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I've done feature films but I've not
seen anything on this massive scale.
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It's just vast.
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It's just an epic.
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It is huge.
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It's never been done before in
television, on this scale.
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It's a
character-driven story,
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but within a genre which is
rarely seen on television.
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It's an epic fantasy.
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At the core of it,
there's a conflict for power.
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It's rich in a way I've never
seen fantasy be rich before.
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It's got brilliant combination
of the fantastical and the real.
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It's very much based in character,
and slowly as the season progresses,
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we get to see more and more of
this magical world.
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It's got action,
it's got adventure,
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and love, passion.
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Betrayal and greed
and murder and sex.
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Every character has such a full story.
It's pretty intense.
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There's real emotion,
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real relationships that you can
understand and relate to,
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and there's so
many twists and turns.
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Fantasy fans will love it,
but the HBO audience,
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those people are
going to love it too.
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People are going to fall in love with
these characters, become afraid for them.
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And they should be afraid.
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Nobody's safe.
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When you play
the game of thrones,
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you win, or you die,
there is no middle ground.
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Ned Stark is the centre of the
series when the book opens.
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He is the Lord of Winterfell,
Warden of the North.
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He's in charge up there, and that's
where he feels most at home.
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He's a very loyal man,
very decisive man,
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especially loyal toward
the king, and his family.
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He's a born warrior.
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He's a man who is instinctively,
almost... he's direct.
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He speaks as he feels, and acts
according to his conscience.
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It's his insistence on doing the
right thing in a very corrupt world
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that imperils the things he
would try to protect.
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He's married to Catelyn Stark,
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and together they
have a number of children.
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Theirs is a
very genuine, true marriage.
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They're completely
devoted to each other.
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She respects him enormously.
She challenges him.
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Ned.
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Ten is too young
to see such things.
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He won't be a boy forever.
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Jon Snow is Ned's bastard Son.
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He's grown up at Winterfell,
but he is not a Stark himself.
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The name "Snow" is a name that's given
to bastards of high birth in the North,
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so he's not Jon Stark,
he's Jon Snow.
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Jon has been raised as Ed's son,
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alongside Ned's other
sons and daughters,
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much to the consternation
of Ned's wife.
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She's constantly watching him.
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She doesn't trust him,
she doesn't like him.
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He represents unfaithfulness
on her husband's part,
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and that does not
sit happily with her.
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There's always been a seething
and pure hatred
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emanated towards
Jon from Catelyn,
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very obviously,
very out in the open.
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I believe Ned loves Jon,
Jon Snow, but he can't quite,
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he can't be seen to be giving
him the same amount of love
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that he gives
to his other children.
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You might not have my name,
but you have my blood.
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In this world,
being a bastard son,
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he's not allowed to get anywhere,
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so, uh, that's why he
goes to the Night's Watch,
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because there, everyone's equal,
and he can rise to the top.
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Welcome.
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The Night's Watch is an order of men
dedicated to protecting the wall,
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and protecting the seven kingdoms from
all the dangers that lurk beyond.
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The wall was built,
legend has it,
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to keep the
things in the North, out.
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Creatures that very few people
believe in anymore,
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because they haven't been seen
for thousands of years.
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The threats beyond the wall
seemed less and less,
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so less and less people are sent
out there to protect the place.
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In a lot of ways, it's a kind of prison
to send people that are troubling
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different places in the kingdoms,
so they can get rid of them.
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Ah, rapers.
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They were given a choice, no doubt.
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Castration or the wall.
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Most choose the knife.
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Not impressed by your new brothers?
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When Jon takes
his vows at the wall,
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he can't be involved in his
family affairs anymore,
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and he can't be involved in anything
that may happen to his family,
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'cause he probably assumes that
nothing will happen to his family,
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that they will live a peaceful
existence like he has.
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Obviously, things don't
go peacefully for the Starks.
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When we find Ned Stark, there's a
sense that his world is changing,
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and you'll hear the phrase several
times, "Winter's coming".
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Seasons aren't of a fixed
length in this world,
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so winter can last a year,
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winter can last two years,
winter can last ten years.
