Game of Thrones: Mid-Season Review
Fans are now half way through the fourth season with episode five having aired on Monday. But what do audiences think of the direction the writers have taken? (Photo: Facebook)
By A-jay Hackett
The playing field has now been levelled and it’s anybody’s game.
Even the loyal readers of George R. R. Martin’s ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series have been left guessing after the first half of season 4. (Spoilers Alert) In the last scene of the fourth episode ‘Oathkeeper’, the climax with the white walkers has exceeded the timeline of the books leaving readers and watchers alike; well and truly lost.
Tension commenced in Monday’s episode - ‘First of His Name’. Fans raged as Jon Snow came painstakingly close to being reunited with Bran Stark – a plot twist that would’ve ruined a crucial narrative thread for the whole series, or so we heard.
With one of the shows core sources of hatred gone – yes we’re talking about Joffrey, viewers turn to the manipulative Lord Petyr Baelish, as on Monday it was revealed that he is responsible for the catalyst that started the ‘Game’, the attempted assassination of young Bran Stark.
But that’s not all Littlefinger has been up to. A character that started off with no title, no land and no army and now has ‘’the first two’’. He’s certainly working his way up to the third. Could season 4 be the time of Lord Petyr Baelish?
Fans of the ‘Breaker of Chains’ – also known as Daenerys Stormborn, have been riled at the notion their Khaleesi is failing to keep hold of her fort. Daenerys may be Targaryen but as pointed out by her loyal advisor, Jorah Mormont, she has a kind and gentle heart. With strongholds in Astapor and Yunkai failing will she return to reclaim what she won or leave the re-enslaved to their peril and sail across the narrow sea.
However it’s safe to say we could be in for a storm in the season finale named ‘The Children’. Will The Mother of Dragons finally unleash her wrath upon Westeros?
