Game of Thrones - Season 2 (2012)

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	Year of first release: 2012
	Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
	Actors: Peter Dinklage (Xmen: Days of a Future Past), Lena Headey (300, Dredd)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: October-November 2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: The war between four pretendents to the Iron throne is slowly progressing.
Review: I will assume that the reader of this review has seen the first season of Game of Thrones so I will not alert for spoilers about that one. My general feeling about the second season is that it looks much more like a TV-series than the first one. It seemed to me that a lot of time is spent showing characters talking to each other, in a tent or a room or a castle or outside. The surroundings change but we always see two guys talking, while the first season was more taking the time to set the atmosphere of this foreign world. A direct consequence is that when you look back at the whole season actually not much happens. It gives me the feeling that now that the audience is addicted, the producers will spread the story over many years! This feeling doesn't motivate me for buying the third season which costs around 40 euros. On the positive side, the characters we liked and hated in the first season are still around, the music is still good and the visual effects of high quality in the rare scenes in which they are needed (a few apparitions of the dragons and one battle). One bonus in the blu-ray set tells the story of the different families in the shape of animated drawings, which is nice.
Rating: 5/10