By the time you think that Game Of Thrones has been discovered, the opening credits change

Month of thrones

We count up to Game of thrones'Finale by distilling the fantastic epic in 30 essential moments. It is the month of thrones.

The moment

A new location is added to the main titles.

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"The Kingsroad" (season 1, episode 2)

Like the map conveniently nested between the cover page and the table of contents of a fantastic volume, Game of thrones'The main titles situate the action of the series in an environment that is close to the geography of the real world: just try not to stop too long on the time it would take characters to go through this clock diagram. In a sparkling stentorian sequence created by the prolific Elastic creative studio, the first episode features critical parameters such as King's Landing (capital of the Seven Kingdoms), Winterfell (home of the Starks) and The Wall (home of The Night & Watch) – and then, the following week, he crossed the narrow sea to give us another place, the equestrian camp of Dothraki. Adapted from a series of interludes that would have greatly disrupted the narrative flow, the Game of thrones The titles have become both a winning Emmy Award calling card for Elastic and a sign of the amount of each episode that can be transferred quickly. (Sorry, the people of Dorne.) But by the second episode, this first of more than 20 variants of the main titles indicated the ever-increasing reach and unpredictable nature of Game of thrones. Plus, all turrets and parapets look cool from scratch.

You may be thinking to yourself, "It's a bit minor." And we do not necessarily disagree with you! At the very least, the amendment did not deserve to be reported The A.V. clubTodd VanDerWerff's review was summed up in the "Kingsroad" recap, but another more subtle product caught the eye: "I love the way the series tells the passage of time by showing the growth of distant. I'm pretty sure there were two different wolves playing Arya 's pet (which I will not even try to spell) in tonight' s episode . "

Elsewhere in the episode

As mentioned above, this is the one where Nymeria attacks Joffrey, thus separating Arya from his recently adopted pet and opening the path of the petulant prince to the list of victims of the young Stark girl. Jon Snow leaves for The Wall, with Tyrion Lannister among the party that accompanies him. After Bran has seen Tyrion 's brother and sister do things that their siblings should not do, the Lannisters send someone to finish the boy, even though the assassin is intercepted from him. first by Catelyn, then by Bran's werewolf, Summer. The services of the dogs do not go unpunished, unfortunately: instead of Nymeria, Cersei orders the execution of the she-wolf Sansa, that Ned executes as part of its noble loyalties.

Previously: The Night's Watch meets a white walker