History Fridge / GameOfThrones

* In the opening, the model of Harrenhal just displays a damaged castle with nothing moving reflecting the real one. However it looks like the model once was functional and had moving parts. It's not the model of a broken castle. It's a model of a castle that has been broken.

* The melody sounding as ThePurge of Robert's bastards goes on in the first episode of the second season is "The King's Coming". Indeed King's Landing, here comes your new king.

* The parallels between Sansa and Arya's situations in ''A Garden of Bones.'' Both endure torture at the hands of the Lannisters, and both are rescued by the Lords of the Lannisters. [[MagnificentBastard Tyrion]] compliments Sansa on her composure after being stripped and beaten and [[BigBad Tywin]] compliments Arya on her smarts for traveling as a boy. The ironic part is that Tywin is completely unaware of who Arya really is!

* When Jon relates his tale of that night with Ros that never really was in the end, not wanting to father another bastard, Sam goes back to saying "so you ''didn't'' know where to put it." How do we know he wasn't thinking of ''anal''?

* Regarding Sansa and Lady, Robert tells Ned, "Direwolves are no pet. Get her a dog and she'll be happier for it." So far, Sandor Clegane, often referred to as "Dog," has done more to protect Sansa than Lady ever did.

* Jaime, as a member of the Kings Guard, is sworn to celibacy, so it makes sense that no one particularly notices that the woman he spends the most time with is his [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]].
* Robert Baratheon mentions that he favoured wielding a War Hammer in battle. It is perhaps no coincidence that his bastard son Gendry is first seen wielding the hammer of a blacksmith.
* One may be suprised about the Hound's behavior towards Sansa in "Fire And Blood". But then you remember [[CompleteMonster one thing]] Joffrey and the Mountain have in common - the way the young king treats her reminds him of what he received from his brother.
** The Hound does a similar thing when Tyrion slaps Joffrey, saying "the prince will remember that", which, in light of his treatment of Sansa, seems to be less of a threat and more of a warning, because he knows what people like Joffrey are capable of.
* I was just rewatching Episode 6 "A Golden Crown". In the scene where Ser Jorah Mormont stops Viserys from taking the eggs, Ser Jorah says "And yet here I stand." He's not just being badass - he's paraphrasing his house words ("Here We Stand").

* When asked about the strangest thing he's ever eaten, Tyrion jokingly asks if Dornish girls count. In the novels, there's a popular song called "The Dornishman's Wife", which refers to "tasting" (meaning kissing) the Dornishman's wife. Thus, Tyrion's comment seems like a bawdy joke alluding to that song, as well as a GeniusBonus for readers of the books.
** Even without that, it's just a joke about performing oral sex on the most exotic people people of Westeros.

* Two little details I noticed on a second watchthrough:
** The first time we see Tywin, what's he doing? Skinning a deer, the symbol of House Baratheon. And Tywin's family undermines the Baratheon legacy from the inside through Joffrey, who's not really a Baratheon, and therefore a lion wearing a deer's skin.
** When Dany asks Mirri Maz Duur if anything can be done to save Drogo, Mirri very briefly and visibly glances at Dany's stomach. Probably not a detail you'd notice if you didn't know what was coming.

* You'd think a man like Drogo, who has received numerous wounds in his life(most prominent being the scar on his eye) rising to the top of Dothraki society, would have been able to recover from a small(though deep) blade wound on his chest. Indeed, he simply glances at it when Maz Duur points it out and suggests cleaning it, and it's at Dany's behest that he allows Miri Maz Duur to clean it. The very next episode, it becomes infected, despite Maz Duur's treatment, and Drogo's khalessar begins to fall apart at the seams. Soon afterward, Maz Duur takes advantage of the situation to "save Drogo's life" by utilizing Blood Magic to kill his son and wipe away his mind. So how could Maz Duur, a skilled herbalist and magician, botch treating his wound so bad that it got to that point? Well, any herbalist worth their salt(which Drogo and Dany were decidedly not) would know good herbs from bad, so what's to say she didn't purposefully botch Drogo's wound treating to setup his Khalessar's ultimate destruction?
* '''Sansa:''' I'll be a good wife to [Joffrey], you'll see. I'll be a queen ''just like you'', I promise! I won't hatch anything!
--> ([[FunnyAneurysmMoment As opposed, presumably, to a completely different queen, who WILL hatch]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent something.]])
* [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m23bo1W8Pi1qgx6buo1_500.jpg This]] was pointed out by someone on Tumblr.

* In ''You Win Or You Die'', Cersei orders Ned to kneel before her near the end of the episode. Of course, Ned won't because his honor prevents it, but furthermore, ''his leg wound means he physically can't and Cersei probably realizes this.''

