"welcome to Westeros where the fight for the kingdom is on anyone can die which is fine we're great families live and die for the Iron Throne they're all weaving these tangled webs some are noble Jon Snow's everybody's hero some" "are not if you're gonna be bad be really bad wow so many kings and queens in waiting it's about power and greed as an icy phone mail when's it start season seven is coming and so are the Dragons" "so let's burn through the epic saga to date this is what games does it it sucks you in with Game of Thrones the story so far when you play the game of Thrones you win or you die there is no middle ground a season one" "opens it's the calm before the storm" "King Robert Baratheon rules from the capital King's Landing but his days are numbered to be king in Westeros you sit on the Iron Throne in King's Landing and you're ruling over the Seven Kingdoms" "[Music] he's locked in a loveless marriage and only chose his queen for her family's name to hold his kingdom together I'm very sympathetic to Cersei she was completely in love with him she she was" "in all of him almost and he turned into this almost semi abusive drunk sometimes" "I don't know what holds it together our marriage this unhappy couple have three golden haired children to their name but" "Cersei keeps a deadly secret from Robert the children are not his the truth will be discovered on a royal trip north and it's here that our story really begins the King has asked his old ally Ned" "Stark to help him rule Ned and his wife" "Catelyn governed the North fiercely loyal to the crown the Starks stand for loyalty integrity bravery they are really the moral compass of the show they're the good guys and they're the ones that you find yourself rooting for from the start" "the couple have five children three sons and two daughters and the decimation of this happy family will reverberate throughout our tale they're almost too innocent for that world" "King Robert arrives with his Queen" "Cersei and with them is the whole" "Lannister clan they're blonde they're beautiful they're arrogant so fuck them and it's really the Lannisters who were going to introduce a lot of trouble into the life of the Starks through this appointment the arrival of the" "Lannisters into that world totally sends shockwaves through the whole family bran" "Stark goes claiming one day gets to the top of a tower and discovers the" "Lannisters deeper dark secret the secret is that Cersei the queen is actually sleeping with her brother Jaime the" "Lannisters oh good they are I have never seen a felon talk about it dysfunctional stop it's incest which even in Westeros is generally frowned upon it also means that King Robert's children are not actually his children it's alright it's" "alright he saw us I heard you the first time he knows what it means to and he knows that if the incest is discovered not only will he and a sister be put to death but their three children may very well - and" "so for Jaime Lannister the greatest swordsman in Westeros there's only one solution things I do for love here's a convenient way the kid will die it'll look like he fell and our kids will be safe first in a coma bran will later" "awake with no memory of how he fell or what he saw the Royal secret is safe for now and only the viewer has seen what the Lannisters will do to keep it everything went pair of ships after that and really that's the whole chain of" "events tartan King Robert still once ned down in a capital so this will be the last ever time we see the stark family all together a family which includes" "Ned's son out of wedlock the bastard Jon" "Snow Ned must now leave his family and follow King Robert South taking his daughter Sansa and Arya with him the reason I think that the first season of" "Game of Thrones works is it's essentially about this good family that just wants to essentially be left alone and serve their King in their country this good family is ripped apart and thrown into situations that they never anticipated they are bound for the" "capital King's Landing where Ned's new towers will be to protect King Robert from those who would unseat him and in season one viewers learned the greatest enemies live in exile overseas the Targaryen x' they were dethroned by" "King Robert in the last war the only surviving members of the family of a brother and sister called viserys and danerys the siblings are the children of the Mad King who was killed in war" "Viserys dominates his younger sister" "Viserys has more than a touch of the" "Targaryen madness and you know sometimes she's protecting her but he's also trying to treat her as a as a bargaining chip come forward my dear in search of an army this series makes a pact with a savage tribe" "the Dothraki offering his beautiful young sister in marriage to their leader" "Khal Drogo she's the only bargaining chip he has it doesn't have any wealth anymore he doesn't have any armies but he has her who he can trade to this horse Lord I would let his whole tribe" "fuck you all 40,000 men and their horses too if that's what it took he's power-hungry but to a nicety degree they really care how or by what means he just wants to be important and looked up to" "but his plans backfire Daenerys and Karl" "Drogo fall in love and become quite the power couple suddenly she finds herself with Khal Drogo empowered people are obeying her tell him I want what was bargained for or I'm taking you back you can just completely underestimate not" "only Danny but car Drogo Hey what do you saying he says yes you shall have a golden crown it's a real coming-of-age story throughout the first season she really grows into herself look away khaleesi yeah this is one of the turning points" "for Daenerys I think this is when you realize that she's prepared to sacrifice anything for the greater good crown for" "King" "[Music]" "[Applause] he was revolting he was utterly utterly revolting and that was the moment that she escaped from her shell when she became the woman and not the cow a girl and as the targaryen grow in power we" "learn that King Robert faces another challenge to his northernmost borders threats which led past rulers to build this giant wall of ice to keep up wild things beyond it's protected by the legendary Night's Watch the Nights Watch" "are a small army who guard the northern border of the country when season one there's lots of fighting for the throne but actually in the background there are these creatures appearing north of the wall that nobody has seen for thousands" "of years and no one quite wants to believe that they're there but they certainly are we hear the characters saying that this is all folklore or that this is all made up but for the viewer we see that basically these characters" "do exist they are there I think the" "White Walkers are really terrifying mostly because you're not 100% sure you know what they're capable of doing or what their motives are they are serious threat in season one in search of a purpose Jon Snow ventures to the wall" "and joins the Nights Watch a leader in the making" "John snows everybody's hero John snows one of my favorite characters he's the dude he's also in search of answers the question of John Johnston though his parentage has been one of the burning topics amongst not only the show fans" "the book fans for many decades" "Jon Snow is Ned Stark's bastard son he brought him back from a war and we never really learned who the mother is understandably catland Ned's wife isn't too fond of John for that reason try as she may she could never make peace with" "that with the fact that Ned was unfaithful but down in the capital" "King's Landing Ned Stark has a much greater challenge to face his daughter has fallen for Prince Joffrey she's presented with marrying the future King live in a beautiful castle go to banquets have beautiful dresses to wear a fairy tale story Ned just discovered" "the Queen and her brother are lovers and this will be his family's I'm doing when the King returns from his hunt I'll tell him the truth you must be gone by then you and your children I will not have" "their blood on my hands but before he gets the chance to talk to King Robert" "King Robert gets himself killed on a hunting trip" "Joffrey is now king and without Robert to protect him Ned is tried for treason he confesses believing it will save his daughter but misjudges the new ruler who's been stuck up in the north too long and has no idea how the real world" "operates how to really deal with their kind of the politics of Westeros bring me his head" "that's when you realize nobody is safe in this world at all when I saw Siwon being pushed down that was the only scene that really has brought a tear to my eye" "it's cruel it's heartbreaking but there's a point to the children witnessing this if they want to survive they have to start to be resilient they have to learn from this it was at that moment you realized what Game of Thrones" "was really about it's here that the stark family splinters ire is whisked away by a Night's Watch brother loyal to" "Ned leaving Sansa at the mercy of" "Joffrey Robb Stark reacts with murderous rage to the needs that his father has been beheaded robbers the air and he's not only picking up his father's mantle as Lord of Winterfell but he's picking up a much older mental" "the crown that no one has worn for 300 years the kingdom of the north it will lead to all-out war between the Starks of the Lannisters who were led by its patriarch Tywin Lannister Tywin" "Lannister is one of the great warriors and battle strategists of the age as well as his twin the Cersei and Jaime he has a son he despises Tyrion known as the IMP good of you to notice" "Tyrion obviously is just brilliant I hear we won stereotypes of what a hero should be or should look like in Game of" "Thrones are just completely blown out the window because we've got Tyrion who you know doesn't look like your archetypal here over he is as war rages in Westeros over the Narrow Sea Daenerys loses a husband but gains astonishing" "new powers she walks into Karl Drogo's funeral pyre with fossilized dragons eggs what an epic scene" "season one ends with the sight of" "Daenerys emerging from a fire unscathed with her dragons hatched these creatures are extraordinary creatures the likes of which have not been seen in hundreds of years my plot you see these these three dragons around her and you just lock her they're gonna" "be awesome when they're grown the innocence is gone she's it she's the force now as the dragons are born she comes more and more to our own until the power becomes innate to her it's about a" "new era the whole first season is essentially the old era dying out the new era beginning and by the end she has a sense that she knows that she's bound for greatness and after the break watch those dragons grow in season two" "[Music] welcome back to Game of Thrones the story so far where season two marks a new reign of tyranny in the capital" "King's Landing" "Joffrey is brutalizing his subjects as well as his bride-to-be Sansa Stark you can't Sansa has learned some painful lessons along the way the chivalrous" "Knights and gallant princes that she dreamed of she she got a gallant Prince and he turned out to be Joffrey killing you would send your brother a message she's a prisoner in the worst place imaginable enduring all kinds of" "psychological and sometimes physical abuse from these captors we've got face" "I like it pretty he used to bully and we don't like police" "I had a disgusting lie about uncle Jaime and you he's the product of a brother and sister shagging so like you know this might be why he isn't all there mentally Cersei's smart enough to realize that Joffrey is perhaps not what" "she might have hoped for and he's getting out of her control now and he's a danger in part even to her and even to other members of the family what you just did it's punishable by death" "Joffrey's enemies are everywhere chief amongst them and just across the bay at Dragonstone is Stannis brother of the late King Robert who believes the throne should be his Stannis has learned that Robert's children are Lannister bastards which means that it is Stannis" "who is next in line sustainers Baratheon who knows that King Joffrey is the product of incest decides to send Ravens out to all the corners of the Seven" "Kingdoms letting them know the Lannister secret in order to claim the throne" "Stannis enlists the red priestess" "Melisandre who was on her own mission to find the right ruler for Westeros she believes Stannis is the savior of the world basically he's supposed to be on the Iron Throne and her magical powers have no limits I think there's" "there's so much that we don't know that she can