I’m a huge Game of Thrones fan. Huge. I would be more upset if my boyfriend started watching season four without me than if he cheated on me. For real. So when the folks at LexPR invited me to a Red Wedding themed party at the Berkley Street Church my answer was a very obvious and emphatic, “Yes!” (I almost slipped in a Cher Horowitz, “D’uh!” but it felt just a little excessive.)
The event was to support the HBO Home launch of season three of Game of Thrones and it was beyond excellent.
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Upon entering the former church we were given coins not unlike the one that Jaqen gave to Arya when he left her in season two; we provided these to robed psychics who told us which house we belonged to. For me that meant the fiery House Targaryen, because according to the soothsaying ladies I am a passionate and excitable woman; my reaction was basically, “Yay! Dragons.” So I was happy with my house.
After enjoying a glass or two of red we headed down to the main room for the royal buffet dinner. While I’m not a huge fan of buffets (I hate lines) a buffet felt thematically appropriate and the feast of roast beef, smoked lake trout, portobello lasagna, roasted potatoes, and roasted vegetables was exactly what I would have expected at a proper Stark wedding.
Dinner was accompanied by fire dancers, sword fighting and a re-screening of that particularly infamous Red Wedding scene which was, even after almost a full year, no less traumatic than the first time I saw it. There’s something about a pregnant woman being stabbed repeatedly in the belly while her helpless husband watches that just doesn’t get less painful with time.
After the lovely dinner we were treated to a Q&A with Kristian Nairn and Isaac Hempstead Wright, the actors who play Hodor and Bran Stark. My favourite part of the Q&A was learning that Isaac’s mom wasn’t entirely comfortable with him watching the show he stars in when it first aired – not that I blame her since Isaac was only 12 when Game of Thrones first entered our living rooms.
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The first three seasons of Game of Thrones were incredible, but from what I understand next season will be even better. In season four we’ll have another wedding in another shade and if we’re all still breathing by mid-season I’ll be utterly shocked.
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