Posted on 04/11/2015 3:28:15 PM PDT by dennisw
“Game of Thrones” is returning for its fifth season on Sunday, you might have heard, riding a wave of the kind of intense anticipation usually reserved for royal offspring and new Apple products.
Potential snag: It’s been 10 months since the last episode and this story is complicated, overstuffed with oddly named characters and labyrinthine alliances that shift from week to week.
So below, in the name of service journalism, we offer a primer on where things currently stand with most of the show’s major characters.
Tyrion Lannister Last seen: Crated in King’s Landing. A lifetime of cruelty from his father, Tywin, including a fixed murder trial last season, culminated in crossbow patricide in the Season 4 finale. The episode happened to fall on Father’s Day, which was fun for everyone (except Tywin, presumably). Varys, the slyest operator in the royal court, smuggled Tyrion onto a ship out of King’s Landing in a crate.
Jaime Lannister Last seen: Freeing his brother Tyrion from prison. The Kingslayer briefly reconnected with his on-again, off-again twin-cest partner Cersei in the season finale, but things figure to sour between them if she learns that he was the one who sprung their condemned brother out of the dungeon. For one thing, Tyrion is one of Cersei’s least favorite people. For another, he killed their dad afterward.
Cersei Lannister Last seen: Seducing Jaime. See above.
Arya Stark Last seen: On a boat for Braavos. The nascent warrior ditched her season-long escort, the Hound, who was mortally wounded by her would-be protector, Brienne of Tarth, whom Arya also eluded. The young Stark is crossing the Narrow Sea in search of the Faceless Men, a monastic order of assassins. (You may remember one of them, Jaqen H’ghar, from previous seasons.)
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The parts involving Jon Snow bore me senseless
I intend to view at least the final episode from last season before I start viewing the new season.
I prefer to wait a few weeks and binge view via cable On-Demand.
Jon Snow I like. Bran Snark’s storyline is a complete zzzzzzzzz.
Stark, I mean. Oops.
In before “I haven’t had a TV since Lawrence Welk” crowd.
Lol
Daenerys Targaryen has awesome dragons. It is known.
Plot can be tough to keep track of during the season, much less between seasons. Fortunately the gratuitous nudity and the dragons make one forget that he really hasn’t a clue about what’s going on....
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