Game Of Thrones: Blackwater Review

Game Of Thrones was one of the best fantasy shows on TV when it first debuted way back in the early 2010's. With the show mixing adult themes and situations with heart pounding action and heartbreaking deaths with the show being most famous for what would happen in it's nineth episode of each season as that would be where all the drama that the season had been leading up to would pay off with the same thing being true with the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the episode that is the first episode of the show to just focus on one set of characters with the episode in question being called simply just "Blackwater" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Stannis and his men reach King's Landing by sea it's up to Tyrion and the Lannister army to defend the city or die trying. Now then terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as while yes this episodes plot is rather simple in nature that's all that it needed to be as the rest of the story was one that was being told all throughout the rest of this shows second season and therefor this episode isn't one that required that much of a deep plot as if your watching this episode then odds are you've watched the previous episodes as well and would therefor already know what the plot of this season is in the first place and to this episodes credit even tho it doesn't have much in the way of plot it does make up for it by giving us these really tense scenes with both Cersei and Sansa as they both contemplate the fact that they might now make it out of this war alive and while the episode does give alot of it's attention to it's main plot which is something that is rightfully so as the whole battle plot is what the whole second season had been building towards it was nice to see what could be considered the seasons B plot with Cersei and Sansa almost learning to trust each other get some spotlight as that was something that the makers of this episode didn't have to do and yet it's something that makes the main plot of this episode feel all the more real as now we get to see how the women feel about all of the fighting going on as well which was something that we barely got to see in this show with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister and Lena Headey as Queen Cersei Lannister. Also starring in this episode is Charles Dance as Lord Tywin Lannister , Liam Cunningham as Ser Davos Seaworth , Jack Gleeson as King Joffrey Baratheon , Sophie Turner as Princess Sansa Stark , Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane , Stephen Dillane as Lord Stannis Baratheon , Jerome Flynn as Bronn , Conleth Hill as Lord Varys , Sibel Kekilli as Shae , Roy Dotrice as Wisdom Hallyne , Julian Glover as Grand Maester Pycelle , Eugene Simon as Ser Lancel Lannister , Kerr Logan as Matthos Seaworth , Finn Jones as Ser Loras Tyrell , Sahara Knite as Armeca , Tony Way as Dontos Hollard , Wilko Johnson as Ser Ilyn Payne , Callum Wharry as Prince Tommen Baratheon , Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne , Gordon Mahn as Ser Imry Florent and James Doran as Ser Mandon Moore.

Now then terms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this being something that wasn't really all that surprising as even in the bad episodes of this show there was always some really good acting in them with it being obvious that all of this episodes actors are a bunch of really good actors as they all act there hearts out in this episode something which couldn't have been easy due to the fact that this episode was filmed at night for several days or weeks straight with the best actor in the whole entire episode being a tie between Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey as they both do have scenes in this episode that show off just how wonderful of an actor that they both are be it Tyrion giving the troops a rousing speech after Joffrey leaves them to go and be with his mother or be it when Cersei tries to comfort her son near the end of the episode as she thinks that this is it for them and quietly prepares to spare her son getting brutally killed by essentially poisoning him all the while she has to put on this breathe face and act like everything is OK even when she knows that it might not be with the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out pf them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGIA for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Pixomondo , Baked FX and MFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episode perhaps more CGI heavy then what the rest of this season is as they do have to have to green screen in backgrounds for the characters that are on the boats to begin with as well of the wild fire that attacks the boats as well and while it might be obvious that they didn't really go out to sea to film the scenes on the boats the episodes overall quality of VFX is still quite high as alot of the episodes VFX do look really good with the makers of this episode going the extra mile by having the wildfire show up in the reflection of the sea which was something that they really didn't have to do and yet it's a small thin that helps to sell you on the effect as a whole and while of course they do use CGI for things like extended buildings and for making large armies of people in the episode that is a great way to use CGI ad then there only using it to create something that they wouldn't have been able to do on the day of filming and while it's obvious that the episodes effects budget was one of the things that got cut down in order to make this episode happen in the first place we still did manage to get some really good looking VFX that more then hold up all of these later and while yes granted this episodes VFX aren't as good s the effects that we see in TV shows today these are still some really good looking effects in their own right.

With this show of course being a drama that does mean that we do get a good dose of drama in this episode. Alot of which does work given the fact that all of the make characters are about to go off to war and thus every ones emotions are of course going to be heightened and yet at the same time tho there is some bits of drama that we really didn't need in this episode like for example we didn't need to see the scene between Bron and The Hound as that's not something that plays a part in the plot of this episode with it feeling like it was added in at the last might just to give both Jerome Flynn and Rory McCann a little bit more to do in the episode when it would have made more sense to have there scene play out the same way in either the previous or in the following episode and while it could be argued that the scene with Sansa and Joffrey wasn't needed for that exact same reason it could also be argued that there scene together was needed as they are meant to be betrothed to each other therefor it does make sense that she would want to go and see him off before he goes of to war even if he is fighting a war against her own brother and if anything the episode might have been made all the more better if we got to see more scenes with them together as then we'd get to see just how more sick and twisted that Joffrey is now that he's on the edge of a war as that is something that would make him a more dangerous person and heck it could even be argued that he is more dangerous then what Daenerys was as Joffrey is a character that only looks out for number 1 and is willing to do these sick and twisted things just because it's fun for him whereas with Daenerys she was pushed to the point of killing people and wasn't already at that point.

