{"id":34575,"date":"2013-02-25T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=34575"},"modified":"2013-02-25T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:11:40","slug":"game-of-thrones-season-3final-countdown-for-hbo-serial-game-of-thrones-third-season-video-trailer-showbiz-news-34575","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/game-of-thrones-season-3final-countdown-for-hbo-serial-game-of-thrones-third-season-video-trailer-showbiz-news-34575\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Of Thrones Season 3:Final countdown for HBO serial Game Of Thrones third season, Video Trailer \/ Showbiz News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After three footage-less promos, the first real trailer for\u00a0Game of Thrones<\/em>‘ third season debuted in the Worldwide on Friday evening.<\/h1>\n

For the benefit of those who’ve read ahead in George R.R. Martin’s\u00a0A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>\u00a0saga, we’ve attempted to unpack what the new trailer tells us. Plenty of spoilers lay ahead…<\/p>\n

Our last glimpse of Westeros in the chilling final moments of season two left us with Samwell hiding terrified from a passing army of wights Beyond the Wall, so it\u2019s only fitting that that\u2019s where the first season three trailer begins. The White Walkers are nowhere to be seen in the opening time-lapsed shot of the hostile land in which Jon Snow, now feigning desertion from the Night\u2019s Watch and on his way to meet Mance Rayder, is stranded.<\/p>\n

The sun and clouds dash across the bleak Northern landscape accompanied by the voice of Lord Varys (Conleth Hill), who ushers fans into the trailer with the words \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time, my old friend\u201d. He\u2019s not wrong. By the time the season three US premiere comes around on the 31st of March, we\u2019ll have spent precisely three-hundred-and-one days apart from HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones.<\/p>\n

Tyrion\u2019s (Peter Dinklage) is the first face we see, and his toned-down post-battle scar will come as no surprise to those who\u2019ve kept up with the season three promo images. Despite the scar being described in\u00a0A Clash of Kings<\/em>\u00a0as \u201clong and crooked, starting a hair under his left eye and ending on the right side of his jaw. Three quarters of his nose was gone, and a chunk of his lip\u201d, The Halfman is looking mostly intact here.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Then it\u2019s back Beyond the Wall, as Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) and a raiding party scale the icy edifice towards Queenscrown and eventually, Castle Black. It\u2019s possible here that Tormund\u2019s role has been altered to encompass that of Styr, the Magnar of Thenn and leader of the wildling group sent by Mance to go over the wall.<\/div>\n
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As the opening lines of New York chillwave duo Ms Mr\u2019s\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0kick in, we\u2019re presented with our first daylight look at Dragonstone, Stannis Baratheon\u2019s island castle and the original seat of the Targaryens. The castle is identifiable as that seen in silhouette in season two opener,\u00a0The North Remembers<\/em>, glimpsed in the backdrop to the beach shot of Melisandre and Stannis burning the Seven.<\/div>\n
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A rowing boat bearing two unidentifiable figures can be seen in the foreground, moving away from shore. One is dark, and one fair, but it\u2019s anyone\u2019s best guess as to who they are. Davos Seaworth and Edric Storm perhaps? The pair could, of course, be extras in an establishing shot (though where\u2019s the fun in that?).<\/p>\n

After Tywin Lannister strides into the Red Keep\u2019s Great Hall, to see Joffrey in characteristic Lannister garb upon the Iron Throne, we\u2019re whisked away to what looks very much like Harrenhal. If the cursed castle is where Robb and Catelyn Stark survey this stack of corpses as the ominous words \u201cdeath is coming for everyone and everything\u201d echo behind them, it indicates another detour from George R.R. Martin\u2019s novels. The mother and son could, of course, have happened upon the carnage en route to Riverrun, at their stopover at Oldstones, or on their journey back to The Twins, but creating distinctive and instantly recognisable environments for each of the saga\u2019s many locations is a particular skill of the\u00a0Game of Thrones<\/em>\u00a0team, and those stone arch exteriors say Harrenhal to us.<\/p>\n

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Then comes a brief look at Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) being followed by – we think – disgraced former maester Qyburn (Anton Lesser), which would presumably place him and Brienne in the custody of The Brave Companions<\/p>\n

