History Recap / GameOfThronesS1E6AGoldenCrown

* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: Tyrion has a truly impressive array of ways to say, "[[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]]."

* UnusualEuphemism: Tyrion provides quite a few ways to describe ADateWithRosiePalms. "I made the bald man cry!" (Complete with hand movement.)

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Tyrion mentions that he once "[[UnusualEuphemism milked his eel]]" into some stew, which his sister later ate (or at least, he hopes she did).

In '''Vaes Dothrak''', a feast is in session. Things are going pretty well for Drogo and Dany until Viserys stumbles in, either drunk or more insane than usual (he was drunk in the book, but the TV show doesn't say anything either way) and calls for his sister. The Dothraki makes fun of him, and Khal Drogo tells Jorah to offer the prince a seat... in the back of the tent. "That is no place for a King!" the self-proclaimed Dragon spits at the humiliation. "You are no King," answers Drogo in common tongue with a scoff. Angered, the Beggar King draws his sword, and holds first Jorah, then Dany at swordpoint, threatening to spill blood in the sacred city. He demands the [[TitleDrop golden crown]] he was promised in exchange for his sister keeping her skin intact. Drogo agrees, stating that he will receive a golden crown "[[ExactWords that will make men tremble]]", but only a fool wouldn't realise that he is, by this point, [[TranquilFury absolutely seething with bloodlust]]. Viserys, said fool, is only too happy to have his demands met and lets his guard down, only to get his arm broken and get subsequently restrained by the Khal's bodyguards.

While Viserys shouts furious demands for the guards to unhand him, Drogo takes off his medallion-encrusted belt and tosses it into a pot over the cookfire, where the gold [[SpecialEffectFailure begins to melt]], and a horrible realization dawns on Viserys. He starts desperately begging his sister to stop the Dothraki, but she just looks coldly at him as Drogo approaches him with the pot of molten metal. The Khal lifts the pot up and once again addresses the Beggar King in common tongue with the words: "A crown for a king." To quote the book: "Viserys began to scream the high, wordless scream of the coward facing death." He gets his golden crown... but he doesn't seem to enjoy it very much. He hits the ground with clanking finality and stays there. [[BloodlessCarnage With no blood spilled]], the Beggar King has died.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: Zigzagged with the crowning. Khal Drogo is apparently just that much of a badass to be able to pick up a metal pot, even by extended handles, which is apparently hot enough to melt gold within a handful of moments (see ArtisticLicenseChemistry above). However, check out Viserys' face post-crowning. Even the parts which weren't touched by the gold are scalded, damaged and red-raw by the sheer heat.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: A downplayed aversion occurs with Viserys post-crowning. Take a close look at the page image; even parts of his face that haven't been touched by the molten gold are burned, damaged and red raw from the sheer heat. (Of course, the gold itself shouldn't realistically have gotten nearly hot enough to melt after simply being dumped in a pot on a campfire, but we have to allow them ''some'' liberties with reality.)

In '''Vaes Dothrak''', a feast is in session. Things are going pretty well for Drogo and Dany until Viserys stumbles in, either drunk or more insane than usual (he was drunk in the book, but the TV show doesn't say anything either way) and calls for his sister. The Dothraki makes fun of him, and Khal Drogo tells Jorah to offer the prince a seat... in the back of the tent. "That is no place for a King!" the self-proclaimed Dragon spits at the humiliation. "You are no King," answers Drogo in common tongue with a scoff. Angered, the Beggar King draws his sword, and holds first Jorah, then Dany at swordpoint, threatening to spill blood in the sacred city. He demands the [[TitleDrop golden crown]] he was promised in exchange for his sister keeping her skin intact. Drogo agrees, but only a fool wouldn't realise that he is, by this point, [[TranquilFury absolutely seething with bloodlust]]. Viserys, said fool, is only too happy to have his demands met and lets his guard down, only to get his arm broken and get subsequently restrained by the Khal's bodyguards.

