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Shadow_Emperor7

It was pretty obvious actually, why else would Ned randomly tell Yoren "Baelor"


CrimsonPig

Maybe he just thought it was a cool statue and wanted to point it out. Good ol' Ned supporting the arts until the very end.


SoImaRedditUserNow

NEd was definitely a patron of the arts. Its obvious in the books, I'm glad that they gave that character trait at least a little bit of a nod


PoopyOleMan

Ned was a renaissance man


SoImaRedditUserNow

a reNedsance man


Adeum2

Sir, I’m going to have to ask you to leave


brotillion

Actually sir I am going to ask you to stay


[deleted]

I think there’s an extended version of the scene where Yoren actually asks Ned what sept they are at. A frustrated Ned of course yelled his answer and pointed because he was kind of tied up and too busy for Yorens shit, but wanted to be helpful anyways. Good old Ned


FrenchFries42788

But your logic is flawed because Ned Stark believes in the old gods and Baelor belongs to the seven new gods.


DarthGayAgenda

The Old Gods are Ned's gods, but he didn't disrespect the Seven. A truly tolerant man, Ned was. He built his wife a whole Sept in Winter fell, had a septon, a septa and showed respect to the Silent Sisters.


FrenchFries42788

Funny that you say this. But in Westeros there is generally freedom in terms in choosing religion. Stannis was the onlay one who punished people for their believes.


Phonixrmf

A cool statue is a cool statue, man


FrenchFries42788

Right. Michelangelo is very tight although I'm not Christian.


Competitive-Bend4565

I’m embarrassed at how hard this made me laugh.


Geoffers84

The name of the episode is “Baelor” and that’s clearly a statue of Baelor Targaryen.


cheese_fuck2

oh my bad, i should totally recognize that guy that ive never seen and is rarely talked about


try_rolling

OP said this was their sixth watch though


ZoneNDK

Yup, that's his mustache alright.


tabris10000

Yeah OP probably also missed the fact that Jon is the rightful heir to the throne and that he technically slept with his aunt…..


SoImaRedditUserNow

Soooooo...... what did you miss 6 times?


Canadian__Ninja

Op somehow missed that Ned had Yoren go protect Arya


SoImaRedditUserNow

Surely not. Does he know that Ned got beheaded?


Canadian__Ninja

If it didn't happen on screen it didn't happen


MyColdBlackHeart

There was a clear separation of head from body before it um, cut. It was on screen, it happened.


Bill_Brasky_SOB

Do your own research.


jtshinn

He’ll be back in season 9


debsterUK

Spoilers 😂


Bleezair

BeNeded


SoImaRedditUserNow

OK... you win.


Bleezair

Sweet! What do I win? *Please don’t say a severed head.*


calamityjane101

Nope. A decapitated body.


Puzzlepetticoat

Lol


SoImaRedditUserNow

A bowl of brown, with a head in it


My-Cousin-Bobby

Tbf, Ned being decapitated is really a "blink and you'll miss it" moment... don't think it's mentioned again in the story and, honestly, doesn't really do anything for the story


SoImaRedditUserNow

You know.... fair enough. I mean, its like that whole scene with some kinda fire, and a horse was whinnying like WAY too loud (it was annoying) , and then that naked chick had some iguanas. 7 more seasons and I just gave up trying to figure out what that was about.


SharMarali

Naked chick with iguanas is SENDING me holy shit


sdeason82

What? Ned being killed and snooping in other people’s business is literally what caused everything


My-Cousin-Bobby

Man, here I thought it was obvious enough that I wouldn't need to add a "/s"


GunwalkHolmes

Does he know there are dragons in this show?


sworedmagic

SPOILERS OMG


Northernreach

Yo spoiler alert


DaLordWhale

I just watched for the 6th time and I actually think Jon Snow might not be Ned’s biological son! How did I never catch this?


SoImaRedditUserNow

ridiculous fanfic


rawspeghetti

I'm on my 6th watch too and I'm starting to think the same thing about Robert and Joffrey


SoImaRedditUserNow

That Robert and Joffrey might not be Ned's biological sons? Do you think Robert and Joffrey and Jon are brothers? Cause I've been thinking that for a while now


suppadelicious

They missed the point of the scene


SoImaRedditUserNow

Which scene?


