[Lostie!]

I knew about them both before I saw them (I started watching GoT after the first two seasons had aired so I'd already heard about Ned and I knew about the Red Wedding for a good while before it happened in the show) but I was really shocked when I first heard about Ned since, from all the promotion I'd seen for the show, I assumed he was the main protagonist for the entire show.

Of course I was really shocked when I first heard about the Red Wedding too, but by that point GoT had already been well established as a show where nobody is really safe, whereas I feel Ned's death was the first moment that really made that clear.