Game of thrones season 1 episode 1 free8/11/2023 ![]() The significance of the wolf dying with a stag’s antler wedged in its throat will become clearer later, but for now the Starks adopt the pups – stopping only for Ned to give another lecture this time about the importance of pet care. After a brief lecture about why it’s important for the man who passes the sentence to swing the sword, the family trudge back towards home only to discover first a dead stag, then a dying direwolf (essentially a giant wolf) and her six pups. Ned learns of the deserter’s arrest and promptly takes his sons, legitimate and otherwise, off on a rather bleak family outing to a beheading. Don’t worry this will make sense later, maybe). Also hanging out at Winterfell are Ned’s ward Theon, played by a wonderfully snide Alfie Allen, and his illegitimate son, Jon (cue an army of fans crying L+ R = J. ![]() ![]() The Starks consist of: Eddard aka Ned, played with just the right amount of northern steel by Sean Bean his wife Catelyn, who, on the evidence of the first episode, seems to be something of a worrier and their children Robb (straight-forward, doesn’t do much this episode), Sansa (a bit spoilt, wants to be a princess), Arya (tomboy, hates sewing), Bran (wide-eyed, enjoys climbing) Rickon (who we have yet to meet). Unfortunately he runs to Winterfell, ancestral home of the Stark family, whose most notable trait is a dour acceptance that they must do the morally right thing, even if that’s not always easy. ‘The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword’ The surviving member of our unfortunate search party, faced with what appears to be an offshoot of the walking dead, does what any sane person would do – and legs it. Unluckily something very nasty is lurking and no amount of patrician disdain can prevent group leader Waymar Royce from being run through, and one of his companions beheaded. We kick off in the frozen wastelands north of the Wall as three members of the Night’s Watch ride out on a scouting trip.
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