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Recorded LIVE on Sunday night at 10:15 pm ET / 7:15 pm PT, Josh Wigler and Antonio Mazzaro recap the Game of Thrones Season 5 Premiere with a review of “The Wars to Come”.

Episode #1 Title: The Wars to Come

Air Date: April 12th, 2015

Summary Authors: Jason de Lima & Jennifer Heinke

Josh Wigler is joined by Antonio Mazzaro this week to recap the Season 5 premier of Game of Thrones, “The Wars to Come”. Josh and Antonio begin their discussion about the 4 leaked episodes and urge their viewers not to indulge in the temptation of spoiling it for those who have not seen them. Josh asks Antonio his take on the “big picture” of the episode and Antonio goes on to say how he’s happy with it, in particular how he’s happy with the progress being made in regards to Daenerys’ storyline in Meereen and that of Sansa and Littlefinger who appear to be leaving the Eyrie.

Cersei & The Prophecy (0:04:51)

In the opening scene of the premier, we get a flashback from Cersei’s childhood where she and a friend visits what Josh refers to as a “Wood Witch” and is given a prophecy. The witch tells her that she will not marry the Prince, but rather that she will marry the king. She tells her that the King will have 20 children and that she will have 3. She also tells Cersei that of her 3 children gold will be their crowns and gold their shrouds. And finally that her reign as Queen will not last long, that a younger, more beautiful queen will cast her down. Josh points out the show has not dealt in flash backs before, to which Antonio responds by saying it was an interesting look into the Cersei’s psyche. He expresses some empathy to the fact that Cersei heard such a terrifying prophecy about her life at a young age. Josh and Antonio go on to interpret the prophecy. Antonio proposes that crowns of gold  could simply be referring to the 3 children she had with her brother Jaime, or perhaps that all 3 of her children may sit the Iron Throne some day. Josh goes on to suggest that shrouds of gold make it sound like Cersei’s children will die in an ominous way. Antonio asks Josh if Myrcella is in Dorne? Josh confirms that indeed that is where she was heading when we last saw her. Josh then goes on to talk about the deteriorated relationship between King’s Landing and Dorne as a results of the Mountain killing The  Red Viper in Tyrion’s trial by combat. Antonio then says that if he were Cersei he’d be concerned for Myrcella’s well being. Josh then proceeds to ask Antonio how he felt about it and what he thinks it means that the season opened with a Cersei flashback, what kind of mission statement is it sending? Antonio is happy with it. He feels like we have gotten a lot information in regards to the psyche’s of Jaime and Tyrion but not so much of Cersei’s. He feels like up to this point she has been somewhat of a one note character emotionally, simply motivated by her hatred for Tyrion. He feels like with Tywin gone Cersei could be in line for having a much bigger role this season.

King’s Landing: Tywin’s Wake (0:13:24)

In the next scene we find out that Tywin is truly dead, we see his corpse laying in the Sept where we find Jaime and Cersei. Josh and Antonio both feel like it was brutal of Cersei to blatantly point out Jaime’s stupidity in regards to him being unintentionally responsible for their father’s death, while at least Tyrion knew what he was doing. Josh then asks Antonio what he thinks of King’s Landing with many of the power players missing such as Tywin, Varys and Tyrion?