Don’t be afraid, there will be no spoilers here. Not to discover much, to be known, that the play we are watching, even for long-term fans of epic fantasy is fun and innovative mostly because the fabula doesn’t follow widely spread pattern of epic sagas. Instead of good comradeship, which despite great danger, carries a Ring to Mordor, in Westeros, we come across homosexual and incestuous knights, naïve kings and members of one unscrupulous nobleman family, which live in the shadow of their father. The story of The Game of Thrones revolves around the fight for power in medieval and almost non-magical world named Westeros.
Comparing to other works of epic fantasy, it’s eye-catching that literally all female characters are very complex. Common motive is finding a place in one grey, quasi-medieval world, which gives no alternative to women but getting married. Since the women mostly had cliché parts (a mother, a wife, a witch and only a few warrior) and even the attention haven’t been all around them, inasmuch it’s more interesting follow up their lives, whether they are sympathetic to us or not. Women in this series have great power. Take for an example Cersei, who succeed on a insightful way to carry with different challenges and get to the title of the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Daenerys also succeed to get over different problems on her way, and now she is with her dragons sowing fear to all in the realm. Arya, a girl who at the very beginning looked like a rebel now it is dangerous fighter and a skillful killer. Sansa’s insightful and intelligence are intriguing throughout the whole show, so it is her time to shine once again.
As in the novels, the characters in the show are well developed. Since we have above average number of important characters it is needed a lot of time to meet all those players in the fight for the Iron Throne. That's the reason why the producers are focused on meeting the audience with characters which leads to eventual slower play. This type of narration have deffinitely paid off in the subsequent episodes, as we are going to meet all characters eventualy and understand all the reasons of their acts and intentions because the play will speed up leading to complete preoccupation of the Westeros. Thereby it is important to mention that the play is so real that it makes impression that the characters live in one world where we can't actually asume the outcome of their deeds. We can't actually asume the end of the show, like in the Lord of the Rings, where they either did succeed in their intention or not, but only by individual decision of the acters that are logical, or leads to destructive consequences that feed the very complexity of the play. At the beginning many main characters are found dead which makes the show more intriguing, therefore makes a big influence at the course of our heroes' thought.
One of the most decisive inovation that makes the show so attractive are realistically showed location. We don't have idyllic Rivendell, nor magical forest Lothloriens, but cities and nature we would actually came across in one medieval world, even high position in society doesn't give consolation nor innocuous loyalty of people. Whether you are a peasant, a nobleman or a king, you always have to be on alert as on every step the traitors are lurking and people who follow their own goals. Good example may be a dialog after one „fair“ duel : „You don't fight with honour!“ – „No. He (the dead one) did“. We don't have good or bad characters, but whole spectrum of characters whose roads to the goal are so much interlace you just don't know whom to cheer for. Part of this realistic show of the world is substantial number of explicit scenes of sex and violance. It can be said that even some boring conversation are made with interesting scenes of sex. While high level of sex in written form is nicely fitting in the world created by Georg R.R. Martin, on screnes often looks a bit redudantly and even funny.
There aren't words that could describe my impatience with the season 7 finale.