![]() Speaking of burning to a painful death, season one’s writers appeared to have fun at one character’s expense in particular. Its lies though (Lysa murdered her hubby at the behest of Littlefinger) prove more destructive than a bathtub of wildfire. Lysa’s letter falsely pointing the finger at the royal family is received, read, and burned by sister Catelyn in under a minute of screen-time. Yet, when she accused the Lannisters of having poisoned her husband, we fell for it. The ten-year-old boy slurping noisily from Lysa Arryn’s nipple should have alerted us to the fact that she was unlikely to be a reliable source of information. ![]() He’d only worry.)Ī rewatch exposes the pivotal lies told in season one. (I wouldn’t tell him about getting stuck with more knives than the Pop-Up Pirate by the Night’s Watch in season five though. You boy, are about to get some serious ass.” ![]() And I wouldn’t sweat all this virgin business either. Every third word addressed to Jon Snow in season one is “bastard.” Whenever you see him wince at being called an illegitimate son-of-a-whore, you want to reach into the screen and pat his fluffy cloak reassuringly. What really blows your dramatic irony gaskets, though, is viewing the first season in the knowledge that Jon Snow, Lord Eddard Stark’s bastard, is no such thing. ![]() After the pivotal reappearance of that in the show’s penultimate run, its every appearance alongside Aidan Gillen’s character in season one comes with an added shiver. What literally got Littlefinger killed of course, was the dagger with which he tried to frame Tyrion Lannister for the attempt on Bran Stark’s life in season one. “What we don’t know is usually what gets us killed,” says Littlefinger. His retort to the old saying ‘what you don’t know won’t hurt you’ simply proves very true. It becomes satisfyingly ironic, for instance, when Littlefinger plays the Shakespearean villain early on, muttering in soliloquy “Ah, the Starks – quick tempers, slow minds.” Lord Baelish underestimating the speed of a Stark mind is exactly what does for him years later. Several languages are spoken in Game Of Thrones season one, but none so frequently as irony. Other instances (“I have known Lord Walder since I was a girl,” says Catelyn Stark, “He will never harm me!”) are much more deliberately designed. Meeting little Rickon Stark at an archery session in the knowledge that five seasons later, he’ll provide the target practice, is ominous but only inadvertently so. It foreshadows Dany’s final scene of the season, in which she walks into the flames of a funeral pyre and emerges unburned, undressed and with only a baby dragon for modesty, held artfully in front of her great grass sea. Jon’s direwolf appears with a severed hand to add flair to the occasion.Knowing what we know now-that Daenerys Stormborn is the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of da dum da dum di dum di of Dragons-the hot bath takes on significance. Historic moment: Jon and Sam take their oath to join the Night’s Watch. Introduces: Tywin Lannister, who sends Jaime and half of his forces to attack Riverrun, thereby beginning a war. Benjen Stark, Ned’s brother, goes missing north of the Wall, and Lord Commander Jeor Mormont (Jorah’s father) requests Jon as his personal steward. Dany is saved from an assassin by Jorah, and her near-death is enough to convince Drogo to cross the sea and claim the throne. Ned realizes Littlefinger has double-crossed him when the city guard doesn’t come to his aid. Robert’s dying wish - that Ned serve as Lord Regent until the king’s rightful heir comes of age - is ignored by Cersei, who has Ned seized. However, the king is maimed by a boar during a hunt and later succumbs to his injuries. Plot: Having discovered Cersei’s children were born of incest, Ned tells her to flee and escape Robert’s wrath. Historic moment: Dany receives three petrified dragon eggs as a wedding gift. Introduces: Everyone, plus White Walkers (the undead entities that live Beyond the Wall), the Starks’ pet direwolves, their ward Theon Greyjoy, and the treacherous prince Joffrey. Across the Narrow Sea in Pentos, exiled prince Viserys Targaryen forces his sister, Daenerys, to wed Khal Drogo, the leader of a Dothraki tribe, in exchange for an army so he can return to Westeros and reclaim his father’s Iron Throne. The two families intermingle to devastating result: Bran (the second youngest of the Stark children) interrupts Jaime and Cersei having incestuous sex, so Jaime pushes him from a tower window to silence him. The queen, Cersei her twin brother, Jaime Lannister and their brother Tyrion Lannister arrive with the king. Plot: After the death of his right-hand man, King Robert Baratheon travels north to Winterfell to ask his old friend Lord Eddard “Ned” Stark to assume the role.
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