Game Of Thrones: 12 Things You Learn Rewatching Season 4
6. The Foreshadowing
Game of Thrones is generally filled with foreshadowing, with moments if dialogue predicting deaths or similar shocking moments, and Season 4 is no exception.
The most memorable comes from Littlefinger who, in the episode The Mountain and the Viper, tells Robin Arryn: "People die at their dinner tables, they die in their beds, they die squatting over their chamber pots." While the first part refers to Joffrey's death a few episodes previous, the second and third is some direct foreshadowing of the deaths of Shae and Tywin that would come just a couple of episodes later. In that same episode, Tyrion talks about the various terms of killing different people, where he just so happens to mention "patricide".
Likewise, Jon's storyline contains some hints at what's to come: he goes to deal with Night's Watch mutineers who stabbed the Lord Commander to death, a fate he'll befall just a season later. Meanwhile, Margaery makes a joke about ending up with "a string of dead sparrows" around her neck when choosing a necklace for her wedding, which again would become much more pertinent in Season 5.
It's not all death being foreshadowed though, with a few other moments that stand out more on rewatch: There's Cersei saying she will "burn our house to the ground" when attempting to protect Tommen, Melisandre seeing Jon through the flames at Castle Black, and this line from Oberyn that really hinted at Jon's parentage: "And beautiful, noble Rhaegar Targaryen left her for another woman."