Recently I've been caught up in HBO's TV Series Game of Thrones. It all started when I was bored, and decided to google Billy Elliot's Dean Charles-Chapman, wondering where is he now. And surprise! I found out he's now a recurring cast on the series. And not just as anybody, his character is currently the king! So then, it snowballed and voila, here I am as a rookie fans of the series.
And as a lazy fans, instead of rewatching the series from the first season, I decided that I'd just surf the series'
Wikia, to see what the series is about.
As it turns out, the series spans so widely, it took me more than a week of almost-nonstop Wikia surfing to grasp the stories in the series. Simply put, Game of Thrones isn't like any other fiction I've ever encountered, where there's mostly only one protagonist whose adventure we're following. In fact, GoT has soo many main characters who interact with each other so oftenly that I can't summarize the whole story easily.
GoT is, in short, a story mostly about political chaos in a nation called The Seven Kingdom with a touch of mythical threat because what's a medieval fiction without magic?
The chaos I mentioned above is sparked by a number of things. First, the crowning of King Joffrey Baratheon. The crowning itself wouldn't be a problem, if only Joffrey isn't a psycho. Second, the truth about Joffrey's parentage. As it turns out, Joffrey was actually son of Queen Cersei and her twin brother Jamie Lannister. He was not the true son of late King Robert Baratheon. That's why Robert's younger brothers claim the throne for themselves.
Third, despite Joffrey's psychotic tendencies, it still came out of surprise when he ordered the execution of Lord Eddard Stark, who had pleaded guilty. This caused Eddard's son and heir, Lord Robb Stark, to proclaim himself as king too. And and the fourth reason of the political chaos is Lady Daenerys Targaryen, the last heir to the exiled House Targaryen. House Targaryen is the Royal House before Robert rebels against it's last king, Lord Aerys Targaryen. And now, Daenerys has hatched three dragons, whose species were previously thought extinct. With her dragons, she had started to conquer cities nearest her exile location and coming nearer to The Seven Kingdom.
As for the mythical threat, the series is set in the fictional continent Westeros. In Westeros, seasons can lasts for years or even decades. The Maesters, or scholars, speculates that the seasons' unnatural length also came from an unnatural source. These source were told to be creatures called The White Walkers. Many believed that these creatures are just stories. And those who do believe they exists also believed that they have been extinct for thousands of years. So it came as a surprise when at the first season, The White Walkers were shown to be back. And with the brewing civil war in The Seven Kingdoms, The Night's Watch, who guarded The Wall, which was an impossibly big wall structure built to separate The Seven Kingdoms and the wild Northern areas, are outmanned badly.
And as I said above, the series spans very widely. Those threats I explained before were just a fraction of the stories. But anyway, another thing that differentiate GoT from other fictions are the character deaths. While other fictions have little if any deaths occurring to the main characters, in GoT you can expect a death of your beloved characters in every few episodes.
That being said, I'd really recommended this series for you fiction lovers anywhere. A little warning though, this series are not meant for kids, so don't be surprised by the amount of vulgarity in it. And prepare your heart, because no character is save from an unexpected death. And finally,
Brace yourself, Winter is Coming.
-FIN-
PS: Are you still confused? Don't worry. Actor Isaac Hempstead-Wright who played Lord Eddard Stark's younger son Bran Stark, is here to explain it for you:
