It's a long way down. Yeah crows keep telling me. I'll get used to it
you
Are you sure you want to do this? It's not what I want. It's what honor demands
so much of that scene is about what happens beforehand and building up the tension between
Sons and Aria in the earlier episodes of the season where you really believe that one will potentially kill the other
This one the benefits of working on a show like this were over the years so many
Beloved characters have been killed and so many characters make decisions you wish they hadn't that you can believe that sound so might conspire
Against already aware that Aria might decide that sounds a has betrayed the family and deserves to die
Knowing that you're aiming at that
It really helped in the writing of it because they're your only goal
And those scenes is to build towards what feels like a real rift between them in a way that makes it
Extremely fraught when you get into that room with them at the end. How do you answer these charges?
Lord Baelish I
was actually very
Interested and excited to see what aiden would do with that moment because it's a moment. He's never been in before. He's imagined every conceivable
eventualities cept this one
Lady sounds forgive me
I'm a bit confused. Whatever you want to say about
Littlefinger and he is clearly associated path amongst other things. He does have strong feelings Toward Sansa
They're not necessarily healthy appropriate feelings
But they are feelings towards her and so I think he has a hard time believing that she'll be able to do this sunset
Please I'm a slow learner, but I'd like unfortunately for him
He's trained her too well and she is not about to be swayed by his tears or is pleased
Thank you for all your many lessons. Lord Baelish
You have 60 plus hours at this point of main characters who you hopefully are really invested in
It was a challenge because there are so many different ways it could go
But the fact that it was centered around
The effort to persuade Cersei to stand down and to accept a truce that gave it us fine
This isn't about living in Harmony
It's just about living there are so many different interconnections between all these people the hound mountain scene was one we felt
We needed to highlight remember me
Just as neurons not a person who's gonna wait his turn the hound is not somebody who's Gonna let this
person or thing or whatever
He is now walked by him unchallenged given who the mountain is to him and has been to him in his life
You know who's coming for you? You've always known
One of the themes of the season that characters might be skeptics about religion and the supernatural but once they confronted faced a decomposing face
It's really hard to Deny it anymore. I
cannot serve two Queens
Then there is nothing left to discuss
Not only tyrion goes to see cersei at a pride or to prove that he's brave
Ganas one of the situations where it's the only choice he can see it's the only way he feels a heat salvage this
Peace mission is to go himself
he's the only person who can talk to her because as
Much as she hates him as much as he hates her they know each other better than probably anybody in the world knows them I?
Don't care about checking my worst impulses. I don't care about making the world a better place and the world
It's a little bit of a poker game
They're playing there because it seems like she's bluffing and he reads her bluff, but she wanted him to read her bluff
This was all part of her game. You're pregnant
Cersei has become quite good at playing this game
She wasn't in power, but she was on the edges of power and she learned how to operate in that environment
And she placed here him pretty beautifully here the darkness is coming for us all we'll face it together
We were in that dragon pit for many many days
it's as deceptively difficult thing to shoot because there's so many different moments between
Different people and they need to be shot that way otherwise. It doesn't feel like anybody's looking the person
We're supposed to be looking at or playing off the person. They're supposed to be playing up
We both saw what just happened this goes Beyond houses and honor
And oaths it's an interesting moment for Briana because Brienne is so defined by Loyalty
But this goes beyond that talk to the queen Jamie is chosen to side with his sister. She is
Unequivocally bad everyone knows this including Jamie. She's just trying to get him to see Beyond that it said a lot I
Think that's certainly on Jamie's mind, but then the final straw is when he realizes that this was all a scam
I always knew you were the stupidest next I think seeing the truth of
What's in the north it meant one thing to Jamie and it meant something else to cersei they both acknowledged the truth of it
They're both smart enough to realize what it means
But she is still seeing it from a cold strategic standpoint
And he's seeing it from the position more of existential survival for everyone this isn't about noble houses
This is about the living and the dead and I intend to stay amongst the living
It's one thing to say okay cersei played a trick on her enemies
But she didn't confide in him so he's realizing that his loyalty to her is not reflected in her loyalty to him
Me. I think that absolutely is what informs his decision to leave King's landing. I don't believe
He needs to know the truth the truth about wong about himself
John's not John Sam
He's actually as brand finally over years from Liana aegon targaryen and that means he's the rightful heir to the iron throne
That changes everything I would say the challenge with this
Sequence was finding a way to present information that at least a good portion of the audience already had
In a way that was dramatic and exciting also had a new element to it
Part of the answer as to how to go about doing that was in the montage
Intercut nature of it. It was about making it clear that this was almost like an information bomb that John was heading towards
What sir building was built Illinois the only way to really emphasize that was to tie those two worlds together?
Cinematically and to have bran actually narrating these facts over the footage of John and of Danny
He's the heir to the iron throne
Just as we're seeing these two people come together
We're hearing the information that will inevitably if not tear them apart at least cause real problems in their relationship
And she's his aunt
it complicates everything on a political level on a personal level and it just makes everything that could have been so
Neat and kind of perfect for John and Danny and it really
Muddies the waters. We need to tell him
We tried to contrast the various season ending so that they don't
Feel too similar so last season we had a pretty triumphant ending with Danny finally Sailing West Towards Westeros
This one is definitely much more horrific
Many Years now we've known this would be the ending of the penultimate season the walls kept these things out for 8,000 years
There's no real reason that it can't keep doing that unless something puts a hole in the wall
There's one thing on the board from the beginning that is now big enough to do that, and that's a dragon
It just started to suggest itself as a logical way forward we right and then the wall comes tumbling down
And that's really easy to type those words on. It's really hard for them to make it look good
Need it to be thing you go out of the season on
first four or five years of the show it was the expanding universe and
As we get near the end of the show the universe contracts
Characters are going to a place that they never have before quite literally and in some cases
But also just a larger sense where they're facing the conflicts they know will decide their fates the line wolf dies
but the pack survives winter is here and
It's all hitting the fan from all directions