<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Game of Thrones (season 1) List of Game of Thrones episodes </Td> </Tr> <P> "Winter Is Coming" is the first episode of the HBO medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones . It was written by the show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, in a faithful adaptation of the first chapters of George R.R. Martin's book A Game of Thrones . The episode was directed by Tim Van Patten, redoing the work done by director Tom McCarthy in an unaired pilot . </P> <P> As the first episode of the series, it introduces the setting and the main characters of the show . The episode centers on the Stark family, and how its lord, Eddard Stark, gets involved in the court politics after the king chooses Eddard to replace his recently deceased chief administrator ("Hand of the King"). The episode received largely positive reviews, and was seen initially by 2.2 million viewers . A week before the episode first aired, HBO made the first 15 minutes available as an Internet preview . </P> <P> The title of the episode is the motto of House Stark, which is spoken several times in the episode and in the series . </P>

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