History Recap / GameOfThronesS3E5KissedByFire

* KillEmAll: Mixed with KillItWithFire: Jaime reveals to Brienne that when Aerys Targaryen realised Robert's victory was a foregone conclusion, he had his pyromancers place caches of wildfire around King's Landing, intending to ignite them if the rebels took the capital, [[TakingYouWithMe fully willing to kill everyone in the city]] [[EvilIsPetty rather than suffer defeat on his enemies' terms]]. Jaime also speculates Aerys was so far gone to insanity that he believed the inferno would [[OneWingedAngel transform him into]] [[DragonsAreDemonic a dragon]], reborn with the power to destroy all his enemies.

* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: Olyvar tells Loras, "I should like to see you spar with a proper partner, ser." They end up "sparring" in Loras's bed shortly afterwards.

* IllGirl: Shireen still has the greyscale scars from her childhood.

* Blooper: When Loras finishes and wins his practice swordfight, he calls for a squire. The squire Olyvar attends to him and brings him a cup, congratulating Loras on winning the fight. Loras takes the cup with his right hand, but in the next shot angle, the cup has switched to his left hand.

* FamousLastWords: See DyingCurse above.

** Jaime says that the Mad King's FamousLastWords were "Burn them all," as he told King Robert and Ser Barristan in S1.

* RealityEnsues: Beric's flaming sword breaking is not a surprise as fire weakens metal.

** Robb's plan to attack Casterly Rock is entirely original, with the commentary explaining that it was added because [[spoiler:without his having some concrete goal while going to the Twins, it becomes obvious for several episodes on end that he is marching to his death]].

** For those who've already read the novel, [[spoiler:Olenna Tyrell saying that "Royal weddings are much safer."]]

* TheCastShowoff: Musical theater star Kerry Ingram is first heard singing.

* WrittenInInfirmity: Sorry ladies, but that's not actually Kit Harrington jumping into the hot spring nude. He'd broken his ankle, which forced all his scenes to be filmed near the end of the shooting schedule, and wasn't yet up for something so physical.

* KillEmAll: Mixed with KillItWithFire: Jaime reveals to Brienne that when Aerys Targaryen realised Robert's victory was a foregone conclusion, he had his pyromancers place caches of wildfire around King's Landing, intending to ignite them if the rebels took the capital, [[TakingYouWithMe fully willing to kill everyone in the city]] [[EvilIsPetty rather than suffer defeat on his enemies' terms]]. Jaime also speculates Aerys was so far gone to insanity that he believed the inferno would [[OneWingedAngel transform him into]] [[DragonAreDemonic a dragon]], reborn with the power to destroy all his enemies.

In '''King's Landing''', Tyrion consults Lady Olenna regarding the expense of the royal wedding and convinces her to have the Tyrells pay for half of it. Meanwhile, Littlefinger finds out about the Tyrells' plan to marry Sansa Stark to Loras Tyrell. Tywin plans a counter by arranging her to marry Tyrion. Cersei gloats at his discomfort...until Tywin turns to her and informs her she's going to marry Loras, giving the Lannisters control over both the North and the Reach.

In '''Riverrun''', a vengeful Lord Karstark kills the two Lannister hostages. Despite the advice of his wife and mother, Robb chooses to execute him, losing him half of his army who were loyal to Karstark. He realizes the only way he can effectively attack the Lannisters is to seize their home city Casterly Rock, but the catch is he'll need to get more men from Walder Frey to do it, after already breaking his oath to marry one of Walder's daughters.

In '''Slaver's Bay''', while Daenerys and her Unsullied march towards their next conquest, Ser Jorah and Ser Barristan discuss plans for her eventual conquest of Westeros and reminisce about their part in the fall of the Mad King. The Unsullied elect a member called Grey Worm to be their leader and spokesperson. Daenerys tells the Unsullied they are free to discard their slave names and chose better names, but Grey Worm says he wants to keep his name, because it was the name he had when Daenerys freed him and his brothers.

