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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,440 Welcome to Westeros where the fight for the kingdom is on. 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,680 Anyone can die. - Where great families live and die for the Iron Throne. 3 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,080 Dracarys! - Your heart is in your mouth. 4 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,440 Those scenes are breathtaking. 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,680 Some are noble. - Jon Snow's everybody's hero. 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,280 Some are not. Ahh! He's so bad. 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,040 I had her! - So many kings and queens 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,040 but only one can rule. - You cannot deny her strength. 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,960 Run! The Wall is down and the dead are coming. 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,720 You can't have a cliffhanger greater than that. 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,920 Oof! When's it start? 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,840 This is what Game Of Thrones does, it- it sucks you in. 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,480 So let's fly through the saga to date 14 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,920 and get you ready for season 8. 15 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,600 As season one opens, it's the calm before the storm. 16 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,680 King Robert Baratheon rules from the capital King's Landing 17 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,360 but his days are numbered. - To be King or Queen in Westeros, 18 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:07,920 you sit on the Iron Throne and you rule over 19 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,440 the Seven Kingdoms from King's Landing. 20 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,640 Start the damn joust before I piss myself! 21 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,560 He's locked in a loveless marriage and 22 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:20,880 only chose his queen for her family's name to hold his kingdom together. 23 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,360 On Robert's part, there's no love involved. 24 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,360 Don't you get tired? 25 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:29,480 Every day. 26 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,960 It could've been anybody and it happens to be Cersei. 27 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,680 I felt something for you once you know. 28 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,600 I'm very sympathetic to Cersei. - I know. 29 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,160 She was completely in love with him. She... she was in awe of him almost 30 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:46,680 and he turned into this semi-abusive drunk. 31 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,240 Was it ever possible for us? Was there ever a time, 32 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,280 ever a moment? 33 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:56,920 No. 34 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,360 You may think, initially, 'Oh, that poor 35 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:04,880 'lady married to that terrible man.'But don't underestimate her. 36 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,240 This unhappy couple have three golden-haired children to their name 37 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,840 but Cersei keeps a deadly secret from Robert. 38 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,520 The children are not his. 39 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,760 The truth will be discovered on a royal trip north 40 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:22,480 and it's here that our story really begins. 41 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,600 The king has asked his old ally Ned Stark to help him rule. 42 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,960 Ned and his wife Catelyn govern the North, 43 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,000 fiercely loyal to the crown. 44 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:40,080 The Starks stand for loyalty, integrity, bravery. 45 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,240 They are really the moral compass of the show. 46 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,280 They're the good guys and they're the ones 47 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,640 that you find yourself rooting for from the start. 48 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,080 The couple have five children, 49 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:51,120 three sons and two daughters. 50 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,240 And the decimation of this happy family 51 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,480 will reverberate throughout our tale. 52 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:59,680 They're almost too innocent for that world. 53 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,120 King Robert arrives with his queen Cersei 54 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,160 and with them is the whole Lannister clan. 55 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,040 That's Jaime Lannister, the Queen's twin brother. 56 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,400 Oh, the Lannisters. They're blond, 57 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,520 they're beautiful, they're arrogant, so fuck them. 58 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,720 It's the Lannisters who are going to introduce 59 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,000 a lot of trouble into the lives of the Starks from this point. 60 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,400 King Robert has decided to ask Ned to be the Hand of the king. 61 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,080 Nine years I haven't seen you, 62 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,440 Where have you been? - Guarding the North for you. 63 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:33,320 Robert realises that he... too late, that he's surrounded himself 64 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,920 by enemies, really. 65 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,240 The only person he can trust is Ned. 66 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,880 I need you, Ned, down at King's Landing 67 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,120 not up here where you're no damn use to anybody. 68 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,360 More importantly, during the visit, Bran Stark goes climbing 69 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,680 one day, gets to the top of the tower and 70 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,480 discovers the Lannisters' deep dark secret. 71 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,280 The secret is that Cersei the queen 72 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,720 is actually sleeping with her brother Jaime. 73 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,760 The Lannisters, oh, God! 74 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,640 Pffff! They are... 75 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,160 I have never seen a family... 76 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,160 I mean, talk about dysfunctional. 77 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:12,840 Oh! 78 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,680 Stop! Stop. 79 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:17,600 It's incest, which, even in Westeros, 80 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,880 is generally frowned upon. It also means that King Robert's children 81 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,360 are not actually his children. It's all right. 82 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,240 He saw us! - I heard you the first time. 83 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,960 He knows what it means too and he knows that if the incest 84 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,440 is discovered, not only will he and his sister be put to death 85 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,080 but their three children may very well too. 86 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,240 And so for Jaime Lannister, the greatest swordsman in Westeros, 87 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,280 there's only one solution. 88 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,560 The things I do for love. 89 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,880 Here's a convenient way. The kid will die, 90 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,840 it'll look like he fell and our kids will be safe. 91 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,440 First in a coma, Bran will later awake 92 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,280 with no memory of how he fell or what he saw. 93 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,760 The royal secret is safe for now and only the viewer 94 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,600 has seen what the Lannisters will do to keep it. 95 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,080 Everything went pear-shaped after that 96 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,880 and really that's the whole chain of events starting. 97 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,120 King Robert still wants Ned down in the capital, 98 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:16,920 so this will be the last ever time we see the Stark family 99 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,720 all together, a family which includes Ned's son out of wedlock, 100 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,520 the bastard Jon Snow. Ned must now leave his family 101 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,560 and follow King Robert south, 102 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,320 taking his daughters Sansa and Arya with him. 103 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,960 The reason I think the first season of Game Of Thrones works 104 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,040 is it's essentially about this good family that just wants to 105 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,640 essentially be left alone and serve their king and their country. 106 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:43,200 This good family is ripped apart and thrown into situations they never anticipated. 107 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,400 They are bound for the capital King's Landing, 108 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,760 where Ned's new task will be to protect King Robert 109 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:50,800 from those who would unseat him. 110 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,920 And in season one, viewers learned 111 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,680 the greatest enemies live in exile overseas. 112 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:01,480 The Targaryens. - They were dethroned by King Robert in the last war. 113 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,800 The only surviving members of the family 114 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,440 are a brother and sister called Viserys and Daenerys. 115 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,720 The siblings are the children of the Mad King who was killed in war. 116 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,360 Viserys dominates his younger sister. 117 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,680 Viserys has more than a touch of the Targaryen madness 118 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:20,120 and, you know, sometimes he's protecting her 119 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:23,520 but he's also trying to treat her as a... as a bargaining chip. 120 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,160 Come forward, my dear. - In search of an army, 121 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,560 Viserys makes a pact with a savage tribe, the Dothraki. 122 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,520 Offering his beautiful young sister in marriage to their leader, 123 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,640 Khal Drogo. She's the only bargaining chip he has, 124 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,640 he doesn't have any wealth any more, he doesn't have any armies 125 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,240 but he has her who he can trade to this horse lord. 126 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,880 I would let his whole tribe fuck you, 127 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:50,800 all 40,000 men and their horses too, if that's what it took. 128 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,400 He's power hungry but to a nasty degree. 129 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,040 He doesn't really care how or by what means, 130 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,800 he just wants to be important and looked up to. 131 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:03,840 But his plans backfire. 132 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,600 Daenerys and Khal Drogo fall in love and become quite the power couple. 133 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,880 Suddenly, she finds herself, with Khal Drogo, empowered. People are obeying her. 134 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,680 Tell him I want what was bargained for or I'm taking you back. 135 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,760 He just completely underestimates not only Dany but Khal Drogo. 136 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,000 What's he saying? 137 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,040 He says "yes." 138 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:31,720 You shall have a golden crown. 139 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,480 It's a real coming-of-age story throughout the first season. 140 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,320 She really grows into herself. 141 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,840 Look away, Khaleesi. - No. 142 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,960 This is one of the turning points for Daenerys. 143 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,080 I think this is when you realize that she's prepared 144 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,760 to sacrifice anything for the greater good. 145 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:53,880 A crown for a King. 146 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,520 Argh! Ugh! Ugh! 147 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,760 He was revolting. 148 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,240 He was utterly, utterly revolting. 149 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,280 And that was the moment that she escaped from her shell. 150 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,680 When she became the woman and not the kowtowed girl. 151 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,240 And as the Targaryens grow in power, 152 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,600 we learn that King Robert faces another challenge 153 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,720 to his northernmost borders. 154 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:25,800 Threats which led past rulers to build 155 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,080 this giant wall of ice to keep out wild things beyond. 156 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,800 It's protected by the legendary Night's Watch. 157 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,560 The Night's Watch are a small army 158 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,320 who guard the northern border of the country. 