do however Stannis isn't the only one after the throne his younger brother Renly also believes he has a claim and so war is inevitable the Iron" "Throne is mine by right all those that deny that to my foes all realm denies it from Dorne to the wall they both think they should be king but I'm on Stannis side so screw really rather than fight" "out on the battlefield Stannis finds another way to kill his brother his family ties don't mean an awful lot in" "West the powerful sorcery of the red priestess is revealed when she gives birth to a sinister weapon the shadow baby is basically just a way to kill" "Renly and it comes out of me in a great way" "I think Melisandre she's always lived by this religion if she's got something to do she's gonna do it she's not gonna let other people stand in her way well I think's brilliant about Game of" "Thrones he lives in a fantasy world it's a completely realistic depiction of how power works what power does to people what people do to get power and what happens when they fall short when they missed the mark that's why it's so" "brilliant when Renly is murdered at least behind his widow Margaery Tyrell who belongs to the Tyrell family who were very rich and powerful in their own right calling yourself King doesn't make you one and if Renly wasn't a king I" "wasn't a queen" "Margaery is an absolute piece of work you know she wants power do you want to be a queen No" "I want to be the queen across the Narrow" "Sea Daenerys Targaryen is learning valuable lessons and a quest to return to Westeros and seize the throne she is desperate to be a good ruler that she can you know go to bed at night saying I think I'm doing things the right way" "as Daenerys his power grows so do her dragons but as news of their existence spreads with a calm highly sought after when she's in Qarth everybody's kind of things are who are you we'll just take your dragons" "we'll take your dragons are you not powerful anymore dracarys people have underestimated the hallway and it is in season two that we finally see the Dragons kill for Daenerys" "as Daenerys gets stronger in exile John snow and the Nights Watch are on a mission beyond the wall where the true scale of the threat to the kingdom is revealed the army of the Dead is on its way and it's gonna kick off sooner or" "later and really you know they've got to get out of there as fast as I possibly can I'm lost friends two for foes and three for White Walkers the threat of winter coming is very much a myth to" "the people of the south they're not really taking it seriously they don't know about the undead and and all the horrors are coming towards them so what we learn in season two is that the White" "Walkers are very much real they're nothing like we've ever seen before in television they're not just zombies are not just statues they're walking why skips basically they're they're really bad and they're really scary and it's" "literally I think it's got to be a fire of Ice and Fire" "we have all these kingdoms wanting to fight for the throne and they think that that is what ultimately the battle is about but really at the end of the day they're not looking at what's the real problem here and it's the White Walkers" "[Applause] and it's in season two in King's Landing where we see that Tyrion may just be an asset to the war when Stannis launches an attack on the city Battle of" "Blackwater was his moment he was the best person to speak to the people of" "King's Landing and to get them to protect their their their their city because he knows what it's like to fight he knows what it's like to have your back up against the wall" "thereíre manages to get the troops fired up by giving a good speech and then heads out with them to fight" "Stannis on the bay he doesn't last very long he gets knocked out after a couple of minutes Tyrion is upstaged by his father Tywin who arrives with his own massive army bolstered by the Tyrells who've now firmly joined the cause it's" "that moment where you really see where power lies it's not in the king it's in the person behind the king we have won and so season 2 ends with the Lannisters victorious after the break season 3 brings more terrible losses for" "the Starks when they attend a cataclysmic wedding" "[Music] welcome back to the story so far whereas season three begins Daenerys has set sail on a mission she and her dragons may have grown in power and stature but securing an army still a loser so she ventures to a place where she can" "buy one she knows she needs an army a powerful army too if she ever wants to reclaim the Westerosi throne and the best bet for that are the unsullied i have dragons I'll give you one she appears to want to trade the dragon for" "slaves she seems to have made this daft agreement to give away her best dragon she hands over the dragon next thing you know once she's got control of the unsullied sad reasons boo Sarris goes down then it's very easy to say to the" "dragon who still will listen to her and not to him Barnabus because you would take power if you have the force of a dragon they're pretty impressive creatures she's been the mother of dragons and you knew she was destined" "for greatness but now she really is a queen with an army to then see that she has thousands of people on her team and then you get like this swoop bust she's got these like fire-breathing mythical creatures that they're just gonna tear" "as this young Targaryen gains followers in King's Landing a young Tyrell is gaining influence Margaery has replaced" "Sansa in Geoffrey's affections a reward for her family's military support at" "Blackwater I imagine it must be so exciting to squeeze your finger here and watch something die over there" "Marjorie is a woman who's on top of the game she's controlling where she's going she's a proper feminist icon but the" "Tyrells ambitions are not going down well with Cersei Lannister Alana is a matriarch of the family and she advises her granddaughter on how best to play the political game so that she might take power in King's Landing to make matters worse her soul mate" "Jaime is a prisoner of war he is held first by Brienne of Tarth then both are captured by a northern faction this is all bundled up in when Jaime begins to start thinking about other people his efforts to stop Brienne being raped" "at the beginning of that it's good one those little