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Season 1, episode 1: Winter Is Coming

Writers:David Benioff and D.B.

Historic moment:Dany receives three petrified dragon eggs as a wedding gift.

Commander Mormont gifts Jon a Valyrian steel sword.

Jons loyalty to the Watch is tested when he learns Robb is marching south.

Introduces:A prostitute named Shae, for whom Tyrion falls.

Joffrey has him beheaded nonetheless.

Grade:A

Season 2, episode 9: Blackwater

Writer:George R.R.

Martin

Director:Neil Marshall

Plot:The Battle of Blackwater is now upon Kings Landing.

Introduces/Historic moment:Wildfire in action.

(More on that in a moment.)

Further complicating the Lannister family dynamic, Cersei accuses Tyrion of murdering her son.

Brienne finds Arya and severely wounds the Hound.

He begs Arya for mercy, but she leaves him to die slowly.

After a Meereen child is killed by Drogon, Dany realizes she has to lock her babies up.

Triumphant, she reunites with Jaime, and the two further solidify the truth behind her threat.

with Joffreys crossbow before escaping.

Introduces:Blind Arya, who loses her sight because she violated the Faceless Mens rules by killing Trant.

Historic moment:Where to begin?

First off, Cersei endures hershamefuland humiliating walk through the streets of Kings Landing after confessing to her sins.

Then Brienne fulfills her oath to Renly and kills Stannis, whose army was demolished by the Bolton forces.

Ramsay is beaten and taken prisoner by Jon, where he meets his fate to fans deep satisfaction.

Historic moment:Sansa watching her abuser, Ramsay, eaten alive by his starving hounds.

Season 6, episode 10: The Winds of Winter

Plot:Cerseis great revenge.

But Cersei remains in her keep a little too long; her cousin Lancel is sent to retrieve her.

Margaery is the first to realize somethings wrong that a trap has been set but shes too late.

The High Sparrow doesnt let anyone leave.

The wildfire is ignited, and the Sept (and everyone inside) is annihilated.

Thats one scheme too many for Jaime, who finally leaves his sister behind just as winter begins.

Winter comes for Littlefinger when the Stark kids unite to unveil his lies.

Historic moment:The Wall falls.

Riding the undead dragon, the Night King destroys the magical barrier, and the dead pour into Westeros.

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