159 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,760 In season one, there's lots of fighting for the Throne 160 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,920 but actually, in the background, there are these creatures appearing 161 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:47,840 north of the Wall that nobody has seen for thousands of years 162 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,200 and no-one wants to believe they're there but they certainly are. 163 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,560 We hear the characters saying that this is all folklore, 164 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,040 that this is all made up but, for the viewer, 165 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,800 we see that, basically, these characters do exist. 166 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:03,760 They are there. 167 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:11,720 The White Walkers are terrifying mostly because 168 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,520 you're not 100% sure you know what they're capable of doing 169 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,160 or what their motives are. 170 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,680 They are a serious threat. 171 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,360 In season one, in search of a purpose, 172 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,960 Jon Snow ventures to the Wall and joins the Night's Watch, 173 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,000 a leader in the making. 174 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,440 Jon Snow's everybody's hero. 175 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,720 Jon Snow's one of my favourite characters. He's the dude. 176 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,400 He's also in search of answers. 177 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:39,960 The question of Jon... Jon Snow's parentage 178 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,440 has been one of the burning topics amongst, 179 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,560 not only the show's fans, but book fans for many decades. 180 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,800 Jon Snow is Ned Stark's bastard son. He brought him back from a war 181 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:51,880 and we never really learned who the mother is. 182 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,280 Um, understandably, Catelyn, Ned's wife, 183 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,320 isn't too fond of Jon for that reason. 184 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:02,840 Try as she may, um, she could never make peace 185 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,960 with that, with the fact that Ned was unfaithful. 186 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,560 But down in the capital, King's Landing, 187 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,440 Ned Stark has a much greater challenge to face. 188 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,200 His daughter has fallen for Prince Joffrey. 189 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,360 She's presented with marrying the future king, 190 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:18,400 live in a beautiful castle, go to banquets, 191 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:21,520 have beautiful dresses to wear. A fairy tale story. 192 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:24,720 Ned has discovered the queen and her brother are lovers 193 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,440 and this will be his family's undoing. 194 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:31,480 When the king returns from his hunt, I'll tell him the truth. 195 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,440 You must be gone by then, you and your children. 196 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,680 I will not have their blood on my hands. 197 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,720 but before he gets the chance to talk to King Robert, King Robert gets killed on a hunting trip. 198 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,840 Joffrey is now king and without Robert to protect him, 199 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,320 Ned is tried for treason. He confesses, 200 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,800 believing it will save his daughter but misjudges the new ruler. 201 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,320 He's been stuck up in the North too long 202 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,560 and has no idea how the real world operates, 203 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:00,000 how to really deal with the kind of... the politics of Westeros. 204 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:01,880 Bring me his head! 205 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:05,840 You will not! 206 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,800 That's when you realize nobody is safe in this world at all. 207 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,760 No! Stop them! 208 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:16,760 When I saw Sean Bean pushed down... 209 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,160 ..that was the only scene that really has brought a tear to my eye. 210 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,440 It's cruel, it's heartbreaking, 211 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,800 but there's a point to the children witnessing this. 212 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,000 If they want to survive, they have to start to be resilient. 213 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,040 They have to learn from this. 214 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,360 It was at that moment, you realized what Game Of Thrones was really about. 215 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,160 It's here that the Stark family splinters. 216 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,560 Arya is whisked away by a Night's Watch brother loyal to Ned, 217 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,440 leaving Sansa at the mercy of Joffrey. 218 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,000 Robb Stark reacts with murderous rage 219 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,520 to the news that his father has been beheaded. 220 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,280 Robb's the heir and he's not only picking up his father's mantle 221 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,040 as Lord of Winterfell but he's picking up a much older mantle. 222 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:07,920 The crown that no one has worn for 300 years, the Kingdom of the North. 223 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,200 It will lead to all-out war 224 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,240 between the Starks and the Lannisters 225 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,640 who are led by its patriarch Tywin Lannister. 226 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,720 Tywin Lannister is one of the great warriors 227 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,080 and battle strategists of the age. 228 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,760 His legacy is uppermost in his mind all of the time. 229 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,440 In these next few months, we could establish a dynasty 230 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:31,480 that will last a thousand years. 231 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:35,200 Or we could collapse into nothing like the Targaryens did. 232 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,600 All of his hopes are in Jaime. 233 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,520 As well as his twins, Cersei and Jaime, 234 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:45,000 he has a son he despises, Tyrion, known as the Imp. 235 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,960 You're wounded. - Good of you to notice. 236 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,720 Tyrion doesn't look like a warrior. He doesn't look like a kingmaker, 237 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:56,960 there's no way that he can assume the position of Tywin. 238 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,160 I hear we won. - I would say Tyrion is one of my favourite characters. 239 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:07,280 Um, how he's managed to last this long is amazing to me. 240 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,560 As war rages in Westeros, over the Narrow Sea, 241 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,720 Daenerys loses a husband but gains astonishing new powers. 242 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,320 She walks into Khal Drogo's funeral pyre 243 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,560 with fossilised dragon's eggs. 244 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:21,800 Oh, what an epic scene. 245 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,640 Season one ends with the sight of Daenerys 246 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,960 emerging from a fire unscathed with her dragons hatched. 247 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,280 These creatures are extraordinary creatures, 248 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,320 the likes of which have not been seen in hundreds of years. 249 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,320 Blood of my blood. 250 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,120 You see these three dragons around her and you're, just, like, 251 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,320 they're gonna be awesome when they're grown. 252 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,160 The innocence is gone, she's it. 253 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,320 You know, she's the force now. 254 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:57,560 As the dragons are born, she comes more and more into her own 255 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,480 until the power becomes innate to her. 256 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,880 It's about a new era. The whole first season is essentially 257 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:07,080 the old era dying out and the new era beginning. 258 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,880 And by the end, she has a sense that she knows 259 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,240 that she's bound for greatness. 260 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:18,560 And after the break, watch those dragons grow in season two. 261 00:14:24,389 --> 00:14:28,469 Welcome back to Game Of Thrones, The Story So Far, where season two 262 00:14:28,629 --> 00:14:32,349 marks a new reign of tyranny in the capital, King's Landing. 263 00:14:32,469 --> 00:14:34,509 Joffrey is brutaliing his subjects 264 00:14:34,669 --> 00:14:36,909 as well as his bride-to-be, Sansa Stark. 265 00:14:37,069 --> 00:14:39,789 You can't! - What did you say? 266 00:14:39,949 --> 00:14:43,069 Sansa has learned some painful lessons along the way. 267 00:14:43,229 --> 00:14:46,549 The chivalrous knights and gallant princes that she dreamed of, 268 00:14:46,709 --> 00:14:49,749 she got a gallant prince and he turned out to be Joffrey. 269 00:14:49,909 --> 00:14:52,469 Killing you would send your brother a message. 270 00:14:53,989 --> 00:14:58,349 She's a prisoner in the worst place imaginable, enduring all kinds 271 00:14:58,509 --> 00:15:02,069 of psychological and sometimes physical abuse from these captors. 272 00:15:02,189 --> 00:15:03,189 Leave her face. 273 00:15:04,549 --> 00:15:05,869 I like her pretty. 274 00:15:10,229 --> 00:15:13,749 He's a bully and we don't like bullies. 275 00:15:13,909 --> 00:15:16,109 Joffrey is the character throughout the series 276 00:15:16,229 --> 00:15:18,149 that the audience loves to hate. 277 00:15:18,309 --> 00:15:23,029 I heard a disgusting lie about Uncle Jaime. And you? 278 00:15:23,149 --> 00:15:26,029 He's a despicable human being. 279 00:15:28,429 --> 00:15:32,429 Cersei's smart enough to realize that Joffrey is, uh, perhaps 280 00:15:32,549 --> 00:15:35,629 not what, uh, she might have hoped for 281 00:15:35,789 --> 00:15:38,749 and he's getting out of her control now and he's a danger, 282 00:15:38,909 --> 00:15:42,629 in part, even to her and even to other members of the family. 283 00:15:42,789 --> 00:15:46,189 What you just did is punishable by death. 284 00:15:49,389 --> 00:15:51,349 Joffrey's enemies are everywhere. 285 00:15:51,509 --> 00:15:54,189 Chief amongst them, and just across the bay at Dragonstone, 286 00:15:54,349 --> 00:15:57,229 is Stannis, brother of the late King Robert, 287 00:15:57,389 --> 00:15:59,269 who believes the throne should be his. 288 00:16:01,149 --> 00:16:04,709 Stannis has learned that Robert's children are Lannister bastards, 289 00:16:04,869 --> 00:16:07,549 which means that it is Stannis who is next in line. 290 00:16:07,709 --> 00:16:11,749 So Stannis Baratheon, who knows King Joffrey is the product of incest, 291 00:16:11,909 --> 00:16:15,149 decides to send ravens out to all the corners of the Seven Kingdoms, 292 00:16:15,309 --> 00:16:17,629 letting them know the Lannister secret. 293 00:16:17,789 --> 00:16:20,269 In order to claim the throne, Stannis enlists 294 00:16:20,389 --> 00:16:22,309 the Red Priestess, Melisandre, 295 00:16:22,469 --> 00:16:25,829 who was on her own mission to find the right ruler for Westeros. 296 00:16:25,989 --> 00:16:29,989 She believes Stannis is the saviour of the world, basically. 297 00:16:30,149 --> 00:16:32,029 He's supposed to be on the Iron Throne. 298 00:16:32,189 --> 00:16:35,709 And her magical powers have no limits, I think. 299 00:16:35,869 --> 00:16:38,629 There's... There's so much that we don't know that she can do. 300 00:16:38,789 --> 00:16:42,029 However, Stannis isn't the only one after the throne. 301 00:16:42,189 --> 00:16:44,549 His younger brother, Renly, also believes he has a claim 302 00:16:44,669 --> 00:16:46,589 and so war is inevitable. 303 00:16:46,709 --> 00:16:49,349 The Iron Throne is mine by right. 304 00:16:49,509 --> 00:16:52,149 All those that deny that are my foes. 305 00:16:54,149 --> 00:16:56,269 The whole realm denies it, from Dorne to the Wall. 306 00:16:56,429 --> 00:16:59,269 They both think they should be king but I'm on Stannis's side, 307 00:16:59,389 --> 00:17:01,509 so screw Renly. 308 00:17:01,669 --> 00:17:03,509 Rather than fight it out on the battlefield, 309 00:17:03,669 --> 00:17:05,749 Stannis finds another way to kill his brother. 310 00:17:05,909 --> 00:17:08,109 Family ties don't mean an awful lot in Westeros. 311 00:17:08,269 --> 00:17:11,229 The powerful sorcery of the Red Priestess is revealed 312 00:17:11,389 --> 00:17:13,589 when she gives birth to a sinister weapon. 313 00:17:16,429 --> 00:17:21,429 The shadow baby is basically just a way to kill Renly 314 00:17:21,589 --> 00:17:24,789 and it comes out of me in a great way. 315 00:17:27,829 --> 00:17:32,189 I think Melisandre, she's always lived by this religion. 316 00:17:33,829 --> 00:17:35,789 If she's got something to do, she's gonna do it 317 00:17:35,949 --> 00:17:38,149 and she's not gonna let other people stand in her way. 318 00:17:38,309 --> 00:17:40,309 What I think is brilliant about Game Of Thrones, 319 00:17:40,469 --> 00:17:43,269 it's a fantasy world but it's a completely realistic depiction of 320 00:17:43,429 --> 00:17:47,189 how power works. What power does to people, what people do to get power, 321 00:17:47,389 --> 00:17:51,149 what happens when they fall short, when they miss the mark. That's why it's so brilliant. 322 00:17:55,349 --> 00:17:58,029 When Renly is murdered, it leaves behind his widow, 323 00:17:58,189 --> 00:18:01,629 Margaery Tyrell, who belongs to the Tyrell family, 324 00:18:01,789 --> 00:18:03,829 who are very rich and powerful in their own right. 325 00:18:03,989 --> 00:18:06,349 Calling yourself King doesn't make you one 326 00:18:06,509 --> 00:18:09,549 and if Renly wasn't a king, I wasn't a Queen. 327 00:18:11,029 --> 00:18:15,109 She knows how to play the game. She really knows how to play the game. 328 00:18:15,229 --> 00:18:17,349 Do you want to be a Queen? 329 00:18:17,469 --> 00:18:19,389 No. 330 00:18:20,389 --> 00:18:22,589 I want to be THE Queen. 331 00:18:24,349 --> 00:18:28,349 As one would-be king is extinguished, another rises up 332 00:18:28,509 --> 00:18:32,189 as season two sees a small but vicious family enter the fray. 333 00:18:32,349 --> 00:18:37,469 A seafaring house that commands the greatest fleet of ships in Westeros. 