What is something that would have made this episode be that little bit better was if they didn't show Tywin coming in at the end of the episode. As then they could have had this big cliffhanger ending with all of us wondering if these characters are going to make it out alive or not which given the fact that this season of the show was made before streaming was really a thing was something that would have been a boost for next weeks ratings and yet for one reason or another they decided to show him coming in at the end of the episode as a literal knight in shining in armour to save his kids which is something that does rob the scene of any tension as they very easily could have had appear just in silhouette form and got those exact same results and while yes it is a small thing to say about this episode but it's the small things that do make all of the difference as given that this was the second to last episode of the season then the makers of this show could have used that to build up hype for the next episode as then us the audience and those who hadn't read the books would be left wondering if the characters survived or not and while it does make sense for them to show him saving his kids and grandkids in this episode as this episode is meant to be all about the Battle of Blackwater it still would have been if the makers of this episode took advantage of the fact that this is a TV show much like how in book form they could have ended that exact same scene without revealing that he saved them until the start of there next chapter and while yes we do get some deaths in this episode none of them are major characters deaths which is something that could be seen as being a bad thing but given that not alot of the main characters actively took part in the battle it is also something that does make sense.

There was one scene that really did stand out for me personally and it's not got anything to do with the main battle at least not directly . As the scene that stood out to me as the ending scene between Cersei and Tommen as in that scene it's just Cersei trying to calm down him down while the war is going on outside which might not seem like much but when you take into account that that scene isn't just one character trying to calm another down it's rather a mother trying to calm down her son while she knows that her world is crumbling all around her and yet she still has to put on this brave face and tell him this somewhat happy story that is what makes the scene standout as it would have been super easy and really in character for Cersei to just tell it like it is as she's pretty drunk at that time but because of the fact that she does care for all of her kids something that we've seen all throughout the show she instead just puts him on her knee , talks to him calmly and tells him a story to try and calm him down and ease his worries and yet at the same time she knows that if they loose that war both she and her son are good as well dead and so she takes measures to kill her son as a mercy killing something which we saw her get ready at the start of the episode with it being done because of the fact that if she didn't perform that act of mercy on her son then the invaders wouldn't do it and therefor she did make the hardest choice that any mother would have to make and thankfully she didn't have to kill Tommen but it's the fact that she was willing to kill him in regardless of if she had any poison left for herself that makes that scene stand out.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty four minuets and twenty seven seconds. With this pretty much being the bogstandard running time of this show and to be fair to this episode this is an episode that really did need that amount of running time in order to tell it's story in a way that does justice to it's plot as if this episode was more like forty five minuets then that would mean having alot of the really good stuff in the episode getting out thus leaving the episode and it's plot a bit of a mess with this episode having the ight amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time and while the episode doesn't rally take the time to fully develop it's plot in all fairness this time around it really doesn't need to as we have the previous eight episodes to do all of that and given the fact that this is a TV show it wouldn't make sense for them to have a well developed plot given the fact that this episode is meant to be paying of a plot line and not starting with the same thing even being true for the characters lack of character development as the show would have had a lot of other episodes to give there characters the character development that they really did need but in saying this tho the episode would have been all the more better if there was more plot development and if there was more character development in this episode as then it would make the episode feel all the more well thought and would make those pointless scenes with Bronn and The Hound now have some sort of meaning as they very easily could have had some character development take place in those scenes but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episode having some really good looking action in it which is something that does make alot of sense considering the fact that the episode is basically one long action scene with the fact that this episode is just focusing on this one big battle being something that does make the action all the more impactful as now the episode can't do what the show would normally do and cut away to another plot line with other characters as now it has to focus all of it's attention on this big battle with the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the battle itself as we get to see alot of what it is that makes the battle sand out in the first place as we get to see the characters on both sides of the conflict making plans to try and outwit each other and we get to see how in a battle it doesn't matter if you make plans or not because one wrong move really can send all of those plans flying out of the window which is what we get when Tyrion bring the Wildfire into the mix something which Stannis and his men never thought of which means that they now have to think on there feet and when Joffrey essentially runs away from the battle Tyrion the remaining Lannister men now have to do the exact same thing which is something that makes the whole battle be all the more intense and just flat out cool then what it really had any right to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall with House Of The Dragon season 3 gearing up for it's big battle it really was fun to go back and watch this episode as this episode is a good example of just how much fun that a battle in this world can look like as that's just how good that this episode really is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the  i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 9 out of 10 from me.