Bran, looking as if he’s stood upright thus possibly in a dream, then looses an arrow at an unseen target, while Arya, now a prisoner of the Brotherhood Without Banners, watches Beric Dondarrion (Richard Dormer) light his sword afire. Look closely and you can see it\u2019s definitely Dondarrion lighting the flame, not Paul Kaye as Thyros of Myr.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d hazard that the Northern twang to the portentous words heard as a solitary White Walker is seen advancing through a wood puts them in the mouth of Ygritte (Rose Leslie). Further darkness comes with a shot of a hooded topless figure bound and strung up by his arms. Eagle-eyed viewers will remember that the last time we saw a certain former ward of Ned Stark, he was mutinied against by his Ironborn companions and in the process of having a hood placed over his head\u2026<\/p>\n

After a brief look at a pack of wildlings running South of The Wall, we\u2019re finally taken across the Narrow Sea to Astapor, where Dany, having retrieved her dragons from the House of the Undying in the season two finale, now commands an army of Unsullied.<\/p>\n

Despite dominating the Red Keep in season two, Lena Headey\u2019s Cersei isn\u2019t given much screen time in this trailer, save a short glimpse by candlelight here, a silent moment between her and Sansa, and a shot amongst the \u2018revenge\u2019 montage at the end.<\/p>\n

Paid more attention, and for very good reason, is Catelyn Stark, seen here urging son Robb, King in the North, to show his enemies how it feels to lose what they love.<\/p>\n

Back behind the Wall, the trailer returns to Jon Snow\u2019s progress amongst Mance Rayder\u2019s freemen. A shot of Mackenzie Crook as Orell the skinchanger gaining a birds-eye-view of the surroundings by warging into his eagle is followed by Jon looking at him askance, while Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds) threatens to the light the biggest fire the North has ever seen.<\/p>\n

Back at the Red Keep comes a moment that can only have been taken from the wedding of Tyrion and Sansa. In\u00a0A Storm of Swords<\/em>, Tyrion refuses to subject Sansa to the bedding ritual, and – in his cups – threatens to castrate Joffrey for attempting to force the issue, \u201cThe Imp slammed his dagger down in the table, where it stood quivering. \u2018Then you\u2019ll service your own bride with a wooden prick. I\u2019ll geld you, I swear it\u2019\u201d. Is it as satisfying an uncle\/nephew moment as that slap inThe Old Gods and the New<\/em>? Better, we\u2019d say.<\/p>\n

Next comes an out-of-sequence Ygritte shooting an arrow in the rain. The only significant arrow Jon\u2019s wildling lover releases in the saga is the one that finds its way into Jon’s leg after his defection at Queenscrown, which is what we can suppose we\u2019re seeing here.<\/p>\n

Following on from Beric Donarrion\u2019s sword-lighting earlier comes a tantalising excerpt of his trial-by-combat fight with Sandor Clegane (Rory McCann).<\/p>\n

The trailer\u2019s final words belong to (we think) the man who uttered its first, Lord Varys. The theme of revenge is raised as shots in turn of Robb and Arya Stark, followed by Jaime, Cersei and Tyrion Lannister appear momentarily on screen. Attempting to list the various revenges sought by that little lot is likely to become so tangled, you may well be better off listing characters between whom there isn’t any bad blood.<\/p>\n

A treat though the trailer was, it leaves us considering what and who, wasn’t featured. Despite their growing importance in the narrative, the Tyrells and the Freys were conspicuous by their absence. Understandably, a certain bloody event didn’t get a look-in aside from oblique allusion. Though we met new faces Mance Rayder, Tormund Giantsbane and Orell, there was little sign of fellow season three newcomers the Reed siblings, Thyros of Myr, Selyse Baratheon, Ser Brynden Tully, or the clouded-in-secrecy role of Ramsay Bolton. Familiar characters Brienne, Osha, Hodor, Littlefinger, Melisandre and more were also kept out of the way. With any luck, that could mean another, longer trailer is on its way in the next thirty-five days…<\/p>\n

Game of Thrones returns to HBO on Sunday the 31st of March, and to Sky Atlantic on Monday the 1st of April.<\/em><\/p>\n

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