Game of Thrones Season 1 Quick Recap

In few hours, the Game of Thrones Season 2 will be airing its premiere broadcast. It has been 10 months since the season finale of the season 1, and there might be a few details in the season 1 that you missed or just become a blur in your memory. And if you happen to miss the entire season, too bad for you because you have 10 action-packed, story-full episodes to catch up on. And if I’m recap each episodes of Game of Thrones season 1, it will take us an entire day in storytelling, and I know that not everyone has the time or the patience or the brain matter to relive the events in blow by blow accounts. So, let me give you a quick recap of what had happened in the season 1. Promise, these will only take 3 paragraphs.

Setting of the Game of Thrones is in the fictional continent called Westeros. The Westeros was divided into 7 kingdoms. How, who, when and why the Westeros was divided into 7 kingdoms, only George R.R. Martin only know. Okay, so let’s dive in into where the Game of Thrones story takeoff. The seven kingdoms were then ruled by one king, and he is Robert Baratheon. When King Rob’s second-in-command, they called it “The Hand of the King” was murdered King Robert journey to the north to his old buddy, the honorable Eddard “Ned” Stark of Winterfell, to replace Jon as the Hand of the King. But the good ol’ Ned is wary of this new appointment because of the murder and all, and he'd be away from his wonderful family—wife Catelyn, sons from eldest to youngest heir Robb, curious Bran, and very young Rickon, daughters princess-wannabe Sansa and tomboy Arya, and bastard son Jon Snow as well as all their oversized direwolf pets. But then Ned agreed to be King Rob’s hands. That would be great because King Rob needs someone whom he can trust since his wife Queen Cersei and her brother Jaime Lannister are devious, and cunning and totally having incest sex. Without King Rob’s knowledge, his heir, the asshole arrogant Prince Joffrey is not actually his son but a product of the incestuous relationship between the evil Queen Cersei and his brother Lannister.

Dysfunctional family is not really new in Game of Thrones, the family relationships are weird as they come. If you want proof of that there's Danaerys Targaryen (best known as Dany) and her brother Viserys, who is exiled royalty from the regime that ruled before Robert, who lived in secrecy in the nearby continent of Essos. The Taragayen’s is as weird as the Lannister’s because Viserys tries to sell Dany to a barbarian horde known as the Dothraki so that Viserys could use the Dothraki as an army to regain the power that was in his family's right until Jamie killed his father, "the Mad King"—but Viserys never actually gets the power he's so hungry for because he gets killed by Dany's, Khal Drogo, and Dany eventually seizes power of the barbarian horde, which she plans on using to re-take Westeros.

Then, King Rob’s dies on a hunting trip and Robert's idiot son Joffrey takes over the throne even though he technically has no right to it because he's actually the son of his mom Queen Cersei and his uncle Jaime, which Ned Stark discovers, announces, and is subsequently thrown in jail and later beheaded for in front of his daughters, including Sansa, who is betrothed to Joffrey who really starts being a jerk when he becomes king and that upsets everyone so other people claim to be king including the late Robert's brother Renly and Robb Stark, who goes on to capture Jamie and get lots of support from other lords in the North unlike his bastard bro Jon Snow who's headed north to the Wall and joined a team of outcasts that's tasked with keeping all sorts of things like ice zombies (actually they're Wights, and have been frozen for a long time but are now awakening) from messing things up except the zombies ARE starting to mess things up and unfortunately for everyone Joffrey is too concerned with his own crown to bother with ice zombies, and all we can hope for is that Joffrey's new Hand of the King, his cool, alcoholic, smooth-talking, sex-addicted dwarf uncle Tyrion, can talk some sense into him but it might not even matter at all because pulling the strings behind the scenes at all times are a eunuch named Varys and a pimp named Littlefinger and they both have incredible amounts of sway when it comes to keeping order in the realm, which might be in even bigger trouble because in the season finale Dany hatched some dragon eggs and one thing you don't want to do is mess with a pissed-off teen queen with three dragons on her side.

Ok, so there you go. That, basically, what had happened in the season 1 of Game of Thrones. Now we are all ready for the wonders that the Game of Thrones Season 2 is about to offer. I just wish that they will not fuck3d up the season 2 like what had happen in the Walking Dead. According to the blessed few who had given the blessing to watch the first 4 episodes of the Game of Thrones, it is freaking awesome. But then, the first 4 episodes of Walking Dead was also awesome, it was the later episodes who sucked up. Well, HBO is known for great masterpieces on television and I trust them to deliver the awesomeness that the Game of Thrones is supposed to be.