Pinks Mag 003
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
with the three dragon eggs she received as a<br />
wedding gift. She emerges unharmed ? this<br />
being Game of Thrones her clothes obviously<br />
aren't so lucky ? while the eggs have hatched<br />
into baby dragons.<br />
SEASON TWO:THE IMP STEPS UP<br />
With Joffrey king and headless Ned very much<br />
dead, Westeros is gripped by rebellion. In the<br />
North Ned's eldest son Robb (Richard Madden)<br />
has declared war, taking prisoner Jaime<br />
Lannister in an early skirmish. Likewise intent on<br />
unseating Joffrey is Robert Baratheon's brother<br />
Stannis (Stephen Dillane). He is more dutiful and<br />
level-headed than Robert (good), but also<br />
convinced he is marked for greatness by the<br />
"Lord of Light" ? a pagan deity demanding<br />
human sacrifice (not good). Just how not good<br />
this quickly becomes obvious. His supernatural<br />
counsellor Melisandre (Carice van Houten)<br />
sends a "smoke monster" to kill Renly<br />
Baratheon (Gethin Anthony), Stannis's dear<br />
brother and rival for the throne. Meanwhile,<br />
anyone daring speak against the Lord of Light is<br />
likely to end up strapped to a pyre and<br />
subjected to impromptu barbecuing.<br />
Robb likewise demonstrates questionable<br />
judgement as he sends childhood chum Theon<br />
(Alfie Allen) ? a prince of the Iron Isles raised in<br />
Winterfell ? back to his maritime home to gain<br />
the support of father Balon. Rather than rallying<br />
to the Stark banner, Balon guilt-trips Theon ,<br />
who opportunistically seizes Winterfell for the<br />
Greyjoys. Bran is forced to flee north with his<br />
simple-minded minder Hodor (Theon hangs two<br />
farmer boys in the place of Bran and<br />
brother Rickon).<br />
Also on the run is Arya Stark who fetches up at<br />
the fortress of Harrenhal where Tywin Lannister<br />
(Charles Dance), patriarch of the most Evil<br />
Family in Westeros, unwittingly appoints the<br />
disguised princess his cup-bearer. She later<br />
flees, with the assistance of the mysterious<br />
Jaqen H'ghar (Thomas Wlaschiha) of the Faceless<br />
Men of Essos.<br />
Over on the eastern continent, it's proving a<br />
long and aimless road of Daenerys, her baby<br />
dragons and shrinking Dothraki army. Eventually<br />
they make their way to the desert City of Qarth<br />
where they are befriended by silver-tongued<br />
merchant Xaro Daxos. However, they are<br />
ultimately betrayed by Daxos, in cahoots with<br />
the warlock Pyat Pree. With her dragons Cersei<br />
defeats the sorcerer and seals Daxos (along with<br />
her traitorous servant Doreah) in a tomb. Don't<br />
muck about with the Mother of Dragons.<br />
Elsewhere, what will become known as the War<br />
of the Five Kings rumbles on. As Robb plots his<br />
next move against the Lannisters, Catelyn sets<br />
Jamie free. He is to be escorted to King's Landing<br />
by Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) ?<br />
Renly's loyal former bodyguard ? in the hope of<br />
securing the release of Sansa and Arya. On a<br />
scouting mission north of the Wall Jon is<br />
kidnapped by the Wildling Ygritte (Rose Leslie) ?<br />
a meet-cute that sets in train a tragic love affair.<br />
No such excitement awaits the other Rangers of<br />
the Watch, as they are attacked by the White<br />
Walkers and their servant wights.<br />
In King's Landing, Stannis's invasion fleet has<br />
hoved into view. With useless Joffrey in charge,<br />
everyone expects the worst (especially Cersei,<br />
who paints for Sansa a bleak picture of the<br />
treatment they can expect). Hand of the King<br />
Tyrion has a cunning plan, however. As Joffrey<br />
weeps like the wimp he is, his uncle repels<br />
Stannis's forces with explosive wildfire, stocks of<br />
which the Mad King concealed beneath the city.<br />
It's enough to keep the enemies at bay until<br />
Tywin Lannister gallops to the rescue.<br />
SEASON THREE: THE LANNISTERS SEND THEIR<br />
REGARDS<br />
Having saved King's Landing from Stannis,<br />
Tyrion is promptly demoted by his disapproving<br />
father (who has never forgiven his son for<br />
claiming this mother in childbirth and for<br />
possessing a functioning moral compass).<br />
Rather more popular in the capital is the<br />