In '''Dragonstone''', Stannis Baratheon meets with his wife Selyse. He confesses that he slept with Melissandre and begs her forgiveness, but she is perfectly fine with it, because she is a fanatical devotee to the Lord of Light. He then visits his daughter Shireen, who is hidden away from the world because she is disfigured. When Shireen finds out that Ser Davos has been imprisoned as a traitor, she decides to visit her friend in his cell. She tries to loan him a book, but Ser Davos tells her that he doesn't know how to read. She resolves to teach him.

!!Tropes:

* AdaptationDistillation: It's confirmed in this episode that Willas and Garlan Tyrell do not exist in the TV series, or at least have been downgraded to younger brothers, as Loras is heir to Highgarden.
** Robb's plan to attack Casterly Rock is entirely original, with the commentary explaining that it was added because [[spoiler:without his having some concrete goal while going to the Twins, it became obvious for several episodes on end that he was marching to his death.]]
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Stannis' wife and daughter are more attractive than they're described in the books, even with the daughter's scarring.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the books after the Hound's fight with Beric he's [[ManlyTears ''crying'']] over his burned arm and begging for help. In the show once he gets the burning shield off he gloats to Arya about R'hllor favoring him over Mycah.

* AdaptedOut: A rather bizarre mass occurrence. In the books, Karstark forces are never depicted as a particularly large portion of the army, while in the series they apparently comprise "half" of Robb's forces. Since houses Umber, Bolton, Reed, and Mormont have important roles in the series, and Manderly and Glover have at least been mentioned, that means that either Karstark has been made vastly more powerful, all of the above have suffered from inexplicably disappearing armies or that Robb is simply exaggerating for effect.

--> '''Cersei''': Father, don't make me do it again, ''please''.

* AppropriatedAppellation: Grey Worm keeps his derogatory name, given to Unsullied to remind them that they are vermin, because his birth name was cursed (when he was taken as a slave) whereas Grey Worm is the name he had when Daenerys set him free. This is even more so in the books when the Unsullied are given such names at random every day, to remind them that they own nothing, not even names.

-->'''Brienne:''' GUARDS! THE KINGSLAYER!
-->'''Jaime:''' Jaime...my name is Jaime...

-->'''Jaime''': Tell me, if your precious Renly commanded you to kill your own father and stand by while thousands of men, women and children burned alive, would you have done it? Would you have kept your oath then?

* BadassBoast: Jaime gives several in quick succession; when Qyburn suggests he cut off Jaime's entire right arm, Jaime threatens him against it, telling him "I don't need my right hand to kill you." When Qyburn tells him there will be "pain" when he cleanses Jaime's stump, Jaime simply says "I'll scream". When Qyburn rephrases it to "[[{{Understatement}} quite a bit of pain]]", Jaime replies "I'll scream loudly".
* BackFromTheDead: Lord Beric is resurrected by Thoros within seconds from Sandor killing him, and mentions that it's the sixth time this has happened.

* BathtubBonding: Despite at first looking like a simple BathtubScene in a series notorious for its naked people quotient, it quickly becomes obvious that its principal purpose is ''not'' {{Fanservice}} and is a crucial moment in Brienne and Jaime's CharacterDevelopment..

* BaitTheDog: Lord Bolton stops Locke from taunting Jaime with his own severed hand, before delivering his own epic trolling.

** Thoros' use of a FlamingSword at Pyke is brought up, last mentioned in a conversation between Jaime and Jory in Season 1.
** Tyrion asks Tywin if [[ButForMeItWasTuesday he has forgotten]] that Tyrion was married once (to a prostitute who was later [[Recap/{{Game Of Thrones S 1 E 9 Baelor}} pimped to the guard by Tywin when he found out]]). Tywin remembers it "only too well."
** Gendry refers to Arya as "milady", as he did when he first found out who she was in Season 2. It ends up being a case of harsher in hindsight as in the original scene he used her title to be respectful and then to tease her - here he's genuinely miserable about what her status represents and why he can't come with her to Winterfell.