bits of goodness come in those characters that are so devilish as well just give you a little light in there I mean of course it being Game of" "Thrones it doesn't get him anywhere another one of those Game of Thrones moments which has so much more going on in it than just just him losing his hand he's the greatest swordsman in the in" "Westeros we're told so he can't do that anymore it's now made a good friend in her and he's seen a lot of things and" "I'm sure he's questioning what being a lannister is about as well yet without his hand we see Jaime Lannister at his most heroic the heartless knight who pushed Brandon Stark from the tower finds new honor in season 3 he's left" "he's left her behind he's abandoned her and he's on his way to King's Landing and then then his captors mentioned that what's gonna happen to her and then he decides to return a safer and it is in season" "three that we witnessed a fearsome work of another powerful family the Bolton's who are scheming to take control of the north I think the Bolton's want pretty much where everywhere else seems to want his power and status show no good to me" "dead we need you Ramsay a bastard son of the family enjoys torturing his enemies including Theon Greyjoy who he took prisoner when sucking Winterfell after" "Netz demise historically the Bolton's have always been just just under the" "Starks kind of the Starks have always been on top of him so I think they feel that now is their time to rise it's unbelievable what Ramsay is capable of doing to people really he's just all about the mind he's all about making you" "doubt yourself he's all about getting in there and making you insecure and making you feel like you can't go up against him another hostage at large in season three is is stark kidnapped by the Hound the disgrace tonight plans to find Aya's" "family and traitor for cash remember what happens to children who run one of the great double acts of Game of Thrones is the hind and Arya there's something so perversely magical about that pairing sort of warped mentor-protege relationship that develops" "it is desire to claim a ransom the hound heads for the twins but he knows it" "Aya's mother and brother Kaplan and Robb" "Stark are attending a wedding the twins is a strategic river crossing controlled by the Frey family and the Starks need them onside for their war effort Walder" "Frey is a very bitter nasty old man who controls a small but significant area in the kingdom I was pledged to marry one of you and I broke that vow if he's been let down by Robb Stark after this promise if he shows any kind" "of forgiveness so I'll just let it go we didn't want the mind my daughters marry someone else he would lose faith in that world it's a vicious world he's operating in the stark family offer" "Rob's uncle to make amends but I here for that wedding a terrible mistake" "Catelyn in her heart knew that you do not break a promise if you are the king of the north and also you certainly don't break it to Alder phrase great he's probably late awake four nights just planning it in timing and working" "out just how it's gonna work out at the moment we're cat sees that Roose Bolton is wearing chainmail is a powerful moment why would you wear chain mail to your wedding and what is the purpose of chain mail it's to prevent you getting" "killed even though I'd read the scripts the red wedding still completely was shocking and I was still screaming the" "TV no don't don't you just do what is what happened the red wedding is the event that pretty much decimates an entire generation of the stark family within the game of Thrones all the phase not playing the game of" "Thrones he's not attempting to be the king he's actually perfectly happy with what he's got it has his own little fiefdom and they've been all sitting in the chair watching terrible things he's a Rotter isn't he he's absolutely" "rotten grim the Lannisters and their regards it is an ambush backed by Tywin" "Lannister" "[Music] rob was such an amazing character and you kind of want him to be the king and to win it's the cruelty of it and it's the relishing of it everything goes to hell on the red wedding iya stark arrives at" "the twins to witness her brother's desecrated body and loses any last shred of innocence she's there she's there at the red wedding she's outside and she was so close you know she was so close to" "seeing them again she was so close the path that she goes on she learns to become stronger and fight and also she was after revenge and when she comes across her family's killers later shit she matches their brutality she's had to" "go over to the dark side that's what makes her interesting in order to survive in that world you've got to match what is given you and so by the end of season 3 all the elder Starks have gone from the Game of Thrones only" "the children remained orphaned and scattered across Westeros including bran stark still paralyzed from his fall he's fled Winterfell with a loyal band of followers heading north so Hodor we know as a very loyal character you lost the use of his legs" "and Hodor the person that carries him around and takes him everywhere being the big giant of a man that he is him and his brother Rick honor the two last male heirs to to the to the stark household and yet it's fast depleting we" "were running out of Starks ran stark is very much on his own journey to discover the root of this ancient magic that's reappearing in the kingdom throughout the seasons and yet amid this loss comes a small victory unlikely hero Samwell" "Tarly stand on a weakness of the white walkers" "Samwell reaches for all he has to hand an old dragonglass spear he once found in the ground to his astonishment it did it works the spells are shattered and it's melting before him and stay with us to see wedded bliss vanish" "[Music] welcome back to Game of Thrones for story so far we're in season for our" "Royal Wedding in King's Landing unites two great houses of Westeros the Tyrells and the Lannisters Margaery in Joffrey's wedding is one of those weddings that we all have to go to where there's no love in the room the wedding brings another" "great family into the game the Martel's represented by Prince Oberyn were the hottest couple at the wedding what else is there to say my lord my lady" "John he has a zest for life and all the beautiful things