When I was a child...
My brother would tell me a bedtime story.
About the man who murdered our father.
About all the things we would do to that man.
He never should have trusted Cersei.
You never should have either.
Death.
It's got many faces.
I look forward to seeing this one.
How long do we have?
Before the sun comes up tomorrow.
The kind of pomp and majesty of Dany's
Arrival, it just felt like the natural place to start the season. The rival was a was a way to capture
What was at stake for Danny and for John?
looking back to the very beginning and how young as he was back then and wearing the stark soldiers helmet falling over her head and
She just looks like this little kid and now she's a grown woman and she's there watching again
But this time she steps aside to let a little kid come in to watch because she remembers how thrilling it was
It's a whole new procession
And so instead of Robert arriving with Queen Cersei and Jaime Lannister and the Hound its Daenerys coming with Jon Snow. I
Don't think the north is the most welcoming place to outsiders Danny's smart
She senses that distrust and she's gonna make the best of a bad situation
But that doesn't mean that she likes it or she's happy when you're doing something
good for people and you
Get met with what Sansa gives her and they meet in the courtyard. It's understandable that she would be upset
We've been with these characters on a pretty regular basis all the time to the past
however
Many years the fact that they're coming back together again for the first time
Means more to them than it may mean to us.
The Lady of Winterfell.
Has a nice ring to it.
So does Hand of the Queen
Depending on the Queen I suppose. I think that if Tyrion would have shown up on his own to Winterfell
He would have gotten a much different reception from Sansa than he did coming as the hand of the Queen Daenerys Targaryen
There's also the specific thing that happens in that scene
which is
Tyrion has told everybody that the Lannisters are coming to join the cause and it's amazing to her that this person she thought was so
Smart would ever take Cersei at her word on something like that.
I used to think you were the cleverest man alive.
How did you survive a knife through the heart?
I didn't.
Jon Snow and Arya are two of the most important characters in the story.
And they love each other.
Very deeply.
Arya was the only one who treated John like a real member of the family when he was a child.
And he was the only one who treated her with the respect that, that she needed when she was a kid.
Jon has invited this...
...huge army of, of foreigners into their home and...
Arya understands why he did it, but Arya's on Sansa's side.
You're defending her.
I'm defending our family.
So is she.
I'm her family too.
Don't forget that blood is definitely thicker than water when it comes to Starks
Nobody does until they ride a dragon
No one's ever ridden a dragon except for Dany
The only Targaryen can ride dragons and that should be a sign for John John's not always the quickest on the uptake
But eventually he gets there we wanted to kind of rethink er their relationship
It seemed important for it to involve the dragons since the dragons play such an important role
It's a major thing for her when she sees they have some kind of connection to him
They allow him to be around them
Then when he flies up with her and shows her where he used to hunt as a kid
I think she falls even farther in love with him seeing John and Danny on the dragons together
It's a John and Danny moment
But it also seeds in the idea that these creatures will accept John Snow as one of their riders.
Don't be afraid.
One of the challenges, but also one of the exciting things about this, this episode this whole season
It's bringing together characters who have never met.
Sam has long been one of the more important characters in the story
But he's never seen Queen Daenerys.
nd yet they're connected by various threads the obvious one
Which we'd know from the beginning of the scene is Jorah Sam saved him and so Joro is Sam this great dead
What none of them realized, until midway through the scene, is that they have another horrible connection.
there are all these things that you know about those characters that the other characters don't know and some of them are very
important Dany murder samwell's father and brother
That's a really complicated thing for Sam because he had a really fraught relationship with his father
You know Sam's older brother was not a bad person and I'd really quite bravely standing by his father's side
John Bradley did an excellent job the difference between the way he takes the news of his father's
Death and the way he takes the news of his brother's death. It was a subtle thing that he does with very few words
It's the kind of thing that he could find out in a number of different ways, but it seemed like a very
Effective preamble and way into that later moment
Daenerys.
She executed my father and brother.
I've executed men who disobeyed me.
You've also spared. men
Thousands of Wildlings when they refused to kneel.
I wasn't a king.
But you were.
The fact that Jon's real parents were who Jon's real parents were is not news to us at this point?
What we don't know is the way that John is going to take this house the explosion gonna look
Sam as a brother of the Nights Watch and Jon or more brothers than Brandon John ever really were
he knows it's gonna hurt John and it's going to
shatter his whole worldview for all they know the army of the Dead could attack the next day and
Someone has to tell John before that
He's being told something that he both knows is true and can't handle so he tries to throw
things in front of it to prevent him from having to deal with the
Truth of what he's being told the thing he throws in front of it here is the fact that it means his father
Was lying to him his whole life
You've never been in a busted you are truly active the arms room the truth that Samwell tells John is probably the most incendiary
Fact in the entire world of the show we chose to play the whole thing on
John's face because as great a job as John Bradley is doing presenting this information. He's really just presenting information. We know already
Daenerys is our queen.
She shouldn't be.
That's treason.
It's the truth.