Game of Thrones - Season 4 (2014)

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	Year of first release: 2014
	Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, George R. R. Martin
	Actors: Peter Dinklage (Xmen: Days of a Future Past), Lena Headey (300, Dredd), Emilia Clarke (Terminator: Genesis)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: September 2014, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: With the war for the Iron Throne seemingly to a halt, new alliances develop to take control of the fallen territories.
Review: ...and the damned Winter is still not here. As in my previous reviews I will assume that the reader of this post has seen the previous seasons, so I don't need to warn about spoilers. I have watched the ten 52-minute episodes of the season in just three days, so that I got less the usual feeling that nothing happens in a season spent telling bits of 10 stories taking place at the four corners of the Kingdom and never converging. In this season at last I was glad to see some convergence. Also characters are growing up and changing, the viewers' feeling can evolve towards some of them, but personally I still want to slap Sansa in the face. I liked the character of Oberyn Martell and was pained to see his fate. As good special effects get cheaper as time goes by, we get to see more and more vast city landscapes and battles in this fourth season, for my greatest enjoyment.  The story keeps on getting interesting, partially due to the usual massacre of important members of the cast. In particular the first four episodes (ending with Oathkeeper) constitude a mini-series in themselves and end with a climax, as if they could have been attached to the previous season. A similar thing hapens with the four following one (ending with The Mountain and the Viper), paving the way for a majestic Episode #9 The Watchers of the Wall directed by Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday, Centurion) like if it was a medium-budget movie in itself. Very impressive. The last episode The Children seems weak in comparison but in fact brings the season to a satisfying end. All of that making this season my favorite to date with the first one, and only because that one had the advantage of surprise. The Blu-ray boxset of the fifth season should be available in March 2016.
Rating: 7 /10