![]() Turns out this part of their conversation (and its Tyrion-inspired inverse) will later determine the fate of a kingdom. If the day should ever come that your lord father was forced to choose between honor on the one hand and those he loves on the other, what would he do?”įor years, I thought the most important part of this scene was what happens next: Maester Aemon reveals himself to be a Targaryen. “Tell me,” Maester Aemon says, “did you ever wonder why the men of the Night’s Watch take no wives and father no children?” Samwell Tarly knows what’s up, and he tells Maester Aemon, who summons Jon. Jon Snow is at Castle Black, pledged to the Night’s Watch, and his duty prevents him from helping his brother Robb with the Lannisters. The execrable Joffrey salivated like a dog gnawing on a rawhide, Sansa writhed, the sword fell, and Game of Thrones stopped being good and became great.īut there’s another reason to watch this one again, especially now that we’ve seen the series finale. I watched, calm as a glassy lake, secure in the knowledge that no piece of media I’d ever consumed had ever cut down the main character in the second-to-last episode of the first season. I can see myself sitting on the couch at my friend’s house, scoffing at my own nerves. ![]() I can still remember my utter certainty about what wasn’t going to happen - what couldn’t happen. Jaime finds himself in a position where he’ll stay for a long while. Robb makes a deal with the infinitely creepy Lord Walder Frey to cross the river and fight the Lannister army. HBOĪ lot happens in the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones’ first season. You don’t even need to see Joffrey’s whole face to know that he’s a monster. That is, until Jaime pushes Bran from the tower window. The episode ends with one of the most iconic scenes in the series: When little Bran Stark discovers Jaime and Cersei Lannister in flagrante, it seems the jig between the two siblings is up. ![]() Meanwhile, across the sea, exiled prince Viserys Targaryen arranges a marriage between his sister Daenerys and the Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo (notably, among the gifts Daenerys receives are three petrified dragon eggs), and across the Wall, White Walkers stir for the first time in centuries. The dead direwolf and dead stag (sigils of House Stark and House Baratheon, respectively) found on a hunt don’t bode well for the future, either. ![]() Wheels are also set in motion as Ned is appointed Hand of the King, and his wife Catelyn discovers that her sister believes her husband to have been murdered by the Lannisters. With Eddard Stark at the pilot’s center, the series’ focus on the way characters’ family codes affect their personal morals (and vice versa) is clearly laid out, as Ned takes his children to watch an execution for desertion - which he carries out - and the Lannisters demonstrate just how much power their wealth buys them. The episode that started it all, “Winter Is Coming,” is a neat encapsulation of everything we love about Game of Thrones. ![]()
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