that the world has to offer none of it is as beautiful as his own rage and taste for revenge Oberyn is seeking vengeance for his sister's brutal death at the hands of the" "Lannisters murder of women and children is considered distasteful Joffrey really uses the wedding as an excuse to be as horrible as he can uncle he can be my cup there he sees it as an opportunity to wield his power because he can and" "you're dying for something to happen to and so an unseen hand poisons the newly weds King it's the moment of retribution that the whole of the Seven Kingdoms have been waiting for I think everybody who watches Game of Thrones was hoping" "this day would come" "I wanted to kill him in such a way that the viewers were reminded that here's a" "13 year old boy who's dying though it is actually the Tyrells that have poisoned" "Joffrey it is Tyrion who is blamed this is really the point where Tyrians fragile bonds with his family begin to unravel" "in plot terms the death of Joffrey is another shaking of the board where the pieces are scattered and also it's one of those things that elevate the whole series from merely a story into a saga as the royal family grows weaker news" "from Westeros reaches myrin where" "Daenerys has conquered the city but she is not yet ready to capitalize on her enemy's weakness murdered at his own wedding this would appear to be a really good time for her to finally make her play for the Iron Throne she has the dragons" "and she has the army and she has the strength of character but actually she has new responsibilities now when she has unfinished business where she is and she's still trying to learn how to rule and to compound matters her dragons have" "grown so big that Daenerys has started to lose control of them as they get bigger as her power increases the harder it is for her to manage and that's where the story in has to go all they're going to bring us complexity" "and when one of the dragons kills a child and abandons her Daenerys is left with no other choice but to chain the other two she's just locked up her dragons so can she unleash them again and will they forgive her without the" "mighty force of her dragons Daenerys is faced with a dilemma as to what to do next she's definitely going through a sort of a dark night of the soul I think where she's trying to determine how I" "got what it takes and so in season four as Daenerys remains in exile across the" "Narrow Sea Sansa Stark has fled the capital and taken refuge without armed" "Lysa who has been seduced by an arch schemer Littlefinger is playing a very chaotic game and he thrives on that oh my sweet life for Littlefinger it's all about getting power and I think and using lasers a porn along the way Sansa" "has witnessed Eliza's murder covers for Littlefinger scientist one of these pure characters has been mustered all through the series she's seen a lot of horrible horrible things happen and she's never been able to take control and this is the first" "time actually she's got nothing else to lose when" "Sansa lied to protect Littlefinger I cheered I thought thank God to go she tried to reason with her but miss her she was the only one he'd ever loved through what you discover is that she's been learning this entire time she's" "been listening she's been watching she's been taking Littlefinger's lessons to heart so from one stock protege to another" "Sansa sister Maya is still the Helms hostage but they're now on an equal footing bloody hound Sandor Clegane he's her captor but he's also her protector and you know she's seen his own pain and his own fear at times and they've shared" "some dangerous situations but when the" "Hound is gravely injured in battle ire is forced to strike out on her own I'm ready now he's wounded and he's dying and she's remembering what he said about mercy and he's asking for mercy and by" "mercy he means so you know quick for us to kill him and she doesn't give it to him killing me she won't put him out of his misery she won't give him the easy way out she's" "going to leave him there to suffer another wandering stark is either bran who has made it north of the wall in search of the three-eyed Raven who he believes will help him walk again all the time aided by his loyal traveling" "companion Hodor I think how does me more than just brands legs he means him I think he means a lot to bran you know someone - he's always been there through absolutely everything you know even though he can't speak he can only say" "one word it's always someone that's get after them you know in a world of evil he's probably one of they're any good ones clearly bran is very important because music trekked all the way up north to a cave where this this raven" "have been summoning him for the past couple of seasons and now he's in this cave with the three-eyed raven really we're gonna find out what what the grand scheme of things is for bran you'll never walk again" "but you will fly yes powers is getting stronger and there's gonna be some really exciting thing that's happening are they were gonna find out more and more about him at the wall the Nights" "Watch suffers a huge wildling attack at" "Castle black but in season four they get a powerful new ally Stannis Baratheon who's been away licking his wounds after the Blackwater defeat joins them with his vast army the Battle of the" "Blackwater was a huge and crushing defeat at the end of season two and it's taken them basically two seasons to sort of rebuild from that and his arrival means that Jon Snow could have a new ally in the battle against the White" "Walkers beyond the wall if my father had seen the things that I've seen he'd also tell you to burn the dead before nightfall all of them season four draws to a mighty climax in King's Landing when the" "ultimate father-and-son showdown comes to a head Tyrion is tried for murder I'm guilty of being a dwarf you're not on trial for being a dwarf oh I've been on trial for that my entire life he's put" "on trial for a murder he doesn't commit his father deserts him and betrays him I demand a trial by combat" "I mean topic um but you can get someone to fight for your honor so whether you're wrong or not as long as they when the fight that's what matters he names Oberyn Martell as his champion the one thing that he's ever lived for" "is to avenge his sister's death and he knows that now that the