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We’ve reached the halfway point of S3 and while ‘Kissed By Fire’ lacks the arresting visuals from the last episode, in terms of fleshing out several underserved characters, this one is a winner.
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The action starts to heat up (in some cases literally) as Game Of Thrones moves into the meat of the season. There’s more than one bold power move being played as showrunners Benioff and Weiss deliver another knock-out humdinger of an episode.
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You can nearly always tell when the showrunners are directly involved in an episode, can’t you? These episodes feel stronger, clearer, more tightly plotted and with a greater sense of purpose. The involvement of Game Of Thrones’ showrunners Benioff and Weiss in ‘Walk Of Punishment’ is clearly evident and the result is the strongest episode since 2×09 ‘Blackwater.’
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After a long, long wait, Game Of Thrones returns for its third season with an episode that feels more like a reintroduction than an episode proper. Groundwork is laid, but is it all interesting?
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This is it, friends: the epic conclusion of the second season of HBO’s Game Of Thrones. After last week’s single location, all action Battle of Blackwater Bay, would the final episode excite or would it falter under extreme expectations?
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Performance. Theatrical performances. As much as we’ve explored power, and sexuality, and even gender, this season, this may be the first episode of Game Of Thrones in which performance and theatricality plays an integral role in several character interactions.
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