Friday, July 27, 2018

Game of Thrones - Season 7 (2017)

Also Known As: -
Year of first release: 2017
Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, George R. R. Martin
Actors: Peter Dinklage (X-men: Days of a Future Past), Lena Headey (300, Dredd), Emilia Clarke (Terminator: Genesis), Kit Harington (Pompeii)
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Conditions of visioning: June 2018, inflight entertainment 12" screen
Synopsis: The several families fighting for years around the Iron Throne have to form alliances around the two main contestants, and decide whether the fight against the armies of the Winter King is not more important.
Review: I did not watch this season in the best conditions. First I should have re-watched the previous one just before, like I did for that one, as not only it helps remembering the vast cast but it also puts you right in the mood for more. And then that is the second seasons that I don't watch on a Home Cinema and although it doesn't matter much for most of the scenes, it does for the ones that show landscapes or massive battles, and in general a better image and sound quality would help appreciating better the work on costumes, sets and the work of the actors.
I may have complained for many seasons that the pace was slow and the stories disconnected, this season follows the footsteps of the previous ones and shows the hint of the conclusion to come in the next and final season 8, which will be composed of seven episodes as this one because they are in fact a season split in two.
As the poster says, Winter is here, and Westeros tired after already many battles is getting ready for the final one. This season renews with the forgotten tradition of killing members of its main cast like it used to do so well at the beginning, and I guess in season 8 there will be blood.
I found this season to be well-written (the work of George R. R. Martin among the others): not only the dialogs but the relationship between characters, their reaction making us hate more the ones we hate and love more the ones we love, and some monumental Fantasy moments (waw the last two episodes) that ascend straight to the Pantheon of memorable Fantasy moments in Cinema next to scenes of Conan the Barbarian, even though we are talking about a TV-series. That would have been unimaginable before Game of Thrones.
Feeling the series coming to an end (well, the last season is planned for the first half of 2019 so there is still time) slowly makes me want to re-watch the whole of it, and in good conditions. I will be waiting for the blu-ray box-set in 2020.
Rating: 7 /10

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