334 00:18:37,629 --> 00:18:41,269 It is led by Balon Greyjoy, whose son Theon, 335 00:18:41,429 --> 00:18:43,469 a captive of the Starks since childhood, 336 00:18:43,589 --> 00:18:45,509 has finally made it back home. 337 00:18:46,789 --> 00:18:48,749 We take what is ours. 338 00:18:50,269 --> 00:18:53,029 Your time with the wolves has made you weak. 339 00:18:53,189 --> 00:18:56,349 Theon Greyjoy has grown up with the Stark family, 340 00:18:56,509 --> 00:18:59,869 he was a sort of a prisoner, um, from a war in the past. 341 00:19:00,029 --> 00:19:04,309 Ah, he now returns to his motherland, which is the Iron Islands 342 00:19:04,429 --> 00:19:06,709 and decides to betray the Starks. 343 00:19:06,869 --> 00:19:09,869 You would have our father bow down to your other family? 344 00:19:09,989 --> 00:19:12,549 I have no other family! 345 00:19:12,709 --> 00:19:15,789 Theon's sister Yara, a battle-hardened warrior, 346 00:19:15,909 --> 00:19:18,309 is now heir to the Iron Islands. 347 00:19:18,469 --> 00:19:23,189 Yara is strong and fierce. so When Theon comes back 348 00:19:23,349 --> 00:19:27,029 and stakes his claim, she's worked too hard for this 349 00:19:27,149 --> 00:19:29,669 and is not given that up. 350 00:19:29,829 --> 00:19:33,629 To prove his loyalty, Theon invades Winterfell. 351 00:19:33,789 --> 00:19:37,429 The ravens are informing my father of my victory here. 352 00:19:37,589 --> 00:19:40,309 This leaves the Stark family home in chaos 353 00:19:40,469 --> 00:19:43,469 and he takes the younger Stark brothers captive. 354 00:19:43,629 --> 00:19:47,629 Prince Theon. - I yield Winterfell to Prince Theon. 355 00:19:47,789 --> 00:19:50,989 Across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen is learning 356 00:19:51,149 --> 00:19:53,549 valuable lessons in her quest to return 357 00:19:53,669 --> 00:19:55,909 to Westeros and seize the throne. 358 00:19:56,029 --> 00:19:58,749 She is desperate to be a good ruler. 359 00:19:58,909 --> 00:20:01,549 That she can, you know, go to bed at night saying, 360 00:20:01,709 --> 00:20:04,109 'I think I'm doing things the right way.' 361 00:20:04,269 --> 00:20:07,229 As Daenerys's power grows so do her dragons 362 00:20:07,389 --> 00:20:09,269 but as news of their existence spreads, 363 00:20:09,389 --> 00:20:11,669 they become highly sought after. 364 00:20:11,829 --> 00:20:14,589 When she's in Qarth, everybody kind of thinks, 'Who are you? 365 00:20:14,749 --> 00:20:18,229 'We'll just take your dragons. And you're not powerful any more.' 366 00:20:22,829 --> 00:20:24,789 Dracarys! 367 00:20:26,629 --> 00:20:29,149 People have underestimated her the whole way. 368 00:20:30,829 --> 00:20:33,149 And it is in season two that we finally see 369 00:20:33,269 --> 00:20:35,189 the dragons kill for Daenerys. 370 00:20:40,229 --> 00:20:43,869 As Daenerys gets stronger in exile, Jon Snow and the Night's Watch 371 00:20:43,989 --> 00:20:45,909 are on a mission beyond the Wall 372 00:20:46,069 --> 00:20:49,109 where the true scale of the threat to the kingdom is revealed. 373 00:20:49,229 --> 00:20:51,709 Blow the horn. Somebody come. 374 00:20:51,829 --> 00:20:53,869 The army of the dead is on its way 375 00:20:54,029 --> 00:20:56,989 and it's gonna kick off sooner or later and really, you know, 376 00:20:57,149 --> 00:20:59,629 they've got to get out of there as fast as they possibly can. 377 00:20:59,749 --> 00:21:03,989 One blast for friends, two for foes. 378 00:21:05,229 --> 00:21:07,909 And three for White Walkers. 379 00:21:08,069 --> 00:21:10,149 The threat of winter coming is very much 380 00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:12,509 a myth to the people of the south. 381 00:21:12,669 --> 00:21:14,549 They're not really taking it seriously. 382 00:21:14,669 --> 00:21:16,589 They don't know about the undead 383 00:21:16,749 --> 00:21:19,709 and all the horrors that are coming towards them. 384 00:21:23,029 --> 00:21:25,629 Three blasts. - RUN! 385 00:21:25,789 --> 00:21:27,749 So what we learn in season two is that 386 00:21:27,909 --> 00:21:29,949 the White Walkers are very much real. 387 00:21:30,109 --> 00:21:33,189 They're nothing like we've ever seen before in television. 388 00:21:33,349 --> 00:21:35,549 They're not just zombies, they're not just statues, 389 00:21:35,709 --> 00:21:38,149 they're walking ice cubes, basically. 390 00:21:38,309 --> 00:21:41,029 Um, they're, they're really bad and they're really scary 391 00:21:41,189 --> 00:21:44,709 and it's literally... I think it's got to be a fight of ice and fire. 392 00:21:49,909 --> 00:21:53,789 We have all these kingdoms wanting to fight for the Throne 393 00:21:53,949 --> 00:21:58,229 and they think that that is what ultimately the battle is about. 394 00:21:58,349 --> 00:22:00,549 But really, at the end of the day, 395 00:22:00,709 --> 00:22:03,869 they're not looking at what's the real problem here 396 00:22:03,989 --> 00:22:05,909 and it's the White Walkers. 397 00:22:08,669 --> 00:22:11,669 And it's in season two, in King's Landing, 398 00:22:11,829 --> 00:22:14,069 where we see that Tyrion may just be an asset 399 00:22:14,229 --> 00:22:17,709 to the war when Stannis launches an attack on the city. 400 00:22:20,069 --> 00:22:21,789 I'll lead the attack. 401 00:22:21,949 --> 00:22:24,149 The Battle of Blackwater was his moment. 402 00:22:24,309 --> 00:22:27,789 He was the best person to speak to the people of King's Landing 403 00:22:27,949 --> 00:22:31,669 and to get them to protect their, their... their... their city 404 00:22:31,829 --> 00:22:34,389 because he knows what it's like to fight, 405 00:22:34,549 --> 00:22:37,229 he knows what it's like to have your back up against the wall. 406 00:22:37,389 --> 00:22:40,709 We like an underdog. And, uh, when they... 407 00:22:40,869 --> 00:22:44,189 When the underdog manages to come out on top, 408 00:22:44,309 --> 00:22:46,269 it's a cause for celebration. 409 00:22:46,429 --> 00:22:49,789 Those are brave men knocking at our door. 410 00:22:51,029 --> 00:22:53,909 Let's go kill them! 411 00:22:55,669 --> 00:22:59,629 Tyrion manages to get the troops fired up by giving 412 00:22:59,789 --> 00:23:03,149 a good speech and then heads out with them to fight 413 00:23:03,309 --> 00:23:05,949 Stannis on the bay. He doesn't last very long, 414 00:23:06,109 --> 00:23:07,989 he gets knocked out after a couple of minutes. 415 00:23:08,149 --> 00:23:10,949 Tyrion is upstaged by his father Tywin, 416 00:23:11,109 --> 00:23:12,989 who arrives with his own massive army. 417 00:23:13,149 --> 00:23:16,269 He's been bolstered by the Tyrells, who firmly joined the cause 418 00:23:16,389 --> 00:23:18,589 and they crush the Stannis attack. 419 00:23:18,749 --> 00:23:21,429 Certain people have luck on their side. 420 00:23:21,589 --> 00:23:24,589 Other people don't. Possibly Stannis is one of those... 421 00:23:25,949 --> 00:23:31,349 ...very, very unlucky characters who are destined not to achieve 422 00:23:31,509 --> 00:23:33,349 their goals. - Let's fight! 423 00:23:33,469 --> 00:23:35,989 Tywin's pretty lucky. 424 00:23:36,109 --> 00:23:38,269 Fortune tends to smile on him 425 00:23:38,429 --> 00:23:41,189 when it should damn him. - Father. 426 00:23:41,349 --> 00:23:45,589 And yet, against all the odds, that battle is won. 427 00:23:46,629 --> 00:23:50,549 The battle is over. We have won. 428 00:23:55,949 --> 00:23:59,469 Season three begins, Daenerys has set sail on a mission. 429 00:23:59,629 --> 00:24:02,749 She and her dragons may have grown in power and stature 430 00:24:02,909 --> 00:24:05,229 but securing an army still eludes her. 431 00:24:05,389 --> 00:24:07,709 So she ventures to a place where she can buy one. 432 00:24:10,709 --> 00:24:14,069 She knows she needs an army, a powerful army, 433 00:24:14,229 --> 00:24:17,189 if she ever wants to reclaim the Westerosi Throne 434 00:24:17,349 --> 00:24:21,589 and the best bet for that are the Unsullied. I have dragons. 435 00:24:21,749 --> 00:24:26,869 I'll give you one. She appears to want to trade the dragon for slaves. 436 00:24:27,029 --> 00:24:29,389 She seems to have made this daft agreement 437 00:24:29,509 --> 00:24:31,429 to give away her best dragon. 438 00:24:34,669 --> 00:24:36,669 She hands over the dragon. Next thing you know, 439 00:24:36,829 --> 00:24:38,589 once she has control of the Unsullied... 440 00:24:43,069 --> 00:24:44,989 ..then it's very easy to say to the dragon 441 00:24:45,149 --> 00:24:48,469 who still will listen to her and not to him, 'Burn him.' 442 00:24:48,589 --> 00:24:49,949 Dracarys! 443 00:24:52,749 --> 00:24:53,949 No! No! No! 444 00:24:54,109 --> 00:24:57,229 Because you would take power if you have the force of a dragon, 445 00:24:57,349 --> 00:24:59,589 they're pretty impressive creatures. 446 00:24:59,749 --> 00:25:02,349 She's been the mother of dragons and you knew she was destined 447 00:25:02,509 --> 00:25:05,069 for greatness but now she really is a queen with an army. 448 00:25:05,229 --> 00:25:08,349 To then see that she has thousands of people 449 00:25:08,509 --> 00:25:14,749 on her team and then you get, like, this swoop past. 450 00:25:14,909 --> 00:25:18,869 She's got these, like, fire-breathing mythical creatures 451 00:25:19,029 --> 00:25:21,469 that they're just gonna tear shit up. 452 00:25:21,629 --> 00:25:24,709 As this young Targaryen gains followers, 453 00:25:24,869 --> 00:25:27,989 in King's Landing, a young Tyrell is gaining influence. 454 00:25:28,149 --> 00:25:31,069 Margaery has replaced Sansa in Joffrey's affections, 455 00:25:31,229 --> 00:25:34,429 a reward for her family's military support at Blackwater. 456 00:25:36,389 --> 00:25:40,469 I imagine it must be so exciting to squeeze your finger here 457 00:25:40,589 --> 00:25:43,389 and watch something die over there. 458 00:25:44,509 --> 00:25:47,029 Margaery is a woman who's on top of her game, 459 00:25:47,189 --> 00:25:51,029 she's controlling where she's going, she's a proper feminist icon. 460 00:25:51,189 --> 00:25:54,469 But the Tyrells' ambitions are not going down well 461 00:25:54,629 --> 00:25:57,949 with Cersei Lannister. - Alana is the matriarch of the family 462 00:25:58,109 --> 00:26:02,029 and she advises her granddaughter on how best to play the political game, 463 00:26:02,189 --> 00:26:04,669 so that she might take power in King's Landing. 464 00:26:04,829 --> 00:26:09,429 To make matters worse, her soulmate Jaime is a prisoner of war. 465 00:26:09,549 --> 00:26:11,389 He is held first by Brienne of Tarth 466 00:26:11,549 --> 00:26:13,989 then both are captured by a northern faction. 467 00:26:14,149 --> 00:26:16,829 Looks like your woman's getting the better of you. 468 00:26:16,989 --> 00:26:20,789 This is all bundled up in when Jaime starts thinking about other people. 469 00:26:20,949 --> 00:26:23,229 You're only making it worse. 470 00:26:23,389 --> 00:26:27,869 His efforts to stop Brienne being raped are the beginning of that. 471 00:26:27,989 --> 00:26:30,429 You know who she is, don't you? 472 00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:33,389 It's good when those little bits of goodness 473 00:26:33,549 --> 00:26:35,829 come in those characters that are so devilish as well. 474 00:26:35,989 --> 00:26:38,069 Just give you a little light in there. 475 00:26:38,229 --> 00:26:40,309 Lord Selwyn would pay his daughter's weight 476 00:26:40,469 --> 00:26:42,669 in sapphires if she's returned to him. 477 00:26:42,829 --> 00:26:45,429 It, of course, being Game Of Thrones, it doesn't get him anywhere. 478 00:26:49,309 --> 00:26:52,109 Another one of those Game Of Thrones moments which has so much more 479 00:26:52,269 --> 00:26:55,229 going on in it than just him losing his hand. He's the greatest 480 00:26:55,389 --> 00:26:58,749 swordsman in Westeros we're told, so he can't do that any more. 481 00:26:58,909 --> 00:27:01,949 He's now made a good friend in her and he's seen a lot of things 482 00:27:02,109 --> 00:27:07,109 and I'm- I'm sure he's questioning what being a Lannister is about as well. 483 00:27:07,269 --> 00:27:11,269 Yet, without his hand, we see Jaime Lannister at his most heroic. 484 00:27:11,429 --> 00:27:14,349 The heartless knight who pushed Bran Stark from the tower 485 00:27:14,469 --> 00:27:16,509 finds new honour in season three. 486 00:27:16,669 --> 00:27:20,069 He's left, he's left her behind, he's abandoned her 487 00:27:20,229 --> 00:27:22,589 and he's on his way to King's Landing 488 00:27:22,749 --> 00:27:27,549 and then- then his captors mention what's gonna happen to her. 489 00:27:27,709 --> 00:27:30,749 Not fair? And then he decides to return and save her. 490 00:27:34,549 --> 00:27:37,669 And it is in season three that we witness the fearsome work 491 00:27:37,829 --> 00:27:40,269 of another powerful family, the Boltons, 492 00:27:40,429 --> 00:27:43,149 who are scheming to take control of the North. 493 00:27:43,309 --> 00:27:45,749 I think the Boltons want what everyone else seems to want, 494 00:27:45,869 --> 00:27:48,389 it's power and status. 495 00:27:48,509 --> 00:27:50,629 Kill me! 496 00:27:52,389 --> 00:27:55,869 You're no good to me dead. We need you. 497 00:27:55,989 --> 00:27:57,869 Ramsay, a bastard son of the family, 498 00:27:58,029 --> 00:28:01,709 enjoys torturing his enemies, including Theon Greyjoy, 499 00:28:01,869 --> 00:28:05,549 who he took prisoner when sacking Winterfell after Ned's demise. 500 00:28:05,709 --> 00:28:09,029 Historically, the Boltons have always been just under the Starks, 501 00:28:09,189 --> 00:28:11,229 kind of the Starks have always been on top of them, 502 00:28:11,389 --> 00:28:15,149 so I think they feel that now is their time to rise. 503 00:28:15,309 --> 00:28:19,229 You don't look like Theon Greyjoy any more. 504 00:28:19,389 --> 00:28:23,189 It's unbelievable what Ramsay is capable of doing to people. 505 00:28:23,349 --> 00:28:26,029 Freak! - He's just all about the mind. 506 00:28:26,189 --> 00:28:27,989 He's all about making you doubt yourself. 507 00:28:28,149 --> 00:28:30,549 He's all about getting in there and making you insecure 508 00:28:30,709 --> 00:28:34,149 and making you feel like you can't go up against him. 509 00:28:34,309 --> 00:28:37,349 Another hostage at large in season three is Arya Stark 510 00:28:37,509 --> 00:28:40,509 kidnapped by the Hound. The disgraced knight 511 00:28:40,669 --> 00:28:43,749 plans to find Arya's family and trade her for cash. 512 00:28:43,909 --> 00:28:46,909 Remember what happens to children who run. 513 00:28:47,069 --> 00:28:51,269 One of the great double acts of Game Of Thrones is The Hound and Arya. 514 00:28:54,029 --> 00:28:56,669 Don't! Don't kill him. 515 00:28:56,829 --> 00:29:01,189 There's something so perversely magical about that pairing, 516 00:29:01,349 --> 00:29:05,869 sort of warped mentor-protege relationship that develops. 517 00:29:12,749 --> 00:29:16,629 In his desire to claim a ransom, the Hound heads for the Twins 518 00:29:16,789 --> 00:29:20,269 where he knows Arya's mother and brother, Catelyn and Robb Stark, 519 00:29:20,389 --> 00:29:22,309 are attending a wedding. 520 00:29:22,509 --> 00:29:26,069 The Twins is a strategic river crossing controlled by the Frey family 521 00:29:26,229 --> 00:29:29,189 and the Starks need them onside for their war effort. 522 00:29:29,349 --> 00:29:32,789 Walder Frey is a very bitter, nasty old man 523 00:29:32,949 --> 00:29:35,709 who controls a small but significant area in the kingdom. 524 00:29:35,869 --> 00:29:38,909 I was pledged to marry one of you and I broke that vow. 525 00:29:39,069 --> 00:29:43,789 If he's been let down by Robb Stark after this promise, 526 00:29:43,949 --> 00:29:48,629 if he shows any kind of forgiveness or, 'Just let it go. 527 00:29:48,789 --> 00:29:51,469 'He didn't want to marry my daughter, he married someone else.' 528 00:29:51,589 --> 00:29:54,749 He would lose face in that world, 529 00:29:54,909 --> 00:29:57,349 it's a vicious world he's operating in. 530 00:29:57,509 --> 00:30:00,509 The Stark family offer Robb's uncle to make amends, 531 00:30:00,669 --> 00:30:03,389 they're here for that wedding, a terrible mistake. 532 00:30:04,509 --> 00:30:08,669 Also at the wedding is Roose, head of House Bolton. 533 00:30:08,829 --> 00:30:11,989 Traditionally loyal to the Starks but not for much longer. 534 00:30:13,189 --> 00:30:16,669 Robb's decision not to marry Walder Frey's daughter, 535 00:30:16,829 --> 00:30:20,029 he knows he's alienating and going to upset a very. very powerful house 536 00:30:20,189 --> 00:30:23,749 and a very, very powerful man. So he changes his allegiance. 537 00:30:26,229 --> 00:30:28,749 Catelyn, in her heart, 538 00:30:28,909 --> 00:30:32,429 knew that you do not break a promise if you are the King of the North 539 00:30:32,589 --> 00:30:35,269 and you certainly don't break it to Walder Frey. - Your grace... 540 00:30:35,429 --> 00:30:38,989 He's probably laid awake for nights just planning it and timing it 541 00:30:39,149 --> 00:30:41,349 and working out just how it's gonna work out. 542 00:30:41,509 --> 00:30:44,429 The moment where Cat sees that Roose Bolton 543 00:30:44,589 --> 00:30:48,149 is wearing chain mail is a powerful moment. 