I'm not quite sure how effective those are, in terms of viewers unfamiliar with the books keeping up with all that history.
I'm not sure either. But I loved being able to get all those references and notice many things I didn't when I read the book and had totally forgotten they were in it. And I only recognised stuff now because it stayed in my memory only after seeing it again in later books. Makes me want to reread GoT just to catch all those things I missed the first time!
but Robert's bastard was Will from Merlin aka Chris from Skins, right?
I have no idea - my own moment of revelation was "OMG, so THAT was Gendry?!" I had totally forgotten Gendry was ever mentioned in the first book and that he was in fact Robert's bastard.
All Dany-related issues aside, it was very satisfying seeing her confronting her piece of shit brother like that.
Yes, Ned definitely doesn't realise that about Cersei.
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Date: 2011-05-09 10:10 pm (UTC)I'm not quite sure how effective those are, in terms of viewers unfamiliar with the books keeping up with all that history.
I'm not sure either. But I loved being able to get all those references and notice many things I didn't when I read the book and had totally forgotten they were in it. And I only recognised stuff now because it stayed in my memory only after seeing it again in later books. Makes me want to reread GoT just to catch all those things I missed the first time!
but Robert's bastard was Will from Merlin aka Chris from Skins, right?
I have no idea - my own moment of revelation was "OMG, so THAT was Gendry?!" I had totally forgotten Gendry was ever mentioned in the first book and that he was in fact Robert's bastard.
All Dany-related issues aside, it was very satisfying seeing her confronting her piece of shit brother like that.
Yes, Ned definitely doesn't realise that about Cersei.