opportunity is presenting itself there is no question that he will get what he wants and he does get what he wants by forcing a confession out of him it's not exactly" "how he expected it he still technically got what he wanted you know" "but when Oberyn is defeated Tyrion is sentenced to death in Westeros the pursuit of Justices as few tossing else" "is that any way to speak about our mother Tyrion is released from jail by his brother Jaime and told to go and board a ship and run away instead he decides to check in on his father but it's his former lover Shae that he" "discovers in Tywin's bed" "Tyrion then kills Shae in a sort of fit of jealousy and then it takes a crossbow and goes to find his father to him put down the crossbow it's so tightly aware" "I'm this single this is someone who spent his whole life trying to win his approbation as much as I hated him he really wanted that you know obviously that's never gonna happen now because he put a crossbow bolt in his" "groin what it means is when a big character like that goes it's gonna be a power vacuum and there's gonna be hustling and jostling to get into his place join us after the break we're in season five and new power rises in" "King's Landing" "[Music] welcome back to the story so far we're in season five a Royal Wedding unsettled" "Cersei her son Tommen is now King and has fallen under the spell of his new" "Queen Margaery much to Circe's dismay when marjorie come in his life I think he was just enjoying life so much judging from the Kings enthusiasm the" "Queen Mother will be a queen grandmother soon Nepean lovely day him being King was just a whole new excitement a whole new life" "Cersei empowers religious fanatics to help her topple her rival Queen Margaery" "I am The Queen she brings back the faith militant because she's like well hopefully I can clear the board with these guys and regain some of my part but Circe's engineered her own downfall royalty is no longer above the law and" "fanatics come for her next there's another contender to power in Westeros and it's its religion it's the power of the faith they want to remove all the excesses to strip Cersei of all her finery and encourage her in inverted" "commas to become clean sooner comes before you watching says he do the walk of atonement something happened that I thought would never happen and that is I felt compassion no matter what she'd done previously she didn't deserve this" "and so season 5 season left naked before her subjects to atone for" "Fidelity's the walk of shame was tough was very very tough for her very very few women could have done what she did complete that walk and you see her trying to maintain this regal presence but she can't strip down to her" "literally physically and emotionally and psychologically stripped down to her most vulnerable and then swept up into the arms of the Beast that she that she invited into the world the strange creation that is her new night it's just" "a brilliant twist also getting a new ally in season five is Daenerys in the form of Tyrion after killing his father he's fled across the Narrow Sea a fugitive on the run he was a Lannister and he had all the money in the world" "and a noble name and a big bag of gold can buy you a lot oh that's gone now he's totally at the mercy of the people he's traveling with and then the unthinkable happens" "I am the gift he's captured and handed over to his family's greatest enemy the" "Targaryen Queen in Waiting Daenerys my name is Tyrion Lannister and between them they are an extraordinary force she appoints him as her political adviser but when a civil rebellion begins Tyrion gets to witness Daenerys transform into a true Targaryen" "the symbol of the Targaryen is coming to claim their power is on the back of a dragon because I mean it's not much you can do when you're standing on the ground and a dragon's coming at you" "[Applause] she's had the dragons now for quite a long time but her actually becoming a dragon writer that's her claiming her birthright more than I think anything else we've seen her do because that is" "how the target Aryans wielded there apart everybody painted that picture of" "Daenerys flying a dragon had never really happened and I've waited so many years to say that and she finally does and she does it in a wicked way why she's escaping death Daenerys she's got the greatest name ever Stormborn mother" "of dragons" "Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen I love that name she's got these dragons as backup and then she's got Tyrion who knows" "King's Landing who knows the political side of things and he's been through battles as well yet a season five ends" "Daenerys his dragon delivers her to an uncertain fate the last thing we see in their season five she's surrounded by" "Dothraki is back where she bloody started" "in season five is one of vengeance for aya the young star follows her mentor to" "Braavos to become an assassin to surf where a girl must become Noah" "Maya's relationship with jaqen is fascinating he is utterly mysterious and she is seduced by his power I didn't come here to sweep floors no I come then you said I could be your apprentice the power of death the power to choose who" "dies and I uses her new skills to slaughter Meryn Trant a name on her kill list of people who destroyed her world alright I think I cross the line and if you look back to season one what would" "Ned Stark think of various actions it's not what he would want for it his daughter there is a sense of vengeance rather than a sense of justice as IO explores vengeance back home the battle is on for the stark family home Stannis" "Baratheon is marching on Winterfell now held by the Bolton's but sometimes sacrifices must be made to ensure victory he's going after something and it is it's increasingly futile in a desperate move Stannis follows the advice of the red priestess" "who promises him victory if he makes an unspeakable offering to the Lord of" "Light she managed to convince him to burn his own daughter that's one of the most chilling scenes I think of season five when when he burns his child she's believed in this God for so many years I" "think that if it's not to do with the" "God she kind of just blocks everything out and I think that's what happened as she blocked out the fact that she was going to be sacrificing a child she was sacrificing