my favorite thing we can do that let's
look the trace in the face
the night king is coming
the dead are already here
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when I was a child my brother would tell
me a bedtime story
about the man who murdered our Father
and watched as his blood poured onto the
floor he told me other stories about all
the things we would do to that man once
we took back the Seven Kingdoms
when Jamie shows up to Winterfell it's
very difficult for almost anybody to
know how to feel about it on the one
hand Danny looks at him as does the
person who murdered her father and even
if she has come to terms of who her
father was and what her father really
was it probably doesn't entirely erase
the sting of her father's murderer
showing up on her doorstep
your sister pledged to send her army
north I don't see an army she never had
any intention of sending her army north
Tyrion has made a number of mistakes now
and Danny is really at the end of her
patience because she has a lot of
fondness and respect for Tyrion but many
of his plans have really gone awry and
now Jamie laster's here but now with the
last army Oh gracious I know my brother
like you knew your sister Tyrion can't
really fight back because he knows she's
right I mean he really did make a
grievous mistake if Tyrion has a flaw
he's a very clever man but sometimes
clever people overestimate their own
cleverness you don't know me well your
grace but I know sir Jaime he is a man
of Honor for Brienne I think she's in
love with someone who doesn't realize
that she is because that kind of
experience hasn't been a part of her
life she's feeling things that she can't
really process because she'd never grew
up in a world where those things were an
option she's so used to Jaime taunting
her and and being the kind of nasty
Jaime Lannister gold that she's just
suspicious at first that he is playing
her and that he's gonna reveal his true
intent I'm not the fight I used to be
but I'd be honored to serve on - he'll
come on if you'll have me he really
believes in her as a soldier and he
wants to be there next to her so I think
she is really shocked by his sincerity
lady Sansa I was hoping we could speak
alone Danny comes to Sansa with a bit of
an olive branch trying to find a way
inside that kind of cool exterior that
sounds it presents and one commonality
between them as they both love John and
his his lover and Sons as his sister
it's very much coming at it from the
point of view of a monarch trying to
make peace with her subject and Sansa is
not quite willing to accept Danny as her
monarch yet she's a suspicious of people
for a reason what about the North it was
taken from us we took it back and we
said we'd never bow to anyone else again
what about the North she's had too many
hard experiences not to be suspicious of
people and she sees Danny as possibly a
tyrant as someone who's who has a lot of
power and is seeking to get even more
that coming we can't beat them in a
straight fight so what can we do in the
war council scene there's a lot going on
under the surface the most important
thing about that scene is understanding
the lay of the land and understanding
what their intentions are what their
plans are what their expectations are so
we know what we're looking at the night
King made them all they follow his
command
he fools getting to him may be our best
chance things may not go entirely
according to plan so we thought it was
very important for people to know what
everyone in the room expected to happen
was worried would happen hoped would
happen in addition to that there are a
lot of human moments put you in the crib
no I went for him in the cockpit we're
not leaving you alone out there he won't
be I'll stay with him
one thing that was definitely going on
was how Theon felt after returning to
Winterfell and how he's using this
battle as an attempt to try to make good
to the extent that that's possible on
the horrible mistakes that he made I
took these castle from you let me defend
you now
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you're not the knight women can't be
Knights
why not tradition any knight can make
another night kneel lady Brienne Brienne
has been more Knightly than any of the
Knights I think we've seen I mean she's
a paragon of strength and honor and
being true to your word when Jaime
knights her it's a general kind of
validation she's wanted her whole life
but even more importantly it's the
acceptance and validation of Jaime who
she obviously has feelings towards that
that she's never really come to terms
with or even allowed to bubble to the
surface of her consciousness but they're
they're all the same we can see all of
those things swirling Knights of the
Seven Kingdoms
[Applause]
for us what was interesting about this
episode was always that it's our last
night together and everyone I think
would face the end in different ways
we're probably going to die soon I want
to know what it's like for that meant
some characters want to make love for
the first time because they've never
done it before and their other
characters who are getting drunk and
singing songs and then there are
characters who are just trying to find
some kind of humans hollows together
like sons on Theon everyone faces it in
different ways but they're all facing it
and that's why this episode was so
important to us because it's you know
all these characters that we've been
following for so long and now they're
all facing a common enemy how about a
song one of you must know one high in
the holes of the kings who are gone
Jenny would dance with her go Daniels
got a really lovely voice
and we knew we wanted a song in this
episode we've had a song and several the
seasons we haven't had a original in a
while so this felt like the place for it
and Daniel felt like the singer the ones
who'd been gone for so very long
she couldn't remember the names they
spun her around on the damp old stone
spun away her sorrow one thing the song
I believe is in George's books at least
the first verses in the books and then
we added some lyrics and Ramin came up
with the music for wanted to
you've never wanted to leave