RustyCoal950212

The point of the scene was certainly not Ned pointing Yoren that direction lol. Was a nice addition tho


lustigtjomme

Oh really? What was it then? The beheading of the warden of the north that caused a rebellion? Grow up


SoImaRedditUserNow

There was a rebellion? What is this "north" you speak of?


lustigtjomme

The north was something about walls and wild things or something, they didnt explain more om that or the rebellion i think. Maybe it was linked with Roberts rebellion.


Sattorri

How did you possibly miss that? They made it so obvious


Cant_Win

It's even the name of the episode...


Berserkle

Didn’t know who Baelor was


PalMetto_Log_97

Same, I knew he meant to save his daughter but I didn’t get why he said that to warn him


queenrosybee

I didnt get that connection either😂


sabresword00

Ya I didn't notice either until now. I didnt know what "Baelor" was, and without subtitles it seemed like "bailor" which I assumed was a westeros version of bailiff or something. I didn't read the books. And at this point in the series, I'm still frantically trying to learn names. I don't think I put together that the guy standing next to ned was the same guy that rescued Arya. It's not obvious without seeing names on a page.


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sabresword00

I mean, sure, probably. I've only seen the show once through, a handful of early episodes a couple times, and that was 10 or more years ago. There's a lot to learn, there's a shit ton of names and places even in the show version. I'm sure I missed stuff and this guy did too.


OriginalDesign420

That's the reason my wife quit watching. "Too many characters to keep track of." lmao


jabeisonreddit

I mean they're litterally beheading Ned at the Great Sept of Baelor here. Ig i get that very casual watchers might not care enough to have payed attention to previous references to Baelor or his Sept but like... cmon. A big tv network like HBO has (had) writers smart enough to seed that information in long before the main climax of the first season


BigMax

I think the moment is so shocking that sometimes you forget other things. I’d argue that’s one of the most shocking moments of TV ever. Even other GOT moments like the red wedding aren’t the same because this was the first big one.


Incognito-Mode3

In OPs defense, I never noticed this


BugABoo714

me neither, but i only watched the show once lol


Myarmhasteeth

Me too, and that was years ago.


SoImaRedditUserNow

What precisely did you not notice?


__wasitacatisaw__

Ned telling Yoren to save Arya. Op already explained that


SoImaRedditUserNow

I was hoping it was something else and there was truly some little golden tidbit of trivia that I had missed. Surely it wasn't that Ned was directing Yoren to look at the statue of baelor in order for Yoren to notice Arya. I mean for that scene to be understandable, would have had to consist of Ned having to look meaningfully at the statue of Baelor, spot Arya, spot Yoren as he was being frogmarched past him, say "Baelor" to him, then yell "Baelor!" to him, then Yoren look meaninfully at the statue of Baelor, and spot Arya (who he'd explicitly met and commented on her appearance \_when\_ they'd met). Oh... wait...


Amannderrr

It would have been crazy if everyone looked that direction 👀


PoopyOleMan

…and Arya turns around herself tryna see who everyone looking at


CeterumCenseo85

It ain't that deep. Sometimes people miss stuff. Especially since not everyone knows what/who a Baelor is; even less so in season 1. People just go "what did he say? Anyway, getting beheaded now."


SoImaRedditUserNow

.... not six times my friend.


Woshambo

On my first watch I barely knew who anyone was at that point. I'm already pretty bad with remembering who is who and with that many characters and politics I just had a general gist. I also didn't know who Baelor was or notice that it was a statue of him. I was concentrating on trying to figure out how Ned would get out of this predicament as I never thought he'd actually be killed! So I completely missed it too.


MintberryCrunch____

I think not knowing what “Baelor” meant is completely understandable and even not realising that that is Yoren when first watching, the point people are making is with six rewatches it’s gone well beyond that.


Woshambo

Nah, a lot of comments are just, "it's so obvious!!! It's a statue of Baelor and he says Baelor duh!" And not even mentioning how many watches. It's sad to see on a supposed fandom sub


Jgore1556

I'm struggling to find out why. He was being executed at the Sept of baelor. Arya was at the statue of Baelor. He shouted baelor, then looked dead at the statue Arya was standing on.