544 00:30:49,349 --> 00:30:51,389 Why would you wear chain mail to a wedding? 545 00:30:51,549 --> 00:30:54,949 And what is the purpose of chain mail? It's to prevent you getting killed. 546 00:30:56,469 --> 00:30:58,189 Robb! 547 00:30:58,309 --> 00:31:01,069 Catelyn and Robb and his wife 548 00:31:01,229 --> 00:31:03,869 and all the others, nobody saw it coming. 549 00:31:04,029 --> 00:31:06,829 The Red Wedding is the event that pretty much decimates 550 00:31:06,989 --> 00:31:09,069 an entire generation of the Stark family. 551 00:31:10,029 --> 00:31:12,829 Within the Game Of Thrones, Walder Frey's not playing 552 00:31:12,989 --> 00:31:15,549 the Game Of Thrones. He's not attempting to be the King. 553 00:31:15,709 --> 00:31:18,029 He's actually perfectly happy with what he's got. 554 00:31:18,149 --> 00:31:20,189 He has his own little fiefdom 555 00:31:20,349 --> 00:31:23,109 and he's sitting in the chair watching terrible things. 556 00:31:23,269 --> 00:31:25,149 Robb is such an amazing character, I think 557 00:31:25,309 --> 00:31:28,549 you kind of want him to be the- the King... 558 00:31:28,709 --> 00:31:30,829 Mother... - ...and to win. 559 00:31:32,069 --> 00:31:34,189 The Lannisters send their regards. 560 00:31:35,149 --> 00:31:38,709 It's brutal. 'I'm going to let you know this information just before I kill you.' 561 00:31:41,869 --> 00:31:46,229 It's another illustration of what Tywin Lannister is prepared to do. 562 00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:54,989 And in that case, he's got somebody else to do his dirty work. 563 00:31:56,829 --> 00:32:00,349 It's the cruelty of it and it's the relishing of it. 564 00:32:02,189 --> 00:32:06,269 Everything goes to hell at the Red Wedding. 565 00:32:06,429 --> 00:32:09,109 Arya Stark arrives at the Twins to witness 566 00:32:09,269 --> 00:32:13,829 her brother's desecrated body and loses any last shred of innocence. 567 00:32:13,989 --> 00:32:15,709 She's there. She's at the Red Wedding, 568 00:32:15,869 --> 00:32:19,349 she's outside and she was so close, you know, 569 00:32:19,509 --> 00:32:22,149 she was so close to seeing them again, she was so close. 570 00:32:22,349 --> 00:32:25,989 The path that she goes on, she learns to become stronger 571 00:32:26,149 --> 00:32:29,749 and fight and also she was after revenge. 572 00:32:29,909 --> 00:32:32,829 And when she comes across her family's killers later... 573 00:32:32,989 --> 00:32:35,309 You little shit ..she matches their brutality. 574 00:32:38,029 --> 00:32:41,629 She's had to go over to the dark side, 575 00:32:41,749 --> 00:32:43,669 that's what makes her interesting. 576 00:32:43,829 --> 00:32:47,789 In order to survive in that world, you have to match what is given you. 577 00:32:47,909 --> 00:32:50,309 And so, by the end of season three, 578 00:32:50,469 --> 00:32:53,509 all the elder Starks have gone from the Game Of Thrones. 579 00:32:53,669 --> 00:32:57,589 Only the children remain, orphaned and scattered across Westeros, 580 00:32:57,749 --> 00:33:00,869 including Bran Stark, still paralyzed from his fall. 581 00:33:01,029 --> 00:33:04,549 He's fled Winterfell with a loyal band of followers heading north. 582 00:33:04,709 --> 00:33:07,989 So, Hodor we know as a very loyal character. 583 00:33:08,149 --> 00:33:11,069 It's all right, Hodor. - Hodor. 584 00:33:11,229 --> 00:33:14,349 He lost the use of his legs and Hodor's the person that carries him 585 00:33:14,469 --> 00:33:16,389 around and takes him everywhere, 586 00:33:16,549 --> 00:33:18,669 um, being the big giant of a man that he is. 587 00:33:20,789 --> 00:33:24,069 It's all right, the wolves will protect him. 588 00:33:24,229 --> 00:33:27,749 Him and his brother Rickon are the two last male heirs 589 00:33:27,869 --> 00:33:29,829 to the Stark household. 590 00:33:29,989 --> 00:33:35,589 Um, and, yeah, it's fast depleting, we're running out of Starks. 591 00:33:35,749 --> 00:33:38,669 I think it's all about Rickon and Bran kind of sticking together 592 00:33:38,829 --> 00:33:43,389 and, you know, seeing how- how their adventures and journeys play out 593 00:33:43,509 --> 00:33:46,549 to kind of find this lost happiness 594 00:33:46,709 --> 00:33:48,789 and this lost family that they're searching for. 595 00:33:48,949 --> 00:33:52,309 Bran Stark is very much on his own journey to discover 596 00:33:52,469 --> 00:33:55,269 the roots of this ancient magic that's reappearing 597 00:33:55,429 --> 00:33:57,589 in the kingdom throughout the seasons. 598 00:33:57,749 --> 00:34:00,669 And yet, amid this loss, comes a small victory. 599 00:34:00,829 --> 00:34:05,509 Unlikely hero Samwell Tarly stumbles on a weakness of the White Walkers. 600 00:34:05,669 --> 00:34:08,429 Samwell reaches for all he has to hand, 601 00:34:08,589 --> 00:34:11,829 an old dragonglass spear he once found in the ground. 602 00:34:14,029 --> 00:34:16,989 To his astonishment it... it works. 603 00:34:17,829 --> 00:34:21,269 The spells are shattered and it's melting before him. 604 00:34:22,389 --> 00:34:27,909 And stay with us to see wedded bliss vanish after the break. - He's choking! 605 00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:38,520 Welcome back to Game Of Thrones, The Story So Far. 606 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,240 We're in season four, a royal wedding in King's Landing 607 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,000 unites two great houses of Westeros, 608 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,280 the Tyrells and the Lannisters. 609 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,040 Season four begins with the wedding between 610 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,120 King Joffrey and Margaery Tyrell, 611 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,040 And as we know from experience in Westeros, 612 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,120 weddings are not happy occasions. 613 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,000 It's full of injured parties with scores to settle. 614 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,120 Chief among them is Oberyn Martell and his lover Ellaria Sand. 615 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,040 In that first meeting with Cersei and Tywin... 616 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,800 Ellaria Sand. My Lord, My Lady. 617 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,280 ..they see Ellaria as being sort of scum. 618 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,960 Ha! I can't say I've ever met a Sand before. 619 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,680 Oberyn has a zest for life and all the beautiful things that the world 620 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,560 has to offer. None of it is as beautiful 621 00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:27,360 as his own rage and taste for revenge. 622 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,200 Oberyn is seeking vengeance for his sister's brutal death 623 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,800 at the hands of the Lannisters. 624 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,840 The rape and murder of women and children is considered distasteful. 625 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:41,920 Oberyn has a massive grudge against the Lannisters 626 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,400 and he's sort of coming to the wedding to just sniff out 627 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,920 what's going on and to get justice. 628 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,320 There's been too much amusement... 629 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,600 Joffrey really uses the wedding as an excuse 630 00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:56,640 to be as horrible as he can. 631 00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,680 Uncle, you can be my cup bearer. 632 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,120 And the way he treats Tyrion and everybody at that table, 633 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:06,160 he's just hideous. 634 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,040 You're watching him being a total ass. 635 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,640 And so when an unseen hand poisons the newly wed King... 636 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,920 Idiots! Help your king! - Move away! 637 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,880 ...it's the moment of retribution the whole of the Seven Kingdoms have been waiting for. 638 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:26,120 I think everybody who watches Game Of Thrones 639 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,480 was hoping this day would come. 640 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,800 I wanted to kill him in such a way that the viewers 641 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,600 were reminded that here's a 13-year-old boy who's dying. 642 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,800 Though it is actually the Tyrells that have poisoned Joffrey, 643 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,840 it is Tyrion who is blamed. 644 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,920 This is really the point where Tyrion's fragile bonds 645 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,960 with his family begin to unravel. 646 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,200 Take him! Take him! 647 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,320 Take him! 648 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,880 In plot terms, the death of Joffrey is another shaking of the board 649 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,920 where the pieces are scattered. 650 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,600 And also it's one of those things that elevate the whole series 651 00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:08,960 from merely a story into a saga. 652 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,160 As the royal family grows weaker, news from Westeros 653 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,120 reaches Meereen where Daenerys has conquered the city 654 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,760 but she is not yet ready to capitalize on her enemy's weakness. 655 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,040 King Joffrey Baratheon is dead. 656 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:24,600 Murdered at his own wedding. 657 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,920 This would appear to be a really good time 658 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,520 for her to finally make her play for the Iron Throne. 659 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,480 She has the dragons and she has the army 660 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,400 and she has the strength of character. 661 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,520 But actually she has new responsibilities now 662 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,560 and she has unfinished business where she is 663 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:41,440 and she's still trying to learn how to rule. 664 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,600 And to compound matters, her dragons have grown so big 665 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,520 that Daenerys has started to lose control of them. 666 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,600 They get bigger as her power increases, the harder it is for her to manage. 667 00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,440 And that's where the story then has to go. 668 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,720 All they're going to bring is complexity. 669 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,080 And when one of the dragons kills a child and abandons her, 670 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:08,560 Daenerys is left with no other choice but to chain the other two. 671 00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:11,920 She's just locked up her dragons, so can she unleash them again 672 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,960 and will they forgive her? 673 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,080 Without the mighty force of her dragons, 674 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:20,720 Daenerys is faced with a dilemma as to what to do next. 675 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,080 She's definitely going through a sort of a dark night of the soul, 676 00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:29,720 I think, where she's trying to determine, have I got what it takes? 677 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,080 And so, in season four, 678 00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:35,480 as Daenerys remains in exile across the Narrow Sea, 679 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:39,680 Sansa Stark has fled the capital and taken refuge with her aunt Lysa, 680 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,360 who has been seduced by an arch schemer. 681 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:49,720 Littlefinger is playing a very chaotic game and he thrives on that. 682 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,640 Oh, my sweet wife. 683 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:56,680 For Littlefinger, it's all about getting power, I think, 684 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,280 and using Lysa as a pawn along the way. 685 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,880 Sansa has witnessed Lysa's murder 686 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,920 and covers for Littlefinger. 687 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,600 Sansa's one of these poor characters who's been 688 00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:12,920 mistreated all through the series. 689 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,120 She's seen a lot of horrible, horrible things happen 690 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,720 and she's never been able to take control and this is the first time. 691 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,000 Actually, she's got nothing else to lose. 692 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,480 He tried to reason with her, promised her 693 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,880 she was the only woman he'd ever loved. 694 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:31,480 But she stepped through those doors... 695 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,320 What you discover is that she's been learning this entire time. 696 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,440 She's been listening, she's been watching. 697 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,400 She's been taking Littlefinger's lessons to heart. 698 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,920 So, from one Stark protege to another. 699 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,800 Sansa's sister Arya is still the Hound's hostage 700 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,400 but they're now on an equal footing. 701 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,640 Who would pass the Bloody Gate? 702 00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,400 The bloody Hound, Sandor Clegane. 703 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,640 He's her captor but he's also her protector 704 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:07,920 and, you know, she's seen his own pain and his own fear at times 705 00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,680 and they've shared some dangerous situations. 706 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,320 But when the Hound is gravely injured in battle, 707 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,800 Arya is forced to strike out on her own. 708 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,840 Fuck it! I'm ready. 709 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,280 Now he's wounded and he's dying and she's remembering 710 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,960 all he said about mercy and he's asking for mercy 711 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:30,120 and by mercy he means, you know, a quick thrust to kill him. 712 00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:33,280 And she doesn't give it to him. 713 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,960 Kill me. 714 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,200 She won't put him out of his misery, 715 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,440 she won't give him the easy way out, 716 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,640 she's going to leave him there to suffer. 