Those dragon eggs are a Chekov’s Gun if I’ve ever seen one. They’re gonna hatch at some point in the future but probably not tonight.
One possibility that I have considered is that Anya slips her protector, and knowing Joffrey is responsible for her father’s death, sneaks into Joffrey’s quarters and challenges him to a duel. Joffrey, being larger and more male, thinks it’ll be fun to kill her so agrees to it, and not knowing her Dancing lessons, gets skewered big time. Hopefully Anya escapes subsequently, but we’ll see. I do see her as an agent of revenge down the road, but it might not be Joffrey that faces her sword. Might be Cersei.
Tyrion could be a wild card, he seems to have a talent for survival. Might wind up on the Iron Throne, wouldn’t be surprised, a functioning brain seems to be rare in the Seven Kingdoms. He’s decent like Ned, but not nearly so dumb and trusting.
Jon seems to be Ned Mark II to me. I predict a tragic death defending the Wall against whatever it is out there.
I’m thinking maybe the Dragons might be a trump card against whatever is out there beyond the Wall, much later in the series however.
The Wildling woman now enslaved might turn out to be a key player down the road, in dealing with Wildings who might find themselves allied with the rest of the human race if the Night Walkers are as badass as the hints indicate.
I doubt Khal will die, he and Daenerys have too much potential to drive the plot with an invasion of Westeros, and of course there are those eggs.
I can’t see a promising future for Cersei or Joffrey. He’s a total idiot kid and he holds absolute power. Killing Ned, he signed his own death warrant, as all the other Machiavellian types around the throne are going to figure he’s too much a wild card to let live. He won’t live, and Cersei will probably go with him. Could happen in this episode, by Anya or another. No one’s gonna want to hear Joffrey impulsively ordering THEM killed.
There, we’ll see how it goes. I’m hoping I will be surprised, and Martin seems a good enough writer to surprise me.
I want something to happen with the dragon eggs.
I started reading the first book and am about 300 pages in (which is about 1/3 of the way).
Well only one of my predictions got definitely DISPROVED, and it wasn’t the one I thought it would be, the others while not proven are still possible. Not bad all told.
I just want to note that I predicted that ending. (And, no, I’ve never read the books.)
I score your future predictions as one yes and one kinda-sorta…but I’ll be damned if I can recall if they’ll come true season 2 or 3 since the books blur together on me there.
Don’t do that.
As a book reader all I can tell you is
1: Don’t become too attached to anybody.
2: Don’t expect the remaining Starks to magically become geniuses
I’m still not ready for hints or advice from the book-learned in a thread marked for the unforeknowledged. No matter how vague you think you’re being, it’s still spoilery.
So I was pretty much wrong on all my points. I should have known that one episode wasn’t enough time to put the storylines that far.
The only thing I did assume would happen – and I forgot to even invludd it in my prediction – was the hatching of the dragon eggs. I pretty much figured we would see that from the moment they appeared on screen.
Well, one part of my prediction came true!
Hopefully they hit at least one land that is lush, fields of flowers or maybe a coastal town…again, part of this adventure would be to go to “new” lands to see new environments and wonders.
elfkin, the premise of the thread is that it’s for those who haven’t read the books. Please don’t do this. Some consider it being a jerk.
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Well, I also should have realized that one hour wouldn’t be enough. I was really surprised how they resolved the Civil War. I know the Lannisters aren’t actually going to tuck their tails and run, but it sure seems that way. I’d think they’d be able to buy off enough neutralish clans/families to make a solid sweep north. (But then they run into the problem of “what now - who’s going to occupy this land?”.)
I was right(ish) on my non-prediction for Anya - nothing dramatic happened there. Predictably, she’s headed north, escorted by the guy her dad told to escort her.
I’m mostly wrong on Sansa - she’s going to double-cross Joffrey, but her commitment to family looked much more firm than it had in the past. Still - that’s an “end of Season 2” problem at the earliest (depending on when Season 2 picks the story up - it could do a “10 years later” jump).
Jon Snow did not want to warn anyone of the zombies. No one, in fact, wants to warn anyone of the zombies. This seems…foolish. I think I’d send word to the south that “hey FYI - dead people are walking around up here trying to kill people.” Maybe that’s just me. Jon will, however, be heading north of the wall, and is sure to become a Big Damn Hero (actually, his direwolf will become a BDH, but he’ll take all the glory).
Forces did not collide.
Heads did not roll (just a tongue).
The realm WILL be governed by Varys, Littlefinger and a Lannister (wrong one, though).
Joffrey’s fate is still up in the air, but it seems everyone is with me on this one (imprison/disable the petulant child).
I was certainly wrong about the ending - which disappointed me. I don’t want to watch a show about dragons and shit. I want to watch politics being played poorly, clever people making big moves and screwing over tons of people, the noble rush headstrong into doom, and the innocent/pure come of age.
Keep watching the show Munch, or rather, watch next season. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that it doesn’t suddenly take a crazy left turn and become a totally different type of story. They story is the story, it always had dragons in it; from the very first episode.
So long as the story doesn’t become ABOUT dragons, or they don’t become too much of a deus ex machina. It’s the people and the culture they live in that make the story interesting. And with that, it’s off to Gor Evolved for me …
That’s true - and I’m not about to drop it from my lineup. And it’s not like there wasn’t an element of the supernatural from the first two minutes of the first episode either.
So my predictions weren’t half bad.
What I saw coming:
Drogo dying.
Tension with the wildlings and the white walkers increasing, as seen from Jon’s perspective. I was a little off – I thought we’d see the impending trouble more explicitly – but I was right about it being mentioned, and it being seen by Jon.
Robb becoming King of the North. I even got the title right!
What I didn’t see coming:
Dany’s child coming out like a harlequin fetus, or something.
Dany entering a burning funeral pyre with the dragon eggs and coming out unscathed, carrying hatched dragonlings. I knew they were going to hatch eventually, but I didn’t predict that it’d be in this episode, or that Dany would birth them like she did.
What came completely out of left field:
Tyrion Lannister becoming The Hand.
Well actually i believe they said “King in the North” 
N-no!
I am not a book reader, although I may have to become one.
I predict that more and more characters with similar names will be introduced in the next season.
I will get even **more **confused by people who mess up the spellings of the character and/or location names, leading me to believe that they’re referring to yet more characters; book readers who add character nicknames that have not been mentioned on TV; references to characters & their relation to one another that either isn’t mentioned in the series or is glossed over so that only a true fan of the book knows who they are.
In short, I predict more confusion. :(:rolleyes:
Yeah, the name is Arya.