Do not comment if you have not seen this episode yet! Stay away if you have not seen it! You have been warned! Well the Red Wedding certainly has everybody talking and it was handled quite well. However, it is far from the most shocking thing to happen on the show! Remember that the main protagonist was murdered nine episodes into the shows run? I would also remind people that in the second season very earlier on the "benevolent" King Goffrey had a baby murdered! So I think that the real shock is for fringe fans of the show or for people who have not realized that anything close to a "hero" in Game of Thrones is essentially doomed. Yes I know nothing but greatly fear for a certain Targaryen girl! Also was it possible that Goffrey was actually wise when he mentioned to his uncle that she could in fact pose the real threat to the realm? While we are on that subject I feel that Daenery's has clearly become the shows major heroine and that part of the tragedy of Game of Thrones is that noble families like the Starks cannot exist in a world like this. Anyone else hoping that Ayaa reunites with her faceless assassin friend? With that being said and I can say a whole lot more I have to say that overall season 3 has been very underwhelming as a whole. It is not as good as seasons one and two but it does seem to be setting lots of things up but my question to ask is what is coming? In the grand scheme of the narrative structure the "Red Wedding" was handled well but due to the long drawn out episodes in which nothing advances the plot forward I was too bored to care about it as much as I should. Although it was nice from a plot perspective that Robb by breaking his vow actually paid for it. That was well done as most people, myself included probably forgot about the pact that he made with his eventual killer. However, when Robb made the decision to go back there, which lets be fair was a really moronic move, this was the inevitable conclusion. So while I am torn about season 3 and I was not "shocked" by the episode I do think that anyone who gives up on the show because their "hero" or "heroes" are gone should never have watched the show in the first place. One of the strengths that Game of Thrones did maintain is that the "Hollywood" version of punishing evil has no bearing in this world and that is still one of the key things that makes this show in it's own brilliant way an exceptionally realistic portrayal of how corrupt the hearts of men can be. Feel free to rant away!
