"Game of Thrones" Season 7, Episode 4 was so damn LIT on every level, it's easy to understand if fans missed a couple of cool -- and key -- early season callbacks.

Season 7 has been rewarding fans with all kinds of nods to the first six seasons, including a Season 1 callback for Arya Stark at the gates of Winterfell, similar to her struggle to get past the King's Landing guards back in Season 1. A Girl always manages to get through.

But one very telling callback in "The Spoils of War" was a line Daenerys Targaryen said to Jon Snow in the Dragonstone caves, exactly matching what Jon had said himself to Mance Rayder in the Season 5 premiere, when "King" Stannis told Jon he had to convince Mance to bend the knee, or Mance would burn.

The Dany/Jon convo happened as Jon showed her the Children of the Forest paintings, with the Children and the First Men fighting together to take on the White Walkers.

Dany: "I will fight for you. I will fight for the North. When you bend the knee."

Jon: "My people won't accept a Southern ruler, not after everything they've suffered."

Dany: "They will if their king does. They chose you to lead them. They chose you to protect them. Isn't their survival more important than your pride?"

That quote -- "Isn't their survival more important than your pride?" -- is precisely what Jon told Mance in Season 5.