Nuts and bolts summary
So GOT has its work cut out for it, seeing as episode 1 ended with a bang. Actually it didn't end with a bang nor a thud but rather a sickening silence as a child was pushed out of a window by the male half of a beast with one back (and one father . . . and one mother) doing some old-fashioned forward-facing royal nasty.
We quickly learn that young Bran Stark is not dead but nevertheless messed up pretty badly and not awake. Tyrion Lannister is awakened sleeping among dogs by his awful nephew Joffrey Baratheon. Tyrion orders the kid to give his condolences to the Stark family
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Joffrey: The object of my untethered disdain. Maybe it's because I hated 'N Sync.
Anyway, Tyrion's going to the Wall with Bahstad Jon Snow because he wants to "piss off the edge of the world." Presumably he knows it's beyond freezing there, which makes that sound like an unpleasant pursuit especially since he prefers doing other things with Tyrion Jr. He and brother Jaime Lannister make some testy banter about young Bran's fall, which was Jaime's handiwork, though only Queen Cersei knows this.
Cersei tries to comfort Catelyn while Bran is zonked. She mentions her first child, a dark-haired kid, who died. She says this sent King Robert into a tizzy.
Cut to Jaime being mean to Jon. He's very unlikable.
Arya doesn't care to pack her bags very diligently. (She's headed to King's Landing with pop Ned and her sister Sansa and the King's posse.) Bahstad Jon gives her a sword which she names Needle. He then goes to bid Bran farewell and Cat treats him poorly again, him being a bahstad and all. She's also not terribly keen on Ned leaving since the last time he he and Robert set off together Ned came back with Jon.
Jon and Ned go separate ways. Jon asks about his mother. Ned says he'll talk about it when they next meet. This sounds like it's something that will happen soon. But under the best of circumstances they won't see each other for a very long time. And that's just the best.
King Robert gets grouchy about Targaryen/Dothraki news. He thinks a war is coming.
Cut to Khal Drogo who eats a hunk of meat and proceeds to violently go at his young wife. Meat
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So Cat is checking on Bran when a shady looking dude appears in the room. "You're not supposed to be here, no one's supposed to be here
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Bran: "Eff with me
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Bahstad Jon realizes his noble calling defending the Wall isn't all that noble when Uncle Benjen introduces some new recruits, whose bound hands he unbinds. Turns out criminals tend to be on the Wall because nobody else would want that awful job.
Dany asks her caretakers how to make the khal happy. He didn't seem unhappy after ham and a slam
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After the attempt on her son's life Cat knows the fix is in so she goes to the tower window where Bran fell. There she finds a blonde hair. Hmm.... She suspects Lannisters because Lannister is a synonym for "blonde." She tells Robb what she thinks. Cat wants to get word to Ned but doesn't trust a raven to carry the message since ravens, as previously mentioned, tend to be an ominous omen.
So the King's posse is King's Landing bound. This is a pretty lengthy journey. And stuff's about to go down. . . .
Sansa's hanging out with her direwolf when she encounters guys in armor including the creepy Sandor Clegane
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So JtA and Sansa come upon Arya practicing her sword fighting with young Micah, the butcher's boy. Joffrey decides to play tough ("That's my lady's sister...") and takes his real sword to Micah's cheek for no reason other than to be a bullying irp. Arya whacks him with her wooden practice sword and JtA drops a c-bomb forcing her direwolf to intervene, which could only have been improved if the wolf did one of those neck-removal things on Jawfulry. JtA wimpers like the irp that he is. Arya tosses his (real) sword in the river.
Sansa tries to comfort him ("My poor prince . . ." blech) and the humiliated irp yells at her. Arya sends her wolf away knowing it won't fare well having bitten the heir to the throne.
There's a search party for her. Ned gets cranky when he finds she's been taken before the King. There is a very testy meeting in which Cersei tries to stir things up and pit King Robert vs. Ned. Lies are told and family ties betrayed (though only by Sansa, who is nearly as bad as the irp she's bethrothed to).
King Robert dresses down Joffrey in his awesome King voice: "You let that little girl disarm you?"
All seems resolved til the cunning Cersei asks what is to become of the dog? She'll take any dead dog since Arya's is gone. Sansa's, it seems, must pay the cost for messing with the boss(' son). Ned says if it must be done, he must do it himself, which is what he said last episode before beheading a deserter. (Maybe he secretly likes taking blades to things...).
Before he can do the deed he sees poor Micah who has been run down by the Hound and killed, which seems cruel even to Ned who likes knifing things. But cruel is the baseline in George RR Martin's world. Ned pets the dog and knifes it. Cut to Bran back in Winterfell. His eyes open.
How does it compare to the source?
There seem to be some minor condensations in this episode but for the most part it felt pretty true to the text. Once again, the Dany/Khal Drogo relationship is very much different from the books, where he's a peerless warrior on the battlefield and kind of a ##########cat back in the tent. I suspect I know the reason for this, but can't (or shouldn't) say more for fear of spoilers. Speaking of which, there's a big honking clue to a huge forthcoming revelation in the above text. But I'll leave it at that
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The Scoreboard (rated on a scale of 1 to 10)
Conniving/scheming: 5; it's there. But compared to what's to come it's bush league.
Throat destruction by dog: 10; with gurgling flair
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Turn-your-head fingers-gripping-blades: 10; and Cat proves she can dish it out.
Dog stabbings: 5; as brutal as this show is
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Enjoyable humiliation of royalty: 10; Joffrey might be the most hateworthy character on TV right now, which is saying something since he's not bright enough to be a conspirator.Topics related articles:
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