** Jaime says that the Mad King's FamousLastWords were "Burn them all", as he told King Robert and Ser Barristan in S1.

* CanonForeigner: Olyvar, [[spoiler: Littlefinger's spy and presumably one of his prostitutes]], doesn't exist in the novels.

* CoupDeGrace: Jaime says that the Mad King believed that instead of burning with the rest of Kings Landing [[OneWingedAngel he'd turn into a dragon and smite his enemies]]. "I slit his throat to make sure that didn't happen."
* DamagedSoul: The resurrection process causes Beric to lose some of his memories
* DeathGlare

* DeathIsCheap: Lord Beric gets to his feet moments after Sandor runs him through with a sword. Averted afterwards when he reveals that each time he's brought back from the dead, he remembers less of himself.

--> "This man was only the watcher. Hang him last, so that he may watch the others die."

* DyingCurse: "Kill me and be cursed, you are no king of mine." Lord Karstark's last words.

* FaceRevealingTurn: Stannis' daughter is introduced lying on her side in bed singing to herself. It's only after she runs up and hugs her father that the audience sees that the other side of her face is disfigured by greyscale.

* {{Fanservice}}: An episode with a particularly high amount of nakedness. However Jaime and Brienne's scene was not fanservice-y at all, instead being an important dramatic scene.

* FemmeFataleSpy: Despite being a male character, [[spoiler: Olyvar arguably fits this trope, at least when it comes to Loras.]]
* FlamingSword: Beric's, fuelled by Thoros' magic. There's also a reference by Jorah and Barristan to Thoros' past use of one at Pyke.

* HonorBeforeReason: Robb follows his father in this, executing Lord Karstark and losing half his army to make sure he does justice. There is a practical side of this, oddly enough brought up by Karstark himself; Robb's kind treatment of his mother after her treason has made him look weak in the eyes of his bannermen. He's ended up in a no-win scenario; spare Lord Karstark, and his men will think they can defy him with impunity, kill him, and lose half his army.

* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: A variant of this is used by Ygritte on Jon that amounts to essentially ''"If you're really a wildling, fuck me"''.
* IllGirl: Shireen[[labelnote:From the books...]]Still has the greyscale scars from her childhood[[/labelnote]]

* InstantSeduction: Loras gets talked into bed pretty easily. Justified by [[spoiler: Olyvar presumably being one of Littlefinger's prostitutes, and therefore quite experienced at this]], as well as Loras not having a sexual partner since Renly's death.

* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: Olyvar tells Loras, "I should like to see you spar with a proper partner, ser." [[spoiler: They end up "sparring" in Loras' bed shortly afterwards.]]

** Tywin and Cersei reach a new record in this with the plan to [[spoiler: wed Sansa to Tyrion]]. Tywin at least is doing it with his usual emotionless pragmatism, but Cersei is clearly relishing [[spoiler: Tyrion's]] fury with no thought at all for [[spoiler: Sansa]].

** The Hound telling a furious and screaming Arya that apparently God likes him more than the butcher's boy. While he was barely coherent himself at that point (just coming down from an adrenaline high and trying to put out his flaming shield,) it was still pretty cruel.
* KillEmAll: Mixed with KillItWithFire: Jaime reveals to Brienne [[spoiler: that when Aerys Targaryen realised Robert's victory was a foregone conclusion, he had his pyromancers place caches of wildfire around King's Landing, intending to ignite them if the rebels took the capital, [[TakingYouWithMe fully willing to kill everyone in the city]] [[EvilIsPetty rather than suffer defeat on his enemies' terms]]. Jaime also speculates Aerys was so far gone to insanity that he believed the inferno would [[OneWingedAngel transform him into]] [[DragonAreDemonic a dragon]], reborn with the power to destroy all his enemies]].

* LickedByTheDog: Shireen is enthusiast to see that her father is back and hugs him.