Now the as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally sued in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , A Wiki Of Ice And Fire , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms TV Series SPOILER FREE Review

Game Of Thrones was a show that really captured the worlds imagination so much so that when the TV series ended we got a prequel how House Of The Dragon and while the third season of that show is due next year. This year we got a brand new prequel with that show having just aired it's final episode and well I want to talk about it as the show is one that is worth talking about even taking into account that the episode has shorter running times and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE review of the show that might need to change it's title after last nights amazing episode with the show in question being called simply just "A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when he meets a young stable boy on his way to a jousting tournament in a local villain hedge knight Ser Duncan The Tall finds himself drawn into a world that only favors the rich and powerful. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with the shows plot being delightfully simple enough for people to understand and follow along with whilst at the same time also being very much in the vain of both House Of The Dragon and Game Of Thrones with the only real difference being that this show does have a more lighthearted approach to it's plot that what either one of the above mentioned shows have which is something that does make alot of sense as this show is based off of short stories and that are more lighthearted in nature but in saying this tho the show does know when it to get more serious with it's storytelling as pretty much from episode four onwards there are jo jokes to be found in the show with the show instead turning very serious with it's plot which was something that does indeed work so well as the previous episodes have given us time to let us breathe in this world and to let the overarching plot of the shot simmer until finally being let out in the back three episodes with the plot of this show also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Peter Claffey as Duncan The Tall , Dexter Sol Ansell as Aegon Targaryen and Bertie Carvel as Baelor Targaryen. Also starring in this show is Daniel Ings as Lyonel Baratheon , Sam Spruell as Maekar Targaryen , Danny Webb as Arlan of Pennytree , Finn Bennett as Aerion Targaryen , Shaun Thomas as Raymun Fossoway , Youssef Kerkour as Steely Pate , Henry Ashton as Daeron Targaryen , Edward Ashley as Steffon Fossoway , Tanzyn Crawford as Tanselle , Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Plummer and Daniel Monks as Manfred Dondarrion.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With this being something that was both kind of shocking to see and yet at the same time not all that shocking to see either it's not that shocking in the sense that this franchise has always had some really good acting in it and therefor of course this show will follow suite in this regard but it's also quite shocking as alot of this shows actors are either unknown actors or are at bet very little known actors either way it would have been foolish to expect great performances from the acting in this show and yet that's exactly what we got week after week with the best actor in his show being Dexter Sol Ansell as nobody expects a kid actor to be good and yet he's better then good in this show with the kid having a real talent for acting and if he does indeed chose to continue as an actor after this show wraps up in a few years time then he could really make it as an actor with Peter Claffey also being really good in this show as well as the pair of them just have this chemistry together that makes there friendship feel all the more believable with the pair of them turning in some really good performance in all six episodes of this show with the acting that's in this show really bein helped by the fact that the scripts for this show are just so good that all this shows shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show. 

This shows characters whilst they aren't better done then the characters in both Game Of Thrones and House Of The Dragon are till really well done in there own right. As they all do come across as being very well thought out characters with the best example being Duncan himself as ever tho we don't get to find out all that much about him until the fifth episode of the show we do get to see that he is a kind hearted character that just wants to earn some money to keep himself alive one night more with us the audience getting to see how kind that this character is when Aerion threatens a puppeteer that Duncan has befriended as without thinking about it he steps in and hits the prince just because of the fact that it was the right thing to do and with Egg we get a character who has a bit of a mouth on him something which we see does get him into trouble with Duncan alot of the time early on in the season but it is also something that does also help them out alot of the time as well and while yes the characters in Game Of Thrones for example are done alot mor better this is due to the fact that that show is based on a series of novels which does therefor mean that the characters have more of a chance to get across just what it is that there about whereas in this show as this show is based off of a series of short stories this means that the characters don't have that much of chance to show us much of there personalities but what little glimpses that we get to see of these characters is more then enough to support this first season of the show however if there are to be more returning character next series then the characters will need to be done alot more better and not fade into the background as much as they do in this first series.

One of the things that does set this show apart from both House Of The Dragon and Game Of Thrones is the fact that we get to see a genuine friendship develop between Egg and Duncan. As in the first episode they don't know each other with Duncan even threatening Egg at one point in that episode and yet due to the fact that hey both do kind of need each other with Egg needing Duncan to basically serve as a protector from his family and Duncan needing Egg as it gives him someone to talk to who will actually talk back to him and because of that the two of them are almost compelled to be with each other and to help each other out with this being something that does create a genuine bond between the pair of them with this being done so well that it is hard to picture this show without the pair of them in it and knowing where Egg ends up in Game Of Thrones it is interesting to think of where there character progress over the course of the show as it's clear in Game Of Thrones that there time together meant alot to Egg and the thought of seeing there bond go from people who are just friends to people who are essentially family is something that will make future seasons of the show all the more interesting as the show lives or dies based on the characters chemistry with each other and therefor if we the audience aren't able to buy into these characters as friends then the show doesn't work and yet because of the fact that the makers of this show really took there time in fully developing there bond so much so that by the end of the final episode your sad at the thought of no longer seeing them on a weekly basis and due to that there bond is one of the best things in the whole entire as it's a bond that feels real as everyone has that one person in there life that they couldn't do without much like how these two characters can't live without each other.

