Game Of Thrones: 14 Things You Learn Rewatching Season 3

3. Lots Of Foreshadowing

Game of Thrones is rife with foreshadowing, particuarly when it comes to giving us clues towards deaths that are going to come, and we get a number of biggies towards the end of Season 3.

In episode 8, when Stannis is throwing the leeches into the fire, the scene cuts after he says Joffrey Baratheon. It doesn't just cut to any old scene, though, but one of him at a wedding feast, drinking wine. That Robb would die just an episode later is an even bigger clue as to the power of King's Blood, but the setting for Joff's demise is established right here.

In the finale, it's the turn of Joffrey's brother to have his death predicted, as Cersei says: "If not for my children, I'd have thrown myself from the highest window of the Red Keep." She doesn't, but three seasons later that's exactly what Tommen does, robbing Cersei of her last child and pushing her further to seizing all power for herself.

In that same episode, Bran shares the story of the Rat Cook, a man who got revenge by killing a King's son, baking him into a pie, and then feeding the pie to the King, which is what eventually happens oh-so-satisfyingly with Walder Frey and his kids in Season 6 courtesy of Arya.

Speaking of Arya, there's also another spot of foreshadowing in this season (albeit not of death directly, but it is linked to the God Of), as Melisandre talks about all of the different eyes she will have, including "eyes you'll shut forever". It hints at Arya becoming a Faceless Man and taking on various identities, as well as her going blind after killing Meryn Trant.