In '''Vaes Dothrak''', a feast is in session. Things are going pretty well for Drogo and Dany until Viserys stumbles in, either drunk or more insane than usual (he was drunk in the book, but the TV show doesn't say anything either way) and calls for his sister. The Dothraki makes fun of him, and Khal Drogo tells Jorah to offer the prince a seat... in the back of the tent. "That is no place for a King!" the self-proclaimed Dragon spits at the humiliation. "You are no King," answers Drogo in common tongue with a scoff. Angered, the Beggar King draws his sword, and holds first Jorah, then Dany at swordpoint, threatening to spill blood in the sacred city. He demands the [[TitleDrop golden crown]] he was promised in exchange for his sister keeping her skin intact. Drogo agrees. Viserys, happy to have his demands met, lets his guard down, only to get his arm broken and get subsequently restrained by the Khal's bodyguards.

** Viserys, after realising he's pushed Drogo's grudging tolerance of him too far and thanks to his abusiveness towards Daenerys, she won't lift a finger to try and help him.

* FalseReassurance: Drogo's promise to Viserys.

* EurekaMoment: After Sansa protests that Joffrey is nothing like Robert, and promises to give him sons with blond hair, Eddard realizes that Joffrey is not Robert's son, something he confirms by reading "The Lineage and Histories of the Seven Kingdoms" and realizes that all Baratheon children have had back hair.

* EurekaMoment: After Sansa protests that Joffrey is nothing like Robert, and promises to give him sons with blond hair, Eddard realizes that Joffrey is not Robert's son, something he confirms by reading "The Lineage and Histories of the Seven Kingdoms" and realizes that all Baratheon children have had back har.

** Cersei claims that Ned attacked her brother in a drunken brawl after carousing at a brothel.

* EurekaMoment: Eddard upon realizing that Joffrey can't be a Baratheon.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Daenerys's comment about her brother who was killed by melted hot gold. Targaryens have the blood of dragons in their veins and are rumoured to be heat-resistant.

%% * WhamEpisode: The first (past the pilot episode) to really emphasize the mood and direction of the story.

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Viserys calls his sister "Dany" when he realises he's in deep shit.

* AbsenteeActor: Finn Jones is credited in this episode, but Loras doesn't appear. [[note]] What makes it stranger is that Loras is present in the corresponding events in the book: when Ned dispatches a force after Gregor, Loras offers himself to lead it. Ned refuses, since he knows Loras is just after revenge on Gregor for nearly killing him in the tournament. Varys considers Ned's refusal an unwise action, suggesting that if Ned is determined to clash with the Lannisters, allowing Loras his way would be a good way to cultivate relations with the Tyrells. [[/note]]

* RageBreakingPoint: What makes Viserys finally snap is Drogo waving him off to a demeaning part of the feast hall, and when Viserys protests it's no fit place for a king, Drogo sneering back, "[[JerkassHasAPoint You are no king!"

** When Viserys turns up at the feast, Qotho refers to him as "Khal Rhae Mhar"(it translates to "Sorefoot King" in Dothraki), eliciting a derisive chuckle from Drogo. In the novel, Khal Rhae Mhar is a mocking title the Dothraki give Viserys behind his back in response to Daenerys confiscating his horse and forcing him to walk.

* RageBreakingPoint: The thing that makes Viserys finally snap is Drogo waving him off to a demeaning part of the hall at the feast, and when Viserys protests it's no fit place for a king, Drogo sneering back, "You are no king!"

* AbsenteeActor: Finn Jones is credited in this episode, but Loras doesn't appear. [[note]] What makes it stranger is that Loras is present in the corresponding events in the book: when Ned dispatches a force after Gregor, Loras offers himself to lead it. Ned refuses, since he knows Loras is just after revenge on Gregor for nearly killing him in the tournament the previous episode. Varys considers it an unwise action, suggesting that if Ned is determined to clash with the Lannisters, allowing Loras his way would be a good way to cultivate relations with the Tyrells. [[/note]]

-->'''Jorah:''' Look away, khaleesi.
-->'''Danaerys:''' [[LittleNo No.]]