In somethin that could be seen as being a shocking move the whole of this first season of the show takes place in this one village called Ashford. Whilst this might seem claustrophobic it is something that does oddly work for the show as we do get to see the whole of the town which is something that makes the town feel more lived in and rea and while yes it would have been nice if we got to see more locations in the show as that is something that would have made the show feel alot more bigger then what it already is this is something that would also be a huge disservice to the show as the whole point of this show is to show things from the point of view of the poor people which is something that would only work if the show was limited to one location for the whole season and while yes we do get more locations in flashback form in the present day scenes it's just this one main location and the fact that the makers of this show went the extra mile and made sure that every tent that we see in the season had something going on inside of it is something that makes the season feel all the more special as that's something that they didn't have to do as they could have have just built part of the set and called it day but no they went the extra mile and built the entire village with there being next to no CGI used in the show as a whole and yet it still would have been nice if we got some geography for this village as it would have helped us to understand not only where certain things are in relation to each other but it also would have helped us to understand where certain characters are to each other as well as for all we could know Duncan might be sleeping close to the castle as there's nothing to tell us where he is in relation to the rest of the village.  

One of the things that this series might get alot of hate for is for episode five is done as for the past episode we were leading to this fight between Duncan and Aerion. Yet in episode five which is when the battle takes place not only do we not see it but alot of the episode is filled up with Duncan's backstory something which would have been better down in other episodes of the show as we don't want to see his backstory this late into the season as all that does is get in the way of something that we actually want to see with there fight even being a big plot point for the show as well as not only do we get the sudden death of a character at the end of that episode but we also get to see just how good of a fighter that Duncan is something which we hadn't get to see in the episodes before then and yet as the makers of the show struggled to fit in his backstory into the show something which could have been done if the first episode was one hour long with the rest of the episodes being as long as they are as then we the audience would get a strong sense of not only were Duncan started out but also get to see how far he's either fallen or risen on top of that and yet the makers of the show seemed to think that it was better to pretty much cut out the big action scene that the past few episodes had been building towards all for no good reason and heck we don't even get to see the tournament either as that happens off screen and the whole first season of this show was built around it but to be fair tho this is something that might have been done due to the fact that it might have been done that way in the books but what works for the books might not work well for the show and whilst this season did stick close to that first book it would have helped the season out if they did give us the things that we actually wanted to see instead of just hinting at them.

Now then this show has / had an exactly grand total running time of no longer then forty one minuets and forty one second with this episode having an exact grand total running tome of exactly thirty minuets and thirty nine seconds. With this being round about the running time for the rest of the show with the show getting alot of criticism from fans from having these shorter running times yet as mentioned before this show is based off of a series of short stories and therefor they can't do a full one hour episode every week as that would mean having at the very least thirty minuets an episode that is just pure filler at best with this episode having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place an yet even so the episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely in one respect as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot which is something that does kind of make sense as this episode is all about wrapping things up from the previous episode but even so the episode still should have taken it's time to actually develop it's plot as it did feel like that the characters were just doing things for the sake of doing them and not because of the fact that the plot of the episode demanded that they do it however to be fair tho the episode did take the time to fully develop it's characters however this is mainly due to the fact that the characters got all of there character development in other episodes and therefor were already something into this episode as fully formed characters in the first place but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in tis very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With this show having alot of really good jokes in it and while the jokes are all just Egg and Duncan talking to each other we do get some comedy gold from them be it either Duncan threatening to set the dogs on Egg only for Egg to point out that they don't have dogs in the first place or the opening joke of the first episode where the classic Game Of Thrones plays just before something happens and yet the shows best joke in the whole show is one that's in the final episode and it's one that's not going to be getting spoiled in this review as the joke is one that's laugh out loud funny with the show having alot of really good jokes in it all of which because of the fact that the makes of this show went the extra mile in making it's two mean lead character be these really likable people that you want to get to know more about and that you want to spend more time with which is something that does make there bater together be all the more funnier as they are jokes that you could picture characters like these two making which is something that really does make all of the joke in this show be all the more funnier then what they really should have been as by all rights the jokes in this show should have been really bad yet for one reason or another they all turned to be some really funny joke in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if this season of the show was anything to go by then we are in for a treat next year when the show will be returning for a new season let us just hope however that the show does fix alot of the mistakes and things that people hated about the show in this season as they would have had the time to listen to what the fans want and taken the time to address them in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very show really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well the boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from A Wiki Of Ice And Fire , Imp Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very show with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

My SPOILER FREE First Impressions Of The A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms TV Series

