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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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