FAVORITE SCRIPTS

WRITTEN BY: GEORGE R.R. MARTIN | As usual, the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin always gets an honor to write a script for an episode in TV. Mr. Martin got his world-wide acknowledgement, initially, from his TV series script like Twilight Zones and Beauty and the Beast during the 80s, before he finally returned to prose and started writing the ASoIaF series. Last season, he wrote the script of “The Bear and The Maiden Fair”; this season, he writes the script of his own setup “The Royal Wedding.” First, he makes the royal wedding and the private breakfast so intriguing. Second, he finds a good spot for the entertainment, including Sigur Ros cameo and the War of Five Dwarves. Third, perfect timing for the Purple Death of the king. Fourth and the last, perfect premonition (or mind-trick) from Bran’s visions of Weirwood.

WRITTEN BY: DAVID BENIOFF & D.B. WEISS | The stepfathers of the dragons made a clear finale for the whole chaos in this season. The finale is carefully written—expanding the series by fast-forwarding things in Slaver’s Bay and Beyond the Wall to the moment in the fifth book, writing good twists involving The Hound and Brienne of Tarth, resolving half problems in The Wall and King’s Landing. Seemingly, the next season will go away from Westeros… to Nine Free Cities, to Slaver’s Bay, to the unknown places beyond the Wall, or even to Dorne? A good finale makes a good start also.

FAVORITE DIRECTING

DIRECTED BY: ALEX GRAVES | Alex Graves gets 4 episodes to direct this season and one of them makes the best directing for me. Episode 8: The Mountain and The Viper makes good tension. First, it slaughters innocence people in the North by the hands of wildlings. Then, it awards Ramsay Snow a Bolton’s surname after allegedly take Moat Caitlin from the Ironborn. It also emotionally exiles Jorah Mormont from Meereen. At last, it shockingly directs astonishing combat between Gregor Clegane and Oberyn Martell that ends agonizingly. Look at the eyes of each character I mentioned before during the show; everyone shows their bitter emotion through killings and treachery.  Had this episode been not so emotionally as it is, I don’t think that you would fear the wildlings; you would hate Ramsay Bolton’s cunning look; you would pity Jorah Mormont and blame Dany Targaryen; and most obviously, you would regret losing Oberyn Martell.

This is the end of A Season with: Game of Thrones – Season 4. Feel free to discuss about it (kindly post your comment below!). See you in the next season.