I Rewatched “Game Of Thrones” Season 1 And Noticed Some Interesting Details

The Big Plot Stuff:

• Literally so much is set up here (I mean, of course — it’s the first ep!).

• We get our first glimpse of the White Walkers (it’s wild that they telegraphed them RIGHT FROM THE START but it kind of got lost among everything else happening).

• The Starks are happy and together (sob!), except for the minor fact that Catelyn hates Jon and there’s tension between Arya and Sansa. We get to know their values — “winter is coming” and “the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword”. We learn Theon is their ward (although tbh it took me a few episodes to really gather that the first time around!).

• We discover that Jaime and Cersei Lannister are twins who bang and that they probably had something to do with the murder of Jon Arryn – and definitely had something to do with Bran’s fall (seriously, rewatching it is startling considering Jaime became one of my fave characters. HE BOINKED HIS SISTER AND PUSHED A CHILD OUT THE WINDOW!!! What has this show done to me?!). Meanwhile, Tyrion Lannister is a smart-arse who loves drinking and sex.

• King Robert Baratheon names Ned, his best friend, Hand of the King, and Ned is reluctant AF about it but accepts anyway after learning the Lannisters might have killed Jon Arryn. Robert also wants Sansa and Joffrey to marry. Oh, and he really, really hates Targaryens and was in love with Lyanna Stark.

• Daenerys Targaryen is young, naive, and timid (such a contrast to who she is now!). All she wants is to go home. Her brother Viserys is domineering, slightly mad, a little bit incesty, and obsessed with reclaiming the Iron Throne. He marries her off to Khal Drogo in order to access his army, and Drogo rapes Dany on their wedding night (ugh, how did I go on to ship them the first time I watched this?!). Ser Jorah Mormont gets on Dany’s good side by giving her books about the Seven Kingdoms, while Illyrio Mopatis gives her three “stone” dragon eggs.