King Robert sits in the classic quandary – his wife and his best friend do not like each other. Well, not too classic – her brother has stabbed the best friend, and the best friend’s wife has kidnapped the queen’s other brother. King Robert clearly doesn’t care for his in-laws, but his monetary debt to them handcuffs him from acting out against the Lannisters. The Lannister family seems to have everyone held by the purse strings, and the motto, “A Lannister always pays its debts” make the Lannisters the sovereign wealth fund of the Westeros world (like Norway or Saudi Arabia in our world).
The dragon eggs that Khaleesi received on her wedding day are said to be petrified. But Khaleesi keeps them warm and near her, stoking the potentiality of dragons being introduced in the series. We know it’s coming – the eggs keep reappearing. And we can’t wait for that to happen. I foresee the inner squabbling of King’s Landing reducing the forces of soldiers to a thin line, and that’s when the White Walkers and Dragons (fire and ice) emerge. But I digress.
Arya’s “dancing lessons” continue. 
This the story she uses for her sword training. The teacher tutors her in more than swordplay. He guides her in becoming a warrior. She tells him she prays to the gods – “the old and the new” – and the “Dancing Master” informs her that there is only one God, and that God is death. He’s a kind of motivational life-coach.
Khaleesi’s child grows and she becomes certain that the child is a boy. With this belief she becomes a demigod of the Dothraki, and to prove that she is worthy, she eats a raw horse heart amid a witchy religious ceremony. The horse heart looks more disgusting than the Old 96er that John Candy gutted in The Great Outdoors. But she keeps it all down, and I thought of Dan Aykroyd saying to the waiter “If i can get a dessert down him, think you can throw in a couple of Paul Bunyan hat’s for the kids?”
Tyrion Lannister tries to bribe his way out of prison. When he is brought to trial, he asked to give a confession. But he does not deliver the confession expected, and instead of talking about Brandon Stark, he tells all sorts of sordid tales from his past. A hilarious story:
“Where do I begin, my lords and ladies? I am a vile man, I confess it. My crimes and sins are beyond counting. I have lied and cheated, gambled and whored. I’m not particularly good at violence, but I’m good at convincing others to do violence for me. You want specifics, I suppose. When I was seven, I saw a servant girl bathing in the river. I stole her robe and she was forced to return to the castle naked and in tears. I closed my eyes, but I could still see her tits bouncing. When I was 10, I stuffed my uncle’s boots with goat shit. When confronted with my crime, I blamed a squire. Poor boy was flogged, and I escaped justice. When I was 12 I milked my eel into a pot of turtle stew. I flogged the one-eyed snake, I skinned my sausage. I made the bald men cry into the turtle stew, which I believe my sister ate. At least I hope she did. I once brought a jackass and a honeycomb into a brothel….”
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Tyrion then calls for a trial by combat, an idea that allows justice to be decided by a fight to the death. This would certainly clear out the backlog in the justice system in a hurry. The catch is that someone can fight on behalf of the accused. A mercenary, who has been travelling with Tyrion, fights for him. Bronn is already owed money by Tyrion, which is why he’s travelling with him. Tyrion wins his freedom, as the opponent falls into an abyss, jugular cut, to the disgust of Lady Stark. Crazy Lysa says, “You don’t fight with honor.” “No,” Bronn says, and points at the abyss below, adding, “He did.”
The wounded Ned must sit on the throne to perform the King’s affairs while King Robert is hunting. His time on the throne shows Ned to be a decisive and worthy king, but he steps on too many toes. He calls for Tywin Lannister to come before the throne or be stripped of all titles. His call for justice ignores that fact that the Lannister gold is what keeps the kingdom operating. He’s fighting the bank. Ned’s daughters recoil when he demands that they return to Winterfell for safety. Sansa says she wants to stay and marry Joffrey and “give him sons with beautiful blonde hair.” The lightbulb goes on Ned’s head. He returns to the genealogy book and realizes that no Baratheon has ever had blonde hair. Rising music helps us understand: Joffrey is not Robert’s son, but the son of the incestuous Jaime and Cersei Lannister.
Finally, the title of this episode is The Golden Crown. In the Dothraki holy city, Viserys Targaryen irritates everyone once again with his whining and pining for the throne. He pulls a sword in the Dothraki sacred city, where blood cannot be shed. This ending chills, or moltens, I should say. Khal Drogo delivers Viserys’ request for a golden crown by pouring molten gold over Viserys head. Viserys falls to the ground with a metallic clang. Without remorse for her brother, Khaleesi says, “He was no dragon. A fire cannot kill a dragon.”
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