," wrote Michael Poretti.
Some were so upset by the turn of events on "Game of Thrones" they took to HBO's website to complain:
"I have never seen anything as vile, disheartening, hurtful, and revelous in the bloodshed of heroes as this episode," wrote David on HBO.com. "Yeah, winter is coming HBO ... to your ratings."
"So - when you eliminate just about every character that I care about, then continue to kill anyone with any sense of moral compass with such vengeance so as to punish them for even thinking that principles mattered, allow the wretched and evil to win over and over again and gain more power, and basically remove any and all hope of anything good ever happening (because how can I enjoy a show when every character I liked is now dead,) why is it exactly that I should continue watching?" wrote Tony.
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– Maybe it's just because she's my favorite, but this face of Ygritte's was the hardest image for me to stomach. Everything just crashed down around her, poor girl. Not even a glance back from Jon.
– I liked how HBO's version of the Red Wedding managed to be even more heartbreaking than the book's. The addition of Talisa getting stabbed in the babymaker (she wasn't in the book) was an extra layer of suffering that made it that much harder to watch. Add to that Robb's much stronger presence in the series, and the book's depiction of the Red Wedding feels rather tame by comparison. It's going to be a bummer moving forward without Richard Madden, but he'll move on to other things and be a star, I'm sure.
– An extra special round of applause for all the actors involved in the Red Wedding, but a standing ovation for Michelle Fairley, who nailed the desperate grief of a mother who witnessed (what she thought might be) the last of her children murdered.
– Who caught the bouquet?
– The Blackfish had a well-timed piss to escape this whole mess, right? He made it out alive, didn't he?
– Let's not forget how funny this episode was, too. Arya knocked out that poor pig farmer to save his life, Edmure's facial expressions all night long were priceless, even Walder Frey had some hilarious lines in his own disgusting way. The Red Wedding will dominate everyone's memories of "The Rains of Castamere," but everything that led up to it was great.
– Congratulations to Edmure! Nice pull, man! Totally worth it. (I wonder what he'll say the next morning?)
– Are you mad? Sad? Glad?
– Maybe it's just because she's my favorite, but this face of Ygritte's was the hardest image for me to stomach. Everything just crashed down around her, poor girl. Not even a glance back from Jon.
– I liked how HBO's version of the Red Wedding managed to be even more heartbreaking than the book's. The addition of Talisa getting stabbed in the babymaker (she wasn't in the book) was an extra layer of suffering that made it that much harder to watch. Add to that Robb's much stronger presence in the series, and the book's depiction of the Red Wedding feels rather tame by comparison. It's going to be a bummer moving forward without Richard Madden, but he'll move on to other things and be a star, I'm sure.
– An extra special round of applause for all the actors involved in the Red Wedding, but a standing ovation for Michelle Fairley, who nailed the desperate grief of a mother who witnessed (what she thought might be) the last of her children murdered.
– Who caught the bouquet?
– The Blackfish had a well-timed piss to escape this whole mess, right? He made it out alive, didn't he?
– Let's not forget how funny this episode was, too. Arya knocked out that poor pig farmer to save his life, Edmure's facial expressions all night long were priceless, even Walder Frey had some hilarious lines in his own disgusting way. The Red Wedding will dominate everyone's memories of "The Rains of Castamere," but everything that led up to it was great.
– Congratulations to Edmure! Nice pull, man! Totally worth it. (I wonder what he'll say the next morning?)
– Are you mad? Sad? Glad?
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That means the Lannisters win the war,,,,,sigh...
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