It’s time to dust off your Game of Thrones spoiler goggles and Tweet with caution, because the season 3 premiere is coming.
Monday evening, the Game of Thrones cast took over L.A. for a massive red carpet event launching the third season of the HBO series.
While the premiere episode won’t air until March 31, lucky attendees and select press have been able to view the episode already, which means we’re starting to get a good feel for how “Valar Dohaeris” was received.
Winter is Coming has a great review of the episode up, which reveals not only what the first scene is (teaser: we pick up pretty much exactly where we left off), but also that book fans should expect the same faithfulness to the storylines that we’ve come to expect from the HBO series.
“There are a number of new scenes in this episode which weren’t in the book,” WiC writes, “but which very well could have been. Others that are wholly different from what was presented in the book, but are there to streamline events and characters.” One concern, however, is that while, “most of the changes I am okay with and seem like smart adaptation choices, there is one in particular that I wasn’t a fan of.”
Overall however, they deem the episode “highly entertaining,” with “some real geek-out moments for fans of the books,” and a final, exciting reveal.
And they have sneak peeks, too! Check out these two clips from the premiere episode of season 3, showing Daenerys with her dragons and Cersei speaking to Tyrion:
Finally, check out this huge gallery of season 3 stills released by Sky Atlantic, the British network which will be broadcasting Game of Thrones:
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See all 68 images on Sky Atlantic’s website.
Game of Thrones 3×01 “Valar Dohaeris” airs Sunday, March 31 at 9/8c on HBO.