the Kings blood melisandre really thought that Stannis" "would be the one and you know she's put a lot of her heart and soul and everything else into into helping him but it proves to be his undoing his men desert him and Melisandre realizing all is lost" "flees to Castle black leaving Stannis to advance to Winterfell on his own bigger company worse than mutiny he's had a rough fall time Stannis isn't he because really he should be the king from after" "Robert Baratheon dies but every battle he loses he becomes further and further involved with this kind of fantasy and awaiting Stannis at Winterfell are the" "Bolton's who tried to submit their position in the north with a tactical marriage to Sansa Stark orchestrated by master manipulator Petyr Baelish she shouldn't trust Littlefinger I mean why are you gonna trust Littlefinger I mean geez here's the dodgy car salesman in Game of" "Thrones offers you everything and gives you nothing man just my son Ramsay" "Bolton now that the Bolton's have kind of established themselves at Winterfell bringing in a stark will really solidify their position in the north but it's a huge miscalculation the Trapster in another brutal relationship Francie is a horrible cruel evil power-hungry man he" "took psychotic nature to another level I mean he went there and he went some oh no no no you stay here you watch fellow-prisoner Theon Greyjoy aka reek is too terrified to help I think we all thought he should have" "stepped in on the wedding night let's be frank with Ramsay distracted by battle me Samsa is caught attempting to escape and it's only then that weak finds the courage to become Theon again" "I think that was a moment that we all needed to see a Theon again had been so much at the mercy of Ramsey that finally he had a moment where he could do good and so by the end of season five Sansa" "has jumped either to her death or to her freedom" "[Music] it's someone being pushed in every way to the absolute limit of their will to live and having come through that she's obviously gonna be a quite a different person a Sansa and Theon leap from the" "walls of Winterfell nearby Stannis is facing defeat by the fast Bolton army" "[Music]" "I think Stannis had given up I think even before they'd gone into battle I think he was going there to die fate finally catches up with Stannis when he comes face-to-face with Brienne of Tarth who sought vengeance for Renly's death" "since season two she is probably the toughest person going about the boat" "Westeros" "[Music]" "but as Stannis vows out John snow comes up against a greater foe when he ventures to hardhome to make peace with the wildlings this alliance is sacrilege but when the White Walkers launch a full attack John sees his hunch is right all" "humans must unites to fight them what's so great about the whole white Walker mythologies the way has been building throughout this series who knows what they want they bring death and destruction to absolutely everything up until this point they've been" "semi-mythical characters it's been the" "White Walkers in those cold lands that no one ever goes to and here they are in front of the heroes then they're very real but it's a very real danger I don't think the White Walkers are afraid of" "anything I think fear is just not in their vocabulary and then John and the viewers see the night's king reveal that he has a greater power he can raise and recruit the dead it's a challenge to John and look what I" "can do to forget all the other battles that are going on that battles for castles and and kingship you know he's got to focus his army but on John's return to Castle black in the final minutes of season 5 viewers" "witness the cruelest blow of all in a gut churning finale when I saw the cross was traitor written on it I thought oh no they're not gonna kill him and then they did watch you root for him but the" "great thing about Game of Thrones is your heroes can die any second the watch they're all members of the Nights Watch and no matter what and one of their brothers has done what they did was worse than what he did and so season 5" "ends on betrayal and death is this really the end for Jon Snow only season six holds the answer after the break" "[Music] welcome back to the story so far where season six begins at the scene of a crime John snow lies slain at Castle black and all hopes are pinned on the red priestess and her magic to bring him" "back" "Gareth Holmes needs John Snow we do we need him to finish what he started as viewers hope for Jon's resurrection we learned that Melisandre harbors a great secret the reveal of ancient Melisandre was definitely one of the most stunning" "surprises in season six of Game of" "Thrones it shows how much older she actually is and how much longer she's been believing in this God for then we see her use this power for Jon she tries to bring him back to us to resurrect him" "it doesn't work when the wolf side to sort of make some noise that's when I fall I'm laughing everyone fall" "Jon Snow is alive and then he's just like that moment of his Jon Snow has returned and all the Westeros rejoices and after the miracle of John's rebirth comes a partial reunion of scattered" "Starks when Sansa arrives at Castle black and together they'll gather forces in a bid to retake the north" "censors become majestic but she's also become savvy she's lost that naivety a monster has taken our home and our brother we have to go back to Winterfell and save them both she's a queen really in terms of being from a powerful family" "and being able to make decisions and tell other people to do stuff I think she's gonna tell other people to do stuff and across the sea in season six another young Royals in similar mood" "Daenerys he's been a hostage at the" "Dothraki burns their leaders and converts the tribe the huge Dothraki horde" "we're gonna finally get a lot of different power factions coming together in a very scary explosive way and she also gets a navy forging an alliance with the Ironborn who bring ships but as" "Great Houses unite for war beyond the wall we learn more about the deadly foe which threatens them all while time training with a three-eyed Raven bran stark uncovers a great secret White" "Walkers were created from the first men the children of forests invented the white walkers to help protect their own race it was an innocent defense