Fridge brilliance
- Cersei's immediate hatred for Serana might be a teeny more complex than "oh, she's a younger and prettier woman so she's a RIVAL!". Think about it: Serana is rather tomboyish in her demeanour and dress, she has dark hair and pale skin, and she hails from a country known for being cold. Who else was this way? That's right, Lyanna Stark.
- And it goes on – Cersei met Jon Whitewolf. She saw he was very much a Pretty Boy. She heard him singing and play the lute. Subconsciously, she might have made the comparison with Rhaegar... and now she has to see him parading a girl far too reminiscent of Lyanna around, while calling her his fiancee. No wonder she's so cranky and hostile towards Serana, the vampiress is a walking reminder of the humiliation Cersei received when the Silver Prince wouldn't even look at her in favour of another woman.
- "Brundi and the Sea" is thematically the perfect song for Jon, if you think of him as the sailor. His Stark family wants nothing more than him staying in Westeros with them, except that Jon can't do that since he treasures his independence and friends in Skyrim.Brundi, what a good wife you would beBut my life, my love, my lady is the sea
- The prophecy of Maggy the Frog told Cersei that she would be brought to her doom by someone younger and more beautiful. Cersei starts her coup disastrously early due to Sansa's information, and said coup costs her both her sons. Her eldest son was even killed by her daughter, Myrcella. Two children dying and the Sole Survivor being a kinslayer will completely remove all legitimacy to anything Cersei tries to hold into power. Serana's actions do not count due to her being Really 700 Years Old.
- When Ghost reunites with the rest of his pack, he's described as being twice as big as the rest of them despite starting out as the runt of the litter. If each direwolf represnts each Stark child then this shows how Jon, who started out as the "bastard", grew to be the savior of the world while the rest of his family has stagnated.
- Perhaps not *stagnating* but rather that they haven't had room to grow and develop into their best selves, yet. Robb has only recently stepped up as the acting Lord of the North, while Sansa is still in her innocence / delusion phase. Arya has yet to become a world-class swordswoman, and both Bran and Rickon are, you know. Children.
- Jon Arryn is strongly implied to have understood that Ned Stark actually pulled a Family Relationship Switcheroo with his "bastard son". Of course he would: he's currently involved into a potential royal cuckolding that created three kids not looking like their supposed father, so he gained an eye for judging faces and general resemblance allowing him to see Jon Whitewolf was straying too far from the Stark template... and dipping into the Targaryen one.
Fridge Horror
- The Tyrells are extremely effusive in their thanks adressed to Jon for rescuing Loras from the Mountain That Rides. In the books, the eldest Tyrell son wound up crippled in a tourney – the family was relieving the trauma and heaped so much gratitude on Jon because he's the reason why they didn't lose another son to injury or worse.
- Ned Stark was extremely right to hide any hint of his nephew's true parentage. The moment Jon's identity as a Targaryen is exposed even a Tyrell kinsman, starts screaming that Jon should die for being Aerys' grandson.
