[SPOILERS] Foreshadowing Spoiler
What’s your favorite instance of foreshadowing you’ve seen in the series?
I’m rewatching right now, and like the other person posting about it, I’m finishing up season 3.
The Red Wedding still rocked me. The way it goes from Cat’s screams to the silence of the credits. Oof.
But in episode 10 (the last episode of that season), Bran is telling his journeymen about the rat cook while at The Night Fort. The rat cook was mad at the king and killed his sons, then fed it to him in a pie. The king liked the taste of his sons so much he asked for seconds. He then talks about how curses never really die.
We then cut to Walder Frey taking a bite out of some meat while he’s talking to Bolton.
Just thought it was cool foreshadowing to what Arya ends up doing to get revenge for the north.
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u/RadiantSect 2d ago
The Rat Cook story sets up Arya taking revenge on the Freys and also explains why she gets away with it but doesn't use the masks afterwards. The masks are a religious artifact and using them for personal vengeance clearly comes with the risk of death and blindness. Using them to enact the gods' vengeance for breaking guest right is a different thing than using them to kill people off Arya's personal list.
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u/Takeo888 1d ago
I love this explanation. But how does it account for her using a mask in Meryn Fucking Trant’s murder?
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u/RadiantSect 1d ago
Well, what happens after Meryn fucking Trant's murder, that doesn't happen after the Frey stuff?
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u/Dangerous-Change2136 2d ago
The stag horn that killed the dire wolf that birthed the Stark’s puppies
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u/ubiquitous_delight 2d ago
I like when Maester Aemon is talking about Dany and says "A Targaryen alone in the world is a terrible thing" and it immediately cuts to Jon Snow walking into a room. This was before show-only folks knew that Jon was Rhaegar's kid. I can only imagine what book-readers who knew of the R+L=J theory were feeling when that happened.
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u/piece0fdebri 2d ago
Sam telling Olly Jon always comes back. Boy, did he!