Jeri Jacquin
This summer is going to be scorching and with the help of
battles and dragons, HBO Home Entertainment is adding to the heat by returning
us all to the beginning with GAME OF THRONES: Season One.
The story begins with the Seven Kingdoms
In Essos, Prince Viserys Targaryen (Harry Lloyd) has no
problem sending his sister Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) off to marry the leader of
the Dothraki Khal Drogo (Jason Momoa). Viserys wants Drogo’s army to help him
claim the Iron Throne of Westeros. The intrigue only deepens when Stark’s son
Bran (Isaac Wright) sees something between Cersei and her brother Jamie
Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).
Stark’s wife Catelyn (Michelle Fairley) believes the
Lannister’s are behind the injury to her son and tries to convince her husband.
Jon Snow (Kit Harington) becomes part of the Night’s Watch to protect the wall
between the Kingdoms and the creatures known as the White Walkers that live on
the other side.
Learning that Westeros isn’t really being managed, Stark
becomes a member of the King’s Small Council but is suspicious of a man from
Catelyn’s past. Councillor Baelish (Aidan Gillen) is a schemer who knows
everything about everyone and that is a dangerous thing. A danger of another
kind is Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), a man who does what he wants knowing
what the family thinks of him.
Daenery’s is adjusting to life as part of the Drogo clan and
finds that she is quite happy learning the ways of her new people. What she
doesn’t know is that a plan is being put into motion that is going to cause a
rift in the Houses. Stark learns alarming information about the family he is
loyal too but can not find reason to continue with plans that he doesn’t agree
with.
King Robert wants Ned as the Hand of the King while off on a
hunting trip. Tyrion is in the Vale and Lysa (Kate Dickie), Catelyn’s sister,
wants a duel and sends her champion while Tyrion calls out for one of his own.
Drogo has had enough of his wife’s brother and when Viserys pushes things to
far, the leader shows what the Dothraki are made of.
When Robert is injured, Ned is given the higher rank of
Protector of the Realm and when he tries to do as the King wishes; the entire
throne room turns on him. The family begins to scatter as Arya (Maisie
Williams) runs, Sansa is captured and Bran escapes Winterfell. Joffrey takes
the throne and his grandfather Tywin (Charles Dance) becomes the Hand of the
King.
After making their way to the Twins castle and making an
agreement for a marriage between Robb Stark and, they capture Jamie Lannister.
Robb becomes the King of the North, Ayra manages to escape with the help of
Yoren, Sansa is to become Joffrey’s Queen and Daenerys becomes the epic Mother
of Dragons!
It is only the beginning of the battle for the Iron Throne!
Of course it is the amazing writing of the story’s author
that gives GAME OF THRONES its amazing complexity but it is also the cast is
what has made this show hugely successful. This series has shown from the very
beginning that no one, no matter how popular the character, is beyond the reach
of the sword.
The treachery, honor, deceit, underhandedness, loyalty, lies
and changing of power is what GAME OF THRONES brings to fans. Every season is a
new twist, a new shock and more information that has caused jaws to drop
everywhere. Fans of the series are loyal to a fault and know that is a
character has displeased them then just wait because it all comes out in the
bloody wash.
Sean Bean as Ned Stark became the standard of what a true
leader should look like, we all followed his family and the struggles every
episode. The intensity and the plots became thicker and thicker and there isn’t
a person I hang out with that doesn’t look forward to every season because of
the set up of Season One.
HBO Home Entertainment has an extensive array of
critically-acclaimed and groundbreaking programs found on Bluray, DVD and
Digital HD. They have provided viewers with some of the most amazing programs
with huge fan bases that include the shows True
Blood, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, True Detectives, The Wire, Entourage and Game of Thrones. Launched in 1984, HBO
is world wide in viewed entertainment in more than 70 territories around the
world! For more of what they have to offer please visit www.hbo.com.
The HD Bonus Features of GAME OF THRONES: Season One include
Animated Histories: Learn about the
Mythology of Westeros as Told from the Varying Perspectives of the Characters
Themselves, Anatomy of an Episode; an In-Episode Experience that Explores the
Creative Minds and Colossal Efforts Behind Episode Six ‘A Golden Crown’, Cast
Auditions: Watch Rarely-Seen Footage of the Cast Auditioning for GAME OF
THRONES, Making of Game of Thrones – An Exclusive 30-minute Feature Including
Never-Before-Seen Footage from the Set and Interviews from the Cast and Crew.
Also, Character
Profiles – Profiles of 15 Major Characters as Described by the Actors
Portraying Them, Creating the Show Open – An Inside Look at the Creation of the
Emmy-Winning Opening Title Sequence for GAME OF THRONES, From the Book to
Screen – Executive Producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss along with author
George R.R. Martin Talk about the Challenges of Bringing Martin’s Epic Fantasy
Novel to Life on HBO.
The Night’s Watch – An
In-Depth look at the Unique Order of Men Who Patrol and Protect the Wall, a 700
Foot Ice Structure that Separates the Seven Kingdoms from the Darkness Beyond,
Creating the Dothraki Language – An Insightful Glance into the Comprehensive
Language Created for the Dothraki people in GAME OF THRONES, Audio Commentaries
– Seven Audio Commentaries with Cast and Crew and Digital Download Code for the Ten-Episode Season in HD.
The highly successful HBO series is based on A Game of Thrones which is a series of
books written by George R.R. Martin. The first novel A Song of Ice and Fire was published in 1996 when Martin moved away
from short stories and script writing. The entire book series is intended to be
a seven volume series with the final book Fire
and Book released earlier this year.
GAME OF THRONES continues to be the most successful
franchise in HBO history with the most awarded drama series with 38 Emmy’s to
date!
From the first episode I was hooked, there wasn’t a single
thing that didn’t appeal to me about this amazing show. What brought me in
quickly, besides the cast, was the stunning costuming, set designs and how all
of it brought me in and kept me there. That’s what makes an amazing series and
gives us all a chance to escape into a realm where it is all about a game of
thrones!
In the end – the battle for the Iron Throne has just begun.
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