Game Of Thrones fans since I had such a good time writing a review for you all yesterday I thought that i'd write a review of another Game Of Thrones episode today. Just like with the last Game Of Thrones episode that I wrote a review for yesterday I had so many choices for good or even average episodes and well I went with the episode that has a pretty iconic ending and yes I will most likely be talking about that iconic ending in this very review and so join me as I review the Game Of Thrones season one finale with the episode itself being called simply "Fire And Blood" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is Dany pays a terrible price to save Drogo all in the meanwhile the news coming out of King's Landing rocks the world of Westeros to it's core and sets in motion events that will have devastating effects on several groups of people for years to come. I will admit that the summery for this episode was a lot easier to write and I loved the story being told in this episode with the story itself being very well told in my humble opinion.
Starring in this episode is Michelle Fairley as , Catelyn Stark and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister. Also starring in this episode is Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister , Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen , Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont , Aidan Gillen as Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish , Kit Harington as Jon Snow , Richard Madden as Robb Stark , Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark , Maisie Williams as Arya Stark , Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy , Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark , Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon , Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane , Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister , Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo , Natalia Tena as Osha , Conleth Hill as Varys , Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister , John Bradley-West as Samwell Tarly , Julian Glover as Grand Maester Pycelle , and Mia Soteriou as Mirri Maz Duur.
As for what I thought about the acting in this episode in all honesty the acting in this episode was in all honesty really freaking good in my opinion. With all of the actors in this episode giving some truly wonderful performances with some of the actors not even saying a word and you understand right away what that character is feeling that's how good the acting in not only this episode but in Game Of Thrones is as a whole in my opinion.
Doing he CGI for this episode is BlueBolt , Pixomondo and Screen Scene I have to admit I haven't heard of any of the companies that did the CGI for this episode which is a shame because I really did like the CGI in this episode. Yes there was only really one scene that had CGI with that being the ending to this episode but this show also uses CGI in more subtle ways like extending cities or making building either appear or bigger then what they are in real real life and I have to admit that the CGI effects in this episode were honestly really good but of course the CGI in this episode is as good as CGI effects in later seasons of Game Of Thrones
Just to give you guys and example of how good the acting in this episode is the first scene with Robb Stark and his mother Catelyn Stark is a great example of how good the acting in this episode is. Since with barely any words since with barely any words being said you get that the two ae deeply upset by the death of Ned Stark and due to the fact that there are barely any words said between Catelyn Stark and Robb Stark you can tell what the other is thinking just by the looks that they give each other and this is something that would have been lost if the characters told you exactly how they were feeling instead of letting their body language tell you what they are thinking.
There is one shot in this episode that is infamous and it's the shot where you can see a George W Bush mask on a spike. Now both David Benioff & D.B. Weiss (the creators , showrunner and producers of this show as well as writers for not only this episode but for several other episodes) have said that have a George W Bush mask appear on a spike wasn't a political message but I have to wonder why was the scene removed from all home media releases and it's just in America it's every country that Game Of Thrones surely just removing the shot from all repeat episodes as well American home video releases would have been enough but it now means that fans outside of America now don't get to see what all of the fuss was about that shot was about which is a shame because I would have liked to have seen that shot and judge it for myself but it feels like I was robbed of that chance but at the same time I can see why the scene was removed since it could have been seen as a political message and that could have isolated some of the Game Of thrones fanbase in my opinion.
Now then sadly I cannot post the actual images that I want to use to talk about this just because the scene does feature nudity as do the images from that scene and this blog is rated PG so that means you'll have to make do with the above image. However by going of who is in the above image you can have a fair idea as to what scene I have to talk about because yeah that end scene with Daenerys Targaryen is so freaking good it's a scene where everything just comes together perfectly in my opinion with the music being really epic , the CGI being really good , the writing being really solid with alot of the characters in that scene getting some good lines and the acting from everyone in that scene / sequence being really good as all hell that final scene / sequence with Daenerys Targaryen steals not only the entire episode but the entire first season of Game Of Thrones for me because that final scene / sequence with Daenerys Targaryen is so good in my humble opinion.
Now just like with the last episode of Game Of Thrones that I reviewed I actually cannot remember the running time for this episode but I do now that this episode is at least fifty minuets long. Which for me at least is a bit of an issue just because this episode was so good that I wanted the episode to last longer and hell the episode had more then enough story for the episode to be longer if the makers of this show wanted to make the episode but since the makers of this show chose to not make this longer episode the episode goes by super quickly with scenes that should have lasted longer instead being over with in a few minuets and this in turn hurts the episode in my opinion since it now means that those scenes can't have as much impact as those scenes would have had if the episode was a bit longer in my honest and humble opinion.
Now then in what is rather a strange move for a Game Of Thrones finale there actually isn't any action or action scenes in this episode. With instead the main focus of the episode being how certain character react too the death of Ned Stark (this episode came out in 2011 so it's not a really a spoiler anymore so get over it lol) which is the right move in my opinion but at the sae time I would have liked to have seen some action scenes but at the same time I can see why there wasn't any action scenes in this particular episode tho but that's just what I personally think tho.
Overall this was a really good episode and it was a good way to end the first season of this fantastic show in my opinion. However there are some faults in this episode which i've discussed in this review and i've talked about the good things that are in this episode in this very review as well and as such this episode gets an 9.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got the images that I used in this review from Google Images and the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page with my preferred website to use for images from this episode or from Game Of Thrones as a whole being the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page just because the images that are on the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page are always pretty high definition which fir me at least is always a good thing since it makes the review more pleasing on the eye and it makes the image itself alot more pleasing on the eye in my opinion.