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It becomes very hard, and people
have to really knuckle down,
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and you know, watch themselves,
'cause it's a dangerous place.
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You're a Stark of Winterfell.
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You know our words.
Winter's coming.
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You were born in the long summer.
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You've never known anything else.
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But now, Winter is jolly coming,
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and in the winter,
we must protect ourselves.
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Ned Stark leaves Winterfell
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because King Robert has asked him
to become the Hand to the King.
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I need you, Ned...
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At the King's Landing.
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Never pay your way,
no damn use to anybody.
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Robert and Ned have a
relationship that goes back.
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They grew up
essentially as brothers.
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They fought together, and waged the
revolution that raised Robert to the throne.
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They have a very close
relationship,
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and a trust above all else,
I think, between each other.
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Robert has grown fat and lazy,
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and he's taken
his eye off the ball.
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He realizes that he needs
somebody to watch his back,
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and the only person
he can trust is Ned Stark.
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You're a loyal friend.
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The last one I've got.
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Robert's a good guy,
in some ways,
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but he's someone who was much
better fitted for winning the crown
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than he is for holding it.
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He likes getting
drunk and chasing women.
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I believe that Cersei really
loved Robert in the beginning,
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and thought that
they could make it work.
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She's never been very
close with her husband.
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It was very much
a political marriage,
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and hasn't been a great
emotional success.
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It's born of misery,
and they're used to it now,
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and that's how they continue,
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how they live, and it's all
they know of each other.
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How long can hate hold
a thing together?
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Well, 17 years is
quite a long time.
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Cersei is a rather ruthless
player of the Game of Thrones,
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and her concern is
very much as Queen,
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is to eliminate any threats
to House Lannister.
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Lannisters are the richest family.
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And so they have a lot of power.
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Even over people
that are enemies,
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but they owe us money,
so we have a good grip on them.
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Have you ever heard the phrase,
"Rich as a Lannister?"
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I am a Lannister!
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Tyrion, son of Tywin!
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Tyrion Lannister has had a very
complicated upbringing
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in relation to his father,
and his sister,
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because of his size, and his
mother died when he was born.
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So, there's a very dark cloud
hanging over him.
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Cersei despises Tyrion.
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She blames him for
the death of her mother,
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and Tyrion is as wily as she is.
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And so, I think she's very
threatened by his calculations.
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He has zero powers
with the sword,
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so has to defend himself
with wit and charm.
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Unlike Jaime.
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Jaime is one of
the members of the King's Guard,
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an elite order of knights who are
the secret service, if you would.
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Jaime is somewhat infamous.
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He's called "The King Slayer,"
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because he actually killed the
king that he had sworn to protect.
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What about Aerys Targaryen?
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What did the Mad King say when
you stabbed him in the back?
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Did he call you a traitor?
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Did he plead for a reprieve?
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It's because he broke that code
when he killed the previous King
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that he is considered
not quite trustworthy.
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He loves his sister, Cersei.
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She's kind of the only one who
really knows him, and accepts him.
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She trusts Jaime
over everybody else,
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although there's a definite
sense with Cersei
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that if it 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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Everyone who isn't us, is an enemy.
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Joffrey is a pretty mean guy.
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As a Prince, he's pretty
pompous and arrogant.
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Joffrey is an evil child.
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And scary.
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And twisted.
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That was my lady sister you were hitting,
do you know that?
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Stop it!
Arya, stay out of this.
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There's a second set of characters
that you also encounter,
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who are across the Narrow Sea,
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in an entirely
different continent,
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and that is Viserys Targaryen,
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the son of the King
that Jaime slew,
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and his sister is Daenerys.
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Viserys Targaryen spent his entire life
trying to get back the Iron Throne,
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which he believes
was stolen from his family.
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When they write the history
of my reign, sweet sister,
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they will say it began today.
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Daenerys is being wedded
off to Khal Drogo,
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who is the Lord of the Dothraki,
who are a nomadic warrior tribe.
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Khal Drogo is a savage beast.
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He's a killing, fighting machine.
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He's this huge,
huge formidable creature.
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So, she's completely
and utterly petrified of him.
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Viserys doesn't have any
experience or real understanding
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or knowledge of
the Dothraki people.
