Game of Thrones is the new HBO series based on A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by George R.R. Martin. It is being aired today for the first time in India at 6.30 p.m.
This is not a review of something that I have not watched. Being half-way through the superb first novel and having a stack of the remaining ones on my bed-side I guessed that its okay to write a heads-up for those who may miss this grand fantasy epic otherwise.
The story is set in the age of kings on a realm consisting of seven kingdoms ruled by noble lords whose allegiance is to their one king, Robert Baratheon. Much against the wishes of his wife and queen, Robert asks his closest friend and ruler of the North, Lord Eddard 'Ned' Stark to go with him to the South and become the Hand of the King - a position next only to the King. Queen Cersei and her brother Jaime, a knight of the King's guardians, are Lannisters, the richest and the most power hungry of all the noble houses and rulers of the West. The plot here on follows four main threads - one involving Ned's activities as the Hand and his secret investigations into his predecessor's death and a possible plot to overthrow the king, another involving Ned's wife Catelyn Stark's hunt for retribution against the Lannisters, a third one that follows Daenarys, a young lady of noble origin wedded to a barbarian lord in the East raising an army enough to sweep out the Seven Kingdoms, and a final one involving the Wall in the North - a seven hundred feet high structure guarded by the Black Knights that keeps the realm protected from the Others of the Haunted forest in the unchartered and unmapped lands where even the bravest of men are wise enough not to loiter.
In this medieval epic that has a scope on par with Lord of the Rings, alliances fall and the most unlikely ones form, loyalty and morality need a perspective to be understood, guardian angels are the four-legged carnivorous kind and the ultimate enemy is the one that hasn't been around for almost a decade and is not of man's making... Winter is coming.
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