We are at a wedding. Suddenly the instruments sound the episode title song plays: ‘The Rains of Castamere’. Immediately those of us who had already read the books know that everything is going to explode. Those who don’t, imagine that something bad is going to happen. That June 2, 2013, ‘Game of Thrones’ crossed a point of no return with the episode that changed everything.
Considered one of the best episodes of the entire series, the ninth installment of season 3 of ‘Game of Thrones’ marked a before and after. That moment when we know that, indeed, in this game no one is safe. the red wedding it ended the life of the king in the north Robb Stark (Richard Madden), his wife and his mother.
That “The Lannisters Send Regards” It is remembered as one of the great television moments of this century, as the peak of an episode that, beyond the Red Wedding, was already quite good in itself. One of the best of the entire series and one of its three best seasons.
More danger than a wedding in Westeros
A moment that, like many of those in the series, is taken directly from the books of George RR Martin. Specifically from ‘storm of swords‘, the extensive (in Spain it had to be divided into two volumes in its original edition) third installment of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’. A turn that, as the author explains, for him was the next logical step in the war of the Seven Kingdoms:
I like my fiction to be unpredictable. Knew [que mataría a Robb Stark] almost from the beginning [de escribir el primer libro]. I killed Ned because everyone thinks “he’s the hero.” [y] Sure, he’ll get into trouble, but somehow he’ll manage.” The next predictable thing is that his eldest son will rise up and avenge his mother. Everyone is going to wait for him. So [matar a Robb] immediately became the next thing to do. It was the toughest scene I’ve ever had to write. It’s in the second third of the book, but I skipped it when I got to it. So the whole book was finished and there was still this chapter left. So I wrote it. It was like murdering two of your children.”
For his part, Dan Weiss, coshowrunner of the series with David Benioff, explained that the importance of the Red Wedding lay not only in the shocking twist itself, but in the energy that this was going to inject into ‘Game of Thrones’. It was going to be the point of no return that was going to guarantee them to finish the ambitious adaptation:
«The Red Wedding was what we have always said to ourselves “If we get to this moment that is in the books and if we do it well, then [la serie] will be in a good place and the energy that [giro] it will inject the story will be enough to get us to the end.” When it came time to shoot it, there was too much pressure. We did it, which is great, but given where the show was at that time [en cuestión de recursos de producción] It was a very complex thing to shoot and do well.”
And, as time has shown, so it has been. Despite the fact that people later had their ups and downs with the series once the original material was surpassed, the thirst to avenge the clan direwolf and see how the war ends He kept us in suspense for five more seasons.
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