ambitious Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer).<br />
Renly's widow has displaced Sansa and is now<br />
betrothed to Joffrey. Sansa, Tywin has decreed,<br />
will be married off to the reluctant Tyrion (with<br />
uncommon decency he declines to consummate<br />
the nuptials).<br />
Far to the north, Jon Snow finally meets the<br />
Wildling's semi-mythic King beyond the Wall<br />
Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds) and agrees they<br />
have a common enemy in the Walkers.<br />
Things are going less well for Theon Greyjoy,<br />
whose botched conquest of Winterfell has seen<br />
him fallen into the clutches of a mysterious<br />
torturer. However, the true losers this season<br />
are Robb and Catelyn Stark (Michelle Farley).<br />
After falling in love with healer Talisa (Oona<br />
Chaplin), Robb backs out of an arranged<br />
marriage to Roslin, daughter of his ally Lord<br />
Walder Frey. She will instead be hitched to<br />
Edmure Tully ? and the Starks are invited!<br />
Thus is the table set for the notorious Red<br />
Wedding. The Freys and Boltons, striking a<br />
secret deal on Tywin Lannister, turn on the<br />
Starks, cutting down Catelyn, Robb and Robb's<br />
pregnant intended. "The Lannisters send their<br />
regards," snarls Roose Bolton as he stabs Talisa<br />
in the womb.<br />
Arriving in time for the butchery is Arya Stark,<br />
reluctantly taken under the wing of the "Hound"<br />
Sandor Clegane (Rory McCann), formerly<br />
Joffrey's personal butcher. With the rest of the<br />
family dead or in jeopardy, meanwhile Bran<br />
continues north. Haunted by visions he resolves<br />
to go beyond the Wall and find the "Three-Eyed<br />
Raven", who holds the secret to his burgeoning<br />
ability to project his mind into the body of a dire<br />
wolf. He is accompanied by Hodor and two new<br />
companions, Meera and Jojen Reed.<br />
Elsewhere, Daenerys's plans to conquer<br />
Westeros gather momentum. On her<br />
wanderings across Essos, she garners an army<br />
of "Unsullied" warriors and receives counsel<br />
from two disillusioned refugees from the Seven<br />
Kingdoms. Ser Barriston Selmy and Jorah<br />
Mormont (Iain Glen). With the cities of Slavers<br />
Bay falling to her one by one, a new power is<br />
rising in the East. How long before it turns its<br />
attention West?<br />
SEASON FOUR: JOFFREY EATS HUMBLE PIE<br />
A new season welcomes a fresh face to King's<br />
Landing. Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pascal), dashing<br />
prince of Dorne, arrives at the capital for the<br />
marriage of Joffrey and Margaery (and also to<br />
take vengeance against the Lannisters, whom he<br />
holds responsible for the death of his sister).<br />
But Joffrey's wedding doesn't go quite as<br />
planned. He is poisoned and topples over<br />
before he has had a chance to toast his new<br />
bride. Also exiting King's Landing, albeit by less<br />
bloody means, is Sansa, smuggled to freedom<br />
by slippery Lord Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish<br />
(Aidan Turner) and Margaery's wily grandmother<br />
Lady Olenna Tyrell (Diana Rigg). We will later<br />
discover they conspired to kill Joffrey, so sparing<br />
Margaery being hitched to a brute.<br />
At the Eyrie Sansa falls foul of mad Aunt Lysa<br />
who attempts to push her niece through a Moon<br />
Door. She is rescued by Littlefinger, with Lord<br />
Baelish instead sending Lady Arryn, with whom<br />
he has entered an arranged marriage, to her<br />
gravity-assisted demise.<br />
Up north Jon Snow warns the Night's Watch that<br />
Mance Rayder intends to attack. An epic battle<br />
ensues and Jon and Ygritte's relationship hits an<br />
awkward patch as she tries to cut him down<br />
with an arrow. With the Wildlings temporarily<br />
repulsed, Jon sneaks off to kill Rayder ? only for<br />
Stannis Baratheon and his forces to ride to the<br />
rescue of the Night's Watch.<br />
Back at King's Landing, the innocent Tyrion is<br />
accused of assassinating Joffrey. The case is to<br />
be decided with trial by combat. However, his<br />
champion Oberyn is cut down by the<br />
"Mountain" Gregor Clegane (Sandor's hulking<br />
brother). Later, Jaime releases his brother who<br />
sneaks back to his chambers to find his lover