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He just sees them in terms,
of their numbers,
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and Khal Drogo just
in terms of a warrior.
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He feels he has this right,
to the throne,
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and that's what's taking him through
and that's what's given him strength.
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He is such a frustrated,
repressed individual,
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and he has been
vicious to his sister.
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Have you forgotten who you are!?
Look at you!
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You do not command the dragon.
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I am Lord of the Seven Kingdoms.
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Meanwhile, far to the North,
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beyond the wall, which is just a
boundary of the Seven Kingdoms,
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in lands of perpetual
ice and cold,
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a supernatural threat is stirring
after centuries of sleep.
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The things you speak of,
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they've been gone for
thousands of years.
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It wasn't gone, old man.
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It was sleeping.
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And it ain't sleeping no more.
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Game of Thrones is a fantasy
world, and there is magic,
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but it's not about monsters,
it's about humans.
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Although there is
magic, it's peripheral,
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but you know it's there, which
makes it believable, accessible.
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We have created a world that is
on one hand very recognizable.
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At the same time, it has been
peppered with fantasy elements,
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and the way those two things come
together is going to fascinate people.
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The palate is
varied and fascinating.
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We've got the Northern-most
kingdoms being covered with snow
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and all this harsh landscape.
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We've got the middle kingdoms,
which are lush,
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and then you've got southern, sort
of dry, arid, desert sort of places.
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We had researched probably
14 different countries
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before we settled on
Northern Ireland, and Malta.
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The decision to shoot in Northern Ireland
was predicated on being able to find
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a wide variety of
locations very close to Belfast.
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There are mountains,
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and there are
fertile green fields,
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and there are beautiful old
growth forests,
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and there's just such
a range of environments.
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The great thing about Belfast is you've
got the hall, where we've been filming,
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which is the
biggest set you've ever seen.
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And then they find these
incredible locations.
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Certain areas just lend themselves,
they just look so spectacular,
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that you know if you could
get the story into them,
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it would reflect the amazing Irish landscape.
Guards!
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This is country.
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I've half a mind to leave 'em all behind
and keep going.
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What we've tried to do is be as
eclectic in our sources
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and our choices of references
for everything,
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whether it's costumes, props,
set, locations we've chosen.
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All the worlds I adore, I've
managed to kind of go into,
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and pluck out bits that I think
have become appropriate
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for all our different worlds
that we're trying to create.
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We went a lot of
far eastern, and a bit of Moroccan,
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African, traditional medieval,
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but not trying to go for that
"ye olde English" look.
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If you mix it up enough, and don't use
too much of one culture, then it works.
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Gemma was very clear that she wanted to
give every world its own distinct feel.
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So when you're at Castle Black,
you know you're at Castle Black,
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you're not going to
confuse it with Pentos,
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and you're not going
to confuse it for Winterfell.
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The Winterfell of any of them
was probably the closest
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to a kind of traditional
Northern European world,
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with thick strong castle walls,
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and big stone, and I just really looked
at the kind of northern Castles of Europe.
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The North is a
little bit Scandinavian,
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but really, that's the closest you get
to grungy old-fashioned medieval,
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'cause it's dour,
and dark, and nasty.
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The North, basically,
have to clothe themselves
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with products they get
within a 15 mile radius.
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There's not much trading, so they tend to
wear greys and blues, quite murky colours.
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It's very leather-based,
very practical, lots of fur.
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It's a direwolf.
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There are no direwolves
south of the wall.
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There were five.
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The direwolf's not been seen for
many years around Winterfell,
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and so it's kind of an omen,
a dead direwolf,
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that's just littered
a birth of pups.
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And it's a massive creature,
the direwolf,
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it's our banner, our sign.
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Five pups.
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One for each of
the Stark children.
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We were meant to have them.
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It's obvious to Jon at that
point what this means.
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The direwolf is the sygil of
the Stark house,
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there's five of them,
there's five Stark children.
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This is clearly a sign.
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These are all Inuit dogs,
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which is a breed that was developed basically
to have a dog that looks like a wolf.
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The dogs are supposed to rip
peoples' throat out,
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and eviscerate people.