717 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,280 Another wandering Stark is Arya's crippled brother Bran, 718 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,160 who has made it north of the Wall in search of a Three-Eyed Raven 719 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,200 who he believes will help him walk again. 720 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,640 All the time, aided by his loyal travelling companion, Hodor. 721 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,120 I think Hodor's more than just Bran's legs. 722 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,800 I mean, I think he means a lot to Bran, you know, someone to... 723 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,040 He's always been there through absolutely everything, you know. 724 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,360 Even though he can't speak, he can only say one word, 725 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,480 he's always someone that's looking after him. 726 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,880 You know, in a world of evil, he's probably one of the only good ones. 727 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,560 Clearly, Bran is very important because 728 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:23,840 he's trekked all the way up north to a cave where this raven 729 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,440 has been summoning him for the past couple of seasons 730 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,880 and now he's in this cave with the Three-Eyed Raven, 731 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:33,480 really, we're gonna find out what the grand scheme of things is for Bran. 732 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:35,640 You'll never walk again. 733 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,200 But you WILL fly. 734 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,600 His powers, he's getting stronger 735 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,720 and there's gonna be some really exciting things happening, I think. 736 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,760 We're gonna find out more and more about him. 737 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,880 At the Wall, the Night's Watch suffers a huge Wildling attack 738 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:57,480 at Castle Black but in season four they get a powerful new ally. 739 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,080 Stannis Baratheon, who's been away licking his wounds 740 00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:04,240 after the Blackwater defeat joins them with his vast army. 741 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,560 The Battle of the Blackwater was a huge and crushing defeat 742 00:42:07,720 --> 00:42:12,400 at the end of season two and it's taken them basically two seasons 743 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,960 to sort of rebuild from that. And his arrival means that Jon Snow 744 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,520 could have a new ally in the battle against the White Walkers 745 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,120 beyond the Wall. If my father had seen the things that I've seen, 746 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,320 he'd also tell you to burn the dead before nightfall. 747 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,000 All of them. 748 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,440 Season four draws to a mighty climax in King's Landing 749 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,720 when the ultimate father-and-son showdown comes to a head. 750 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,760 Tyrion is tried for murder. 751 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,920 I'm guilty of being a dwarf. 752 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:46,760 You're not on trial for being a dwarf. - Oh, yes, I am. 753 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,600 I've been on trial for that my entire life. 754 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,120 Finally, Tyrion just says, 'You know what this is about. 755 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:56,160 'It's because I'm a dwarf.' 756 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,200 You know. 757 00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:03,440 And he's absolutely right, that is what it's about. 758 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,000 He's put on trial for a murder he doesn't commit. 759 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,120 His father deserts him and betrays him. 760 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:11,480 I demand a trial by combat! 761 00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,640 I mean, trial by combat, you can get someone to fight for your honor, 762 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,480 so whether you're wrong or not, 763 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,480 as long as they win the fight, that's what matters. 764 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,400 He names Oberyn Martell as his champion. 765 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,480 You're going to fight that? 766 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,440 I'm going to kill that. 767 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:32,120 I think Ellaria has total faith 768 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,040 in the Red Viper, her lover's powers as a fighter. 769 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:41,200 But the minute she sees the Mountain, she doubts it. 770 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,880 The one thing that he's ever lived for is to avenge his sister's death 771 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,520 and he knows that now that the opportunity is presenting itself, 772 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,240 there is no question that he will get what he wants. 773 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,680 You killed my sister! 774 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:05,000 And he does get what he wants by forcing a confession out of him. 775 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,880 It's not exactly how he expected it. 776 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,200 I killed her children. 777 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,160 He still technically got what he wanted. 778 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,760 Aarrgghh! Then I raped her. Aarrgghh! 779 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,360 Then I smashed her head in like this. 780 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,920 She's lost the man who was her protector, who was her champion, 781 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:33,320 who was everything that she believed in- in her world. 782 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,960 Tyrion Lannister... 783 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:40,320 With his champion defeated, Tyrion's life now hangs in the balance. 784 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,120 ...you are hereby sentenced to death. 785 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,000 In Westeros, the pursuit of justice is as futile as anything else. 786 00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,440 Oh, get on with it, you son of a whore. 787 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,760 Is that any way to speak about our mother? 788 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,240 Tyrion is released from jail by his brother Jaime 789 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,600 and told to go and board a ship and run away. 790 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,720 Instead, he decides to check in on his father. 791 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:10,160 But it's his former lover Shae that he discovers in Tywin's bed. 792 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,440 Tyrion then kills Shae in a sort of fit of jealousy 793 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,560 and then takes a crossbow and goes to find his father. 794 00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:19,600 Tyrion. 795 00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:21,960 Put down the crossbow. 796 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,680 Tywin really has had it coming to him. 797 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:34,160 I don't know how much more Tywin could have got away with, really. 798 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,960 Especially after what he's put Tyrion through. 799 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,960 You're no son of mine. - I am your son. 800 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:46,000 This is someone who spent his whole life trying to win his approbation, 801 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,040 as much as he hated him, he really wanted that, you know. 802 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:51,880 Obviously that's never gonna happen now 803 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,760 because he put a crossbow bolt in his groin. 804 00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:59,080 What it means, is when a big character like that goes, 805 00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:02,800 there's gonna be a power vacuum and there's gonna be hustling 806 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:04,840 and jostling to get into his place. 807 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,000 I am the Queen! I am the Queen! I'm not... 808 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,000 Join us after the break where, in season five, 809 00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,840 a new power rises in King's Landing. 810 00:46:23,365 --> 00:46:27,165 Welcome back to The Story So Far. Where, in season five, 811 00:46:27,285 --> 00:46:29,685 a royal wedding unsettles Cersei. 812 00:46:30,765 --> 00:46:33,965 Her son, Tommen, is now king and has fallen under the spell 813 00:46:34,125 --> 00:46:37,445 of his new Queen Margaery, much to Cersei's dismay. 814 00:46:37,565 --> 00:46:39,485 When Margaery come in his life, 815 00:46:39,685 --> 00:46:42,525 I think he was just enjoying life so much. 816 00:46:42,685 --> 00:46:45,725 Judging from the king's enthusiasm, the Queen Mother 817 00:46:45,885 --> 00:46:48,765 will be a Queen Grandmother soon. - Wouldn't that be a lovely day? 818 00:46:48,925 --> 00:46:51,765 Him being king was just a whole new excitement, a whole new life. 819 00:46:52,525 --> 00:46:55,125 Cersei empowers religious fanatics 820 00:46:55,285 --> 00:46:57,605 to help her topple her rival, Queen Margaery. 821 00:46:57,765 --> 00:47:00,045 I can't hear it. - I am the Queen! 822 00:47:00,205 --> 00:47:02,205 Cersei brings back the Faith Militant 823 00:47:02,365 --> 00:47:05,325 because, in her mind, this is her wiping the slate clean, 824 00:47:05,485 --> 00:47:09,605 this is her taking an opportunity to claw back a little bit of power. 825 00:47:09,765 --> 00:47:13,045 But Cersei's engineered her own downfall. 826 00:47:13,205 --> 00:47:16,885 Royalty is no longer above the law and fanatics come for HER next. 827 00:47:19,685 --> 00:47:23,725 It's hard to see how anybody would be able to get the power back 828 00:47:23,885 --> 00:47:26,885 from the High Sparrow and Septa Unella. 829 00:47:27,045 --> 00:47:31,085 Move. - There's another contender to power in Westeros 830 00:47:31,245 --> 00:47:33,645 and it's religion. It's the power of the faith. 831 00:47:33,805 --> 00:47:38,205 They want to remove all the excesses. 832 00:47:38,325 --> 00:47:42,005 To strip Cersei of all her finery 833 00:47:42,165 --> 00:47:46,245 and encourage her, in inverted commas, to become clean. 834 00:47:46,405 --> 00:47:49,445 It's such a sexualized form of humiliation. 835 00:47:49,565 --> 00:47:51,365 A sinner comes before you. 836 00:47:51,525 --> 00:47:54,405 Watching Cersei do the walk of atonement, 837 00:47:54,565 --> 00:47:57,245 something happened that I thought would never happen 838 00:47:57,365 --> 00:47:59,325 and that is I felt compassion. 839 00:47:59,485 --> 00:48:03,525 No matter what she'd done previously, she didn't deserve this. 840 00:48:03,685 --> 00:48:08,245 And so season five sees her left naked before her subjects 841 00:48:08,405 --> 00:48:12,085 to atone for her infidelities. 842 00:48:12,245 --> 00:48:14,645 Who would've thought we would've felt sorry for Cersei 843 00:48:14,805 --> 00:48:17,685 until the Walk of Shame? It was very, very tough for her. 844 00:48:17,845 --> 00:48:20,845 Very few women could have done what she did, complete that walk. 845 00:48:21,005 --> 00:48:25,405 People love to hate her, so you see her 846 00:48:25,565 --> 00:48:29,325 trying to maintain this regal presence 847 00:48:29,445 --> 00:48:31,285 but she can't. 848 00:48:31,445 --> 00:48:34,725 Stripped down to her, literally, physically and emotionally 849 00:48:34,885 --> 00:48:37,405 and psychologically, stripped down to her most vulnerable 850 00:48:37,565 --> 00:48:40,645 and then swept up into the arms of the beast that she... uh 851 00:48:40,765 --> 00:48:43,125 that she invited into the world. 852 00:48:43,285 --> 00:48:47,085 The strange creation that is her new knight. 853 00:48:47,205 --> 00:48:49,565 It's just a brilliant twist. 854 00:48:49,725 --> 00:48:51,605 When Cersei's picked up by the Mountain 855 00:48:51,765 --> 00:48:55,325 and Qyburn tells her what's happened, 856 00:48:55,485 --> 00:48:57,965 the brilliant look across Cersei's eyes 857 00:48:58,125 --> 00:49:02,485 of, 'Whatever happens, I will get these people.' 858 00:49:04,365 --> 00:49:07,805 Also getting a new ally in season five is Daenerys, 859 00:49:07,965 --> 00:49:10,685 in the form of Tyrion. After killing his father, 860 00:49:10,845 --> 00:49:14,885 he's fled across the Narrow Sea, a fugitive on the run. 861 00:49:15,045 --> 00:49:19,085 He was a Lannister and he had all the money in the world 862 00:49:19,245 --> 00:49:23,485 and a noble name and a big bag of gold 863 00:49:23,645 --> 00:49:26,205 can buy you a lot. All that's gone now. 864 00:49:26,365 --> 00:49:29,885 He's totally at the mercy of the people he's travelling with. 865 00:49:30,045 --> 00:49:33,605 Who are you? - And then the unthinkable happens. I am the gift. 866 00:49:33,765 --> 00:49:37,045 He's captured and handed over to his family's greatest enemy, 867 00:49:37,205 --> 00:49:39,725 the Targaryen Queen in waiting, Daenerys. 868 00:49:39,845 --> 00:49:42,165 My name is Tyrion Lannister. 869 00:49:43,125 --> 00:49:47,525 And between them, they are an extraordinary force. 870 00:49:47,685 --> 00:49:51,325 Protect your queen! - She appoints him as her political adviser. 871 00:49:51,485 --> 00:49:55,245 But when a civil rebellion begins, Tyrion gets to witness Daenerys 872 00:49:55,365 --> 00:49:58,445 transform into a true Targaryen. 873 00:49:58,605 --> 00:50:02,845 The symbol of the Targaryens coming to claim their power 874 00:50:03,005 --> 00:50:06,645 is on the back of a dragon because, I mean, there's not much you can do 875 00:50:06,805 --> 00:50:10,245 when you're standing on the ground and a dragon's coming at you. 876 00:50:15,205 --> 00:50:17,725 Daenerys has had the dragons now for quite some time now 877 00:50:17,885 --> 00:50:22,525 but that moment she gets on Drogon and rides him for the first time, 878 00:50:22,645 --> 00:50:24,565 that is her claiming her birthright. 879 00:50:25,725 --> 00:50:28,725 The dragon riders are what the Targaryens are all about. 880 00:50:28,885 --> 00:50:30,765 That is how they wielded their power. 881 00:50:30,925 --> 00:50:35,165 Everybody painted that picture of Daenerys 882 00:50:35,325 --> 00:50:37,485 flying her dragon, it never really happened. 883 00:50:37,645 --> 00:50:40,805 And they've waited so many years to see that and she finally does 884 00:50:40,965 --> 00:50:44,285 and she does it in a wicked way where she's escaping death. 885 00:50:46,045 --> 00:50:48,765 Daenerys, she's got the greatest name ever. 886 00:50:48,885 --> 00:50:51,405 Stormborn, Mother of Dragons. 887 00:50:51,565 --> 00:50:54,645 Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen, I love that name. 888 00:50:54,805 --> 00:50:58,205 She's got these dragons as back-up and then she's got Tyrion, 889 00:50:58,325 --> 00:51:00,405 who knows King's Landing, 890 00:51:00,565 --> 00:51:02,925 who knows the political side of things 891 00:51:03,085 --> 00:51:04,965 and he's been through battles as well. 892 00:51:05,085 --> 00:51:07,205 Yet, as season five ends, 893 00:51:07,365 --> 00:51:10,965 Daenerys's dragon delivers her to an uncertain fate. 894 00:51:12,485 --> 00:51:14,285 The last thing we see of her in season five, 895 00:51:14,445 --> 00:51:16,485 surrounded by Dothraki, back where she started. 