When we think of Game Of Thrones we typically think of a show that is super serious but also has some lighthearted moments in it. Well the franchise has just launched it's latest prequel and unlike House Of The Dragon which was more serious then what Game Of Thrones was this show seems to be going the opposite route by being more of a lighthearted show and well you all just knew that I had t check the first episode of this show the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE first impressions of the show that takes place both ninety years AFTER House Of The Dragon and ninety years BEFORE Game Of Thrones with the show in question being called simply just "A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is a squire by the name of Dunk goes to enter a tournament after his mentor is killed but has to get the blessings from a lord in order to do so. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episode plot doing a good job of setting up the main plot for this season of the show that being the tournament that Dunk is trying to enter and what his relationship with Egg might be like as well but on the flip of side of that when compared to the other debuting episodes from this franchise this one is easily the weakest of the three as not alot really happens plot wise with it feelin like the makers of the episode only had enough plot for twenty two minuets worth of television but then were ordered by HBO into making this episode well over forty minuets which does mean that we get stuck with a plot that gets stretched really thin when it would have helped the episode out alot more if the episode was shorter as there's nothing in this episodes plot that demands it be this long but in saying this tho having it be this long does make this episode feel special as the plot does have alot of setting up to o and to be fair the episodes plot really is quite strong on it's own it's just not really as strong as the debut episode episodes plots for both House Of The Dragon and Game Of Thrones respectively with the plot of this episode being really rather entertaining and as well as bein g really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Starring in this episode is Peter Claffey as Ser Duncan The Tall , Dexter Sol Ansell as Egg and Daniel Ings as Ser Lyonel Baratheon. Also starring in this episode is Shaun Thomas as Raymun Fossoway , Tanzyn Crawford as Tanselle , Danny Webb as Ser Arlan Of Pennytree , Henry Ashton as Prince Daeron Targaryen , Daniel Monks as Ser Manfred Dondarrion , Bamber Todd as Young Dunk , Jenna Boyd as The Innkeeper , Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Plummer , Abigail O'Regan as Daisy , Carla Harrison-Hodge as Beony , Rowan Robinson as Red , Edward Ashley as Ser Steffon Fossoway , Steven Calvert as A Stormland knight , Danny Collins as Ser Humfrey Beesbury , Ross Anderson as Ser Humfrey Hardyng and Ellie McHale-Roe as Lia The Lovely.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episodes acting being shockingly good as you don't usually expect acting in the first episode of a new show to be this good and that's exactly what we get in this episode as it is made clear that the characters of Dunk and Egg were cast perfectly and as both Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell just embody the characters so perfectly and are a good fit as these characters with the pair of them even having some really solid chemistry which was the most important thing for this show to get right as this show lives or dies on there friendship being real to us the audience with the best actor in this episode being Peter Claffey as Ser Duncan The Tall as he knows just when this character would act goofy and when he act seriously and be this menacing threat of a man who is kind hearted and is just willing to do what he thinks his right and that is something that does come through in Peter's performance as the character with his performance being one of the few highlights of the episode as it's something that proves that the makers of this show knew to the casting of both Dunk and Egg down perfectly and that really is something that they pulled of wonderfully with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Character wise it might be a bit to early to fully judge this shows characters but as for right now we do have some fairly decent characters. As right now there's nothing all that special about any of this shows characters but given that this is the first episode of the show that is something that's to be expected as not all shows have good characters right away heck again just look at Game Of Thrones as proof of that as it took a good few episodes for there characters to really get going and so it does make sense that alot of this episodes characters wouldn't be the best characters out there right away with there being alot of potential for this shows characters to be some of the franchises best characters as Dunk is easily someone who could be a funny character and could be one that alot of people relate to further on down the line and a character like Plummer is one that alot of people could really hate by the end of this first season as his character does come across as being slimy and like he's up to no good with this being something where this franchise thrives as the characters that you think are going to be good guys end up being villains and the ones that you think are going to be villains end up being good guys of course there are expectations to this rule and we know that a character like Egg will go on to become a good guy so it will be interesting seeing hm grow into the person that he is when Game Of Thrones starts and see what it is that drove him to The Wall in the first place whereas with Dunk it will be interesting to see why he's not in Game Of Thrones and how a character like him could be taken down and given just how slow George R.R. Martin likes to write his stories we could find out in this show what happens to Dunk before it happens in the books.

Much like how House Of The Dragon was adapted from the book Fire And Blood this show is adapted from the Tales Of Dunk And Egg series. Which is a series of short stories that are set in the world of Westeros with the first story which was called "The Hedge Knight" being published in "Legends" it's sequel story was published in the sequel to legends "Legends II" with the third and so far mist recent story being published in 2010 in the book "Warriors" yet due to the fact that George hasn't finished "The Winds Of Winter" yet he has said that there will be no more entries in this series until that book is finished which does mean that we're not likely to see the next chapter of there story in book form for a long time but we are likely to see it happen in the TV show as jus after quickly glancing the Wikipedia page for the whole series this first season does seem to be sticking fairly true to that first book something which was kind of the case for House Of The Dragon as well altho given the historical nature of the book that that show is based off of they do have a little bit more wiggle room for changes to be made to the story something which can't be true here as the stories do seem to be greatly detailed and are told in the more traditional sense and given when this show is taking place it would be interesting to see these iconic landmarks from both shows appear in this one just so we the audience could see what changes happens to those landmarks inbetween all three shows as that is something that would be quite interesting to see even if it's just very briefly but at the same time that is something that could be seen as being to distracting as it could be seen as reminding us the audience that we could be watching two more better and more established shows.