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We teach them to do things that will
make them look like they're attacking,
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and then, otherwise,
we have ravens,
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and they're actually
as trainable as a dog.
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They're a lot of fun.
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Several times, we're having them
do big flying scenes.
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Look, commander.
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A raven.
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Castle Black is the furthest
North we go at the moment,
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and it sits at the bottom of the ice
wall, and it's supposed to be grim.
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You get the feeling the whole
thing's gone to rack and ruin.
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Castle Black is, historically,
the place was quite grand,
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and it's faded
and fallen to disrepair.
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It's filthy, it's freezing cold.
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The mess hall is foul,
very brutal, very sparse.
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I did some research on people who
lived way up in the Antarctica,
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some of it was from Eskimos and things,
where they live on whale blubber,
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and they're all pale,
and everything is white.
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So, all the food is very kind of
basic, sort of colourless stews.
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The intention was to build it as
somewhere where they could work
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and not be constantly worrying
about CGI and green screen.
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And I think we've been
relatively successful on that.
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You walk into Castle Black,
and there it is,
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and there's the wall, and
there's the lift for the wall,
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and that's all the
things you've read about.
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It's very easy
to get immersed in that world
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with such incredible
sets and detail put in.
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Well, Lord Snow, it appears you're
the least useless person here.
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We worked with a wonderful
fight director called Buster,
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and we didn't have much
time to learn the fights,
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but Buster was brilliant, and you can
pretend that you're a hard warrior.
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I was pretty
fortunate with these guys.
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They're all pretty athletic,
young lads,
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so I didn't have to do much
training with them.
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They all seemed to grasp it pretty well.
The gift of youth.
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Yield, yield, yield!
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One of the biggest challenges,
I think,
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for Michele Clapton
in the Night's Watch
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was to be able to
tell you something
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about the different backgrounds
of these people
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by the costume that they had on,
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and the costume had to be black.
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It's not a uniform, because they're
not funded enough to do that anymore.
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The higher people will bring
clothes with them
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that are probably more suitable.
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The others actually often in a thin jacket.
That's all they have.
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Everybody knew what this place was,
and no one told me.
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No one but you.
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Tyrion relates to Jon Snow
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because Jon is the black sheep
of his family as well.
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Tyrion is treated like a bastard,
so they have that in common.
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My Lord of Lannister!
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Shall I entertain
you while you eat?
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I can sing your father's victory
at King's Landing.
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Nothing would more likely ruin my supper.
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The whole thing about King's Landing
is it's supposed to be quite lush.
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You've been up in the frozen
North and everything,
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and down in King's Landing, people
are supposed to be growing things.
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King Robert refers to them all being
half-naked, deliciously sweaty and gorgeous.
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You feel you've come to a really
hot and sexy place,
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and there's a light coming
through the windows.
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A lot of greenery and plants on
the balconies growing through.
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Water becomes the backdrop for
King's Landing.
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We'll take the basis
for what's there,
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take away what we don't like,
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and add bits and features
that we do like.
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Our ability to create a world
that you couldn't quite pinpoint.
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Malta was a fantastic location.
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It's been settled successively
by so many different people,
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so there's so many different
traditions.
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Anything Mediterranean, North
African, Southern European,
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we can kind of
more or less find here,
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and we can dress
it to cover any period.
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Malta is so exotic,
and mysterious, and ancient.
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I think it really lends itself
well to the stories,
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and gives it a lot of flavour.
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It's a much more Mediterranean feel,
there, near the sea.
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They can trade, they have silks,
they have colours.
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There's more
jewellery and more flash.
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Down at King's Landing,
anything goes.
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It's colourful, it's corrupt,
there's brothels,
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there's gaming, anything goes.
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Jory.
Lord.
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We have two large sets
for King's Landing.
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There's a compose set for all the
personal quarters in the Red Keep.
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And then we have the Throne Room.
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The Throne Room is magnificent.
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It's huge, it's got this
pantheon floor,
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it's got these great big pillars.
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I wanted to try and make that feel
incredibly sort of cathedral-esque.
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The centre most prop in
Westeros is the Iron Throne,
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so we wanted to get it right.
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Obviously we'd made a model of
it in the art department.