-->'''Viserys:''' Does loyalty mean nothing to you?
-->'''Jorah:''' It means ''everything'' to me.
-->'''Viserys:''' And yet here you stand.
-->'''Jorah:''' And yet here I stand.
---> The words of House Mormont? ''"Here I Stand"''

-->'''Robert:''' [[GloryDays Those were the days!]]
-->'''Renly:''' Which days, exactly? The ones when half of Westeros fought the other half and millions died? Or before that, when the Mad King slaughtered women and babies because the voices in his head told him they deserved it? Or way before that, when dragons burnt whole cities to the ground?
-->'''Robert:''' Easy, boy, you might be my brother, but you're speaking to the king.
-->'''Renly:''' I suppose it was all rather heroic, if you were drunk enough and had some poor Riverlands whore to shove your prick inside and "make the eight."

-->'''Tyrion:''' I once brought a [[NoodleImplements jackass and a honeycomb]] into a brothel--
-->'''Lady Lysa:''' SILENCE!
-->'''Robin:''' What happened next?

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Zigzagged a bit with Viserys' "golden crown". The melting point of gold is 1,948 fahrenheit (1,064 celcius), and wood burns at about 1,100 fahrenheit (600 celcius), way too low to melt gold. However, if the firepit contained coal, that would be another matter, because coal burns at about the same temperature as gold melts. Further, if the gold wasn't pure and was alloyed with a metal that has a lower melting point (which is very possible), that would lower its melting point. All that being said, while it's not ''impossible'' that the firepit could have melted Drogo's gold medallions, it certainly wouldn't have been able to do so ''that fast''. Not to mention that Drogo would have certainly burned his hands since if the fire was hot enough to melt the gold, the iron pot holding it would be way too hot to handle.[[labelnote:in the books]]The books do specify that Drogo's medallions are ''pure'' gold, but also notes the gold is only partially melted when he dumps it on Viserys, and the scene lasts a bit longer, probably several minutes. So all-in-all, the books are slightly more plausible about things, but only slightly. Also, the books mention someone handing Drogo mittens to handle the pot with before he picks it up.[[/labelnote]]

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Zigzagged a bit with Viserys' "golden crown". The melting point of gold is 1,948 fahrenheit (1,064 celcius), and wood burns at about 1,100 fahrenheit (600 celcius), way too low to melt gold. However, if the firepit contained coal, that would be another matter, because coal burns at about the same temperature as gold melts. Further, if the gold wasn't pure and was alloyed with a metal that has a lower melting point (which is very possible), that would lower its melting point. All that being said, while it's not ''impossible'' that the firepit could have melted Drogo's gold medallions, it certainly wouldn't have been able to do so ''that fast''. Not to mention that Drogo would have certainly burned his hands since if the fire was hot enough to melt the gold, the iron pot holding it would be way too hot to handle.[[labelnote:in the books]]The books do specify that Drogo's medallions are ''pure'' gold, but also notes the gold is only partially melted when he dumps it on Viserys, and the scene lasts a bit longer, probably several minutes. So all-in-all, the books are slightly more plausible about things, but only slightly. Also, the books mention someone handing Drogo mittens to handle the pot with before he picks it up.[[/note]]

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Gold has a melting point of 1,948 degrees (a wood fire averages about 1000 degrees) and even then, it wouldn't melt THAT fast.

* AnyOneCanDie: Viserys Targaryen, the first member of the main cast to die.

It's '''Vaes Dothrak''', and there's a feast. Things are going pretty well for Drogo and Dany until Viserys stumbles in, either drunk or more insane than usual (he was drunk in the book, but the TV show doesn't say anything either way) and calls for his sister. The Dothraki makes fun of him, and Khal Drogo tells Jorah to offer the prince a seat... in the back of the tent. "That is no place for a King!" the self-proclaimed Dragon spits at the humiliation. "You are no King," answers Drogo in common tongue with a scoff. Angered, the Beggar King draws his sword, and holds first Jorah, then Dany at swordpoint, threatening to spill blood in the sacred city. He demands the [[TitleDrop golden crown]] he was promised in exchange for his sister keeping her skin intact. Drogo agrees. Viserys, happy to have his demands met, lets his guard down, only to get his arm broken and get subsequently restrained by the Khal's bodyguards.