Believe it or not this episode actually sees a return of sorts as while House Of The Dragon was mostly filmed in England and in Spain. This show was actually filmed in Belfast Northern Island much like Game Of Thrones was for many years with alot of the people who worked on that show returning to work on this one and well whilst you really can't tell the difference all that much it was nice to see this show return to the home if you will of Game Of Thrones as much like how it would feel weird seeing The Lord Of The Rings filmed in anywhere but New Zealand as that place just simply is the home of Middle Earth Belfast Northern Island just simply is Westeros and it does feel weird seeing a show that's based in that world filmed in anywhere but that country as there's jus so much beauty to be found in the Irish countryside that you just can't replicate inside of a studio and heck the makers of this show even built the entire village of Ashford for real as they knew that the whole first season of the show was going to be spent in that one location which does mean that everything that we see in that town from the tents to the castle all worked the exact way that they work in the show and that was just an insane amount of dedication to something that really didn't require that much dedication in the first place and it was the same amount of dedication that we got in both House Of The Dragon and in Game Of Thrones as well as it's that level of commitment to making this world feel real and lived that helps to make the shows even better as it makes those sets all the more impressive to look at in the first place and it's something that really should carry over into future seasons of both this show and House Of The Dragon as well.

Whilst this show is alot more lighthearted then the other shows in this franchise that doesn't mean that it's devoid of drama as it's really it. Rather the episode doesn't really give it's drama alot of focus which is something that does make alot of sense as this first season of the show is meant to be following the first book really closely heck both the first episode of this show and the first book share the same title with the books being alot more lighthearted then the Game Of Thrones books were with the amount of drama that this first episode does have being very minimal at best with it only serving to give us more information about the characters and even then alot of it is more played for laughs which is something that does keep to the show from being to drama focused but given that this is a drama show it would have been nice if the episode did allow more time for the more dramatic moments of the episode to have the time to breathe that they really did need instead of cracking a joke alot of the time as this franchise is known for having some fantastic drama when it really wants to and that is something that could have been in this episode and while there is a chance that the show might get more dramatic as the season goes on you only get one chance to start to build up that drama and that's something that this episode doesn't take full advantage of doing as it's more focused in trying to tell a joke when it could have done that and still give us some good drama but to be fair to this show it has so much to set up in this first episode that of course certain things are going to fall by the way side and just be forgotten about which was the case with this episodes drama.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty one minuets and fifty two seconds. Which for this show is actually double the length of what the average episode might be as the average episode of the show is going to be around thirty minuets which is fine for a comedy and the type of story that there telling in this first season and for a show in the Game Of Thrones franchise it's alot more on the shorter side of things with this episode having the right amount of plot there to cover that long amount of running time however it does feel like that the episode is being stretched from what was clearly a twenty two minuet plot to fit in with a much longer running and while the episode doesn't really use it's running time all that wisely by developing it's plot this is something that does make sense as this is one the first episode of the show and therefor of course the plot of the show won't be that well developed but it still would have been nice if the plot of the episode was a bit more developed as we don't even get to find out why Dunk is entering the tournament in the first place which is something that would have developed the plot of the episode and given the show some much needed the drama with the episode understandably not really developing it's characters either which again is understandable as this is just the first episode of the show and therefor you could argue that the characters are going to be getting to there character development in further episodes but this episode really did need to start them of in a way where that development would feel natural and while you can see how characters like Dunk and Egg could get there character development that's just not something that you can see happening to the episodes other characters but I really will admit that this episode episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With the episode having alot of really good jokes in it all of which do feel rather refreshing for this franchise but at the same time tho it still would have been nice if this episode had alot more better jokes in it as this is the first time that the mainstream audience are something these characters and therefor you do want to start this show of with your best foot forward and part of that does include putting your best jokes in the episode with the best joke in the whole entire episode not really being one that can be described not because it's spoiler but because it's hard to do so with out possibly getting the post removed but let's just say that the joke is the perhaps the best bodily joke that you could come up with purely for the fact that it has the Game Of Thrones music play over it with the episode having alot more cuter jokes in it all of which don't really undercut the tension of any scene that there in but in saying that they don't also really add to any scene that there in as there just there because of the fact that the makers of this put more focus on being funny then being dramatic which is something that does make sense as the books really were more lighthearted but at the same time Game Of Thrones found the balance between being funny and being dramatic and yet this episode really just couldn't do it despite it having alot of really funny jokes in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst it might be hard to say on if this show is going to be better then House Of The Dragon as that show was so good that did restore alot of faith in Game Of Thrones as a whole what can be said is that this episode isn't of to the best of starts with the show having alot of room to grow in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this episode in this very post and as this is only my first impressions of the show there won't be a rating but if i'm still watching the show when the final episode airs then I will do a review of the show as a whole.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Game Of Thrones: The Dance Of Dragons Review

