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VegasRon 
You're wrong.
They might have had some stuff about the rebellion in the Blu-Ray special features, but no, they haven't gone into any explicit detail about this on the show, which means you should respect people's wishes and not discuss it. It doesn't matter if it's a minor point. At the very least, you should drop it behind a spoiler wall, as I've done a few times with backstory discussion, so that if people want to "spoil" themselves a little they can but they don't HAVE to. There's a whole other thread for spoilers.
Honestly, I kinda feel that the show has been a bit clunky in doling out the backstory. There have been a few moments where something might have had more weight if the history behind it was set up earlier. Like Robb's being declared King in the North, which sort of came out of nowhere; I think that scene would have been even cooler if they'd established that...(Um, SPOILERS I guess if you consider the Blu-Ray backstory stuff to be off-limits, and even then I think they have mentioned it on the show, but I'll play it uber-safe:)
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...The Starks were Kings in the North since time immemorial before the Targaryens came, so this is just a reversion to the status quo...
...substantially beforehand. Nevertheless, it's assholish to blurt out stuff that hasn't been established, even if you don't think it matters much. I mean, like I say, I'm sometimes tempted to drop backstory because I feel like the show isn't handling it well enough and it generally doesn't matter in the sense of being about stuff that's GOING to happen, just stuff that HAS happened. But still, if people want to go based entirely on the show, it's only fair. It doesn't cost you anything to be courteous. And talking too much about stuff from the books does, as Schwartz said, steer things in dangerous directions.
