
The micro-plot of the arrow shooting is already over. Those scenes broaden the field and position the characters: 2 parents, 2 children. Bran starts running after his sister who escapes. An arrow reaches the heart of the target: not Bran but Arya shot it. Actually, this presentation is a wrong track: we will very soon state that Arya is not at all the kind of “good girl” who spends time sewing.īran misses his shot, under the watch of his 2 parents, Catelyn and Eddard Stark who encourage him. The important here is to expose these new characters: a kid who will become a warrior, an older brother taking care of him.Įxposition. The arrow shooting is a thematic element. A grown-up – his half-brother Jon – encourages him. In a castle, a child – Bran Stark – shoots his arrow.

The scout is caught in a field by armed knights.Įllipsis of a part of the action. The title sequence gives no dramatic information but it informs the audience about the genre, the register, the atmosphere, the spirit of the story. We know that the scout told the truth and that his colleague is wrong: it creates dramatic irony. Information: we have seen as much as the scout, and more than his skeptical colleague. The plot develops but the mystery gets thicker. But they are being followed from close, and the colleague finishes beheaded. While searching for them, the skeptic colleague gets massacred too and the scout and his last colleague run away.

One of them, skeptical, decides to go and check. The scout tells his two colleagues about the corpses. We can guess that we will have to develop and solve this enigma. He runs away.Įxposition and catalyst of a first plot. In the snowy forest in the North, a scout discovers the massacred corpses of a group of wildlings. Game of Thrones – Season 1 Episode 1 – Story analysis Read the story analysis of Game of Thrones
