| Tv Club Game of Thrones, Season 3 How awful is it to be born a Lannister? Pretty awful. By Tracey Coronado
Posted Monday, Apr 29, 2013, at 04:52 PM ET  Every week in the Game of Thrones TV Club, Rachael Larimore will IM with a different fan of the show about the goings-on in Westeros and across the Narrow Sea. This week she discusses "Kissed by Fire" with Slate's HR director, Tracey Coronado. Rachael Larimore: Welcome Tracey! In the haunting and regal introduction to Game of Thrones each week, we see the sigils for the four houses that really matter: The Baratheon stag, the Lannister lion, the Stark direwolf, and the Targaryen dragon. This episode showed just how complex their intertwining has been over the years, and it showed why each of them might be considered the only real contenders for the Iron Throne. Who should we gossip about first: the Starks or the Lannisters? They were really at the forefront Tracey Coronado: Let's start with the Starks: Those wolves were sure hungry for blood this episode. Arya was practically in the ring when Beric Dondarrion and the Hound squared off against each other and when the Hound prevailed she jumped in to try to finish the job herself. But the Stark who showed some real guts this episode was Robb. When Karstark went rogue and skewered the Lannister boys, he had to silence treason in his ranks. I found it pretty crazy that Karstark was actually goading Robb into killing him, as it wouldn't have been my approach in that situation. But when all was said and done, it felt like the Starks were slipping from ... To continue reading, click here.
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