Game of Thrones: The Story So Far

welcome to Westeros where the fight for

the kingdom is on anyone can die which

is fine we're great families live and

die for the Iron Throne they're all

weaving these tangled webs some are

noble Jon Snow's everybody's hero some

are not if you're gonna be bad be really

bad wow so many kings and queens in

waiting it's about power and greed as an

icy phone mail when's it start season

seven is coming and so are the Dragons

so let's burn through the epic saga to

date this is what games does it it sucks

you in with Game of Thrones the story so

far

when you play the game of Thrones you

win or you die

there is no middle ground a season one

opens it's the calm before the storm

King Robert Baratheon rules from the

capital King's Landing but his days are

numbered to be king in Westeros you sit

on the Iron Throne in King's Landing and

you're ruling over the Seven Kingdoms

he's locked in a loveless marriage and

only chose his queen for her family's

name to hold his kingdom together I'm

very sympathetic to Cersei she was

completely in love with him she she was

in all of him almost and he turned into

this almost semi abusive drunk sometimes

I don't know what holds it together our

marriage this unhappy couple have three

golden haired children to their name but

Cersei keeps a deadly secret from Robert

the children are not his

the truth will be discovered on a royal

trip north and it's here that our story

really begins

the King has asked his old ally Ned

Stark to help him rule Ned and his wife

Catelyn governed the North fiercely

loyal to the crown

the Starks stand for loyalty integrity

bravery they are really the moral

compass of the show they're the good

guys and they're the ones that you find

yourself rooting for from the start

the couple have five children three sons

and two daughters and the decimation of

this happy family will reverberate

throughout our tale they're almost too

innocent for that world

King Robert arrives with his Queen

Cersei and with them is the whole

Lannister clan they're blonde they're

beautiful they're arrogant so fuck them

and it's really the Lannisters who were

going to introduce a lot of trouble into

the life of the Starks through this

appointment the arrival of the

Lannisters into that world totally sends

shockwaves through the whole family bran

Stark goes claiming one day gets to the

top of a tower and discovers the

Lannisters deeper dark secret the secret

is that Cersei the queen is actually

sleeping with her brother Jaime the

Lannisters oh good

they are I have never seen a felon talk

about it dysfunctional

stop it's incest which even in Westeros

is generally frowned upon it also means

that King Robert's children are not

actually his children it's alright it's

alright

he saw us I heard you the first time he

knows what it means to and he knows that

if the incest is discovered not only

will he and a sister be put to death but

their three children may very well - and

so for Jaime Lannister the greatest

swordsman in Westeros there's only one

solution things I do for love here's a

convenient way the kid will die it'll

look like he fell and our kids will be

safe first in a coma bran will later

awake with no memory of how he fell or

what he saw the Royal secret is safe for

now and only the viewer has seen what

the Lannisters will do to keep it

everything went pair of ships after that

and really that's the whole chain of

events tartan King Robert still once ned

down in a capital so this will be the

last ever time we see the stark family

all together a family which includes

Ned's son out of wedlock the bastard Jon

Snow Ned must now leave his family and

follow King Robert South taking his

daughter Sansa and Arya with him the

reason I think that the first season of

Game of Thrones works is it's

essentially about this good family that

just wants to essentially be left alone

and serve their King in their country

this good family is ripped apart and

thrown into situations that they never

anticipated they are bound for the

capital King's Landing where Ned's new

towers will be to protect King Robert

from those who would unseat him

and in season one viewers learned the

greatest enemies live in exile overseas

the Targaryen x' they were dethroned by

King Robert in the last war the only

surviving members of the family of a

brother and sister called viserys and

danerys the siblings are the children of

the Mad King who was killed in war

Viserys dominates his younger sister

Viserys has more than a touch of the

Targaryen madness and you know sometimes

she's protecting her but he's also

trying to treat her as a as a bargaining

chip come forward my dear in search of

an army this series makes a pact with a

savage tribe

the Dothraki offering his beautiful

young sister in marriage to their leader

Khal Drogo she's the only bargaining

chip he has it doesn't have any wealth

anymore he doesn't have any armies but

he has her who he can trade to this

horse Lord I would let his whole tribe

fuck you all 40,000 men and their horses

too if that's what it took he's

power-hungry but to a nicety degree they

really care how or by what means he just

wants to be important and looked up to

but his plans backfire Daenerys and Karl

Drogo fall in love and become quite the

power couple suddenly she finds herself

with Khal Drogo empowered people are

obeying her tell him I want what was

bargained for or I'm taking you back you

can just completely underestimate not

only Danny but car Drogo Hey what do you

saying

he says yes you shall have a golden

crown it's a real coming-of-age story

throughout the first season she really

grows into herself look away khaleesi

yeah this is one of the turning points

for Daenerys I think this is when you

realize that she's prepared to sacrifice

anything for the greater good crown for

King

he was revolting he was utterly utterly

revolting and that was the moment that

she escaped from her shell when she

became the woman and not the cow a girl

and as the targaryen grow in power we

learn that King Robert faces another

challenge to his northernmost borders

threats which led past rulers to build

this giant wall of ice to keep up wild

things beyond it's protected by the

legendary Night's Watch the Nights Watch

are a small army who guard the northern

border of the country when season one

there's lots of fighting for the throne

but actually in the background there are

these creatures appearing north of the

wall that nobody has seen for thousands

of years and no one quite wants to

believe that they're there but they

certainly are we hear the characters

saying that this is all folklore or that

this is all made up but for the viewer

we see that basically these characters

do exist they are there I think the

White Walkers are really terrifying

mostly because you're not 100% sure you

know what they're capable of doing or

what their motives are they are serious

threat in season one in search of a

purpose Jon Snow ventures to the wall

and joins the Nights Watch a leader in

the making

John snows everybody's hero John snows

one of my favorite characters he's the

dude he's also in search of answers the

question of John Johnston though his

parentage has been one of the burning

topics amongst not only the show fans

the book fans for many decades

Jon Snow is Ned Stark's bastard son he

brought him back from a war and we never

really learned who the mother is