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There is love and betrayal,
greed and murder.

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It's set in this interesting
world of contrasting ideology,

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of what's right and wrong.

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It has a great philosophy about it.

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"Game of Thrones" is about power struggles
in a fantasy kingdom, called Westeros.

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And it's a power struggle
for the Iron Throne,

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which is the seat of power
in this kingdom.

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There's a war coming, Ned.

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I don't know when, I don't know who
would be fighting, but it's coming.

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At the core of it there's a conflict for
power between two great houses initially.

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House Stark and House Lannister.

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The other major houses are
all contenders as well.

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It's a suitably complicated
political situation.

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The old truth "the power corrupts",
I think

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it's very valid and it
shows in this series.

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You see characters come into
power and how they change.

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In a way it's about how people
forget to see the bigger picture,

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this common threat, that everybody
kind of ignores, because they're too busy

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pursuing their own interests.

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And meanwhile, outside the Seven
Kingdoms, two great threats arising.

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One across the sea, in the exile
Targaryen siblings,

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and another one far to the north,
beyond the Wall,

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which is the boundary
of the Seven Kingdoms,

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in lands of perpetual ice and cold,
where supernatural threat is stirring.

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It's very different from
anything that's been done.

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I can't think of another fantasy
which is as dark as this one is,

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which is as gritty and as real.

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Every single character
is incredibly complex.

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You think you know them.

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You think you got them pegged as what
they seemingly are but they really aren't.

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Is there someone in your service
whom you trust completely?

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Yes.

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The wiser answer was "no", my Lord.

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It's not a good guys/bad guys story.

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It's a story where everybody is
pursuing their own interests

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and everybody's following their own
code and it's about those interests

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and those ethics coming into
conflict with each other.

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And it provides a much richer story
than the guys in white

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beating the guys in black.

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Lord Baelish, perhaps
I was wrong to distrust you.

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Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've
done since you climbed off your horse.

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It's quite big sprawling epic story and...

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and fascinating characters, different
characters, very rich, so tasty characters

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you don't know who they are
or how they fit in.

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Surely we are here, my Lord.

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- There is no telling who has eyes as well.
- Let them look.

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So I find it very dense
and multilayered.

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That's what I find intriguing,
fascinating in this thing.

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Ned Stark is the center of the series.

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It's very realistic,
quite pragmatic character.

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This is fine work.

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It's not for sale.

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- His lordship wants the helmet.
- I made it for me.

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Forgive him, my Lord.

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There's nothing to forgive.

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He's principled, he has values, and
above all he's very loyal, you know and...

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that's something that he
demonstrates on many occasions.

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You help me win the Iron Throne,
then help me keep the thing.

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We were meant to rule together.

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Ned is the Lord of Winterfell.

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And he is married to Catelyn Tully.

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Together they have a
number of children.

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17 years ago you rode off with
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you came back a year
later with another woman's son.

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Jon Snow is of an age with Robb, the eldest
son, and they're closest brothers.

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I would say Jon Snow is a
young hero in a lot of ways.

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Well, Lord Snow, it appears you're
the least useless person here.

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Personally I think there's a
hell of a lot of inner turmoil

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fighting between his ambition to be
someone and to make a mark on things.

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I'm ready.

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You're not going. You're no ranger, Jon.

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Here a man gets what he earns.
When you earn it.

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His ambition can and does make
him do quite extreme things.

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The Lannisters
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Robert Baratheon, the King, wed the daughter
of another great house, Cersei Lannister.

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She is the Queen of
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She's quite tricky.
Layered. And power-mad.

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She's smart and political and has
a hard time trusting anyone.

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You're just a soldier, aren't you?

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You take your orders
and you carry on.

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I was also trained to kill
my enemies, your grace.

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As was I.

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There is a definitive sense with Cersei
that *** fit *** will further her game of power

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She'll get rid of anybody.
It doesn't really matter.

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Jaime, her twin brother is one of
the members of the King's Guard.

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It would be good to
have you on the field.

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Ambition has become a bit stale.

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I don't fight in tournaments.

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I just wanna fight a man for real.

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I don't want him to
know what I can do.

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He is a soldier and he doesn't
care about the politics.

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He knows the game and doesn't
want to be directly involved.

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Cersei and Jaime also have
another brother, Tyrion Lannister.

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Tyrion Lannister, because of his size,
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in relation to
his father and his sister.

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He is very well-read, he has zero
powers with physical defenses.

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So he has to defend himself
with his wit and charm.

