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