History Recap / GameOfThronesS1E6AGoldenCrown

* UnusualEuphemism: Tyrion provides quite a few ways to describe {{A Date With Rosie Palms}}. "I made the bald man cry!"

Daenerys is eating a horse's heart. Seriously. It's part of a Dothraki ritual which gets a lot more explanation [[hottip:in the books:How Dany handles that chewy lump of muscle will foretell whether she has a strong healthy boy, or a fool, a cripple, or (worst of all) a girl]], but suffice it to say that her child is to be "The Stallion that Mounts the World," some form of ultra-awesome Dothraki superman. The TV show also adds Viserys to the mix. He sees how Dany has become integrated into the Dothraki culture and, in a jealous rage, tries to steal her dragon eggs. He's stopped by Jorah Mormont, who all but declares outright that his allegiance is to the princess now. We also get the first intimations of Ser Jorah's BodyguardCrush on Daenerys, which is likely to prove important later.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ned summoning Tywin Lannister to court with the threat of being branded a traitor to the realm if he doesn't come.

Bran is having another "three-eyed crow" dream, venturing deeper into the crypts beneath Winterfell, when Hodor bursts in with the saddle Tyrion designed for him. Next thing we know, Bran is riding around on his horce Dancer, hooting and hollering, whilst Robb and Theon discuss how House Stark should react to Ned's injury. Their strategy session is interrupted by the realization that they've misplaced Bran. (Good going, guys.) Bran is elsewhere in the forest, waylaid now by three wildlings who have made their way south of the Wall, at least one a deserter from the Night's Watch. Robb and Theon arrive, precipitating a short, tense confrontation, resulting in the two men dead and the lone woman, Osha, taken prisoner.

Across the narrow sea, Daenerys continues her obsession with her dragon eggs. Today she tries putting one on the coals of the fire. Nothing happens, even when she picks it up--including the "Oww, my burnt hands!" reacting you'd expect when someone picks up a stone that's been in the fire. Dany's hands are unblemished. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Huh]]?

* PercussiveTherapy: Eddard is incredulous that Robert is going off to hunt in the middle of a crisis. The king snaps, "Killing clears my head!" Part of his frustration with Cersai is that he can't work off his anger by beating her, as it's "not kingly".

* RefugeInAudacity: Tyrion's "confession," with more than a dash of RefugeInVulgarity as well.

Ned assembles his daughters and announces that he's sending them home for their own safety. Sansa, her head full of dreams, protests that she has to marry Joffrey: "He'll be the greatest king there ever was, a golden lion, and I'll give him sons with [[HairOfGold beautiful blond hair]]!" "The lion's not his sigil, idiot," says Arya with a trace of smugness. "He's a stag, like his father." "He's not, he's nothing like that old drunk king," Sansa retorts. Both of them are completely oblivious to the EurekaMoment kindling behind their father's eyes. Ned sends them from the room and attends his giant book, ''The Lineage and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms'', where he sees that black hair is [[InTheBlood a Baratheon family trait]]. Every Baratheon has it, as does Gendry and the whore's infant from last episode. Every Baratheon has it... [[ChocolateBaby except Joffrey]].

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: King Robert boasts of "doing the eight" -- screwing a girl from each of the Seven Kingdoms, plus the Riverlands. The next scene involves some peasants from the Riverlands telling of their farms being burnt and women raped by knights, which makes one wonder how many of the girls Robert had were willing.

** MamaBear: Dany's also turns cold the moment her brother threatens her unborn child.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Ned summoning Tywin Lannister to court with the threat of being branded a traitor to the realm if he doesn't come.
-->[[spoiler:"Fire cannot kill a dragon"]]

* ThatCameOutWrong: Sansa describing her desire to marry Joffrey over a hypothetical lord put forward by her father--"I don't want someone brave and gentle and strong, I want him!" Arya snickers in response.

** Ned summoning Tywin Lannister to court with the threat of being branded a traitor to the realm if he doesn't come.

* DisproportionateRetribution: In response to Catelyn's vigilante arrest of his son, Tywin Lannister sends out an army to kill, rape, and burn their way across villages under the king's protection, leaving behind dead fish as a symbol of which family is to blame.

* PapaWolf: You '''don't''' threaten Khal Drogo's wife and son. Unless, of course, you wanna have [[spoiler: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel a nice crown]]]].

Ned assembles his daughters and announces that he's sending them home for their own safety. Sansa, her head full of dreams, protests that she has to marry Joffrey: "He'll be the greatest king there ever was, a golden lion, and I'll give him sons with [[HairOfGold beautiful blond hair]]!" "The lion's not his sigil, idiot," says Arya with a trace of smugness. "He's a stag, like his father." "He's not, he's nothing like that old drunk king," Sansa retorts. Both of them are completely oblivious to the EurekaMoment kindling behind their father's eyes. Ned sends them from the room and attends his giant book, ''The Lineage and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms'', where he sees that black hair is [[InTheBlood a Baratheon family trait]]. Every Baratheon in the book (and some that aren't, like the bastard Gendry) has black hair... [[ChocolateBaby except Joffrey]].

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.) When the Dothraki shame him, he draws his sword, 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. Khal Drogo agrees. He pulls off his medallion-encrusted belt and tosses it into a pot over the cookfire, where the gold begins to melt. As the book puts it, "Viserys began to scream the high, wordless scream of the coward facing death." In a moment, he's got his golden crown... but he doesn't seem to enjoy it very much. He hits the ground with clanking finality and stays there.

*** Alternately, it's just [[OutOfCharacterMoment bad writing]] on the part of Jane Espenson. For all his {{Chessmaster}}y, Littlefinger knows how to be subtle, all this MisterExposition nonsense notwithstanding. (And they had Pycelle in the scene too!)

** Sansa now sports a southern hairstyle and is acting more haughty as she prepares to be a princess.

* SchiffOneLiner (also setting up a BrickJoke):

** Daenerys seems to have completed accepted Dothraki culture, to the point that she willingly takes part in a ceremony that involves eating a whole ''horse's heart''.

Ned assembles his daughters and announces that he's sending them home for their own safety. Sansa, her head full of dreams, protests that she has to marry Joffrey: "He'll be the greatest king there ever was, a golden lion, and I'll give him sons with [[HairOfGold beautiful blond hair]]!" "The lion's not his sigil, idiot," says Arya with a trace of smugness. "He's a stag, like his father." "He's not, he's nothing like that old drunk king," Sansa retorts. Both of them are completely oblivious to the EurekaMoment kindling behind their father's eyes. Ned sends them from the room and attends his giant book, "The Lineage and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms," where he sees that black hair is [[InTheBlood a Baratheon family trait]]. Every Baratheon in the book (and some that aren't, like the bastard Gendry) has black hair... except Joffrey.