Likewise Allen, Harington, Gillen, Madden, Glen, Clarke and others all do strong work across their characters – too many to mention in fact, it is a real boon of the show that there are so many characters and yet I am interested in all of them and all of their threads. Headey has grown on me more this season, as has Coleraine-girl Fairley. Dinklage continues to give a great performance and is my favourite in terms of colour, although only marginally more than Gleeson, who delivers a monstrous c*** who is as arrogant as he is ill-suited for this role as King.
Generally I was impressed a lot more this season as characters grew and developed. The cast respond to this well and even the smaller characters are played in such a way that you are interested in them, which helps the nature of the telling where one cannot be sure who will live and who will die considering that characters who appear to be "main" can quickly be dispatched and forgotten within a few episodes if the plot turns in that direction. Every second and every line of dialogue is important and are therefore mostly used very well to deliver character, motivation and also plot. That said, the season is impressive in how well it does this with relatively little time on each thread. I imagine this "squeeze" effect is much harder for those coming from the books to the show. The only obvious downside of having so much to squeeze in is that occasionally there are gaps in threads that are just left to save time – this is best seen in the final episode where several characters go from one situation to a different location without it really being clear how they did this. Not having read the book and being keen to avoid spoilers, all the various twists and turns of the plot was news to me, whether it be the turn of the war or the specifics of an individual character, and each story arch held me easily with no one thread being of more interest than another. The war means that the second season has a much larger and perhaps simpler agenda but at the same time there are plenty of smaller moments and manoeuvring of characters that I continued to find as enjoyable as I did unpredictable. With the first season I felt it took me a minute or two to get into the tone of the show and also understand the basic characters enough to be able to get caught up in what was happening with the second I had no such time and I was keen to get back into the battle as various armies marched across the land while small threats build overseas and political betrayal is embedded in every conversation of those seeking power for themselves. That said, I am a fan of well told stories that engage me and surprise me in equal measure, and it is for this reason that I came to the second season of Game of Thrones and is also the reason why I will feel every month until I get to watch the third season and continue all these stories.
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Maester Luwin: What is this? What are you doing?Īs I have said before, I am not a particular fan of swords and sorcery style stories, full of long names and even longer genealogy charts to help you keep track of who is who it isn't a genre that ever has me searching for more even if I have enjoyed it in some instances. Ironborn: What is dead may never die!ĭagmer Cleftjaw: It was a good speech. Theon Greyjoy: What is dead may never die! Theon Greyjoy: And whoever kills that *fucking* horn-blower will stand in bronze above the shores of Pyke! Theon Greyjoy: Girls will think of us with their lovers inside them! Theon Greyjoy: Mothers will name their sons for us!
Every man, woman, and child will know who we were and how long we stood! Aggar and Gelmarr! Wex and Urzen! Stygg and Black Lorren! Ironborn warriors will cry out our names as they leap onto the shores of Seagard and Faircastle! They will sing about the Battle of Winterfell until the Iron Islands have slipped beneath the waves. Theon Greyjoy: We die today, brothers! We die bleeding from a hundred wounds, with arrows in our necks and spears in our guts! But our war cries will echo through eternity. Theon Greyjoy: They say that every ironborn man is worth a dozen from the mainland. They want to fuck us! Well, I haven't had a good fuck in weeks, I'm ready for one! Theon Greyjoy: You hear that? That's the mating call of the Northmen.