A hero left for dead, reborn with dragon magic; an evil man flaying his victims in the dark damp of a dungeon; an entire village of innocents slaughtered at the behest of a person with too much power; and a swift beheading that changes everything moving forward.

Take all of those descriptions and toss them at either "Game of Thrones" or "The Bastard Executioner." You won't miss either way.

Kurt Sutter, the man behind "Sons of Anarchy," unleashed his attempt at medieval fantasy with last night's "Bastard Executioner" premiere, and it turns out the comparisons to "Thrones" aren't far off at all. Many people expected to see something akin to the bad boy biker vibe of "Sons" riding through the fields of 14th century Wales, albeit with Westerosi fury. Well, that's exactly what we got in the two-hour debut — which means, it was pretty much everything insane about "Thrones," rolled up in one package.

Here, let's recount the viciously violent ways "TBX" and "Thrones" connect with one another:

The hero of "TBX" is Wilkin Brattle, a man left for dead...

…and resurrected by some unknown magic, which is, we hope, similar to what's going to happen to Jon Snow in just a few months from now. At one point, one of Wilkin's enemies even describes him as "either a deserter or a ghost." You can hear those words coming out of one of Jon's Brothers in Black, especially if ghost comes with a capital G!

Wilkin Brattle has intense and vivid dreams of the past…

…not unlike Bran Stark, who green-sees things that have happened before and things that are yet to take place.

Baron Ventris is basically Tywin Lannister…

…to the point that both monstrous men dole out orders while taking care of business on the privy. And, of course, they have an extra Hand for wiping.

The Boltons are here…

…at least their spirit, anyway, coursing through the veins of Gawain Maddox, a self-torturing punisher from the south. In his first scene, he's seen flaying the flesh off of one of his victims, as casually as he would eat a sandwich on his lunch break. Total Ramsay mode.

Wilkin and his lady friend are expecting a child…

…except the lady friend gets brutally, brutally murdered during a raid on her village, stabbed right in the pregnant belly. Serious and immediate Talisa Stark flashbacks.

Really, the whole village massacre is the Red Wedding all over again…

...except reversed. The "TBX" version begins with a child getting his throat cut, rather than ending on that note with a mother. It ends with a pregnant mother getting stabbed in the stomach, which is how the "Thrones" version began. Both of them are outrageously brutal and bone-chilling, but "TBX" throws their take right at the viewer, pretty much right away. If this is the tone we're setting for the show moving forward, you might want to bring a barf bag every Tuesday night.

One of Wilkin's wife's final words?

"They will hunt you down and cut out your stone hearts!" Stone hearts… LADY STONEHEART? Maybe this is where Zombie Catelyn will finally show up!

The dagger used to kill Wilkin's wife…

…is curiously ornate and dragon-hilted, pretty much a dead ringer for the dagger the assassin tried to use against Bran Stark in season one of "Thrones."

One major way "TBX" and "Thrones" differ from each other…

…is that the main bad guys lose almost instantly. The Tywin and Ramsay of our stories are both exceptionally dead by the end of the two-hour premiere, whereas on "Thrones," we have to wait seasons and seasons for the bad guys to get their comeuppance — and even still, in some cases, we're waiting for that to happen. Hopefully it's a sign of things to come, that "TBX" will deliver swift and furious justice on those who've earned it.

Behold, a prophecy!

There's a witch named Annora who tells Wilkin that he's at the heart of some serious destiny business. "Your savior needs you to live the life of a different man," she says. Not trying to say Azor Ahai or anything, buuuut…

Also, the witch?

She's basically Melisandre, who seemingly has her charge's best interests at heart, but we later learn has some dark secrets of her own. In Annora's case, she and/or her companion (the two of them played by Katey Sagal and Sutter, married in real life) are clearly the ones who killed Wilkin's wife, seeing as they own the dagger. Plus, she claims she can see things in the future, and hear the same strange voices coursing through Wilkin's ears. And there's the whole "doing magic while completely butt naked" thing that both Melisandre and Annora are really into.

Vampire Bill is here and he's pretty much Littlefinger on fast-forward.

Stephen Moyer plays the show's new de facto villain, the chamberlain who is taking control over the late Baron Ventris' place in the world. It's like what would happen if Petyr Baelish suddenly knocked all of his obstacles over in one two-hour episode, and managed to sit atop the Iron Throne right away. Chaos is a warm bottle of Tru Blood. Let's see how long this lasts.

It ends with decapitation…

…except it's the Stark analogue swinging the sword, and we very much do not cut away from the action; we see that head drop, and it's gross. If "TBX" is basically a Stark type meets an Ilyn Payne occupation at the hands of the madman behind "Sons of Anarchy," then we are in for a very grotesque ride indeed.