896 00:51:21,285 --> 00:51:24,525 And season five is one of vengeance for Arya. 897 00:51:24,685 --> 00:51:28,645 The young Stark follows her mentor to Braavos to become an assassin. 898 00:51:28,805 --> 00:51:32,525 To serve well, a girl must become no one. 899 00:51:32,685 --> 00:51:36,325 Arya's relationship with Jaqen is fascinating. 900 00:51:36,445 --> 00:51:39,005 He is utterly mysterious 901 00:51:39,125 --> 00:51:44,645 and, um, she is seduced by his power. 902 00:51:44,765 --> 00:51:47,285 I didn't come here to sweep floors. 903 00:51:47,405 --> 00:51:50,525 No? Why come then? 904 00:51:50,645 --> 00:51:52,925 You said I could be your apprentice. 905 00:51:53,085 --> 00:51:56,205 The power of death, the power to choose who dies. 906 00:51:56,365 --> 00:51:59,645 And Arya uses her new skills to slaughter Meryn Trant, 907 00:51:59,805 --> 00:52:02,605 a name on her kill list of people who have destroyed her world. 908 00:52:02,765 --> 00:52:05,445 Arya's just a wee assassin. 909 00:52:07,645 --> 00:52:12,285 She made him suffer in the best way possible 910 00:52:12,405 --> 00:52:14,405 and she thoroughly enjoyed it. 911 00:52:14,565 --> 00:52:18,085 But you must remember what Arya has been through. Argh! 912 00:52:18,245 --> 00:52:23,045 There is a sense of vengeance rather than a sense of justice. 913 00:52:23,165 --> 00:52:25,485 As Arya explores vengeance, 914 00:52:25,645 --> 00:52:28,965 back home, the battle is on for the Stark family home. 915 00:52:29,125 --> 00:52:31,405 Stannis Baratheon is marching on Winterfell, 916 00:52:31,525 --> 00:52:33,445 now held by the Boltons. 917 00:52:34,605 --> 00:52:37,725 But sometimes sacrifices must be made to ensure victory. 918 00:52:37,885 --> 00:52:43,565 He's going after something and it is... it's- it's increasingly futile. 919 00:52:43,725 --> 00:52:46,245 In a desperate move, Stannis follows the advice 920 00:52:46,405 --> 00:52:48,645 of a red priestess who promises him victory 921 00:52:48,805 --> 00:52:52,045 if he makes an unspeakable offering to the Lord of Light. 922 00:52:52,205 --> 00:52:54,925 She managed to convince him to burn his own daughter. 923 00:52:55,085 --> 00:52:57,965 That's one of the most chilling scenes, I think, of season five, 924 00:52:58,085 --> 00:53:01,525 when... when he burns his child. 925 00:53:01,685 --> 00:53:05,365 She's believed in this god for so many years, I think that 926 00:53:05,525 --> 00:53:08,525 if it's not to do with the god, she kind of just blocks everything out 927 00:53:08,685 --> 00:53:11,165 and I think that's what happened as she blocked out the fact 928 00:53:11,325 --> 00:53:13,445 that she was going to be sacrificing a child. 929 00:53:13,605 --> 00:53:15,485 She was sacrificing the king's blood. 930 00:53:16,885 --> 00:53:20,445 Melisandre really did believe that Stannis was going to be the one 931 00:53:20,605 --> 00:53:24,045 who would bring everything together and he was going to be the ruler 932 00:53:24,205 --> 00:53:26,765 of the Seven Kingdoms and she put a lot of her heart and soul 933 00:53:26,925 --> 00:53:30,565 into helping him. - But it proves to be his undoing. 934 00:53:30,725 --> 00:53:33,925 His men desert him and Melisandre, realizing all is lost, 935 00:53:34,085 --> 00:53:36,485 flees to Castle Black... We're ready. 936 00:53:36,645 --> 00:53:39,005 ..leaving Stannis to advance to Winterfell on his own. 937 00:53:39,165 --> 00:53:41,845 Speak up. It can't be worse than mutiny. 938 00:53:42,005 --> 00:53:43,885 He's had a rough old time, Stannis, hasn't he? 939 00:53:44,045 --> 00:53:47,485 Because really he should be the king from after Robert Baratheon dies 940 00:53:47,645 --> 00:53:51,485 but every battle, he loses he becomes further and further 941 00:53:51,605 --> 00:53:53,885 involved with this kind of fantasy. 942 00:53:54,045 --> 00:53:57,365 And awaiting Stannis at Winterfell are the Boltons, 943 00:53:57,525 --> 00:53:59,605 who tried to cement their position in the North 944 00:53:59,765 --> 00:54:01,645 with a tactical marriage to Sansa Stark, 945 00:54:01,805 --> 00:54:05,045 orchestrated by master manipulator Petyr Baelish. 946 00:54:05,205 --> 00:54:07,325 She shouldn't trust Littlefinger, I mean, 947 00:54:07,485 --> 00:54:10,125 why are you gonna trust Littlefinger, I mean, jeez! 948 00:54:10,285 --> 00:54:13,605 He IS the dodgy car salesman in Game Of Thrones, 949 00:54:13,765 --> 00:54:16,805 offers you everything and gives you nothing. 950 00:54:16,965 --> 00:54:20,565 May I introduce my son? Ramsay Bolton. 951 00:54:21,885 --> 00:54:24,845 Now the Boltons have established themselves at Winterfell, 952 00:54:25,005 --> 00:54:29,485 bringing in a Stark will solidify their position in the North. 953 00:54:29,605 --> 00:54:31,525 But it's a huge miscalculation 954 00:54:31,685 --> 00:54:34,285 that traps her in another brutal relationship. 955 00:54:34,445 --> 00:54:39,565 Ramsay is a horrible, cruel, evil, power-hungry man. 956 00:54:39,725 --> 00:54:43,325 He took psychotic nature to another level. 957 00:54:43,485 --> 00:54:45,485 I mean, he went there, and he went some. 958 00:54:45,605 --> 00:54:47,365 Oh, no, no, no. 959 00:54:47,485 --> 00:54:50,325 You stay here, Reek. 960 00:54:50,485 --> 00:54:52,365 You watch. 961 00:54:52,525 --> 00:54:57,245 Fellow prisoner Theon Greyjoy, a.k.a., Reek, is too terrified to help. 962 00:54:57,445 --> 00:55:01,165 I think we all thought he should have stepped in on the wedding night, let's be frank. 963 00:55:01,325 --> 00:55:04,125 With Ramsay distracted by battle... - You're leaving it to me? 964 00:55:04,285 --> 00:55:06,205 ...Sansa is caught attempting to escape 965 00:55:06,365 --> 00:55:10,005 and it's only then that Reek finds the courage to become Theon again. 966 00:55:10,925 --> 00:55:14,965 Ugh! Stop! Ugh! 967 00:55:15,125 --> 00:55:17,245 That was a moment we all needed to see. Theon again 968 00:55:17,405 --> 00:55:20,005 had been so much at the mercy of Ramsey 969 00:55:20,165 --> 00:55:23,885 that finally he had a moment where he could do good. 970 00:55:24,005 --> 00:55:26,365 And so, by the end of season five, 971 00:55:26,525 --> 00:55:29,805 Sansa has jumped either to her death or to her freedom. 972 00:55:31,365 --> 00:55:36,885 It's someone being pushed in every way 973 00:55:37,045 --> 00:55:40,805 to the absolute limit of their will to live 974 00:55:40,925 --> 00:55:45,125 and... having come through that, 975 00:55:45,285 --> 00:55:49,045 she's obviously gonna be quite a different person. 976 00:55:49,205 --> 00:55:53,445 As Sansa and Theon leap from the walls of Winterfell, 977 00:55:53,605 --> 00:55:57,525 nearby, Stannis is facing defeat by the vast Bolton army. 978 00:55:59,885 --> 00:56:02,005 I think Stannis had given up. I think even before 979 00:56:02,165 --> 00:56:04,685 they'd gone into battle, I think he was going there to die. 980 00:56:04,845 --> 00:56:08,365 Fate finally catches up with Stannis when he comes face to face 981 00:56:08,525 --> 00:56:10,605 with Brienne of Tarth who's sought vengeance 982 00:56:10,725 --> 00:56:13,125 for Renly's death since season two. 983 00:56:13,285 --> 00:56:19,245 She is probably the toughest person going about... about Westeros. 984 00:56:28,885 --> 00:56:30,805 But as Stannis bows out, 985 00:56:30,965 --> 00:56:34,725 Jon Snow comes up against a greater foe when he ventures to Hardhome 986 00:56:34,845 --> 00:56:36,845 to make peace with the Wildlings. 987 00:56:37,005 --> 00:56:39,805 This alliance is sacrilege but when the White Walkers 988 00:56:39,965 --> 00:56:42,965 launch a full attack, Jon sees his hunch is right. 989 00:56:43,125 --> 00:56:46,725 All humans must unite to fight them. 990 00:56:46,885 --> 00:56:49,205 What's so great about the whole White Walker mythology 991 00:56:49,365 --> 00:56:51,845 is the way it has been building throughout the series. 992 00:56:51,965 --> 00:56:54,285 Who knows what they want? 993 00:56:54,445 --> 00:56:56,325 They would bring death and destruction 994 00:56:56,445 --> 00:56:59,045 to absolutely everything. 995 00:57:02,245 --> 00:57:05,205 Up until this point, they've been semi-mythical characters. 996 00:57:05,365 --> 00:57:07,525 It's been the White Walkers in those cold lands 997 00:57:07,645 --> 00:57:09,565 that no one ever goes to 998 00:57:09,725 --> 00:57:13,485 and here they are in front of the heroes and they're very real 999 00:57:13,605 --> 00:57:15,805 and it's a very real danger. 1000 00:57:17,925 --> 00:57:21,005 I don't think the White Walkers are afraid of anything. 1001 00:57:21,165 --> 00:57:25,645 I think fear is just not in their vocabulary. 1002 00:57:27,525 --> 00:57:30,365 And then Jon and the viewers see the Night King reveal 1003 00:57:30,485 --> 00:57:32,405 that he has a greater power. 1004 00:57:33,445 --> 00:57:36,245 He can raise and recruit the dead. 1005 00:57:38,685 --> 00:57:41,725 It's a challenge to Jon and, 'Look what I can do.' 1006 00:57:44,885 --> 00:57:47,405 Forget all the other battles that are going on, 1007 00:57:47,565 --> 00:57:51,205 you know, battles for castles and kingship, you know. 1008 00:57:51,325 --> 00:57:53,365 He's got to focus his army. 1009 00:57:53,485 --> 00:57:55,765 But on Jon's return to Castle Black, 1010 00:57:55,885 --> 00:57:57,845 in the final minutes of season five, 1011 00:57:58,005 --> 00:58:00,325 viewers witness the cruellest blow of all 1012 00:58:00,445 --> 00:58:02,365 in a gut-churning finale. 1013 00:58:02,525 --> 00:58:06,685 When I saw the cross with "Traitor" written on it, I thought, 'Oh, no, 1014 00:58:06,805 --> 00:58:09,005 'they're not gonna kill him.' 1015 00:58:09,125 --> 00:58:11,605 And then they did! 1016 00:58:14,605 --> 00:58:16,525 For the Watch. 1017 00:58:16,685 --> 00:58:19,405 You root for him but the great thing about Game Of Thrones is 1018 00:58:19,525 --> 00:58:21,445 your heroes can die at any second. 1019 00:58:25,405 --> 00:58:27,645 For the Watch. 1020 00:58:27,805 --> 00:58:29,685 They're all members of the Night's Watch 1021 00:58:29,845 --> 00:58:32,605 and no matter what one of their brothers has done, 1022 00:58:32,765 --> 00:58:35,925 what they did was worse than what he did. 1023 00:58:36,085 --> 00:58:40,245 And so season five ends on betrayal and death. 1024 00:58:40,365 --> 00:58:42,645 Is this really the end for Jon Snow? 1025 00:58:48,965 --> 00:58:51,925 Season six begins at the scene of a crime. 1026 00:58:52,045 --> 00:58:55,005 Jon Snow lies slain at Castle Black 1027 00:58:55,165 --> 00:58:57,285 and all hopes are pinned on the Red Priestess 1028 00:58:57,405 --> 00:58:59,565 and her magic to bring him back. 1029 00:59:00,725 --> 00:59:02,965 Game Of Thrones needs Jon Snow. 1030 00:59:03,125 --> 00:59:06,885 We do, we need him to finish what he started. 1031 00:59:07,045 --> 00:59:09,405 As viewers hope for Jon's resurrection, 1032 00:59:09,565 --> 00:59:13,285 we learn that Melisandre harbours a great secret. 1033 00:59:13,445 --> 00:59:16,485 The reveal of ancient Melisandre was definitely one of the most 1034 00:59:16,645 --> 00:59:19,245 stunning surprises in season six of Game Of Thrones. 1035 00:59:20,525 --> 00:59:22,965 It shows how much older she actually is 1036 00:59:23,125 --> 00:59:26,405 and how much longer she's been believing in this God for. 1037 00:59:26,565 --> 00:59:30,325 Then we see her use this power for Jon. 1038 00:59:30,485 --> 00:59:33,445 She tries to bring him back to us, to resurrect him, it doesn't work. 1039 00:59:33,605 --> 00:59:36,765 When the wolf started to sort of make some noise, 1040 00:59:36,925 --> 00:59:40,805 that's when I thought... I think everyone thought Jon Snow's alive. 1041 00:59:40,965 --> 00:59:43,445 And then it's just that moment of... 1042 00:59:43,605 --> 00:59:47,725 Jon Snow has returned and all of Westeros rejoices. 1043 00:59:47,885 --> 00:59:50,405 And after the miracle of Jon's rebirth 1044 00:59:50,565 --> 00:59:53,285 comes a partial reunion of scattered Starks 1045 00:59:53,405 --> 00:59:55,405 when Sansa arrives at Castle Black 1046 00:59:55,565 --> 00:59:59,165 and together they'll gather forces in a bid to retake the North. 1047 01:00:03,085 --> 01:00:07,845 Sansa's become majestic but she's also become savvy. 1048 01:00:07,965 --> 01:00:09,885 She's lost that naivety. 1049 01:00:10,045 --> 01:00:14,445 A monster has taken our home and our brother. 1050 01:00:15,525 --> 01:00:18,405 We have to go back to Winterfell and save them both. 1051 01:00:18,525 --> 01:00:20,645 She's a Queen, really. 1052 01:00:20,845 --> 01:00:23,525 In terms of being from a powerful family 1053 01:00:23,685 --> 01:00:26,485 and being able to make decisions and tell other people to do stuff, 1054 01:00:26,645 --> 01:00:28,725 I think she's gonna tell other people to do stuff. 1055 01:00:28,885 --> 01:00:32,205 As one former Bolton captive looks for revenge, 1056 01:00:32,325 --> 01:00:34,245 another looks for redemption. 1057 01:00:34,365 --> 01:00:36,285 I am Theon Greyjoy. 1058 01:00:37,325 --> 01:00:39,525 Last living son of Balon Greyjoy. 1059 01:00:39,685 --> 01:00:42,485 Theon returns again to the Iron Islands. 1060 01:00:42,645 --> 01:00:45,125 But, following his father's mysterious death, 1061 01:00:45,245 --> 01:00:47,165 renounces his claim. 1062 01:00:47,325 --> 01:00:51,565 And she is your rightful ruler. 1063 01:00:51,725 --> 01:00:55,805 Theon, by backing Yara, shows that he's learnt 1064 01:00:55,965 --> 01:01:00,405 from his massive fall and humiliation and castration 1065 01:01:00,565 --> 01:01:04,565 and he's learnt who is the more powerful person. 1066 01:01:04,685 --> 01:01:08,885 Yara! Yara! Yara! Yara! 1067 01:01:09,005 --> 01:01:10,805 I'm Euron Greyjoy. 1068 01:01:10,925 --> 01:01:13,845 I claim the Salt Throne. 1069 01:01:14,005 --> 01:01:18,405 But it's not all plain sailing for Yara. Her uncle Euron arrives 1070 01:01:18,565 --> 01:01:21,165 and immediately scuppers her plan to rule. 1071 01:01:22,285 --> 01:01:25,845 Euron comes in and we know he's killed the father 1072 01:01:26,005 --> 01:01:30,085 and Yara announces that he's killed the father 1073 01:01:30,245 --> 01:01:32,125 and you think that's gonna be the end of him. 1074 01:01:32,285 --> 01:01:34,525 He led us into two wars we couldn't win. 1075 01:01:34,685 --> 01:01:38,645 I apologize to you all for not killing him years ago. 1076 01:01:38,805 --> 01:01:43,645 He is just the most insane creation. 1077 01:01:43,765 --> 01:01:45,885 He's cocky, he's arrogant. 1078 01:01:46,045 --> 01:01:48,285 He could start a fight in an empty room. 1079 01:01:48,405 --> 01:01:50,445 I wasn't born to be king. 1080 01:01:50,605 --> 01:01:55,085 I paid the iron price and here I stand. 1081 01:01:55,205 --> 01:01:58,405 Euron! Euron! 1082 01:01:58,565 --> 01:02:01,125 All the men will still side with a another man 1083 01:02:01,285 --> 01:02:04,685 because he's shown such ruthlessness and cunning. 1084 01:02:04,805 --> 01:02:07,205 Whith Euron crowned king, 1085 01:02:07,365 --> 01:02:10,725 Theon and Yara flee, taking part of the fleet with them. 1086 01:02:10,845 --> 01:02:13,085 They stole our best ships. 1087 01:02:13,245 --> 01:02:18,485 They are headed across the Narrow Sea to join Daenerys 1088 01:02:18,605 --> 01:02:21,205 who's been a hostage of the Dothraki. 1089 01:02:22,405 --> 01:02:25,685 But now burns their leaders and converts the tribe. 1090 01:02:27,965 --> 01:02:30,005 The huge Dothraki horde. 1091 01:02:33,845 --> 01:02:39,845 We're gonna finally get a lot of different power factions 1092 01:02:40,005 --> 01:02:43,165 coming together in a very scary explosive way. 1093 01:02:43,285 --> 01:02:46,005 And she bags herself a navy 1094 01:02:46,165 --> 01:02:49,565 by forging an alliance with Yara who pledges her fleet of ships. 1095 01:02:50,645 --> 01:02:53,685 But as Great Houses unite for war, 1096 01:02:53,845 --> 01:02:56,245 beyond the Wall, we learn more about the deathly foe 1097 01:02:56,365 --> 01:02:58,285 which threatens them all. 1098 01:02:58,445 --> 01:03:00,965 While time training with a Three-Eyed Raven, 1099 01:03:01,085 --> 01:03:03,685 Bran Stark uncovers a great secret: 1100 01:03:03,845 --> 01:03:06,445 White Walkers were created from the First Men. 1101 01:03:09,645 --> 01:03:12,765 The Children Of The Forest invented the White Walkers 1102 01:03:12,885 --> 01:03:16,485 to help protect their own race. 1103 01:03:16,645 --> 01:03:20,805 It was an innocent defence to do that. 1104 01:03:20,965 --> 01:03:24,045 But clearly it has gone out of control. 1105 01:03:24,205 --> 01:03:26,485 And when the White Walkers come for Bran, 1106 01:03:26,645 --> 01:03:30,405 there are terrible casualties. - Hodor is a goner. 1107 01:03:31,085 --> 01:03:36,005 Hold the door! - A completely pure act of protection. 