Game Of Thrones was a TV show that for the first seven seasons was actually pretty good with the les about the eighth and final season the better. Yet people myself including seem to not talk about season five all that much and well I thought that i'd kill two birds with one stone here as I also haven't reviewed anything from Game Of Thrones in quite a while and so then join me as I review the episode that sees a beloved character die in a horrific way with the episode in question being called simply just "The Dance Of Dragons" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Stannis finds a way to gain advantage in the war to come while Arya meets up with someone from her past. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it was one of the more better plots from the latter half of this shows existence with alot of that coming down to the fact that it not only sticks to the plot of the book like glue but also from the fact that it does try to shocking and actively leave you guessing as to what's going to happen next and it's that kind of storytelling that does bring you back week after week as you just have to watch the next episode of a show to find out what's goin to your favorite characters and while the ninth episode of this show is usually when things go belly up for our heroes here because of the fact that the plot of the episode is relatively small in scale when compared to other episode nine plots this episodes plot does also oddly enough feel alot more personal then alot of the other episodes as we're getting to spend alot of time with these characters that we already know and love and get to spend alot of time just trying to see how they think and feel about certain events that are going on in there plots with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Ser Jaime Lannister. Also starring in this episode is Emilia Clarke as Queen Daenerys Targaryen , Kit Harington as Lord Commander Jon Snow , Stephen Dillane as King Stannis Baratheon , Liam Cunningham as Ser Davos Seaworth , Carice van Houten as Lady Melisandre , Indira Varma as Ellaria Sand , Maisie Williams as Arya Stark , Jerome Flynn as Ser Bronn , John Bradley as Samwell Tarly , Kristofer Hivju as Tormund , Tom Wlaschiha as Jaqen H'ghar , Michiel Huisman as Daario Naharis , Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei , Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont , Owen Teale as Ser Alliser Thorne , Tara Fitzgerald as Queen Selyse Baratheon , Mark Gatiss as Tycho Nestoris , Alexander Siddig as Prince Doran Martell , DeObia Oparei as Areo Hotah , Joel Fry as Hizdahr Zo Loraq , Ian Beattie as Ser Meryn Trant , Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Lord Mace Tyrell , Ben Crompton as Eddison Tollett , Keisha Castle-Hughes as Obara Sand , Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as Tyene Sand , Jessica Henwick as Nymeria Sand , Nell Tiger Free as Princess Myrcella Baratheon , Toby Sebastian as Prince Trystane Martell , Kerry Ingram as Princess Shireen Baratheon and Brenock O'Connor as Olly.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which is something that's really not all that new for this show as this show has always had some really good acting in it even in all of it's bad episodes which is something that does go to show you just how good all of this shows actors really are as they constantly brought there A game to each and every episode of each and every season of this show with this episodes being of no exception to that rule as even actors who are fairly new to the show like for example Mark Gatiss who is a really good actor in his right more then holds his own when it comes to acting against people who have been in this show from the very beginning with it being really hard to find one single great performer in this episode but if push comes to shove then the best actor in this episode is Stephen Dillane as King Stannis Baratheon as he really has to make his character not only seem justified but also make you understand where his actions really are coming this is despite them being really heinous and that's something that really only a top notch actor can really go and do with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors really have to do is just say the lines as they lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode. 

Doing the CGI for this episode is Rhythm & Hues Studios , Mackevision , Rodeo FX , Atomic Fiction , Image Engine Design , Clearcut FX , Screen Scene , Cadence Effects and Pixomondo. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good and was more the up to the already high standard of visual effects that the show already had with the episode making great use of set extensions and adding in crowds of people so much so that you really wouldn't notice which members of a crowd was CGI and which were real people as there both done so well with all of this episodes visual effects looking so good as they all look like that they were on set filming with all of the other actors and while yes granted alot of this episode CGI is looking a bit more dated especially when compared to only the more recent season of Game Of Thrones but also it's prequel show House Of The Dragon as well that's something that was always going to happen as the world of visual effects moves so quickly but that doesn't mean that the effects in this episode are now bad by comparison as there really not heck if anything alot of this episodes effects look like they done just yesterday as that's how good alot of them do still look where as effects in even the more recent Marvel live action shows do look dated already when there being compared to effects from this episode as that's just how well the effects in this episode do still hold up.

