Game of thrones red wedding responses

Alex: I liked the building anxiety on her face as that song started to play. Martha: Yeah, I wonder if they realize that the Lannisters are the ones who actually orchestrated the entire Red Wedding by offering protection to the Freys?

I thought they alluded to all the right things, that Roose Bolton betrayed Robb, that the Lannisters — possibly Tywin — were behind it all. Were there any things you were expecting to see that you did not see? Linda: Catelyn going mad, in a more tragic way, tearing at her face and her hair, and basically being killed to put her out of her misery.

Alex: I think the way it went down in the book would have been too way over the top. And I thought Michelle Fairley did a really good job. That last look, when she just sagged at the end? Phil: And you could just hear in her voice the pain and anguish she had just been through, all culminated in that final moment. It was great. Linda: But it should be more operatic. I wish we had gotten more of that, to play up her spiraling toward this moment. The effectiveness of the Red Wedding in the books is that [George R.

You wish it was over. So I think it would have been harder to build that tension and have it stay present. So I think having what they did have at the end, when they went to the Twins and showed everything from then on either inside or outside with Arya, I think they got enough of that sense that the book had.

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Airlines scrapped more than 3, U. The new wave of cancellations and delays comes as the surge in Covid infections in the U. Everyone started writing about it. It became bigger than just a TV show. People were quoting it on the internet, politics, politicians were quoting it. It was a slow burner but yeah, by the point of season 3, the whole world was on board. To stay up to date on everything fantasy, science fiction, and WiC, follow our all-encompassing Facebook page and sign up for our exclusive newsletter.

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Streaming More Netflix News ». More Amazon News ». View all Streaming Sites. These videos spread far and wide around the internet and helped the popularity of the show skyrocket. Overnight, it went from a popular fantasy show to the one series on television that was unmissable. This was a turning point for the show in terms of its popularity as well as its storytelling. As the ratings continued to rise episode after episode, the show got bigger in scale, defying what people thought could be done on a television series.

It also became clear that the showrunners noticed the excitement surrounding the Red Wedding and wanted to reach that same height again. Sadly, they seemed to take the wrong message away from its success. What made the Red Wedding so great was how shocking it was while also seeming inevitable. Fans wanted Robb to succeed but that didn't mean it made sense that he would.

Throughout the third season, the chess pieces were being moved around that brought Robb to this moment and his death. Fans didn't expect it in that moment, but everything about it made sense. It also played into what fans seemed to like best about the show - violence and political intrigue.

The showrunners seemed to see a much simpler recipe for what made the moment work - shocking violence. From all those reaction videos of people screaming as Robb and his army were butchered, they decided that was what the future of the show would be.