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We had a lovely fret-maker here
called Gavin, who made it.
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It's quite a frightening piece.
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It is, literally, blackened
swords, bent into a throne.
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It's melted and
pitted and hammered
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and uncomfortable, which
is what it's supposed to be.
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The first time I walked
through the throne room,
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I was really intimidated.
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It's the size
of a football field.
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I didn't know how we were going
to light it, fill it with people.
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I didn't know how I was going to
move them through the space.
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Thankfully, we figured it out.
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The throne room
was pretty amazing.
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When you go into a
set that they've built,
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and just the sheer
size of that is just,
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makes you feel like you're in
this sort of mystical story.
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Each of these worlds, there is a
real kind of pleasure to do.
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The other one is the Aerie.
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I was dumbstruck when
I first saw the Aerie.
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It was breathtaking.
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00:19:20,527 --> 00:19:24,096
The Aerie, the look of
that had to be quite quirky,
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00:19:24,130 --> 00:19:26,631
have an uncomfortable
feel about it,
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and a slightly unhinged
atmosphere.
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So, a lot of faded tapestries,
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00:19:30,578 --> 00:19:34,146
and the weir wood throne, the biggest
piece for us, made of real wood.
404
00:19:34,181 --> 00:19:36,383
It was actually three
different pieces of wood,
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all welded together, and it's incredibly
heavy, get a crane to get it in.
406
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I liked the twisty shapes of it,
407
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which seemed to go with this
high height and everything.
408
00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,366
Gem was keen we get
a verticality into it.
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We have a staircase that's
cantilevered out,
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and rises around the space, with
the moon door at its centre,
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this kind of execution
spot that the Aerie has.
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The whole throne with the gnarly
wood, and the greys,
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and it just, all the kind of
dusty feeling,
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the moon door, I mean,
the sets are amazing on this.
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It's unbelievable, really, because
when you read a scene in a book,
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you kind of start to imagine
what it's going to be like.
417
00:20:16,944 --> 00:20:20,579
And then you get on set,
and you think it's better.
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It's just more than I ever would
have anticipated, or expected.
419
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Look where we are!
It's incredible.
420
00:20:26,386 --> 00:20:31,503
Malta was also chosen because
it had a fantastic coast line.
421
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A lot of our story has to do with a
continent separated by a narrow sea.
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It won't be long now.
Soon you will cross the narrow sea
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and take back your father's throne.
424
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When will they be married?
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Soon.
426
00:20:45,621 --> 00:20:48,088
The Dothraki never stay still for long.
427
00:20:48,123 --> 00:20:51,159
The Dothraki are a bit of a
cross between the Mongols
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00:20:51,193 --> 00:20:52,848
and some of the
Native American tribes.
429
00:20:52,849 --> 00:20:53,863
They are horse people.
430
00:20:53,864 --> 00:20:56,674
They live in these great vast
grass plains,
431
00:20:56,675 --> 00:20:58,943
and they make a living by
conquering other people,
432
00:20:58,977 --> 00:21:01,011
much like Genghis Khan
and the Mongol horde.
433
00:21:01,045 --> 00:21:05,515
Khal Drogo is one of the most
brutal and effective warriors
434
00:21:05,549 --> 00:21:08,585
in a world where violence
translates directly to power.
435
00:21:08,619 --> 00:21:10,479
They're barbarians.
436
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,881
They're living, they're nomadic,
though they have a city,
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00:21:12,916 --> 00:21:14,782
they're on the
move most of the time.
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We looked at lot of different
tribes, people that travel a lot.
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Grass huts, mud huts, that sort
of thing, then mixed it up.
440
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:23,734
So far we've got rounded tents,
441
00:21:23,768 --> 00:21:25,736
which are more
sort of igloo-shaped,
442
00:21:25,770 --> 00:21:27,599
and skins, and clothes,
and all sorts of things.
443
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,900
Then they get into
these earthen tents.
444
00:21:29,934 --> 00:21:32,469
So, we've kind of created
another kind of structure.
445
00:21:36,006 --> 00:21:39,323
We actually thought it
would be much more believable
446
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if we heard them
speaking their own language,
447
00:21:41,193 --> 00:21:44,272
rather than have them speak in
heavily-accented English.
