History Recap / GameOfThronesS1E8ThePointyEnd

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Ser Barristan Selmy]] this time, refusing to let Cersei and Joffrey insult his honor by forcing him into retirement. He also, adding to his badass credentials, throws his sword at Joffrey's feet, telling him to "Melt it down and add it to the others." He's of course talking about the Iron Throne which is made of the swords of the first of Westeros' enemies. He just, in essence, declared himself Joffrey's enemy.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Ser Barristan Selmy]] this time, refusing to let Cersei and Joffrey insult his honor by forcing him into retirement.

-->'''Drogo:''' [YouAreAlreadyDead I already have.] [rips Mago's tongue out through his neck]

-->'''Drogo:''' [YouAreAlreadyDead I already have.]] [rips Mago's tongue out through his neck]

-->'''Drogo:''' I already have. [rips Mago's tongue out through his neck]

* SomethingTheyWouldNeverSay: While it's not make explicit, none of the recipients of Sansa's letters have any trouble figuring out that Cersei forced her into it.
** The very fact that there is a letter at all means that the current rulers of King's Landing have allowed Sansa to send one, meaning that its contents can only be beneficial to them.

** The very fact that there is a letter at all means that the current rulers of King's Landing have allowed Sansa to send one, meaning that its contents can only be beneficial to them.

* TensionCuttingLaughter: Doesn't work with Shagga (after laughing he tells his men to kill Bronn and seize Tyrion) but does with the Greatjon.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Martin wrote a montage of several bannermen receiving Robb's summons, including Roose Bolton being in the middle of flaying a man and Greatjon Umber excitedly shouting about going to war. Unfortunately, it would have cost more than ''the entire season's budget.'' Note that this is the exact same problem that drove him back to writing novels after his forays into television writing in the '80s.

-->'''Bronn''': You wouldn't know him.

* TensionCuttingLaughter: Doesn't work with Shagga (after laughing he tells his men to kill Bronn and Tyrion) but does with the Greatjon.

* TensionBreakingLaughter: Doesn't apply with Shagga (after laughing he immediately tells his men to kill Bronn and Tyrion) but does with the Greatjon.

* OhCrap: Syrio Forel knocks out several partly armoured Lannister soldiers with a wooden sword. Then Ser Meryn - a fully armoured knight of the Kingsguard - chops his sword leaving just a stump.

* OhCrap: The Mountain Men won't fight unless the 'halfman' stays with them to ensure they won't be cheated. Tywin turns to look at his least favoured son with a smirk, and Tyrion is for once devoid of a snarky comment.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A nude Hodor briefly interrupts Bran and Osha's talk about what's going on north of the Wall (in the book, Bran had sent him away to bath in a hot spring to get him out of his hair).

* FridgeBrilliance: The wildings burn their dead, and now we all know ''why''.

* KillItWithFire: Apparently how you have to deal with zombies at the Wall.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** [[SarcasmMode Challenging Drogo's authority and insulting his wife is a great idea, Mago. It's not like he horribly killed the last guy who did that.]]
** Lysa's refusal to contribute troops to fight against the Lannisters is very ill-considered. While she is correct that the Lannisters are ruthless and will stop at nothing, she overlooks the fact that ''because'' they are ruthless, it's a guarantee that no matter what she does, they won't spare her. Tywin's not the type to leave unpunished the kidnapping of his son (and would probably attack the Vale anyway, simply because Lysa is Cat's sister).
*** And now Tyrion's promised the Vale to the hill tribes, meaning that even if Tywin wasn't going to take the Vale, he will definitely give it a try.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: A nude Hodor briefly interrupts Bran and Osha's talk about what's going on north of the Wall.

Stark household servants are butchered as they attempt to load Sansa's and Arya's chests onto the wayns. Septa Mordane tells Sansa to bar herself in her room before confronting Lannister guardsmen, their swords already dripping red. It's for naught: Sansa is intercepted by The Hound, dispatched by the queen to take her in. Arya's dancing lesson is interrupted by more red-cloaked Lannister guardsmen, accompanied by Ser Meryn Trant of the [[PraetorianGuard Kingsguard]]. Syrio Forel shows why he was for nine years the [[LightningBruiser First Sword of Braavos]], fighting an inspired MultiMookMelee and winning, but when Ser Meryn gets involved it's a KnightInShiningArmor against a wooden sword, which is a [[CurbStompBattle very different story]]. Arya flees to the yard, where she retrieves Needle from her upended chest amongst the corpses of her family servants. A stableboy tries to apprehend her, but her very first swordplay lesson with Jon Snow serves her well: she sticks him with [[TitleDrop the pointy end]] and then escapes into the city at large while he dies on the floor.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Martin wrote a montage of several bannermen receiving Robb's summons, including Roose Bolton being in the middle of flaying a man and Greatjon Umber excitedly shouting about going to war. Unfortunately, it would have cost more than ''the entire season's budget.''