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Winter Is Coming

Game of Thrones Newbie Recap: What I’d Like To See In Season 3

by Sarah Devlin | 4:15 pm, June 5th, 2012


Sunday’s season finale of Game of Thrones was very exciting, even for a newbie who started watching the first season concurrently with the second. I’m still not all the way caught up, but I feel like it made the final two episodes richer for me in that they called to mind so many things I had just seen in the first season (Lord Bailish’s slipperiness and also his love for Catelyn Stark, or the Hound’s visceral reaction to the fiery battle at the gates last week, for example). I’ll certainly be watching Season 3, and like many fans I have a few preferences for how things should go down. Not having read the books or being fully caught up on the series (I still have the first half of Season 2 to get through) — here are my hopes, however unfounded, for when the show returns. Spoilers to follow!


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  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Dany was a big disappointment this season as opposed to last and it was made somewhat better by the finale, but I agree that she’d do with some more screen time, more strength, and less walking around whining about her dragons…

  • http://twitter.com/Riviare Riviera

    I agree with all the points except the baby dragons. I want MORE of the baby dragons.

    Dany did get a tad on the childish side, but that didn’t last long, and considering the fact that she’s been soldiering up for a long time, she did deserve a few moments of stress release. In my opinion.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kaarel-Jakobson/100000313100671 Kaarel Jakobson

    This is the first time I’ve seen someone complain about the dragons’ CGI.

  • http://twitter.com/happyprime379 Evelyn Nesbit

    To be fair, there IS a reason why Robb married Talisa/Jeyne. He knew that she was essentially unmarriageable without her virginity, and his honor wouldn’t let him condemn her to that fate.

  • Anonymous

    Under the “characters making better decisions” category – am I the only one that was shocked and disappointed that Sansa didn’t leave with The Hound?  Ok, I know he was all drunk and bloody at that moment, but he’s one of the best fighters around, one of the only people you know who has been decent to you, and – oh yes – he wants to take you away from your horrible psychopath fiance and evil stepmother-to-be and return you home.

    (Also, I bet he’s a lot more fun on a road trip than one of those chaste knights like Dany’s Ser Jorah. Rowr!! ;-)

    (sorry for that last bit…it’s been a long day…. ;-)

  • Anonymous

    Oh my sweet Summer Child…..

  • Anonymous

    Well
    did anyone really have to know she wasn’t a virgin anymore? I mean, that
    marriage was so tremendously stupid that I have no words.

  • Anonymous

    In the books his proposal was more… rapey. No actual rape, but he obviously has forcefully armourous designs on Lady Stark, if you catch my drift. Also, that whole war thing going on outside. I’m not saying hers was a GOOD decision, it’s just that staying and leaving both had their fair share of pros and cons.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with all, except less dragon shots. For a tv show, for a movie, those are pretty well done dragons! Okay, they dont look like that dragon in the last harry potter movie, but probably roughly the budget for this whole show went into that.

    I think not only are they pretty convincingly realized CG wise, their movements look really real, and how they interact with characters, and the sound design for them is wonderful.

  • http://twitter.com/ladylad7181 WOLFBANE

    squeebritches – the book scene with sansa and sandor was MUCH more violent and frightening than the HBO episode. however, there’s a reason for EVERYTHING Martin does. just you wait. and READ THE BOOKS!

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