* You'd think a man like Drogo, who has received numerous wounds in his life(most prominent being the scar on his eye) rising to the top of Dothraki society, would have been able to recover from a small(though deep) blade wound on his chest. Indeed, he simply glances at it when Maz Duur points it out and suggests cleaning it, and it's at Dany's behest that he allows Miri Maz Duur to clean it. The very next episode, it becomes infected, despite Maz Duur's treatment, and Drogo's khalessar begins to fall apart at the seams. Soon afterward, Maz Duur takes advantage of the situation to "save Drogo's life" by utilizing Blood Magic to kill his son and wipe away his mind. So how could Maz Duur, a skilled herbalist and magician, botch treating his wound so bad that it got to that point? Well, any herbalist worth their salt(which Drogo and Dany were decidedly not) would know good herbs from bad, so what's to say she didn't purposefully botch Drogo's wound treating to setup his Khalessar's ultimate destruction?

* At first watching it may seem out of character for Littlefinger to show his cards to Cersei so openly, and it looks like he'll suffer from it, but at the end the balance of power is exactly the opposite; Cersei demonstrates that while she can threaten Littlefinger as much as she wants, she needs him too much to kill him. She just showed him how far she can go -- and that she can go no further. Lord Baelish has nothing to fear from the Queen as long as he remains essential to the throne, and now he has yet another humiliation to take revenge on.

* At first watching it may seem out of character for Littlefinger to show his cards to Cersei so openly, and it looks like he'll suffer from it, but at the end the balance of power is exactly the opposite; Cersei demonstrates that while she can threaten Littlefinger as much as she wants, she needs him too much to kill him. She just showed him how far she can go -- and that she can go no further. Lord Baelish has nothing to fear from the Queen as long as he remains essential to the throne, and now he has yet another humiliation to take revenge on.

FridgeLogic
* It's somehow never occurred to Catelyn Stark that a three foot tall dwarf might have a bit of trouble hefting a 10 year old boy through a window that stands at least that high above the flood.
** She accused Tyrion of sending the assassin after Bran, not throwing Bran off of the tower. I suppose if she thought about it, she would have (rightly) suspected Jaime or Cersei.
** She seemed to think the Lannisters were all in it together, so Tyrion wouldn't have necessarily had to have been the one to push Bran in that scenario.
*** Dialogue indicates she thinks Jaime threw him out of the window, it was Cersei's idea in the first place, while Tyrion is the only one smart enough to not want to leave any loose ends.

*** Dialogue indicates she thinks Jaime throw him out of the window, it was Cersei's idea in the first place, while Tyrion is the only one smart enough to not want to leave any loose ends.

** She seemed to think the Lannisters were all in it together, so Tyrion wouldn't have necessarily had to have been the one to push Bran in that scenario.

** The first time we see Tywin, what's he doing? Skinning a deer, the symbol of House Baratheon. And Tywin's family undermines the Baratheon legacy from the inside, essentially skinning the deer and through Joffrey, who's not really a Baratheon, and therefore a lion wearing a deer's skin.

** The first time we see Tywin, what's he doing? Skinning a deer, the symbol of House Baratheon. And Tywin's family undermines the Baratheon legacy from the inside, essentially skinning the deer and wearing its skin through Joffrey, who's not really a Baratheon.

** The first time we see Tywin, what's he doing? Skinning a deer, the symbol of House Baratheon. And Tywin's family essentially undermines the Baratheon legacy from the inside, essentially skinning the deer and wearing its skin through Joffrey, who's not really a Baratheon.

** When Dany asks Mirri Maz Duur if anything can be done to save Drogo, Mirri very briefly and visibly glances at Dany's stomach. Probably not a detail you'd notice if you didn't know what was coming.

** The first time we see Tywin, what's he doing? Skinning a deer, the symbol of House Baratheon. And Tywin's family essentially undermines the Baratheon legacy from the inside, essentially skinning the deer.

** When Dany asks Mirri Maz Duur if anything can be done to save Drogo, Mirri very briefly and visibly glances at Dany's stomach.

* Apparently the Clegane crest is a [[http://img.zonafandom.com/2011/03/sir-gregor-clegane-juego-de-tronos.jpg black dog]]. Suddenly calling Sandor Clegane "The Hound" looks less like an insult and more like an apt nickname, if not a ''compliment'' - it could be taken as people saying that the obedient Sandor deserves more to be the head of House Clegane, i.e. "The" Hound, than does his brutish and uncontrollable brother Gregor.

** She accused Tyrion of sending the assassin after Bran, not throwing Bran off of the tower. I suppose if she thought about it, she would have (rightly) suspected Jaime or Cersei.

* It's somehow never occurred to Catelyn Stark that a three foot tall dwarf might have a bit of trouble hefting a 10 year old boy through a window that stands at least that high above the flood.

* I was just rewatching Episode 6 "A Golden Crown". In the scene where Ser Jorah Mormont stops Viserys from taking the eggs, Ser Jorah says "And yet here I stand." He's not just being badass - he's paraphrasing his house words ("Here We Stand").

** The Hound does a similar thing when Tyrion slaps Joffrey, saying "the prince will remember that", which, in light of his treatment of Sansa, seems to be less of a threat and more of a warning, because he knows what people like Joffrey are capable of.