Game of Thrones From the Pilot to Now

As Season 5 of Game of Thrones is getting ready to show it's last two episodes for the year, I couldn't help but wonder (insert Carrie Bradshaw's voice) how different the beginning of this show is to what it has become.  Many characters have done a complete 180 and are so different you can't even recognize them.  I will be live blogging the first episode to note the differences in Episode One Season One vs Season 5 episode 7. And to show how even in the first episode some plot lines are already firmly established.

The show opens with an attack from wildings that turns a whole group into Wights and then a visit from a White Walker proving first and foremost in the first 5 minutes who the real threat to Westeros has always been and who the ice in a Song of Ice and Fire is about. We only glimpse them maybe once a season, but I think now instead of Winter is Coming...it's finally here in Season 5.

Winterfell: All the Starks together!!! Ned, Caitlin, Rob all alive and happy.  Man, it's been forever!
Arya in a dress sewing.  Bran on 2 legs that work!  Theon loyal to the Starks. Direwolve pups!!!

Kings Landing: Robert Baratheon is still the king.  Jamie has tons more swagger. and two hands.  

The Lannisters make their way to Winterfell.  It's the first time the Stark Children have ever met them.  Sansa is completely a head over heels Disney princess who wants to get married and have lots and lots of babies with Joffrey. Oh you poor thing Sansa, just you wait....

Tyrion looks so different without his giant head of hair and scar.  And way more of a whore monger.

 

Pentos: Viscerys alive and well and emotionally abusive as ever.  Dany just stands there and takes it as he puts his paws all over her naked body.

First sighting of Khal Drogo.  Savage and scary.

Uncle Benjen...where the heck has he been??

Cersei's dislike of pretty would be queens already apparent.

A Dothraki wedding.....always an entertaining affair. Ser Jorah and Dany about to be besties.  Dany crying the first time she has sex.

The Hound!!  Robert saying let's go kill some boar.  haha.  Ned leaves Winterfell never to return again.

That ending...was sucha shocker back then.  You find out this show isn't afraid to get dirty.  Fucking siblings, kicking kids outta windows.

Wow.  It's really crazy to see that first episode again after 4 years.  The show is just so much darker now.  No one is safe and half of the characters we were introduced in the pilot are now dead.  The show is still the best thing on tv and the books are a fun companion.  Now for the 6th book to finally be released!!!  It's going to be a long summer without Game of Thrones. ;(