Game Of Thrones: 14 Things You Learn Rewatching Season 3

1. The Red Wedding Never Gets Easier

Even now, the Red Wedding is still the Game of Thrones event. Even after the subsequent years of misery and mayhem, battles and betrayals, and deaths and deceptions, nothing matches the sheer visceral power that the Red Wedding still holds, no matter how many times you rewatch it.

By now, you know all the clues. The jovial way Walder Frey says they'll put it all behind them. The closing of the doors. The shift in music. The reveal that Roose Bolton is wearing armour. And still, when the tension breaks and the action explodes into life in a sea of arrows to Robb's chest and a knife to Talisa's belly, it's a sequence of such pure horror that it feels like you're watching it for the first time all over again.

There are more things you pick up on too with subsequent rewatches: for example, just how much of it is on Catelyn's face. The way it focuses on her lovingly watching her son and his wife, in a moment of tenderness, to her realisation that something is VERY wrong when Rains of Castamere starts being played, and then to her scream at the end, is an absolute masterclass from Michelle Fairley and director David Nutter. This is when the TV show about t*ts and dragons really became Game of Thrones, and it never gets old, but it also never gets any easier to watch.

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