448
00:21:48,229 --> 00:21:51,103
David Peterson, Linguistics
Professor at Berkley,
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essentially invented
the Dothraki language.
450
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When you're creating a language
451
00:21:54,034 --> 00:21:56,852
that's supposed to
look like a natural language,
452
00:21:57,341 --> 00:22:00,343
first, you must
start with the culture.
453
00:22:00,903 --> 00:22:03,196
There are actually in Dothrakian
454
00:22:03,197 --> 00:22:05,623
more words for
"kill" than for "love".
455
00:22:05,624 --> 00:22:08,760
It's incredible language, getting
your mouth around the words,
456
00:22:08,794 --> 00:22:09,769
like, they're so expressive.
457
00:22:09,770 --> 00:22:12,103
It's really worth
trying to do it right,
458
00:22:12,138 --> 00:22:14,006
because it sounds right,
you know?
459
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:15,741
And if you do...
460
00:22:15,775 --> 00:22:20,349
It always sounds really crap, so
it is worth trying to master it.
461
00:22:20,350 --> 00:22:22,081
When they first told me,
I was like,
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00:22:22,082 --> 00:22:25,403
"Cool,
I'll totally do it."
463
00:22:25,404 --> 00:22:28,206
And I got it,
and I was pretty scared,
464
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,074
but it was a great challenge.
465
00:22:34,350 --> 00:22:37,985
We think the people are going to
really enjoy being taken to this place
466
00:22:38,019 --> 00:22:42,856
that is both so recognizable,
and so different.
467
00:22:42,891 --> 00:22:46,593
People who are
not among the fan base
468
00:22:46,627 --> 00:22:52,394
will be amazed to discover a world that
is so intriguing and so fascinating,
469
00:22:52,395 --> 00:22:54,229
and much closer
to their own experience
470
00:22:54,263 --> 00:22:55,562
than they would
have ever imagined.
471
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This is so human,
and so true, and so engaging,
472
00:23:00,248 --> 00:23:04,919
and yet completely foreign, and it's
just an incredible host of characters.
473
00:23:04,953 --> 00:23:06,209
You think you know them,
474
00:23:06,210 --> 00:23:10,363
you think you've got them pegged
as what they seemingly are,
475
00:23:10,364 --> 00:23:11,491
but they really aren't.
476
00:23:11,655 --> 00:23:15,558
It's very different from
anything that's been done.
477
00:23:15,592 --> 00:23:19,529
I can't think of another fantasy
which is as gritty and as real.
478
00:23:19,563 --> 00:23:23,715
It doesn't really matter if you are
traditionally a fan of the fantasy genre.
479
00:23:23,716 --> 00:23:25,717
It's once you become
invested in the characters,
480
00:23:25,751 --> 00:23:28,019
you care about what's
going to happen to them.
481
00:23:28,053 --> 00:23:30,188
It's encompassing,
actually... without the costumes,
482
00:23:30,222 --> 00:23:32,324
it could be contemporary life.
483
00:23:32,358 --> 00:23:36,728
It's about people caring,
fighting, loving, hating.
484
00:23:36,762 --> 00:23:41,198
It involves politics,
shifting alliances,
485
00:23:41,232 --> 00:23:45,122
greed, avarice.
486
00:23:45,123 --> 00:23:47,164
Sex.
487
00:23:47,488 --> 00:23:48,722
It's just the best story!
488
00:23:48,757 --> 00:23:50,925
You follow it and you get
excited by it,
489
00:23:50,959 --> 00:23:54,349
and when you think you got it
figured, it completely changes its mind.
490
00:23:54,869 --> 00:23:57,739
You don't know which way it's gonna turn,
what avenue it's gonna go.
491
00:23:57,895 --> 00:23:59,736
There's always something
new around the corner,
492
00:23:59,737 --> 00:24:01,471
something surprising.
493
00:24:01,505 --> 00:24:03,105
Starks are all right eventually.
494
00:24:03,139 --> 00:24:06,108
Winter is coming.
495
00:24:06,308 --> 00:24:16,508
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