As for the religious stuff, yeah, I suppose. They didn't really get into - in the show - about so much of the religious stuff. Everything's there, just not necessarily spelled out and spoon-fed to you in tiny little Gerber bottles with the airplane going vrrrrroooooooooom until it gets into the hangar to give you a teensy little bit of applesauce.
For instance, Septa Mordane - Sansa's chaperone, the one that told her to get back to the quarters and stood in front of the Lannister troops ... she's a nun, more or less. The Sept of Baelor, where Ned was executed - equivalent of St. Peter's Basilica. The 7-pointed stars on the banners all around - the equivalent of crosses. Septa = nun, Septon = priest. Sept = church. High Septon - the guy standing behind Pycelle at the execution = Pope. The elements are all there in the show, they're just not necessarily explained.
That was one facet of it, yeah. Did you not listen at all to her telling Ned why she hated Robert?
... except for the part where Catelyn told Jon, in the show, that she wishes it were him laying there paralyzed in a coma, instead of Bran. And the part when they found the wolf pups, and Jon somewhat bitterly says 'I'm not a Stark.' etc.
Then you may well be the only person in the world who doesn't watch / read something and attempt to interpret it through his own knowledge / experience / etc.
Just for reference, I didn't come up with the 'Jon is not Ned's' thing. It was suggested to me by a friend ... who had not read the books. She came up with it by Episode 5. Just from what she saw on the show. I've applied some free time toward fleshing out her idea more, and found that a lot of other people have thought of the same thing.
That said, however, I don't really know if it's something that matters or whether it's just a dead-end rabbit hole.
So. Yeah. And, at this moment, I do have too much time on my hands.
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