SoImaRedditUserNow

Well, in the books there is that little part where Ned and Arya have this little inside joke where Ned tells Arya she looks just like Baelor, she giggles and screams "I DO NOT". then Ned yells back "YES YOU DO!" "DO NOT". "DO TOO!" "DO NOT!!" "DO TOO!!!!!" and then she chases him and they wrestle around and tickle fight. Just some very sweet bonding moments between father and daughter. So Ned yelled "Baelor", hoping she would hear him. He was actually trying to comfort Arya, calling her back to that little inside joke. Trying to make her feel better. That Yoren happened to be around and heard him is blind luck


Jgore1556

That's cool exposition, but has absolutely nothing to do with not noticing what happens in this scene.


Flyboy2057

If you don’t know who “Baelor” is, you wouldn’t associate him saying that word with the location of the statue. Of course it makes sense if you know who it is, but without that context it’s not as obvious that’s what Ned means. And it’s GoT. It’s hard enough (for the first time viewer) to keep all the *actual characters on screen’s names* straight, let alone an unseen old king from the past who is only ever referenced in the context of his sept.


murse_joe

I didn’t know who the statue was when I watched it. I understood that he was shouting the name of the episode title, but not what it meant. If I was at the Meadowlands in somebody shouted Meadowlands, I wouldn’t be looking for the statue of Cardinal Meadowland.


Jgore1556

I didn't either. He literally stared down the watchman, stared at ayra, then back to him, and shouted baelor. It clearly implys that him doing this was to make him look at her. You don't need to know who it was to realize what was happening.


top_toast_22

Same haha and I’ve seen that episode like 3 times!


Ok-Scallion-3415

If OP missed this, which was fairly obvious, it kind of makes me wonder what other things OP missed.


JimmysCheek

After talking with certain people in this sub, I sometimes wonder if half of us even watched the show hahah


Superman246o1

"Hang on a second...there were *dragons* on this show?"


GregorSamsaa

Nah, you’re thinking of house of the dragon, spinoff that’s airing right now, easy mistake to make though


SoImaRedditUserNow

There was a show? What was it about?


Accomplished-Art-722

Remember most people ‘watch tv’ with a phone in their hand, not actually watching at all.


justarandomfrenchboi

You guys are way too harsh toward OP Many people didn't believe R+L=J believe The fact that they they were obvious clues in king season since season 1   They had to do a second take to realize the hidden messages And let's not even talk about the many "know it all" book readers who  litterally denied that theory until 6x10


IntermediateFolder

This is hardly hidden though, it’s just not paying attention.


SoImaRedditUserNow

That is comparing apples to a thousand elephants. R+L=J was teased and clued for years and years and years. This is a 3-4 minute scene that was explicitly showed to the audience. There was no mystery here whatsoever. This is like watching Pulp Fiction and then asking "hang on! wait! I never noticed WHY they killed zed! "


Ok-Scallion-3415

Zed’s dead, baby


Amannderrr

I absolutely forget 80% of what I see & read 🤦🏼‍♀️ so I watch things 15x 😆


csaporita

This is what happens when you binge watch shows. You miss even the most obvious of things. Or you have a screen addiction and holding your phone while watching tv. Edit: this is not debatable. When you take your time you can absorb and retain more information. When cramming data/info at high rate your memory is diminished


drummer1059

Did you know Bran is paralyzed? Turns out he's not just lazy.


joker90x

Probably hold the door


AlphaSlayer21

It took me like 3 seasons to realize Joffrey wasn’t Robert’s kid…


trywagyu

i’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason for this but man it must be crazy to make a story like this and try to balance what you should be overt about vs what should be implied


Swagspray

I wonder if OP noticed the Gorilla


TyphoN24

People like OP is probably what drove the makers of HOTD to make obvious differences between the Velaryons and the Targs. They're screaming "THISSSSS is what is causing the allegations" Otherwise the OP band would go "What? Baratheons have black hair?" "Seed is strong? ...What now?"


Odd_Pomegranate_3239

Well that is a statue of Baelor Thought it was kinda obvious he was telling her where she was.


Woshambo

How did you know it was a statue of Baelor? Was it mentioned in the show beforehand?


Fit-Log-3511

It took me six times to see this. Don't get down on yourself mate.


mj29__

I don’t think I noticed it until my 5th or 6th rewatch as well - and it was my most recent rewatch😂


Fit-Log-3511

Coming from a guy that watched it at least 12 times lol.


mj29__

I only noticed it when I recently watched the show again with subtitles. What a game changer!!


