[Dear reader, this is a SPOILER ALERT. If you haven’t seen the third season of Game of Thrones yet, but you plan to, skip this post, please. I don’t want to have the responsibility of ruining this particular part of the story for you too.]
Today was a rather calm day. I had to recruit two more villages today, but after that I’ve been taking it rather easy. I’ve transcribed notes, of course, but I also had time to finish the second season of Game of Thrones.
First, I have to say that the reason for why I’m so behind (season five of GoT will premiere in the spring), is because I read the books after having seen the first season, and when the second season started I just got too annoyed by the flawed actions by the characters, that would, in a chapter or three books, lead to them dying. Martin (the author) has a great talent for killing off his characters. Well, I simply couldn’t stand the frustration.
But now, more than two years later, I thought I would have gotten enough emotional distance from the main events, and forgotten the rest, to watch the rest of the show. It is well made, after all, and I love the costumes.
But. Still. It annoys me so much, the plot twist of Robb Stark and lady-what’s-her-name. Maybe mostly because I’m certain I would have loved that little storyline. Robb isn’t one of my favorite characters, but he’s a Stark and we’re all supposed to sympathize with the Starks (except for Catelyn Stark, she’s an idiot, I don’t think anyone can sympathize with Catelyn Stark). But the girl is beautiful and likeable and it’s nice with a simple love story among all the wars and intrigues and zombies. I would have liked it, looked forward to the sequences with them in the episodes – if it hadn’t been for the fact that I know Robb’s adolescent romance will lead to the RED WEDDING. To almost every nobelman of the North being KILLED. Just because he FELL IN LOVE.
Now, I despise that storyline. Because I know what it will lead to. And I didn’t even get to enjoy Robb’s love story in the book! In the written version, Robb just returns from a battle (and some other stuff) already married to a woman from a minor noble family, not a cool Volantean nurse.
No, I can’t do this. Not for a couple of days, anyway. I’ll turn to some Buffy the Vampire Slayer instead. Her witty retorts to the ugly 1990s special effect monsters, the perfect balance of high school drama and impending supernatural disasters and the thrill of mysterious Angel is exactly what I need. Safe, smart and funny, all at once.
Katja Malmborg 