If there's one thing that this episode is quite famous for it's the fact that this is episode that does see a kid character get burned alive. With the character in question being Princess Shireen Baratheon while her father and mother just stand by and watch it happen and heck in the case of her father he made it happen in the first place and to give this episode some form of credit they don't actually show the kid being killed of as even for this show that would have been a bit to much to show but the very fact that they went there and even have the mother try to stop it from happening was what makes it a tragic scene and even more when you take into account that the episode does show Stannis wrestle with the choice of is this something that needs to be done or not which then makes us the audience see things from his point of view not only from leader a general and King but also from the point of view of a father as well as he's been told that she ha to die for things to improve or him in this war and yet even tho he knows that killing of his only daughter is a bad thing to do the reasoning behind it does make it more understandable and even the fact that Shireen herself even has a scene in this episode with her father where she openly states that she'll do anything to help him win this war something that a good daughter would say and in this case do as well with her death being all the more tragic by the fact that the makers of this show spend the best part of this season building up her friendship with Davos with her teaching him how to read and showing them becoming genuinely good friends with her being a really likable character because of that fact.

There are is one thing that I really didn't like about this episode and that's the fact that even tho this is big ninth episode of the season which is usually where they have something big and important to the plot happen. Here in this episode tho nothing really all that big and important to the plot of this season does happen as even the death of Princess Shireen is something could have happened in either the previous episode or in the following episode as it's just that big enough to be something that happens in this episode and heck really the only thing that's big scale wise that happens in this episode is the brawl that breaks out in the Dragon Fighting Pit and that's really it and even then it's not really something that's built up all that well all throughout the episode as those scenes only come into play near the end of the episode which makes you wonder why the makers of this show couldn't come up with a bigger episode nine as heck even the previous episode had the Massacre At Hardhome which is something that really would have been great to see in this episode and it's something that really does make this episode come across more as being a filler episode like the makers of this episode knew that they messed up by making the massacre at hardhome take place an episode earlier it very easily could have taken up the whole of this episode just by itself with alot of the episodes other scenes including the scenes with Dany and friends being better served as being in the final episode of the season as they feel like the end of the characters arc for this particular series and therefor would have been better of served being in the last episode of this series rather in this basically nothing episode.

While Arya herself is a good character she's not really used all that well in this episode as all that she does is see someone from her death list and follow them around for a bit and that's really it. Which to be fair is pretty par the course for the character at this point in time but at the same time tho it would have been nice to see her get some sort of revenge on Ser Meryn Trant for him killing her water dance teacher in series one of this show and yet she doesn't do anything which does seem out of character for her as she is someone who would strike first and ask questions later and yet here she's spending a good few minuets just watching this person that she already knows that she hates and wants to kill all for no reason which is something that really does make her inclusion in this episode feel pointless as while yes granted her plot in the book does go pretty much the exact same here the difference is tho it that in a TV show you only have so many hours of television to fill where as with a big you can spend as long as you like showing Arya spy on Ser Meryn Trant and it would still work as it would feel true to the book version of the character however the TV show version of the character wouldn't act like that and therefor it would have made more sense or her to get revenge on him in this episode and then have the following episode either not feature Arya at all as there would be no point to feature the character in that episode or deal with the blow out from this episode either one is something that would have worked and would have felt true to who the character is in this show.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty two minuets and twenty three seconds. Which is the bogstandard running tome for this show to have and to this episodes credit it really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running and while in once respect it really doesn't use it running time all that wisely as it has several other episodes n which the characters and the world can then be fully fleshed out but it does it's running time really wisely in another respect in that it does take it time it's telling it's plot and by doing that it means that us the audience can get a better idea of just what it is that the characters are thinking at any given moment in the episode and there for it is something that does allow us to form a connection with these characters all other again something that the makers of the episode really didn't have to do for something that is basically a filler episode in the grand scheme of things but it's something that does make the episode stand out a little bit as it now means that would have been seen as being really rash choice by Stannis now seem like something that he really doesn't want to do but feels like that he has to do because of the fact that the makers of this episode included a scene with him talking to his daughter and it's a scene that does make her death all the more tragic as she's basically telling her father that it's OK if he kills her in this episode but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film not that bad. However at the same time tho this episodes action wasn't really all that good either as thanks to the episodes editing it was quite hard to tell what was going on alot of the time but when the edition does make it far easier to make it out what's happening this episodes action is really fun to see as seeing all of Team Dany trapped in a circle with countless people closing in on them is always going to be something that's quite tense to see and to the episodes credit it does build up that tension really well by openly showing that there's nowhere for these characters to run to in the dragon fighting pits which is something that does make there fate all but sealed until Drogon comes in and saves them by burning everything that he can do to the ground all the while taking arrows to his side and back and while he does only rescue Dany even that is something that does make sense as she is his mother and there for of course he would rescue her and while this episode might have been a little bit better off with more then one action scene in it it would be hard to fit in another action scene into this episode and there for only having the one action scene take place in this episode was the right call to make on part of the makers of this show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this was still a really weak episode of this season it was still a really good episode in it's own right it's just one that doesn't really advance the plot of this season and as a result of that is the fact that this episode does come across as being more like a filler episode instead of being a must watch episode of the show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now the i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a gran old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and ad well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Game Of Thrones fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.