Saturday, June 8, 2013

The Red Rains of Castamere [Contains Spoilers - Reader Discretion Advised]


Red Wedding by ~FatherStone on deviantART


It’s almost difficult to imagine how the season three finale of Game of Thrones could possibly top the most recent episode, “The Rains of Castamere”.

If you have not watched it, now is your chance to turn back. Everything after this is going to be filled with blood and spoilers – and I mean that in every way imaginable.


 
This week brought the moment avid Game of Thrones fans were waiting to see: The Red Wedding. Walder Frey failed to spare even the littlest Stark in his anger at Robb and quite a few viewers were upset by the added casualties of Talisa and baby Stark, more notably the repeated stabbing of her pregnant belly. Even as I'm working on this post, people are still taking to Twitter to mourn the losses:



Even folks on Tumblr are still upset, and understandably so: Sunday's episode revealed the deaths of Robb Stark, Catelyn (Tully) Stark, Grey Wind, Talisa, and Baby Stark - whom Talisa decided would be named Eddard if it turned out to be a boy, after Robb's father Ned. 

Some fans of the novels had a little fun with their unsuspecting viewer friends and turned their cameras on for a bit of YouTube gold:



So what comes next for Thrones? The season three finale airs on Sunday, June 9th at 9pm EST. In the meantime, here's a preview of the season finale, "Mhysa":



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