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Why do you read so much?

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Look at me and tell me
what you see.

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Is this a trick?

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What you see is a dwarf.

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My brother has a sword
and I have my mind.

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And a mind needs books
like a sword needs a whetstone.

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There's a set of characters
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crossed narrow sea and are
in an entirely different conflict.

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May I present my honored guests?

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Viserys of House Targaryen,

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the rightful king of the Andals and
his sister Daenerys of House Targaryen.

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He's the man on a mission.

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He's fairly obsessive about one thing,
which is regaining his crown.

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When they write the history of my reign,
sweet sister, they will say it began today.

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He's very bitter, and resentful
to people who took it from him.

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And he carries a huge burden.

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His sister is a Daenerys Targaryen.

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Also known as Daenerys Stormborn.

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Tell them to stop.

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You want the entire horde to stop?
For how long?

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Until I command them otherwise.

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She gives them such a journey.

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She gets put up with a lot of
obstacles coming her way and

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every time she overcomes them,
she succeeds and she kind of

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gets stronger and stronger. She goes on.

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She's an incredibly... incredibly
wicked person.

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There are plots within plots
and wheels within wheels and

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many people competing
for one seat.

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Going into this story it's been very
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that things never look fake.

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For us it's about creating a world and making
it an authentic and believable world,

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but it's not our world.

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We were lucky enough to have the help
of a tremendously gifted art department.

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I'm responsible for
the look of the show.

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From the colors of
the floor to the sky.

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What now what we see
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the whole look of it
from there downwards so

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we have a complete
look to the series.

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You have to create a world
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you're in a different time and
place so it's creating different

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environments that work that
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contemporary or known periods,
that's the main thing.

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The biggest challenges have been
I guess the scale of the event.

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We've created very high
standards for ourselves.

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There are a lot of bits and a
lot of stuff to pull together.

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Jenna Jackson really
range far and wide

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to find the artistic resources
and the stylistic resources,

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to give us a world
we haven't seen before.

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There's an arctic wasteland,
which is very far north

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and you go all the way to a
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and everything in between.

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Our brief was to try to combine

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interesting visual elements

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from a lot of different
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So we spend a lot of time
researching... medieval Europe,

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we looked at oriental influences,
we looked at Asian influences,

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we looked at subcontinent,
we looked at African influences.

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We tried to find references
from a lot of different civilizations

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and different times
and combine them.

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You try to create a
world that's based in

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real physics,
even if it's fantasy.

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There has to be a reality to it.
To go forward we look just like a set

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so always try to think...
How would these people live?

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What would the need?
Why would they put things...

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where they do?
How would it be?

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I think the approach we
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it is fantasy but it's
very grounded in reality

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and I think we want to make it
as real as possible.

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And that's the same approach
we are taking with everything

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and I think as the series goes on,
you'll see the great...

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Differences between the four worlds
what the series inhabit.

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It's very important to have
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and light be different
and the topography.

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We've been given the luxury of
being able to span various countries.

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So we've scouted probably,
I don't know, 14 different countries

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when we were trying to
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and why ultimately we decided
to shoot northern Ireland.

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We drive 25 minutes and you're
at some beautiful forest somewhere.

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And you drive 45 minutes and
you're at this great old castle.

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It's a huge scale shooting
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Malta and Ireland. It`s a challenge,

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but it's great fun.
We love it.

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One of fun things about this show
that we get to make it up.

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We're not cueing to any particular
historical period absolutely.

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This a fantasy series
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lot of freedom and
that's part of the fun of it.

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Fantasy is always bigger.

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I mean, fantasy is larger
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and more exciting than history.

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So you take your inspiration from

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something in history you make it
much bigger and perhaps more dramatic.

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It's just the best story,
it's fascinating and

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there are so many twists
and turns and

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when you think you
have it figured it completely

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it changes its mind.

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You follow it and get excited by it.
This real emotion and this...

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real relationships that you
can understand and relate.

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It's just brilliant.
It's a wonderful story.

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It's an interesting
combination of a very

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real world with an
overlay of fantasy.

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It's a pretty intriguing
combination, and I think

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it's something that you see nowhere
else on television currently.

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I don't think anybody will do it
quite the way HBO does.

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What do you know about fear?

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Fear is for the winter.

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when the snows fall
a hundred feet deep.

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Fear is for the long night,

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when the white walkers
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When the sun hides for years.

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And children are born and live
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That is the time for fear, my Lord.

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