Bryan Cogman continues his Twitter trip down memory lane. The Game of Thrones writer is counting down through his favorite episodes, and he’s already provided insights numbers 10-6: “Fire and Blood,” “Two Swords,” “And Now His Watch Is Ended,” and “The Rains of Castamere.” Now, we bring you his look into number 5 and 4, starting with the Season 1 classic “Baelor,” aka “The One Where Ned Stark Dies.”
First, Cogman talks about how each of the writers and producers mentioned in the opening credits get to design their own sigils, which appear next to their names.
Most of us producers got to choose our personal sigils for the opening credits. Except me. D&D personally commissioned the vomiting maester
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you can see on my twitter profile. This stems from an unfortunate 'day after the pilot wrap party' incident. I will not elaborate further.
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See? Already this live-tweeting session is paying off already.
Sorry I'm a bit distracted being riveted by Sean. He was the first person D&D wanted for the show when they first read the books.
— Bryan Cogman (@b_cogman) April 8, 2016
And Peter, of course. And I think even Charles Dance was talked about for Tywin when we shot the original pilot, long before the 1/2
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character was set to appear. 2/2
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Why settle for anything less than the best?
It's interesting, looking at the structure of Season One. Ned is the traditional "lead" right up until the end of episode 7. But after 1/2
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his arrest in the ep he largely disappears apart from his death and two prison scenes. As I recall, this made the network nervous. 2/2
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There's a random scene dropped in the middle of 108, where a guard walks past Ned in the cell and kicks him awake. Again, as I recall, that
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was a request to "keep Ned present". Ha! The guard is played by Conleth Hill. We quickly shot that bit after they shot their scene.
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Honestly, it’s a bit disheartening that even HBO was wary about this stuff, especially considering that Ned was going to die in a couple of episodes anyway. C’mon, HBO! You’re supposed to be the network that shakes things up!
Richard Madden really stepped up here as we filmed the end of S1. Robb doesn't really emerge as a major character until 108. But in the
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space of 3 episodes he's made a huge impression. In any other story Robb's the hero who avenges his dad. Richard made you believe he would.
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He fooled you! He fooled all of us!
Feh! The pronunciation of 'maester'. It was the bane of my existence. They so often ended up using takes where the actor said "MY-ster!"
— Bryan Cogman (@b_cogman) April 8, 2016
It’s “may-ster,” then.
This Qotho/Jorah fight turned out great. Like many sequences in season one, it was originally conceived as a bigger altercation but
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had to be stripped down. We just didn't have the time! Originally it was a bigger fight between Jorah and Rakharo and Drogo's blood riders
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And that ended up working like gangbusters. Sometimes simpler is better, except when it isn’t.
Love this drinking game scene w/ Tyrion/Bronn/Shae. Peter's Emmy winning scene. Shot LATE at night in a tent in a field in the freezing cold
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The scene was conceived and written later in production of season one, as I recall. Pretty sure it was after Jerome and Sibel had started
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shooting. So it's a good example of D&D starting to tailor the characters to the actors and their personas.
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As I recall, the writers scripted a bunch of new scenes in Season 1 after the fact to fill time. I didn’t know this was one of them.
The 'Tysha' backstory, if I remember correctly, we were going to originally reveal in S2… but it was decided we needed it in S1 after all
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Considering that the show dropped the Tysha narrative later in the series, was it needed at all? Discuss.
Ah, the "Battle" of the Green Fork! Again, this is not new info for GoT nerds, but we really were planning to show a battle here!
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But, it was late in the schedule, winter had come (ha!) and we simply didn't have the time. Something had to go!
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I believe storyboards of this sequence survive in the book I co-authored that's including with the deluxe edition of my 'making of' book
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Ooh, I’d buy the hell out of that book.
So much of S1 of GoT is about 'fracturing' these kinds of stories. So, for me, it works that after the rousing speech, Tyrion gets knocked
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out and misses the whole damn thing. But, more than that, I think Tyrion's bravery in 'Blackwater' ended up having even more impact
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because we didn't see him in the fight here. I remember so many viewers/critics were pissed, though! I like to think we've made up
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for it since (battle wise).
— Bryan Cogman (@b_cogman) April 8, 2016
Yes, the battles have certainly become more impressive as the show’s gone on. I hope they don’t forget about fracturing, though! Those subversive moments are part of the what I really enjoy about the show.
It was @GRRMspeaking's idea to give these lines (which were originally the High Septon's) to Pycelle.
— Bryan Cogman (@b_cogman) April 8, 2016
That’s quite interesting—I’d have figured Martin would be in favor of including more characters, but he’d worked in TV before, so he probably knew the value of consolidation.
I remember seeing the key art for the marketing campaign for the first time — with Sean front and center, as if GoT was a star vehicle
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And I thought: "YOU BLOODY GENIUSES!"
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Yep, good call, there.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/04/11/game-of-thrones-bryan-cogman-dives-into-baelor-and-kissed-by-fire/
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