Game of Thrones summaryBy
www.imdb.com/user/ur55645863/The plot is about is about many things. But to simplify it best; the story starts out small and then branches off into multiple different stories. The Season 1 main story's climax leads to a chain of events.
Season 1 starts off as a murder mystery. Who killed Jon Arryn? And why? Jon Arryn is the Hand of the King (kind of like the Vice President in modern times) and his funeral is held in the Pilot episode. The main character played by Sean Bean does find out why, which leads to a war.
That war breaks out and many different factions join vying for power. It turns out a couple politicians behind the scenes planted the seeds to spark this war, and are gaining from it -- they love the chaos.
This is the 'game of thrones' -- people playing a political game of chess. Who wins, who dies? What are the players' motives, what do they have to lose, what do they have to gain? One player perhaps decides to broker an alliance between two royal families, then later on decides to side with another one to rebel against the others -- whatever makes him/her gain the most.
This war has an effect on the kingdoms and all the main characters. The main characters are mostly the children of all the main royal families. There's the Stark children, the Lannister 'children' (they're in their 40s but they're still important), the Greyjoy children, Targaryen and so on. These children are each trying to survive this war -- and some of them are even players as well who have power and armies and can make decisions that can effect the course of the war.
While some of these other children are gifted in different ways... they might not have armies but someone like Bran has a magical power, and a bastard like Jon is not involved in the politics of the kings and lords of the kingdoms but rather is stationed at the Wall in the northern-most country fulfilling a different kind of duty.
He and the rest of the members of the Nights Watch and their purpose is to man the Wall and defend the rest of the continent from the White Walkers -- the White Walkers are basically ice necromancers who have the ability to raise the dead. The Nights Watch is at war with them, or at least they used to be 8,000 years before the events of Game of Thrones. Now the White Walkers are extinct, and the Nights Watch' purpose for the past couple thousands of years have been to fight the Wildlings -- who are the wild tribes living north of the Wall who pillage and rape people similar to vikings. The Nights Watch and the Seven Kingdoms are not fans of them.
All kinds of 'magic' is thought to be extinct. If anyone even talks about things like dragons or giants or magical abilities in the series the other characters laugh at them (which does happen in a few scenes) because the idea of magic is treated the same way we would treat it in our reality -- silly unreal bullsh-t.
But it is real. Magic does return, the dragons return and so do the White Walkers -- unfortunately (since they almost destroyed the world 8,000 years ago.)
Throughout the course of the show you start to realize that Jon's story is the most important out of all the children -- because he realizes that the war at the Wall is the most important one. The real war, the war against the White Walkers who've returned. The Nights Watch tries repeatedly to warn the kings and lords of the Seven Kingdoms about their return and beg their help, but all of the Seven Kingdoms laugh at them instead and pay no attention to it since they don't believe any of the White Walkers were ever real.
But that is their mistake. The kings and lords of the Seven Kingdoms waste their time fighting their pointless war for the pointless iron throne, because in the end when the White Walkers manage to find a way to get through the Wall, they will invade, shock and kill everyone -- for whatever purpose they have (their motives are unknown at this time).
tl;dr: Seven royal families fight their pointless war for the iron throne while an ancient threat re-awakens in the northern-most part of the continent. These royal families ignore the threat and deem it as untrue or fictional when it turns out they have returned along with magic in the world and they will be a serious threat for the characters and the Seven Kingdoms. What can stop them? The royal families and their armies, the Nights Watch, dragons?
I forgot to mention that besides the Seven families fighting for the iron throne and the White Walker threat re-emerging, there is also another threat to the East on the other continent; Queen Daenerys.
She is the daughter of Aerys II Targaryen who was murdered 20 years before the events of Game of Thrones. He was the 16th king of the Seven Kingdoms. A powerful lord named Robert Baratheon rebelled against the Targaryen king with the help of Sean Bean's character and the king was murdered during this rebellion. Dany's mother and brother fled to the other continent to escape and her mother died giving birth to her.
Dany grew up to be a Queen who now rules over parts of the continent of Essos but she hasn't forgotten about what happened to her family during the rebellion and she won't forgive it. She wants the iron throne and wants to avenge her family and her father's death -- so she is preparing an invasion of the Seven Kingdoms which will happen simultaneously to the White Walker invasion.
Ice - White Walkers and Fire - Daenerys and her Dragons.
Here's a trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc5cAnF07BA