* MandatoryMotherhood: Two examples by two different queens -- Cersei protests "I am not a brood mare!" but her father relentlessly rides over her protests, determined to put an end to the rumors about her incest with Jaime. Selyse however approves of her husband's infidelity with the Red Woman, as she's promised him a son and all her offspring have been stillborn or (in the case of her daughter) diseased.

* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Among his many fatal incidents, Beric Dondarrion was caught and executed by the Lannister forces. Like all his other deaths, it didn't take.

* MurderSuicide/ SuicideByCop: One way to interpret Karstark's actions; he deliberately provokes Robb further after murdering the boys, and doesn't seem surprised or regretful when Robb sentences him to death. Assuming there was any degree of rationality left to him at that point, his actions might suggest that he intended to die in this fashion, (or, at the very least, didn't care in the slightest if he did).

** Shireen sings a song about the world under the ocean, which in the books is sung incessantly by her {{Adapted Out}} jester Patchface.

** "Aegon - it sounds like Egg" is a reference to the ''Literature/TalesOfDunkAndEgg''.
** For those who've already read the novel [[spoiler:Olenna Tyrell saying that "Royal weddings are much safer."]]

** Loras [[spoiler:jumping into bed with the first attractive man he meets and letting it slip that he's secretly betrothed means that Littlefinger learns about the Tyrells' plans for Sansa... which he's quick to undermine.]]

* [[NiceToTheWaiter Nice To The Onion Knight]]: Even though her mother despises Ser Davos, Shireen considers him her friend, and resolves to teach him to read.

** Jaime lets his angst pour out by noting how impossible it was for him to keep them given the sheer murderous extent of Aerys's madness by the end.

** Tywin actually ''shouts'' with anger in this episode, and its enough to completely cow both his stubborn and rebellious children. Cersei (who is the Queen Regent and technically outranks him,) is immediately reduced to pleading.

* ThePatriarch: Tywin's position as this is clearer in this episode than ever before. His argument for why he can order Cersei around and choose who she marries is "YOU'RE MY DAUGHTER!" As far as he's concerned, that overrides her position as Queen Regent of the Seven Kingdoms.
* PeopleJars: Stannis' wife Selyse is shown to keep in her bedchamber the bodies of her stillborn children in large jars.

** Also played straight: Loras oddly keeps his pants on while [[spoiler: he is having sex with Olyvar.]]
* RuleOfSymbolism
** Robb Stark kills Karstark to the tune of "Pay the Iron Price", the same PsychoStrings that played as Theon Greyjoy killed Rodrik Cassel after the capture of Winterfell in Season 2.

* SayingTooMuch: Loras is guilty of this when [[spoiler:he informs Olyvar of his betrothal to Sansa. Littlefinger decides to check this information with Sansa who ''doesn't'' reveal this secret, but her sudden reluctance to leave King's Landing tells Littlefinger all he needs to know.]]
* SexyDiscretionShot: The show skips over Jon undressing and his sex with Ygritte. See also Scenery Censor, below.

* ShipTease: Maisie said in an [[http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/game-of-thrones-q-a-maisie-williams-on-arya-starks-trial-by-fire-20130501 interview]] that they did several takes of the "I can be your family" scene, and used the one that sounds most like Arya is making a [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove declaration of love]].
* ShirtlessScene: Loras has one, [[spoiler:but Olyvar is completely naked.]]

-->"By what right does the WOLF judge the LION? BY WHAT RIGHT?"

* StealthPun: 'Nothing' is old slang for female genitalia, being the nothing about which there is much ado. Jon Snow knows nothing, alright.

-->'''Ygritte:''' Are you still dressed? (Jon starts giving her oral sex) You know nothing, Jon Sno-''oh-oh-ohhhhh!''
* SympatheticAdulterer: Stannis' wife Selyse completely forgives him for cheating on her with Melisandre. Of course that's because she's TheFundamentalist.