to do that but clearly he has gone out of control and when the white walkers come" "for bran there are terrible casualties Toto is a goner the pure act of protection there was nothing there is no greater goal to what he did other than protect Brown everyone who's basically just given in order to give way for bran and there" "must be a reason why we know he's become the three-eyed Raven" "hi as you're going to use those powers and as the three-eyed Raven bran resolves a great start secret when he sees Jon Snow's mother is Ned sister" "Lyanna you understand what net has been going through the whole time Eve made out that it was his son his bastard son but it was really his nephew but it confirms" "Jon Snow is still half stark and in season six he and Sansa March on their family seat of Winterfell to fight" "Ramsay Bolton in what goes down in history as the Battle of the bastards" "Ramsay is now top dog having murdered his father and newborn brother when you play the game of Thrones you either win or you die you know and she knows it's about winning now she's had enough of all the rest it's time to win she offers" "her insight you think he's going to fall into your trap he won't he's the one who lays traps she's lived with this man for a long time and she knows that that he is cruel to the core Sansa's words go" "unheeded Ramsay baits John with his hostage Rick on your brother it shows a lot about how Ramsay's mind works he's calculating he's always thinking about the next move you know it's very interesting how Machiavellian he can be" "as well Ramsay Bolton's like yes I've got you now boy just in the middle of no man's man that's what Game of Thrones does so brilliantly is it it's constantly pitting good moral forces against bad" "ones and you don't just win because you're good they were surrounded by the entire army they were being driven into the mud Ramsay should have won he was much more conniving much more cunning and if it hadn't have been for Sansa" "coming in at the last minute then he probably would have won now that son has brought the cavalry the" "Knights of the Vale it's a dumb deal that the Starks are going home this was probably the first major victory in in six years" "[Music] there's suddenly inside the castle" "Winterfell it seems Jon will kill Ramsay but he then leaves Sansa to take the scalp there was only one way to kill him and" "Sansa found the right way to do it she knows what she's gonna do and she knows he deserves it well memory of you will disappear if you were face to face with your nemesis and you had the opportunity you take it" "she's hardcore she has the makings of a" "Cersei but it's Jon Snow who becomes king as the season ends with the Starks controlling the north and for now Sansa is by his side she's a character that will surprise people because she's not what she seems" "and neither is Sansa sister Arya blinded and stabbed in her training as a faceless man she's now back in Westeros to deal with Walder Frey she's got this mud journey aya comes in disguise having chopped up" "Walder sons they weren't easy to carve she wanted him to see who she was the face comes off and there's a knife the last thing you're ever going to see is a stark smiling down at you as you die" "she's been caught up in it so young that she's turning into this child soldier" "revenge is a dish best taken cold I cut" "I literally cannot wait now for her and" "Cersei to face off in fact Cersei elevates revenge to an art form in season six as the Lannisters fight for their family's very survival these royal lovers are united in grief after the sand snakes killed their daughter the" "Lannisters are all about power they're all about revenge this world and if they think they've taken from us we're going to take back and it doesn't matter how long it takes they will get you back with Jamie sent away to fight" "revolt Cersei is left alone to face judgment by the faith militant we have told that Cersei is going to turn up for a trial but we know perfectly well she's not going to but it's now she plays a" "game-changing hound she was always going to have a bastard Lee plan the man who was sent by Cersei to hold" "Tommen in that room well Marjorie knows what's up in an instant the high scepters pact with those who've wronged" "Cersei the Tyrells high Sparrow and faith militant the amazing thing about" "Game of Thrones is the spectacle is always incredible and you never know it's coming" "this isn't gonna end well Cersei is of course Unleashed wildfire she was wiped out this fantastic building she's destroyed all her enemies that's what makes us he's so brilliant she's been to the absolute lowest place" "that you could possibly go and she still comes out on top in the moment where she gets her revenge on everyone else she loses the only thing that she has left that matters to her knowing that his mum's the one that's pretty much" "murdered his wife was he got to live for" "Tommen's death leaves the Iron Throne empty so a new reign begins a witch told her that she she was cursed and that all of her children would die it didn't stop her from loving her kids and trying to" "protect them at any cost but she accepts very swiftly her fate and so Jamie returns to a new world order courtesy of his sister she's devastated the Tyrells now the Lannisters are once more a force to be reckoned with" "[Music]" "Queen Cersei sitting on the Iron Throne" "I think it's good to see her on the throne because it really has been her who's been pushing the man and so she should be there right there wrongly as one Queen takes the throne another set sail to challenge her for it" "finally Daenerys the Targaryen Queen is on her way to Westeros with a vast alliance she spent six seasons amassing" "[Music] we're now getting to crunch time as she comes to conquer the burning question for season seven who might join her now absolutely everybody against the" "Lannisters everyone against Cersei like" "Cersei doesn't have a chance but they'll fuck with us" "I do have this theory that where what will could will sit on the iron from just leave those dragons alone" "[Music] we asked Franta Johnson what it's like playing Scotty Scotty keeps me on my toes Scotty is as tough as she's vulnerable as manipulative as she's honest and like any person I've ever played before the blacklist Redemption" "starts Wednesday at 9:00 on sky1"