1108 01:03:36,165 --> 01:03:39,325 There was nothing... There was no greater goal 1109 01:03:39,485 --> 01:03:43,085 to what he did other than protect Bran. 1110 01:03:44,725 --> 01:03:50,285 Everyone who's basically just given in order to give way for Bran 1111 01:03:50,405 --> 01:03:54,005 and there must be a reason, right? 1112 01:03:54,165 --> 01:03:56,245 We know he's become the Three-Eyed Raven 1113 01:03:59,285 --> 01:04:02,045 But how's he going to use those powers? 1114 01:04:02,165 --> 01:04:04,405 And as the Three-Eyed Raven, 1115 01:04:04,525 --> 01:04:06,725 Bran resolves a great Stark secret 1116 01:04:06,885 --> 01:04:10,645 when he sees Jon Snow's mother is Ned's sister Lyanna. 1117 01:04:12,645 --> 01:04:15,285 You understand what Ned's been going through the whole time. 1118 01:04:15,445 --> 01:04:17,645 He made out that it was his son, his bastard son, 1119 01:04:17,765 --> 01:04:19,725 but it was really his nephew. 1120 01:04:19,885 --> 01:04:23,445 But it confirms Jon Snow is still half Stark 1121 01:04:23,605 --> 01:04:26,805 and, in season six, he and Sansa march 1122 01:04:26,965 --> 01:04:29,885 on their family seat of Winterfell to fight Ramsay Bolton 1123 01:04:30,045 --> 01:04:33,725 in what goes down in history as the Battle of the Bastards. 1124 01:04:35,805 --> 01:04:40,205 Ramsay's now top dog, having murdered his father and newborn brother. 1125 01:04:40,365 --> 01:04:43,725 If you want to say... - You're going to die tomorrow, Lord Bolton. 1126 01:04:43,885 --> 01:04:47,445 When you play the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die, you know, 1127 01:04:47,605 --> 01:04:49,685 and she knows it's about winning now, 1128 01:04:49,845 --> 01:04:52,885 she's had enough of all the rest, it's time to win. 1129 01:04:53,005 --> 01:04:55,245 She offers her insight. 1130 01:04:55,445 --> 01:04:59,165 You think he's going to fall into your trap, he won't. He's the one who lays traps. 1131 01:04:59,325 --> 01:05:01,925 She's lived with this man for a long time and she knows 1132 01:05:02,085 --> 01:05:06,125 that... that he is cruel to the core. 1133 01:05:06,245 --> 01:05:08,885 Sansa's words go unheeded. 1134 01:05:09,045 --> 01:05:11,725 Ramsay baits Jon with his hostage Rickon. 1135 01:05:11,845 --> 01:05:14,165 Run to your brother. 1136 01:05:14,325 --> 01:05:16,605 It shows a lot about how Ramsay's mind works. 1137 01:05:17,685 --> 01:05:20,645 He's calculating, he's always thinking about the next move. 1138 01:05:20,805 --> 01:05:24,725 You know, it's very interesting how Machiavellian he can be as well. 1139 01:05:26,765 --> 01:05:29,925 I think everybody who was watching that episode for the first time, 1140 01:05:30,085 --> 01:05:33,205 I think they all thought he was probably likely going to make it. 1141 01:05:37,205 --> 01:05:39,125 It was just kind of cut so short and I think 1142 01:05:39,285 --> 01:05:41,725 that's kind of what Game of Thrones is always about. 1143 01:05:44,325 --> 01:05:48,085 Ramsay Bolton's, like, 'Yes I've got you now, boy, 1144 01:05:48,245 --> 01:05:51,005 'just in the middle of no-man's land.' 1145 01:05:53,205 --> 01:05:56,005 That's what Game of Thrones does so brilliantly, 1146 01:05:56,165 --> 01:06:00,445 it's constantly pitting good moral forces against bad ones 1147 01:06:00,605 --> 01:06:02,485 and you don't just win because you're good. 1148 01:06:04,525 --> 01:06:06,925 They were surrounded by the entire army, 1149 01:06:07,045 --> 01:06:09,565 they were being driven into the mud. 1150 01:06:09,725 --> 01:06:12,485 Ramsay should have won, he was much more conniving and cunning 1151 01:06:12,645 --> 01:06:15,085 and if it hadn't have been for Sansa coming in 1152 01:06:15,245 --> 01:06:17,565 at the last minute, then he probably would have won. 1153 01:06:26,645 --> 01:06:29,125 She's a strong independent woman. She's really powerful 1154 01:06:29,285 --> 01:06:31,525 and she saves the day and I think that's brilliant. 1155 01:06:31,685 --> 01:06:37,405 This was probably their first major victory in six years. 1156 01:06:43,005 --> 01:06:46,245 They're suddenly inside the castle. Winterfell. 1157 01:06:47,405 --> 01:06:50,005 It seems Jon will kill Ramsay. 1158 01:06:51,125 --> 01:06:54,005 But he then leaves Sansa to take the scalp. 1159 01:06:55,125 --> 01:06:58,845 There was only one way to kill him and Sansa found the right way to do it. 1160 01:07:00,325 --> 01:07:04,165 She knows what she's gonna do and she knows he deserves it. 1161 01:07:04,285 --> 01:07:06,525 All memory of you will disappear. 1162 01:07:12,845 --> 01:07:16,005 If you were face to face with your nemesis 1163 01:07:16,165 --> 01:07:19,765 and you had the opportunity, you'd take it. 1164 01:07:23,205 --> 01:07:25,245 She's hardcore. 1165 01:07:25,405 --> 01:07:28,765 She has the makings of a Cersei. 1166 01:07:28,925 --> 01:07:30,765 The King of the North! The King of the North! 1167 01:07:30,925 --> 01:07:34,125 But it's Jon Snow who becomes king as the season ends, 1168 01:07:34,285 --> 01:07:38,085 with the Starks controlling the North and Sansa is by his side. 1169 01:07:39,205 --> 01:07:41,165 She's a character that will surprise people 1170 01:07:41,285 --> 01:07:43,685 because she's not what she seems. 1171 01:07:43,805 --> 01:07:46,725 And neither is Sansa's sister Arya. 1172 01:07:46,885 --> 01:07:49,845 Blinded and stabbed in her training as a faceless man, 1173 01:07:50,005 --> 01:07:53,405 she's now back in Westeros to deal with Walder Frey. 1174 01:07:54,525 --> 01:07:56,565 She's gone on this mad journey. 1175 01:07:57,645 --> 01:08:01,525 Arya comes in disguise, having chopped up Walder's sons. 1176 01:08:04,525 --> 01:08:06,365 They weren't easy to carve. 1177 01:08:07,245 --> 01:08:10,405 She wanted him to see who she was. 1178 01:08:13,685 --> 01:08:17,805 The face comes off, and there's a knife. - The last thing you'll ever see 1179 01:08:17,965 --> 01:08:20,165 is a Stark smiling down at you as you die. 1180 01:08:20,685 --> 01:08:23,125 She's been caught up in it so young 1181 01:08:23,285 --> 01:08:26,325 that she's turning into this child soldier. 1182 01:08:31,005 --> 01:08:33,565 Revenge is a dish best taken cold. 1183 01:08:33,725 --> 01:08:37,725 I can't- I literally cannot wait now for her and Cersei to face off. 1184 01:08:37,885 --> 01:08:41,085 In fact, Cersei elevates revenge to an art form 1185 01:08:41,245 --> 01:08:45,605 in season six as the Lannisters fight for their family's very survival. 1186 01:08:46,685 --> 01:08:49,485 These royal lovers are united in grief 1187 01:08:49,645 --> 01:08:52,165 after the Sand Snakes killed their daughter. 1188 01:08:52,325 --> 01:08:56,205 The Lannisters are all about power. They're all about revenge. 1189 01:08:56,365 --> 01:08:58,965 We're the only ones who matter, the only ones in this world 1190 01:08:59,125 --> 01:09:01,165 and everything they've taken from us 1191 01:09:01,325 --> 01:09:03,205 we're going to take back and more. 1192 01:09:03,365 --> 01:09:07,365 It doesn't matter how long it takes, they will get you back. 1193 01:09:07,525 --> 01:09:09,405 With Jaime sent away to fight revolt, 1194 01:09:09,565 --> 01:09:13,125 Cersei is left alone to face judgment by the Faith Militant. 1195 01:09:15,285 --> 01:09:18,005 We are told that Cersei is going to turn up for a trial 1196 01:09:18,165 --> 01:09:20,765 but we know perfectly well she's not going to. 1197 01:09:20,925 --> 01:09:24,605 But it's now she plays a game-changing hand. 1198 01:09:24,765 --> 01:09:27,885 She was always going to have a dastardly plan. 1199 01:09:28,965 --> 01:09:31,885 The man who was sent by Cersei to hold Tommen in that room... 1200 01:09:32,045 --> 01:09:36,685 There's something wrong. - Margaery knows what's up in an instant. 1201 01:09:36,845 --> 01:09:39,845 The High Sept is packed with those who've wronged Cersei: 1202 01:09:40,005 --> 01:09:43,205 The Tyrells, High Sparrow and Faith Militant. 1203 01:09:43,405 --> 01:09:47,045 The amazing thing is the spectacle is incredible and you never know it's coming. 1204 01:09:51,965 --> 01:09:53,525 This isn't gonna end well. 1205 01:09:59,565 --> 01:10:02,245 Cersei has, of course, unleashed wildfire. 1206 01:10:02,405 --> 01:10:06,245 She's wiped out this fantastic building, 1207 01:10:06,365 --> 01:10:08,285 she's destroyed all her enemies. 1208 01:10:08,445 --> 01:10:11,045 That's what makes Cersei so brilliant, 1209 01:10:11,205 --> 01:10:13,325 she's been to the absolute lowest place 1210 01:10:13,445 --> 01:10:15,365 that you could possibly go 1211 01:10:15,485 --> 01:10:18,045 and she still comes out on top. 1212 01:10:18,205 --> 01:10:22,605 In the moment where she gets her revenge on everyone else, 1213 01:10:22,765 --> 01:10:27,685 she loses the only thing that she has left that matters to her. 1214 01:10:30,125 --> 01:10:32,045 Knowing that his mom's the one that's 1215 01:10:32,165 --> 01:10:34,085 pretty much murdered his wife... 1216 01:10:37,805 --> 01:10:41,245 ...what has he got to live for? - Tommen's death 1217 01:10:41,405 --> 01:10:45,085 leaves the Iron Throne empty, so a new reign begins. 1218 01:10:46,325 --> 01:10:48,325 A witch told her that she was cursed 1219 01:10:48,485 --> 01:10:50,365 and that all of her children would die. 1220 01:10:50,525 --> 01:10:53,765 It didn't stop her from loving her kids and trying to protect them 1221 01:10:53,885 --> 01:10:57,565 at any cost but she accepts 1222 01:10:57,685 --> 01:11:00,885 very swiftly her fate. 1223 01:11:01,045 --> 01:11:06,085 And so Jaime returns to a new world order, courtesy of his sister. 1224 01:11:07,165 --> 01:11:10,725 She's devastated the Tyrells. 1225 01:11:10,885 --> 01:11:14,085 Now the Lannisters are once more a force to be reckoned with. 1226 01:11:16,605 --> 01:11:19,085 Queen Cersei sitting on the Iron Throne. 1227 01:11:22,125 --> 01:11:24,765 The fact that a woman has managed to achieve that position 1228 01:11:24,925 --> 01:11:29,405 and get that much power, Tywin, he would probably have been 1229 01:11:29,525 --> 01:11:32,045 reluctantly proud. 1230 01:11:32,205 --> 01:11:35,765 Then you go, 'OK, well, what are you going to do with this Iron Throne?' 1231 01:11:35,885 --> 01:11:39,085 Jaime, i think he knows, not a lot of good. 1232 01:11:40,405 --> 01:11:43,885 He's wondering who she's going to become now that she has the power. 1233 01:11:44,005 --> 01:11:46,405 As one queen takes the throne, 1234 01:11:46,565 --> 01:11:49,405 another sets sail to challenge her for it. 1235 01:11:49,565 --> 01:11:52,805 Finally Daenerys, the Targaryen queen, 1236 01:11:52,965 --> 01:11:55,965 is on her way to Westeros with a vast alliance 1237 01:11:56,085 --> 01:11:58,285 she spent six seasons amassing. 1238 01:12:00,005 --> 01:12:03,325 We're now getting to crunch time. - The dragons flying overhead, 1239 01:12:03,485 --> 01:12:07,325 everybody on the boats, 'We're coming.' 1240 01:12:08,365 --> 01:12:12,565 Join us after the break for the Targaryen invasion. 1241 01:12:26,245 --> 01:12:28,685 Welcome back to The Story So Far 1242 01:12:28,845 --> 01:12:32,885 where, in season seven, Daenerys finally lands on home soil, 1243 01:12:33,005 --> 01:12:36,045 he birthplace: Dragonstone... 1244 01:12:37,845 --> 01:12:40,365 ...along with her huge alliance of power players. 1245 01:12:40,525 --> 01:12:45,525 To see this female character rise to power and get to the point 1246 01:12:45,685 --> 01:12:49,725 where she's commanded thousands of men, it's so magical. 1247 01:12:49,845 --> 01:12:52,725 Her allies want immediate invasion. 1248 01:12:52,885 --> 01:12:55,525 We have an army, a fleet and three dragons. 1249 01:12:55,685 --> 01:12:59,285 We could hit King's Landing now, hard, with everything we have. 1250 01:12:59,405 --> 01:13:01,325 The city will fall within a day. 1251 01:13:01,485 --> 01:13:04,285 Ellaria wants to take Cersei out and all the Lannisters. 1252 01:13:04,445 --> 01:13:07,765 That's what she wants and she feels now that her 1253 01:13:07,885 --> 01:13:10,765 and the Tyrells and the Greyjoys, 1254 01:13:10,925 --> 01:13:13,925 they're all there together, just go and rip them out. 1255 01:13:14,085 --> 01:13:16,805 Tens of thousands will die in the firestorm. - It's called war. 1256 01:13:16,925 --> 01:13:19,045 Who can against these dragons? 1257 01:13:19,205 --> 01:13:21,445 But to avoid being seen as foreign invaders, 1258 01:13:21,605 --> 01:13:24,325 Daenerys's hand Tyrion has a more cunning plan. 1259 01:13:24,485 --> 01:13:26,565 You can't have everybody hating you. 1260 01:13:26,725 --> 01:13:28,605 You've got to have some people onside. 1261 01:13:28,765 --> 01:13:30,645 I think that's what Tyrion is there for. 1262 01:13:30,765 --> 01:13:33,285 Then comes a fateful meeting. 1263 01:13:33,445 --> 01:13:36,845 In need of more allies, Daenerys summons the king in the North, Jon Snow. 1264 01:13:37,005 --> 01:13:40,405 He comes but with his own agenda. 1265 01:13:40,565 --> 01:13:42,885 He's learned there is dragonglass there. 1266 01:13:43,005 --> 01:13:45,885 Jon's biggest goal is to prove 1267 01:13:46,005 --> 01:13:48,965 to the southern part of Westeros 1268 01:13:49,125 --> 01:13:53,005 that the Night King is real and that this threat's coming. 1269 01:13:53,165 --> 01:13:56,765 The dead are the enemy. - The dead? 1270 01:13:56,925 --> 01:14:00,725 The overall battle for humanity itself is the greater battle. 1271 01:14:00,885 --> 01:14:04,845 Daenerys allows Jon to search for this natural treasure. 1272 01:14:06,085 --> 01:14:08,565 Beneath dragonstone is more dragonglass 1273 01:14:08,725 --> 01:14:10,885 than they'll ever need to defeat the White Walkers 1274 01:14:11,045 --> 01:14:13,445 and it is key, in fact, to defeating the White Walkers. 1275 01:14:13,565 --> 01:14:16,285 And they find ancient cave paintings. 1276 01:14:16,445 --> 01:14:20,005 The enemy is real. Proof of White Walkers. 1277 01:14:20,125 --> 01:14:22,085 It's always been real. 1278 01:14:22,245 --> 01:14:25,925 He's taking the first steps towards convincing Daenerys 1279 01:14:26,085 --> 01:14:29,885 that that threat is real and looking for the ally he needs to fight it. 1280 01:14:30,005 --> 01:14:31,965 I will fight for the North... 1281 01:14:35,245 --> 01:14:37,565 ...when you bend the knee. 1282 01:14:37,685 --> 01:14:40,325 Aware of the impending invasion, 1283 01:14:40,485 --> 01:14:43,565 in the capital Queen Cersei is more than up for a fight, 1284 01:14:43,725 --> 01:14:46,845 amassing weapons and allies to face down the enemy. 1285 01:14:48,325 --> 01:14:52,405 Cersei is ruthless but she's incredibly canny and clever 1286 01:14:52,525 --> 01:14:54,445 and that's whys he's lasted so long. 1287 01:14:54,605 --> 01:14:58,405 You think I listened to father for 40 years and know nothing? 1288 01:14:59,925 --> 01:15:03,965 Cersei is very much a chip off the old block. 1289 01:15:04,125 --> 01:15:07,725 We must stand together if we hope to stop her. 1290 01:15:07,885 --> 01:15:10,925 The powerful Tarlys reluctantly join them. 1291 01:15:11,085 --> 01:15:15,325 Randyll is the most successful general in Westeros 1292 01:15:15,445 --> 01:15:18,405 and, uh, considered invincible. 1293 01:15:18,565 --> 01:15:21,685 She has three full-grown dragons, Your Grace. 1294 01:15:21,845 --> 01:15:26,005 The same as Aegon when he conquered the Seven Kingdoms. 1295 01:15:26,125 --> 01:15:29,365 How do you propose to stop them? 1296 01:15:29,485 --> 01:15:31,285 He acknowledges their power. 1297 01:15:31,445 --> 01:15:34,645 It's like saying, 'They've got nuclear weapons, we don't.' 1298 01:15:36,045 --> 01:15:39,325 In fact, Cersei has two secret new weapons. 1299 01:15:39,445 --> 01:15:41,445 A giant anti-dragon machine 1300 01:15:41,605 --> 01:15:45,285 and an approaching wildcard with his very own fleet. 1301 01:15:46,485 --> 01:15:48,845 I love Euron Greyjoy. 1302 01:15:48,965 --> 01:15:50,885 He's set his heart on Cersei. 1303 01:15:52,085 --> 01:15:54,485 You invited the Greyjoys to King's Landing. 1304 01:15:54,645 --> 01:15:56,925 Not all of them. - Well, it looks like all of them. 1305 01:15:57,085 --> 01:15:59,565 He wants power, he wants to marry Cersei Lannister. 1306 01:15:59,685 --> 01:16:01,845 So here I am 1307 01:16:01,965 --> 01:16:03,885 with a thousand ships 1308 01:16:04,005 --> 01:16:05,845 and two good hands. 1309 01:16:06,005 --> 01:16:09,125 So, he says, 'OK, I'll bring you a present.' 1310 01:16:09,285 --> 01:16:13,325 I won't return to King's Landing until I have that for you. 1311 01:16:13,445 --> 01:16:15,365 So he goes off with his fleet. 1312 01:16:17,605 --> 01:16:21,325 Euron... - He delivers a victory for Team Cersei, 1313 01:16:21,445 --> 01:16:23,365 knocking out her enemy's armada. 1314 01:16:23,525 --> 01:16:28,325 They get invaded by Euron and his madness. 1315 01:16:28,445 --> 01:16:29,565 Aarrgghh! 1316 01:16:29,725 --> 01:16:32,885 So swashbuckley. I mean, properly swashbuckley. 1317 01:16:33,045 --> 01:16:36,565 He manages to encircle Theon and Yara's much smaller fleet. 1318 01:16:36,685 --> 01:16:39,405 And he takes Yara prisoner. 1319 01:16:39,525 --> 01:16:43,085 I have her. Come and get her. 1320 01:16:43,245 --> 01:16:46,245 Theon escapes in a really embarrassing and cowardly way. 1321 01:16:50,925 --> 01:16:54,525 Poor Theon. I mean, he abandons his sister. 