* SympatheticPOV: After two and a half seasons, we finally get Jaime Lannister's side of the story. [[TearJerker And what a story it is]].
* TakingYouWithMe: Jaime reveals that this was Aerys's final plan: he was willing to raze King's Landing to the ground and incinerate its entire population as a final gesture of defiance to Robert.
* TalkToTheFist: The Blackfish slugs Lord Karstark after he calls King Robb "boy". [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/7f1db38a7fe458203b9a12c3cab4f2c0/tumblr_mm1xy6X6cD1s7e58wo1_500.gif Celebrated in this gif]].

* TheirFirstTime: Jon and Ygritte.
* TitleDrop: Ygritte explains to Jon that the Wildlings refer to redheads like her as "kissed by fire". The Wildlings consider having red hair to be lucky.

* TrialByCombat: Sandor Clegane is judged for his murder of Mycah by him having a duel with Beric Dondarrion. Sandor's victory leads the Brotherhood Without Banners to declare him innocent and release him, despite Arya's protests that he did do it.

-->'''Gendry:''' These men are brothers, they’re family. I’ve never had a family.
-->'''Arya:''' I can be your family.
-->'''Gendry:''' You wouldn’t be my family. You’d be m'lady.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have to Be Fire?]]: Similar to [[Recap/GameOfThronesS2E9Blackwater Blackwater]], Sandor is obviously terrified when Beric sets his sword on fire. This time, he has to face it as there is no way out.

* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: Invoked by Jaime when Brienne asks him why he never told anyone, particularly Ned Stark who found him, the reason he killed the Mad King was to stop Aerys destroying King's Landing in [[EvilIsPetty a final petty act to spite his enemies]]. Jaime replies that the honourable Eddard wouldn't have believed a word he said even if Jaime told the truth.
-->'''Brienne''': If this is true, why didn't you tell anyone? Why didn't you tell Lord Stark?
-->'''Jaime''': You think the honourable Ned Stark wanted to hear ''my'' side? He judged me guilty the moment he set eyes on me.

* CoupDeGrace: Jaime says that the Mad King believed that instead of burning with the rest of Kings Landing he'd turn into a dragon and smite his enemies. "I slit his throat to make sure that didn't happen."

* KillEmAll: Mixed with KillItWithFire: Jaime reveals to Brienne [[spoiler: that when Aerys Targaryen realised Robert's victory was a foregone conclusion, he had his pyromancers place caches of wildfire around King's Landing, intending to ignite them if the rebels took the capital, fully willing to kill everyone in the city rather than suffer defeat on his enemies' terms. Jaime also speculates Aerys was so far gone to insanity that he believed the inferno would [[OneWingedAngel transform him into]] [[DragonAreDemonic a dragon]], reborn with the power to destroy all his enemies]].

** Jaime actually fully opens up to Brienne in his feverish state, telling her things that he's told no one, probably not even Cersei. He also shows flickers of sexual attraction to a woman other than his sister.

* NoOneWouldBelieveMe: This is essentially what Jaime says when Brienne asks him why he never told anyone, particularly Ned Stark who found him, the reason he killed the Mad King was to stop Aerys destroying King's Landing in a final petty act to spite his enemies. Jaime replies that the honourable Eddard wouldn't have believed a word he said even if Jaime told the truth.
-->'''Brienne''': If this is true, why didn't you tell anyone? Why didn't you tell Lord Stark?
-->'''Jaime''': You think the honourable Ned Stark wanted to hear ''my'' side? He judged me guilty the moment he set eyes on me.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse. Jamie and Beric both relate their feelings and experiences with Ned Stark. Suffice to say, they have wildly differing opinions of the man.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Selyse Baratheon in the books seems to care more for her daughter, and didn't do the whole creepy PeopleJars thing.

* FalseAffablyEvil: Lord Bolton shows anger over how Locke has treated his prisoners, ordering Brienne cut free and Jaime cleaned up. However moments later he trolls Jaime ForTheEvulz (see KickTheDog) and we later see his anger is based on PragmaticVillainy.