(Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you have not yet seen the Season 5 premiere of HBO's "Game of Thrones" entitled "The Wars to Come.")
As episodes of HBO's "Game of Thrones" go, Sunday night's premiere was pretty tame. Sure, it contained plenty of sex, nudity, violence and even the death of a king, but it wasn't the "Red Wedding," the beheading of Ned Stark or the poisoning of Joffrey Baratheon.
That's not to say there wasn't plenty of sex and violence as fans of the George R.R. Martin adaptation have come to expect. There was even the death of a king, another thing that seems to happen quite often as the "game of thrones" is played.
This death was the result of a political move by Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane). In need of an army to secure his claims on the throne and expand his reach, he decided on the wildlings at Castle Black. The only thing standing in his way was their king.
When Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds) refused to kneel to Stannis, he ordered him burned in front of his people. Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) took it upon himself to save the king much suffering by planting an arrow in his heart just before the credits rolled.
Elsewhere in the hour, Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) made a failed attempt to try and regain some control over her dragons, while Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) crawled out of his box only to find himself on a collision course with the Mother of Dragons.
Two fan favorites coming together may be more than "GoT" fandom can handle.