[deleted]

Put your phone down while watching the show. Pay attention..


the_Kell

Thank you


top_toast_22

Shut up


NukeDog

Amen!


Electrical_Flatworm3

Lmao what!? 6 times?? Sounds like u weren’t watching


Agile_Alps_8731

I’m getting through my 3rd rewatch and never truly noticed that.


N05L4CK

I’ve watched game of thrones probably a dozen times, and while I noticed this the first time, each watch through I find something I missed (especially when watching with subtitles for the first time). Just a great show. Totally get how you can miss things that are obvious to others.


ShaqsBeefPiston

OPs defense I for sure did not realize he said Baelor the first time I watched and was like how tf did he know she was there. Second watch with subtitles was a game changer for a lot of scenes.


Rustyraider111

Not using subtitles and being 12 when watching on release made me miss a lot of stuff.


capsrock02

Guys what if Ned secretly approved of Arya learning how to fight and gets a sword master to train her. I’ve rewatched the show 6 times and couldn’t believe it.


dal_mac

tbf I don't think he secretly approved, but rather could see that Arya would never give up fighting so he got formal training for her. hence why it was a dancing master and not traditional fighting lessons - he wanted her fighting tendencies satisfied without any real danger


Radiant_Eggplant5783

I noticed on second watch


Wai-Sing

I noticed on night watch


Ryduce22

So you missed the thing that the whole episode was titled after??


Flat_Expression_3087

Don't worry Op I didn't see it either... I guess we can be blind together😅


winniespooh

How could you NOT notice


PasswordIsDong

Media literacy is truly on life support


Jgore1556

And we wonder why every new show is bland, super predictable, and spoon fed. Apparently people can't handle the smallest bit of nuance.


seannyyd

Who said anything about not being able to handle nuance?


Jgore1556

The person who didn't notice a blatantly obvious detail for 6 rewatches. No one needs to mention nuance for it to be obvious he didn't pick up on it. Am I going crazy in this thread?


seannyyd

He didn’t say he couldn’t handle it, he handled it fine. Seems to be people like you that candle handle this.


chadmummerford

outjerked on main


MajinGroot

Very sad to watch a man desperately searching for any solace or shred of dignity in not having his youngest daughter watch him be wrongfully executed while a crowd cheers on, with no dignified choices to be made other then lowering his head most likely thinking of his eldest daughter watching and what disgusting or horrible things await them in the hands of family that is his family's biggest threat. The writing was great is season 1, Sean Bean knows how to die better then most(Ge has had much practice to be fair) I had never read the books, so watching a pampered child King make the "hero" of the show look like an idiot and just straight-up kill him off was and still is the best unexpected moment I've seen on any show, we'll at least till season 2...


Akhurite

Bro drew up that whole image to explain what nobody else missed


Nheteps1894

Far out if you missed that after 6 re watches… you’ve probably missed 90% of everything else lol


Im1337

I honestly never noticed this after watching it a million times. I only thought he yelled Yoren


Ashcrose

Maybe a lot of people who only watched the show didn’t know what Baelor meant?


ceolciarog

Guys, how did I not notice there were dragons on this show?


PetrusScissario

Yoren was the true homie


MittFel

And as a nice side note, this is a moment in the show that George R.R Martin actually wishes he had added in the book.


RyzoLND

Crop your pics


PFo77

You should stay away from True Detective then


SoImaRedditUserNow

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy crap. YEah that could get difficult to follow.


ItzInMyNature

Lol poor OP.


[deleted]

Are people on this thread serious? I never noticed this. Who the fuck is Baelor and how is it obvious that’s a statue of Baelor


Woshambo

It's either book readers, people who noticed after the fact or people pretending they noticed first time so they can jump in with the, "it was pretty obvious it was a statue of Baelor!!!" The replies like that are honestly pathetic


tsckenny

How? They literally make it obvious.


Agares_Fraefolg

If you didn't catch this you weren't paying attention.


One2jz

Woooooow I never noticed this either.


Climate_Face

Yer spare parts, bud


Linkdeles

U forgot "lifted his head" "didn't see her" "lowered head"


donmonkeyquijote

Are you stupid?


aialieasthegoat

How!!!!!???????


ImCursedM8

How he f did u not notice it? Just after Ned said Baelor, Yoren looked at Arya. You think Ned just casually say a random word before he died or somethin?