1322 01:16:54,685 --> 01:16:58,165 Jumps overboard early on in season seven. Theon's scared of everyone. 1323 01:17:00,045 --> 01:17:03,965 Euron also captures Ellaria Sand and her daughter. 1324 01:17:04,125 --> 01:17:08,205 And that is the gift Euron presents to Cersei 1325 01:17:08,365 --> 01:17:12,645 because, of course, Ellaria murdered Cersei's daughter Myrcella. 1326 01:17:13,925 --> 01:17:16,325 I'm the prize to take back to Cersei 1327 01:17:16,485 --> 01:17:20,125 so she can get her revenge on me, which I don't want. 1328 01:17:20,285 --> 01:17:24,325 I give you what no other man could give: 1329 01:17:24,445 --> 01:17:26,125 Justice. 1330 01:17:26,285 --> 01:17:29,045 He's pushing and pushing and pushing... 1331 01:17:29,165 --> 01:17:31,245 There's only one reward I want. 1332 01:17:31,405 --> 01:17:35,365 ...a wedge between, you know, these kind of star-crossed lovers. 1333 01:17:35,525 --> 01:17:38,045 You shall have what your heart desires... 1334 01:17:39,685 --> 01:17:41,845 ...when the war is won. 1335 01:17:44,045 --> 01:17:46,525 In a double bluff, Cersei lets her enemies 1336 01:17:46,645 --> 01:17:48,925 capture her family's ancestral home. 1337 01:17:50,085 --> 01:17:54,045 So, they're able to take Casterly Rock surprisingly easily. 1338 01:17:54,205 --> 01:17:57,325 And, of course, that puts them a little bit on edge. 1339 01:17:57,485 --> 01:18:01,005 In fact, it's a strategic distraction... 1340 01:18:04,285 --> 01:18:08,405 ..allowing Jaime to take his army south to conquer House Tyrell 1341 01:18:08,525 --> 01:18:10,445 and steal its fortune. 1342 01:18:11,805 --> 01:18:13,765 The Lannisters, led by Jaime, 1343 01:18:13,925 --> 01:18:16,925 have very cleverly gone to Highgarden. 1344 01:18:18,005 --> 01:18:20,365 I remember when the Lannisters did go to pay their debts 1345 01:18:20,525 --> 01:18:23,325 by basically stealing a load of gold from Highgarden. 1346 01:18:24,605 --> 01:18:28,165 That is where the money is and, of course, they owe the Iron Bank 1347 01:18:28,285 --> 01:18:29,725 not an insignificant sum. 1348 01:18:32,005 --> 01:18:34,045 And Jaime goes to confront Olenna 1349 01:18:34,205 --> 01:18:37,685 who is, you know, kind of, like, the last Tyrell of any consequence. 1350 01:18:37,845 --> 01:18:40,805 She's almost sitting there waiting for him, she knows what's coming. 1351 01:18:40,965 --> 01:18:44,125 How will it happen? - It was like almost like a business appointment, wasn't it? 1352 01:18:44,285 --> 01:18:47,685 It was like, 'Oh, hello. And now you need to die.' 1353 01:18:49,725 --> 01:18:51,365 As a viewer, you were just winded. 1354 01:18:51,525 --> 01:18:56,005 But in her very last breath, Olenna reveals she killed King Joffrey. 1355 01:18:56,165 --> 01:18:59,765 Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me. 1356 01:19:00,805 --> 01:19:04,325 Boom! You know, it's, like, 1357 01:19:04,485 --> 01:19:06,765 Game of Thrones just delivers, doesn't it? 1358 01:19:10,485 --> 01:19:13,245 When news of the Lannister victories reaches Daenerys, 1359 01:19:13,405 --> 01:19:17,045 she furiously abandons Tyrion's softly, softly strategy 1360 01:19:17,165 --> 01:19:19,885 and she finally invades Westeros. 1361 01:19:21,845 --> 01:19:25,925 She's just had enough, she is raining down her aggression on top of them. 1362 01:19:26,085 --> 01:19:28,525 Dracarys! 1363 01:19:32,525 --> 01:19:34,765 She's tired of being, you know, bottled up 1364 01:19:34,925 --> 01:19:38,445 and being told that she shouldn't do this. This is who she knows she is. 1365 01:19:38,605 --> 01:19:41,445 As the Lannister and Tarly troops are eviscerated, 1366 01:19:41,605 --> 01:19:45,365 Jaime is confronted by the true scale of the Dragon Queen's army. 1367 01:19:45,525 --> 01:19:49,325 He's looked into the face of the future of war 1368 01:19:49,485 --> 01:19:51,365 and they're on the losing side of it. 1369 01:19:51,525 --> 01:19:54,485 They might have held against the charge of the Dothraki 1370 01:19:54,645 --> 01:19:57,325 but not when you've got a dragon flying towards you. 1371 01:20:00,285 --> 01:20:03,685 Jaime makes this absolutely ridiculous decision 1372 01:20:03,845 --> 01:20:06,885 to have one final choice and be the Queen slayer, 1373 01:20:07,045 --> 01:20:10,365 forgetting there's a gigantic dragon just over his shoulder. 1374 01:20:10,525 --> 01:20:13,285 After Jaime escapes, Daenerys gives the survivors, 1375 01:20:13,445 --> 01:20:16,605 along with Randyll Tarly, a brutal ultimatum. 1376 01:20:19,885 --> 01:20:21,845 Join her or fry. 1377 01:20:22,925 --> 01:20:26,725 Randyll is captive at this point and resigned to his fate. 1378 01:20:26,845 --> 01:20:28,325 Step forward, My Lord. 1379 01:20:28,485 --> 01:20:32,125 He's unimpressed by Daenerys co-opting a foreign army 1380 01:20:32,285 --> 01:20:37,845 of savages and laying waste to those that she encounters in battle. 1381 01:20:38,005 --> 01:20:41,205 You will not kneel? - I already have a Queen. 1382 01:20:41,365 --> 01:20:45,485 She needs to stake her ground here and she needs to make examples 1383 01:20:45,645 --> 01:20:47,685 of her enemies when they refuse to bend the knee, 1384 01:20:47,845 --> 01:20:49,845 so that she can do what she ultimately 1385 01:20:50,005 --> 01:20:52,245 needs to do politically in this country. 1386 01:20:52,365 --> 01:20:53,565 Dracarys. 1387 01:20:55,765 --> 01:20:57,645 What sort of leader will Daenerys be? 1388 01:20:57,805 --> 01:21:01,765 Will she be a fair ruler or will she be the Mad King? 1389 01:21:02,925 --> 01:21:05,925 Away from the fighting, the remaining Stark family 1390 01:21:06,045 --> 01:21:07,965 is reunited in season seven 1391 01:21:08,085 --> 01:21:10,605 as Bran and Arya finally make it home 1392 01:21:10,765 --> 01:21:14,405 to the delight of Sansa, the new Lady of Winterfell. 1393 01:21:18,325 --> 01:21:20,325 They're not the people that they were. 1394 01:21:20,445 --> 01:21:22,325 They're not the kids that had those 1395 01:21:22,485 --> 01:21:24,725 cute little wolf pups back in series one. 1396 01:21:24,845 --> 01:21:26,205 You came home. 1397 01:21:29,045 --> 01:21:32,045 But it's not as harmonious as one would hope. 1398 01:21:32,205 --> 01:21:34,165 They haven't been together for so long and they 1399 01:21:34,325 --> 01:21:36,205 viewed the past in entirely different ways. 1400 01:21:36,365 --> 01:21:39,165 I remember you standing on that platform with Joffrey and Cersei 1401 01:21:39,325 --> 01:21:41,205 when they dragged father to the block. 1402 01:21:41,365 --> 01:21:45,365 They are sisters but they could, in a blink, become sworn enemies. 1403 01:21:45,525 --> 01:21:48,685 You should be on your knees thanking me. 1404 01:21:48,845 --> 01:21:52,405 We're standing in Winterfell again because of me. 1405 01:21:52,565 --> 01:21:57,045 We were expecting sisterly love and tears and all of that. 1406 01:21:57,205 --> 01:21:59,085 It was quite the opposite of that, wasn't it? 1407 01:21:59,245 --> 01:22:03,285 And in the shadows, Littlefinger is stoking the tension between them. 1408 01:22:03,405 --> 01:22:04,885 What do you think she's after? 1409 01:22:05,045 --> 01:22:07,485 You think, 'Is this all going to implode from the inside?' 1410 01:22:07,605 --> 01:22:09,845 You stand accused of murder. 1411 01:22:09,965 --> 01:22:12,605 You stand accused of treason. 1412 01:22:12,725 --> 01:22:14,845 How do you answer these charges... 1413 01:22:17,605 --> 01:22:20,005 ...Lord Baelish? 1414 01:22:20,165 --> 01:22:22,925 But it all backfires for the arch schemer 1415 01:22:23,085 --> 01:22:26,125 as he's finally outwitted and beaten at his own game. 1416 01:22:27,045 --> 01:22:31,165 The youngest wolves of the pack have found their way to unite 1417 01:22:31,285 --> 01:22:33,365 and use all their skills together. 1418 01:22:33,525 --> 01:22:37,085 None of you knows the truth. You've held a knife to his throat. 1419 01:22:37,245 --> 01:22:42,205 Bran has now been replaced by this Three-Eyed Raven... 1420 01:22:42,365 --> 01:22:44,565 You said, 'I did warn you not to trust me.' 1421 01:22:44,725 --> 01:22:47,845 ..who is this all-seeing, all-knowing, 1422 01:22:47,965 --> 01:22:50,645 kind of slightly sinister power. 1423 01:22:50,805 --> 01:22:54,085 He just didn't see it. He is the puppeteer. 1424 01:22:54,245 --> 01:22:57,325 I was expecting him to be much more clever. 1425 01:22:57,485 --> 01:23:01,005 Turn family against family, turn sister against sister, 1426 01:23:01,165 --> 01:23:03,205 that's what you did to our mother and Aunt Lysa. 1427 01:23:03,365 --> 01:23:05,245 And that's what you tried to do to us. 1428 01:23:05,405 --> 01:23:08,885 He's got his comeuppance... ..at the hand of Ned's kids. 1429 01:23:14,765 --> 01:23:18,205 And even farther north, a vital quest has begun. 1430 01:23:18,365 --> 01:23:21,285 In order to unite the warring kingdoms of Westeros against 1431 01:23:21,445 --> 01:23:24,845 the true enemy heading their way, Jon Snow leads a mission 1432 01:23:24,965 --> 01:23:26,885 beyond the wall. 1433 01:23:27,045 --> 01:23:30,845 It's their plan to go north, capture a wight... 1434 01:23:32,885 --> 01:23:35,925 ...and bring it down south and to just show people 1435 01:23:36,085 --> 01:23:38,725 for once and for all that there is this threat. 1436 01:23:39,925 --> 01:23:42,205 After bagging a wight, they are surrounded. 1437 01:23:46,085 --> 01:23:50,485 And it falls on Daenerys and her dragons to fly to the rescue. 1438 01:23:50,605 --> 01:23:52,885 She's there to save Jon. 1439 01:23:54,125 --> 01:23:56,725 There's a mad battle raging on all sides 1440 01:23:56,885 --> 01:24:00,605 but the moment the Night King just very slowly picks up an ice spear... 1441 01:24:04,045 --> 01:24:06,285 ...his is a pretty massive moment. 1442 01:24:11,805 --> 01:24:14,165 Not only does he kill the dragon... 1443 01:24:18,285 --> 01:24:21,765 ...the Night King has gained one of the most powerful weapons imaginable. 1444 01:24:21,925 --> 01:24:25,725 They escape with a captive wight in tow 1445 01:24:25,845 --> 01:24:28,045 but it comes at a great cost 1446 01:24:28,205 --> 01:24:31,925 as the Army of the Dead swarm in to claim their prize. 1447 01:24:33,325 --> 01:24:36,205 When he kills the dragon, you're devastated. You think that's it. 1448 01:24:38,845 --> 01:24:42,325 When he revives the dragon and it becomes one of them, 1449 01:24:42,485 --> 01:24:46,285 it's more than a turnaround, it's pretty devastating. 1450 01:24:52,645 --> 01:24:55,285 Which leads to a dramatic reveal 1451 01:24:55,445 --> 01:24:59,165 as Daenerys and Jon bring their deadly evidence down to the capital. 1452 01:24:59,325 --> 01:25:02,365 Against the odds, Jaime's persuaded Cersei to meet 1453 01:25:02,525 --> 01:25:05,965 her enemies at a peace summit. They plan to beg her for a truce 1454 01:25:06,125 --> 01:25:08,365 and to join the fight against the dead. 1455 01:25:09,445 --> 01:25:11,925 Cersei and Daenerys coming face to face for the first time 1456 01:25:12,085 --> 01:25:14,365 that's, you know, the clash of titans. 1457 01:25:21,485 --> 01:25:23,645 There are so many of them at play there. 1458 01:25:23,805 --> 01:25:26,005 You've got the Greyjoys, you've got the Lannisters. 1459 01:25:27,045 --> 01:25:29,005 And suddenly Euron is so volatile. 1460 01:25:29,165 --> 01:25:32,045 We are all facing a unique... - Theon! 1461 01:25:32,205 --> 01:25:36,365 I have you sister. If you don't submit to me here now, 1462 01:25:36,485 --> 01:25:38,685 I'll kill her. 1463 01:25:38,805 --> 01:25:40,725 When there's that first face-off, 1464 01:25:40,885 --> 01:25:43,165 you've got Cersei and Daenerys over here. 1465 01:25:43,325 --> 01:25:46,925 You have my word. The word of a would-be usurper. 1466 01:25:47,085 --> 01:25:51,525 There is no conversation that will erase the last 50 years. 1467 01:25:52,845 --> 01:25:54,685 We have something to show you. 1468 01:25:54,805 --> 01:25:56,685 When the Hound releases the wight... 1469 01:25:57,685 --> 01:26:01,125 And the dead come out and go straight for Cersei. 1470 01:26:04,525 --> 01:26:07,645 ...it is the visceral payoff that we've all been waiting for 1471 01:26:07,805 --> 01:26:10,725 and it is the theatrics that Jon and Tyrion intend. 1472 01:26:10,885 --> 01:26:13,685 This is the only thing I've ever seen that terrifies me. 1473 01:26:13,845 --> 01:26:16,165 It seems Euron Greyjoy is turning tail 1474 01:26:16,285 --> 01:26:18,205 and deserting his Queen. 1475 01:26:18,365 --> 01:26:20,925 They call your bluff, they don't actually have anyone 1476 01:26:21,085 --> 01:26:24,325 get killed in that scene, it becomes something else entirely. 1477 01:26:24,485 --> 01:26:28,125 A darkness is coming for us all. - And Cersei appears to support a truce. 1478 01:26:28,245 --> 01:26:30,165 We'll face it together. 1479 01:26:30,325 --> 01:26:32,245 When she agrees, you just think, 'Oh, 1480 01:26:32,405 --> 01:26:34,805 'this is just going to go horribly wrong.' 1481 01:26:34,925 --> 01:26:36,845 In fact, nothing is as it seems. 1482 01:26:37,005 --> 01:26:40,045 We'll meet at Lord Harroway's Town and march together to Winterfell. 1483 01:26:40,205 --> 01:26:42,805 Ser Jaime. - Your Grace. 1484 01:26:42,965 --> 01:26:45,925 He's organising the troops, saying, 'We're going to go north, 1485 01:26:46,085 --> 01:26:48,805 'we're going to help people out, let's get it together.' 1486 01:26:48,965 --> 01:26:51,565 And the she's, like, 'You're stupid. We're not ding that.' 1487 01:26:51,725 --> 01:26:53,885 Do you really think Euron Greyjoy will turn tail 1488 01:26:54,005 --> 01:26:55,525 and sail back to the Iron Islands? 1489 01:26:55,685 --> 01:26:59,285 You see Cersei not sending the Lannister troops 1490 01:26:59,445 --> 01:27:04,365 but instead sending Euron Greyjoy down to Essos for the mercenaries. 1491 01:27:04,485 --> 01:27:06,205 You plotted with Euron Greyjoy? 1492 01:27:06,325 --> 01:27:08,805 She will stop at nothing, Cersei. 1493 01:27:08,965 --> 01:27:11,965 Even though Cersei has revealed she's pregnant 1494 01:27:12,125 --> 01:27:17,005 with a Lannister baby to bolster their dynasty, Jaime now leaves her. 1495 01:27:17,165 --> 01:27:20,485 Those Lannisters, man. They have a complicated relationship. 1496 01:27:21,525 --> 01:27:24,885 He's a man of honor and, in the end, he's going to be true to his word. 1497 01:27:27,085 --> 01:27:29,565 As one incestuous pairing hits the rocks, 1498 01:27:29,685 --> 01:27:31,605 another is setting sail. 1499 01:27:32,965 --> 01:27:35,085 Jon has now best the knee to Daenerys 1500 01:27:35,245 --> 01:27:37,365 and they can no longer deny their love. 1501 01:27:39,725 --> 01:27:43,645 It's almost like seeing a God and a Goddess. 1502 01:27:45,085 --> 01:27:47,245 You've been wanting them to become lovers 1503 01:27:47,405 --> 01:27:51,325 and you get the loving moment as you're totally given the information 1504 01:27:51,485 --> 01:27:54,045 that it's- you're watching incest right now. 1505 01:27:54,205 --> 01:27:56,965 In fact, Jon's fallen for his own auntie. 1506 01:27:57,125 --> 01:28:00,605 In a vision, Bran sees that Jon's father is Dany's older brother 1507 01:28:00,725 --> 01:28:02,645 Rhaegar Targaryen. 1508 01:28:02,805 --> 01:28:05,965 Prince Rhaegar married Lyanna Stark in a secret ceremony, 1509 01:28:06,125 --> 01:28:09,645 which makes Jon, Aegon Targaryen, true heir to the throne. 1510 01:28:09,765 --> 01:28:11,685 He's never been a bastard. 1511 01:28:15,925 --> 01:28:17,885 He's the heir to the Iron Throne. 1512 01:28:18,045 --> 01:28:22,325 Even if culturally Game of Thrones can handle incest, 1513 01:28:22,485 --> 01:28:26,565 you know Jon and Daenerys probably won't be able to handle that. 1514 01:28:29,245 --> 01:28:32,525 But eclipsing all developments and personal struggles, 1515 01:28:32,685 --> 01:28:36,725 in the North, the season ends on a cataclysmic event 1516 01:28:36,885 --> 01:28:42,005 that changes the game for every living human being. 1517 01:28:42,125 --> 01:28:44,045 This is the moment that we were told 1518 01:28:44,205 --> 01:28:47,125 could never happen. The Wall can never come down. 1519 01:28:47,285 --> 01:28:51,805 You see the army kind of coming out of the forest. 1520 01:28:54,605 --> 01:28:56,925 And then you hear something. 1521 01:28:59,045 --> 01:29:02,245 Oh, that's just changed the whole ballgame here. 1522 01:29:05,965 --> 01:29:09,805 It didn't occur to me that we would have a dragon White Walker. 1523 01:29:12,685 --> 01:29:16,605 But when that happened, you thought, 'Oh, yes, this is inevitable.' 1524 01:29:16,765 --> 01:29:19,765 Now this takes us on a whole different journey. 1525 01:29:22,045 --> 01:29:25,085 That's when you know it's on for next season. 1526 01:29:25,245 --> 01:29:27,805 There's nothing to protect them in the south any more. 1527 01:29:29,565 --> 01:29:32,765 I mean, you can't have a cliffhanger greater than that. 1528 01:29:32,925 --> 01:29:35,245 I don't know what's going to happen but I can't wait. 132733

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