Game Of Thrones: 7 Things That "The Wars To Come" Did Right (And 3 It Didn't)

10. Maggy The Frog

Despite a plethora of meaty backstory available for just about every character in the saga, Game of Thrones has never fallen back onto the device of flashbacks. It’s almost a shame in certain cases, but that the narrative had never been bogged down by jaunts to ages past has helped keep a sense of organization to the increasingly complicated story.

The flashbacks in “The Wars To Come,” however, were fantastic. Along with a friend, young Cersei – played by Nell Williams in an uncanny emulation of Lena Headey – sneaks away to visit a fortuneteller and query about her marriage prospects. Maggy herself was suitably terrifying, so much so that even the arrogant Cersei was undoubtedly regretting the trip by the end. 

The clearly imbalanced Maggy delivering her dark prophecy to the frightened girls is given troubling weight by the fact that certain aspects of the prediction have already come to pass. With Cersei marrying not Prince Rhaegar but King Robert, none of their children happening to be mutual, and Joffrey already dead, there can be little doubt that Maggy's prophecy that golden shrouds will shortly follow crowns for each of her kids will have Cersei in something of a tizzy in Season 5.