Game of Thrones - Season 3 (2013)

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	Year of first release: 2013
	Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
	Actors: Peter Dinklage (Xmen: Days of a Future Past), Lena Headey (300, Dredd), Emilia Clarke (Terminator: Genesis)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: April-May 2014, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: The war for the control of the Iron Throne rages on.
Review: Once again I will assume that the reader of this post has seen the previous seasons, so I don't need to warn about spoilers. The season starts in the same spirit as the previous one, i.e. very slow and with lots of dialogs but then I appreciated the epic episodes 3 and 4, in which many events take place and we finally see Daeneris gaining some power. Episodes 5 to 8 make you want to see more and more, except for the torture scenes that I don't like. And then you have episode 9: if 3 and 4 were epic, what is this one?!? Maybe the most surprising since the death of Ned Stark. As it was done once on the Blu-ray of the first season, this episode is presented in a mode called "Anatomy of an episode", which is better than a commentary because not only the director, cast and crew speak while you watch the episode, but it is also interrupted by pieces of interview, behind-the-scenes footage, and other making-of elements. Very interesting. The intricate story is still filled with well-developed characters, and the sets and the special effects are as good-looking as usual. So in summary, the stakes are going increasingly and the story gets more captivating after a slow second season. But what bothers me more and more is that I would like that the many separate groups in the story converge faster together. This only starts to happen towards the last episodes, but actually after some more separated groups were created. I would really like to see some progress, and have less the feeling that the series will go on forever. This is something I often reproach to TV-series (actually it is not too much the case in Sons of Anarchy). Note that in the light of that season, I have revised my ratings on the two first ones. Season 1 went from 8 to 7/10 (the extra point was for the surprise effect, now I am over it) and Season 2 went from 6 to 5/10, because it was really too slow, and now I can rate Season 3 right between the first two.
Rating: 6 /10