Game of Thrones Season 2 Episode 1 Review
Even readers of George R.R. Martin'south epic medieval fantasy series "Game of Thrones" can't be expected to call back all the characters, all the storylines, all the alliances and all of the backstabbing. It'southward worse than the early GOP principal race. So, how on earth does an inexperienced recapper even brainstorm to tackle HBO'due south 'Game of Thrones'? If y'all have any suggestions that don't involve flowcharts, please comment.
Let's start with major plot developments that happened with each of the four main families: Lannisters, Starks, Baratheons and Targaryens.
Existent quick, from terminal season:
The King, Robert Baratheon, was killed in a hunting accident orchestrated by his married woman Cersei. Ned Stark, the king's adviser, finds out that Cersei's children are the production of incest with her blood brother Jaime Lannister. Ned tries to phase a coup and gets executed as a traitor by Joffrey, Cersei's son and the electric current king. Ned's older daughter Sansa (who is betrothed to Joffrey) is a prisoner in King's Landing and his younger daughter, Arya, has disguised herself equally a boy and joined a group of travelers heading north.
Ned's oldest son, Robb Stark, declares war on the Lannisters, raises an army from Winterfell, names himself "King of the North," wins a lot of battles, and captures Jaime Lannister. Tyrion Lannister, the dwarf blood brother of Jaime and Cersei, joins his big-headed begetter in warring against Robb subsequently a brief stint as a prisoner of Catelyn Stark (Ned's widow) and her sister Lysa Arryn. Renly and Stannis Baratheon, King Robert's brothers, each declare themselves the new king.
Ned Stark'due south illegitimate son, Jon Snow, is serving with the Night's Lookout at the Wall, which protects the kingdom from the wildlings (people who live upward n) and...other creatures.
Daenerys Targaryen, granddaughter of the king whom Robert Baratheon overthrew, has taken leadership of a modest band of horse-riders known as the Dothraki. Having hatched three dragons, she sets off to raise an army to recapture the throne. Terminate of Season one.
Ok, here we become. Outset episode spoilers, apparently.
Lannisters:
-- The evil Joffrey
Lannister
Baratheon is still terrorizing Sansa Stark and "ruling" King's Landing. Tyrion Lannister, who has been sent dorsum from the battlefield by his male parent to human action as Joffrey's adviser, reprimands Cersei for not keeping him in check and for losing Arya Stark.
(I simply have to note Peter Dinklage'southward excellent delivery on this line: "You love your children; it's your ane redeeming quality. That and your cheekbones.")
-- When Joffrey insults Cersei after questioning her nearly the incest rumors, she does what we all desire to do and slaps him across the face.
-- Cersei also banishes Petyr Baelish (who betrayed Ned to her) and orders the execution of all Robert Baratheon's illegitimate children.
Starks
-- Robb Stark sends a message to the Lannister regular army: he'll gratis Jaime Lannister if they return his sisters Sansa and Arya and declare the North an independent state with Robb every bit rex. He also sends his mother Catelyn and his foster blood brother, Theon Greyjoy, to make allies with other lords.
-- Jon Snow travels across the Wall with a group of rangers to rail wildling activity. They ask for information from Craster, a wildling who marries his daughters. After Jon insults Craster, the Night's Watch leader reprimands Jon and tells him he'll pb the Picket one mean solar day.
-- Bran Stark, who was crippled by Jaime terminal season, is learning to rule Winterfell in Robb's absence. He's also having dreams in which he possesses the body of his pet direwolf.
Baratheons
-- Stannis Baratheon has raised an army that includes the powerful sorceress Melisandre. Melisandre's insistence that men terminate worshiping the "sometime gods" and pray to her god, the "Lord of Light," is causing rifts in Stannis's army.
Targaryens
-- Daenerys and her association of Dothraki have grown weak trying to cross the desert, and her dragons won't consume. She sends out scouts in three different directions to detect shelter.
This episode mostly recalled the motivations of terminal season's main bandage and introduced a few new characters (Ser Dontos, Stannis, Davos and Melisandre). I hope we'll see more of Arya Stark in the side by side.
P.S. I almost forgot to mention: Every scene transitions with a view of a fiery reddish comet in the skies of Westeros. Anybody interprets the comet as an omen, although they assign it unlike meanings. Osha's interpretation seems most likely, every bit it has already come up true: the dragons take returned.
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