If you haven't seen Game of Thrones, you can just read this and maybe it'll be the same, but probably not. Warning: This post contains season 1 spoilers; click the "Read More" in the bottom right-hand corner if you want to be spoiled (unless you've seen it already) *Reader discretion is advised* Season 1 introduced different characters from different places. If your favorite characters aren't Robb Stark or Daenerys Targaryen, then we can't be friends. Also, in the first episode when they found the direwolf litter, and it showed Robb and Bran holding their puppies, it's like showing a puppy holding another puppy because I love Robb. The runt of the litter was given to Jon Snow, and they think that Jon's direwolf, Ghost, is weak just like him, but let me tell you a thing: Jon and Ghost are both adorable and brave and amazing. Who was the one who convinced Ned Stark to keep the direwolves for the Stark kids because direwolves are the Stark House sigil? Oh yeah. That was Jon. And he gave Arya Stark a sword before he left for the Wall. Yeah, you heard me. The Wall. So don't tell me that Jon is weak because he clearly isn't. So, while Jon's off doing his own thing, Ned and Catelyn Stark are back home tending to the Lannisters' needs. At the end of the first episode, Bran Stark catches Jaime Lannister and Cersei Lannister... ya know, and then Jaime says (literally the only line I remember from the show besides "Don't wake the dragon"), "Oh, the things I do for love." Bran gets pushed out of a window. Uh, okay, Jaime. Please calm down. Bran is in a coma for a couple weeks, while Catelyn is sitting by his side the whole time. While Bran is in a coma, a building catches on fire (not the building that they're in), and while Catelyn is looking out of the window, an assassin comes into the room and tries to kill Bran. Bran's direwolf, Summer, then protects Catelyn and Bran by attacking and killing the assassin. The client, very stupidly, gave the assassin a dagger with a special symbol engraved in it. So, basically, Summer is so awesome. The end. Not the end. I was just kidding. When the Lannisters first came to Winterfell (AKA the Stark's hood), Cersei was being rude to Rob Baratheon AKA her husband. Sansa Stark starts developing a little crush on Joffrey Baratheon (who we find out is actually Jaime and Cersei's son hence his blonde hair), but Arya hates him. So while Joffrey and Sansa are taking a walk, they see Arya and her friend, Mycah, pretending to have a duel with sticks. Joffrey threatens Mycah with his sword for absolutely no reason other than because Joffrey's a little brat. Arya defends Mycah and fights with Joffrey, but he cuts her stick in half (yeah, I don't know why she thought her stick could beat his sword, but) and makes her fall to the ground, but Nymeria, Arya's direwolf, jumps at Joffrey and knocks the sword out of his hand and basically tackles him to the ground, hurting him (thank God. SOMEONE needed to set him straight). Joffrey, then, cries about it to his parents because he's a baby, but after Sansa begs Joffrey not to say that Arya had any part in it; Joffrey ends up telling his parents that Mycah and Nymeria attacked him "out of nowhere", but Arya tells Nymeria to run off. His parents "have no other choice" but to kill Nymeria but since Nymeria isn't there anymore, they kill Sansa's direwolf, Lady, thinking that she was Nymeria, and now Sansa blames Arya for Lady's death. Ned, Catelyn, Arya, and Sansa all go to King's Landing, leaving Robb to watch over Winterfell and Bran. While there, Ned finds out that all three of Robert's kids are actually Jaime and Cersei's, so Ned confronts Cersei with this and tells her to take her kids and go while she still can. Cersei uses this and poisons Robert, but she frames Ned and sends him to jail for treason. She gives Ned a choice: to either die or join the Night's Watch (if he admits to something that he obviously didn't do), so Ned confesses to the crime to keep his family safe. But because Joffrey is now King by default, he decides that Ned will get beheaded anyway. Even worse: Ned got beheaded with his own sword, Ice, which he used to behead a traitor in the very first episode. Can you say foreshadowing because I can. Foreshadowing. Onto my favorite character: Daenerys Targaryen. Something you need to know: the Targaryens have been known to be "dragonlords." The first episode tells us that her brother, Viserys, is trading her, for 40,000 men, to a warrior by the name of Khal Drogo. Drogo is the greatest warrior, and you could tell by how long his braid was (it was pretty much down to his butt). Viserys would always tell Dany to "not wake the dragon" if she was ever about to get him angry because he thought that he was this generation's dragonlord. Before they met Drogo, Dany had to take a bath, and her servants warned her about the water being way too hot, but it didn't faze her. A dragon can't burn. Foreshadowing. I mean, c'mon. Everyone who doesn't watch GoT refers to her as "dragon lady." We all knew it was coming. At her and Drogo's wedding, she is presented with so many gifts, one of which is a box filled with three dragon eggs. They're meant to just be decoration since the man who gave them to her, Magister Illyrio, said that they have turned to stone over time, but little did everyone know something was gonna happen at the end of the season (I think. Maybe it comes in season 2). Drogo gifts her with a white horse who she later names Silver. A knight of Westeros, Ser Jorah Mormont, gives her books on the Seven Kingdoms, and he offers to be a part of Viserys's army. They (Dany, Viserys, Ser Jorah, Drogo and his army) venture out east for a few months. While out there, Dany wants to be "trained" to please Drogo, so she can be seen as an equal in his eyes. Using these "skills," Dany becomes pregnant with Drogo's child. Daenerys is also taught the Dothraki language - the language that is spoken between Drogo, his army, and all of Essos. Dany gains so much confidence, and she starts to get more power. When Viserys tries to regain his control over her, she, I kid you not, slaps him across the face. Viserys shows up at one of the Dothraki gatherings drunk, and he draws his sword at Drogo and demands to give him a crown and the men he promised, so Drogo gets the steaming melted gold, says "a crown for a king," and dumps the whole thing on Viserys's head, leaving Dany to say "fire cannot kill a dragon." Can you say sass? Still on their "trip," Drogo gets challenged by one of his men, and, obviously, Drogo wins, but he suffers from a fatal slash across the chest. Throughout the rest of the trip, the wound gets worse and worse. Dany brings up the idea of using magic to save him, but the power taken from Dany to give to Drogo wasn't actually taken from Dany; it was taken from the baby inside her. Her baby is stillborn, and it developed leathery scaled skin and wings. This was a result from the ritual, but it didn't work fully. Drogo is completely unconscious (the person who performed the ritual left him in a sort of "vegetative state"), and they end up burning his body; Dany steps into the fire, and by morning she is found alive with three newborn dragons in her arms. That was everything (I hope) that happened in Game of Thrones season 1, but go watch it just to make sure.
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