History Recap / GameOfThronesS5E1TheWarsToCome

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Subverted; Mance refuses to kneel to Stannis or scream when the flames start licking at his feet, but when can clearly see the fear on his face.

* MeaningfulLook: After remembering the prediciton that she'll be deposed by a younger beautiful queen, Cersei gives Margery a cold stare as she walks past her up the steps.

** Varys lampshades the chain of disasters that (partially) resulted from his attempt to put the Targaryens back on the Iron Throne.

* NobodyPoops: Notably averted by Tyrion, much to Varys' chagrin.

* DistractedByTheSexy[=/=]NotDistractedByTheSexy: Margaery zigzags between these two when she walks in on her brother and Olyvar gettin' busy. While understandably she seems unfazed by her brother's nudity, she does seem to appreciate Olyvar's butt.

* DramaticIrony: Brienne vents that Arya fled and Sansa is nowhere to be found... right as a cart flanked by Arryn riders passes by her, with Sansa and Baelish inside.

** Lancel is said to look infirm and prematurely aged in the books due to his injury at the Battle of Blackwater. Here he still looks very healthy.

At '''The Wall''', Jon is training with Olly until he is called up by King Stannis, (through Melisandre makes her interest in the Bastard of Winterfell known by having NoSenseOfPersonalSpace). Stannis plans to take back Winterfell and the North which is now occupied and ruled by the Boltons. This hinges on recruiting the defeated wildlings to bolster his armies, who would then be declared citizens of the realm upon completion of their service and he wants Jon to convince Mance Rayder to bend the knee to him as the first step, or else he will burn him at the stake to prove Southron superiority, in lieu of the carrot. Jon has till nightfall.

-->'''Varys:''' Perhaps... And perhaps we've grown so used to horror... We assume there's no other way.

Onto the city in question, which is being actively patrolled by the Unsullied in a form of martial law. Daario and Hizdahr have returned from their successful campaign to retake Yunkai from the Wise Masters. Now operating as a form of quasi-republic with representatives from both classes forming a council that will defer to the Dragon Queen. However, they also want concessions. [[GladiatorGames The reopening of the famed fighting pits.]] Though Hizdahr ensures her that any future fights will be performed by free men and not slaves, Dany is sickened by the ''tradition'' and flat out refuses Hizdahr's compromise. But Daario has her ear in the bedroom and advises that she lift the ban to give her subjects some entertainment, as she can ill-afford an insurrection while her enemies in the other Free Cities, (angered at the economic disaster the death of the slave trade has caused them), surround her, testing for weakness. She ''must'' [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre utilise the living weapons that gives her her divine authority]]; as the Mother of Dragons. [[DareToBeBadass Or what else can she claim to be?]]

Onto the city in question, which is being actively patrolled by the Unsullied in a form of martial law. Daario and Hizdahr have returned from their successful campaign to retake Yunkai from the Wise Masters. Now operating as a form of quasi-republic with representatives from both classes forming a council that will defer to the Dragon Queen. However, they also want concessions. [[GladiatorGames The reopening of the famed fighting pits.]] Dany is sickened by the ''tradition'' and flat out refuses Hizdahr's compromise. But Daario has her ear in the bedroom and advises that she lift the ban to give her subjects some entertainment, as she can ill-afford an insurrection while her enemies in the other Free Cities, (angered at the economic disaster the death of the slave trade has caused them), surround her, testing for weakness. She ''must'' [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre utilise the living weapons that gives her her divine authority]]; as the Mother of Dragons. [[DareToBeBadass Or what else can she claim to be?]]

Jon descends the stairs to await the consequences of his actions. And here we endeth.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Subverted. Mance Rayder looks like he'll be burned toallther death before Jon puts him out of his misery with an arrow to the heart.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Cersei, never having done a good deed in her life, doesn't quite get that Jaime has been living with consequences of doing good deeds ever since he killed the Mad King, but she does tear Jaime a new one for freeing Tyrion. She also points out that at least Tyrion killed Tywin with a purpose instead of Jaime killing him by Proxy.

** This could also apply to [[spoiler: the Lord of Bones/Rattleshirt, since it actually was Mance that Melisandre burned instead of the glammered Lord of Bones./]]

* {{Revision}}: In the first season it was stated that (unlike in the books) Cersei and Robert had ''four'' children, including one that actually looked like him and died very young. This seems to have been abandoned if the prophesy is anything to go by, unless Cersei was lying to Catelyn for some sympathy points.
** Infant mortality is high in Westeros, and even the nobles tend to only count how many children they had who survived infancy. Last season Cersei also described Joffrey was her "eldest" son, which similarly skips the child he actually had with Robert that the TV show invented in Season 1. The writers ''probably'' just forgot about it, but there's enough of a loophole - people tend not to count children who died in infancy - that it can be smoothed in more or less.

* TeensAreMonsters: In the opening flashback, teenage Cersei threatens Maggy that she'll have her eyes gouged out.
** Recall that back in Season 2, Tyrion recalled to Cersei that once when she was 9 years old and caught a serving girl stealing jewelry, she had the girl beaten so severely that she lost an eye. Cersei glibly replied that the serving girl never stole anything again.

** '''Cersei'''. In ''every'' scene after the first one when she visits Tywin's body laying in state, from the funeral feast onwards, not a moment passes that she doesn't have a wine glass in hand. Much moreso than Tyrion, Cersei has been drinking more ever since Tywin ''arrived'' in the city at the end of Season 2, after which she felt she was losing control of the throne. Even Jaime noted at the beginning of Season 4 that she was drinking much more than she used to - and that was ''before'' her firstborn son and then her father were murdered. At the funeral feast she is visibly going through glasses quickly, picking up a new glass from waiters every few minutes.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Tyrion's alcoholism has reached the point of non-stop drinking, though it's not difficult to see why.

* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The Books]]: The name of Cersei's friend: Melara Hetherspoon.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Subverted. Mance Rayder looks like he'll be burned to death before Jon puts him out of his misery with an arrow to the heart.

* AdaptedOut:
** All the stuff about the discovery of Tywin's corpse and the funeral in which everyone is disturbed by the smell of his ruptured bowels, which the flowers can't hide.
** Likewise, in the books, Tyrion is greeted at Illyrio's manse in Pentos not by Varys but by Illyrio himself.
** Maggy the Frog's prophecy is trimmed down; in the books, she finished off by saying that the "''valonqar''" would wrap his hands around Cersei's throat and choke the life out of her. Cersei, who like most Westerosi twelve-year-olds didn't speak Valyrian, needed to have the word translated, and was told it means "little brother." This was the main source of her lifelong antipathy towards Tyrion. Omitting it makes her rage toward him seem an overreaction, ''and'' reduces her antipathy towards Margaery into that whole "older woman threatened by younger woman" cliche.

Missandei approaches Grey Worm in the Pyramid's armoury. She's heard stories about the Unsullied going to brothels, and is curious to know why. Grey Worm looks [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman rather uncomfortable at this question,]] and eventually says he doesn't know.