King Robert Baratheon comes to Winterfell to meet Ned, and propose marriage between his son Joffrey and Ned's daughter Sansa. Meet good-guy Ned Stark, a king who believes in honesty and duty above all else. Meet the White Walkers, who slaughter a retinue of soldiers from Winterfell, leaving one survivor to tell the tale. Watch Episode 1 because it sets the tone and establishes characters for the next three seasons of Game of Thrones. The GoT Cheat Watch Guide If you must fast forward through the show, here's what you need to watch and which bits you can skip. The White Walkers: No one knows who they are, yet, but these blue-eyed monsters are growing in number and have the ability to turn the dead into ice zombies… and they're coming for the rest of Westeros. Though he takes Dany as a trophy wife, he grows to love her and respect her innate wisdom. Khal Drogo: The leader of the Dothraki, a warring, horse riding people who live on the grassy plains of Vaes Dothrak. He's also craven, whiny, and to put it politely, completely crazy. He hopes the Dothraki will give him an army in exchange for his sister. Viserys Targaryen: Dany's brother, who believes he's the rightful heir to the Iron Throne and the Targaryen to bring back the dynasty. Her brother sells her to Khal Drogo, the leader of the Dothraki, and she's given three dragon eggs as a wedding gift. A capable young man, he chooses to leave his home in Winterfell to join the Night's Watch on the Wall, the celibate guards who protect the kingdom from whatever lies beyond the Wall.ĭaenerys Targaryen: The last Targaryen princess, Dany and her brother were smuggled across the Narrow Sea to Essos while the rest of the Targaryens were being hunted down. Jon Snow: Ned's supposed bastard son, though he's never told anyone who Jon's mother is. Married to Catelyn Stark, with five children and one bastard son out of wedlock. Ned Stark: Warden of the North and most stand-up guy in Game of Thrones. Very little happens in the seven kingdoms without Varys knowing about it, and his network of spies has earned him the moniker “the spider”. Varys: The spymaster of the kingdom is Baelish's archrival and the keeper of secrets untold. His secret machinations are setting the scene for important things to come. Petyr Baelish: The realm's Master of Coin is a scheming, politicking kingmaker and has his sticky hands in more pies than we can count. His inheritance is threatened by Ned Stark discovering he's actually Cersei and Jaime's son, but he's also betrothed to Ned's daughter Sansa. Joffrey Lannister: King Robert's oldest son and heir to the Iron Throne, and a right little monster. Tywin Lannister: The cold-hearted patriarch of the Lannisters, he's rich and scheming and bankrolling the kingdom. Also, he's a dwarf and the Westerosi are terribly judgmental. His family hates him because his mother died in childbirth and they hold him responsible. I’m also still curious about when Jaime will learn the Jedi arts before exiling himself to a deserted island.Tyrion Lannister: The youngest Lannister sibling, he's witty, smart and loves his ladies and liquor. It gives use another reason to miss those who have died, and to see how everyone else has grown, or perhaps degenerated. Making sure that the first episode of the final season is so similar to the first episode of the show itself is an effective way to show how much time has passed between the two moments, and just how different these characters have become. Here we were, standing next to each other once again, now in completely different height order, and me sitting down, ten years older.” “That queen’s arrival scene was really interesting, because it really was pretty much exactly the way we had done it before ,” Hempstead Wright, who plays Bran, told The Hollywood Reporter. These echoes weren’t a coincidence, of course. I guess that’s bound to happen when one scene involves beautiful people surprising the audience by cold-heartedly destroying the innocence of youth, and the the scene deals with a young man who has since become an omniscient being of lore. Jaime seriously looked like a cover model from a romance magazine in this episodeīoth Thrones episodes also end with a cliffhanger involving Jaime and Bran, but the mood changes dramatically between the two scenes.
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