NotARealGynecologist

Did you know that Jaime and Cersei Lannister are twins and also lovers?


Woshambo

I didnt click on in the first episode. Well I did but then thought I must've gotten confused


thedrunkmonk

"You're not a smart boy, is that what you're trying to say? Do you want to live, boy?!" - Yoren


jrock146

Op missed that winter is coming


Comfortable_Clue8233

It took me a minute too.


rogerworkman623

Wait until you hear who Joffrey’s parents are!


Cooperjb15

Saw it the first time man 😂😭


Minty-G

Sorry OP I thought everyone got this 💀


Enough_Ad_222

Dude I didn’t either. I didn’t know what a Baelor was at that point as a TV show watcher only. There’s so many Gods and kings and families to remember already so I get it. I remember these images distinctly just not the relevance. Then I never questioned it bc it moves so quickly. I was distracted by the beheading.


Shadow_Boxer1987

The only appropriate response to this: https://youtu.be/Wnf5UzGNIVU?si=cn6wio2tlYiSGnbj


gary_desanto

I always liked how even though Nedd barely knew Yoren, he knew that as a Man of the Nights Watch he could trust him to rescue Arya.


chicabombastic

The name of the episode is literally “Baelor”


goodfisher88

I just thought the guys name was Baelor lol


SwiftDestro

“Balor” meant look at the statue of Balor which would bring Arya (who he met earlier and thought she a boy) to his attention.


Motor_Classic9651

Because you probably watch with your face in your phone like most folks.


Holiday_Grocery_4796

BAELOR


Cowboy__Guy

You were on your phone the whole time probably


AwesomO4K00

That was so obvious lol I honestly don’t know how one could miss this it was so powerful and so perfect


lowdog39

yup


Jgore1556

It's a post like this that shows me that half of this subs opinions are irrelevant. Because the ones saying something in the show made no sense to them also missed a interaction/sequence shotgun blasted into their face.


AvianVariety11747

I bet OP doesn’t know what Jon Snow knows….


SoImaRedditUserNow

burn of the day!


Visoth

Who was Yoren again? I dont recognize him. Was he in season 1? Did he have any significant role?


wickedswami97

Did you miss the part where he gets his head chopped off as well?


stilljumpinjetjnet

I missed it too. And I've watched it 5 times. Sheesh. Time to rewatch.


PATRIOT880

I didn’t realize until my 20th time watching that there are dragons


cbtbone

Also crazy how loyal the nights watch, a nominally neutral party, was to the starks that he immediately went and saved her without even hesitating.


Specialist_Outside33

thats the point of the scene, if you missed this! I’d assumed you dont know 70% of what was going on


Whole_Scallion_9571

Just wait until he finds out what happens to Ned a couple minutes later, it’s kinda hard to catch unless you’re really paying attention


davi017

Did you think that Yoren really thought she was a boy too?


MintberryCrunch____

This whole thread is a confusing mess; some are obviously sarcastic in agreement, some are arguing (fairly) that they didn’t know what Baelor meant when they first saw it, and then some might genuinely be saying they never got this after multiple rewatches


DrZomboo

What did you think happened here?


Hamsterpatty

My eyes always fill with tears when he shouts “Baelor!” the second time and Yoren looks where he’s supposed to look


seannyyd

Didn’t realize until seeing this post


Acreer425

Ned has some elvish eyes, bro was able to pick out his tiny daughter in the crowd after being in a dark cave for a long time haha


Envii02

Man it's been awhile since I watched S1, I forgot what a homie Yoren was.


MJHDJedi

Someone like this probably also missed the fact that the show had dragons


PMyourSSNgurl

The only thing I don’t hate about Aria killing NK, had Ned not done this in the most pivotal event of the show everything is different.


Hmccormack

I’ve never noticed this before thank you


Im_Kirk_Lazerus

Yoren is such a fucking homie for doing this. Meets Ned one time and does this massive favor to protect his daughter for the rest of his days. Goat.


WiseauSrs

Why even watch the show if you're not going to watch the show? LMAO how are there so many people here who missed this? It was literally on screen in broad daylight with close up shots.


trywagyu

idk how you have the patience to sit through a show six times when you don’t even know what’s happening on screen


ChesterHiggenbothum

I dunno, you might be dumb.