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00:38There is only one war that matters, and it is here.
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00:59Arya has this piece of very incriminating evidence
01:02against Sansa.
01:04So she goes looking for it, and she doesn't find it,
01:06but she finds a bag full of severed faces instead,
01:10which is creepy.
01:12And then her sister appearing without any sounds,
01:15creepier still.
01:17Not what you're looking for.
01:19And as they get into the discussion
01:21about what these faces are,
01:23she starts to see Arya as a real physical danger to her.
01:27The game of faces didn't turn out so well
01:29for the last person who asked me questions.
01:31Tell me what they are.
01:33Going into the final episode,
01:35I think Sansa is bringing with her a real fear
01:38about the idea that Arya might really want to murder her.
01:41It's a fear that Littlefinger expertly stokes.
01:44Is that what she thinks?
01:46I don't know what she thinks.
01:48I don't know her anymore.
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01:56We knew that if we were gonna send them north
01:58to have them trudging across snow-filled landscapes
02:02would take you so far,
02:04especially once there's a big zombie polar bear
02:06in the middle of it.
02:08At a certain point, you have to find the army of the dead.
02:11We were thinking,
02:13how can you possibly survive that situation?
02:16That was the thing that was the hardest for us.
02:19We came gradually to the idea that the one way
02:22they might survive is to be in the middle of an island.
02:26Fall back!
02:28And then you put 5 or 10,000 wights on that ice
02:31coming after them, that that might believably be
02:34something that would break the ice in a way that they didn't.
02:37At a certain point, they're just fighting for their survival.
02:40Once they retreat all the way to the middle of the lake,
02:43there's nowhere farther to run.
02:45She's always been willing to risk her life
02:47to do what she thinks is right.
02:49And in terms of going north to rescue them,
02:51a number of people up there have different claims on her heart.
02:54And Jorah's been by her side from the beginning,
02:56and he saved her life so many times,
02:58I think she would feel as if it was a betrayal
03:00if she didn't at least try to save him.
03:02Then of course there's Jon Snow.
03:04You definitely get the sense that he's become quite important
03:07to her in a pretty short amount of time.
03:09He sees that they're all going to die
03:11if the dragon doesn't take off.
03:13The rational decision at that point is, you guys go to safety
03:16and I'll try to keep them off you as long as I can.
03:19He's the guy who jumps on the grenade
03:21to save the rest of the platoon.
03:23That's always been Jon.
03:28The thing with cold hands is it all has to somehow work
03:31in a pretty compressed time frame
03:33because there just isn't time.
03:35We need the emotional connection.
03:37Coldhands has to somehow convince him very quickly,
03:39do what I say, and the easiest way for him to do that
03:42is to show his face.
03:44Jon kind of has to respect the decision
03:46because he just did the same thing.
03:48For Coldhands, I think it's almost a relief in some ways
03:51because he's been trapped in this kind of purgatory state
03:54between life and death for quite some time.
03:56And like so many of the characters in the show
03:58waiting to find out what his purpose is,
04:00he's still alive when he should be dead.
04:02And for him, it seems like he's found his purpose
04:05in these last 2 seasons by saving First Bran and now Jon.
04:14I think that when she sees him return
04:17on the back of Coldhands' horse,
04:19that's a big moment for her
04:21in terms of the way she feels about him.
04:24I don't think either one of them really knew exactly
04:27how their feelings were towards each other until these moments.
04:30Just the notion of falling for someone, that involves weakness.
04:33It's not something a queen does, but she feels that happening,
04:36and he feels it happening for her.
04:38I'm sorry.
04:39I think both of them are on kind of unfamiliar ground,
04:42and especially because it's with an equal.
04:44It's kind of hard for her at that point, I think,
04:47not to look at this guy and realize
04:49that this is not like the other boys.
04:51The dragons are my children.
04:53They're the only children I'll ever have.
04:55Do you understand?
04:59The whole path of the show in some way
05:02had been trying to map out all the episode endpoints,
05:05and with this one, it was the dragon opening its blue eye
05:08and realizing that the Night King
05:10has finally gotten his own weapon of mass destruction.
05:13What was fun about the sequence in an awful way to us
05:16is that up until the end, it's very close to one of those battles
05:19where all the good guys get out the other side
05:22and more or less got free,
05:24and we knew that killing the dragon
05:26was going to have a tremendous emotional impact
05:29because over the seasons and seasons of the show,
05:32it's really been emphasized what they are to Danny.
05:35We knew that the Night King would see
05:38and seize this opportunity.
05:40I like to think that when the dragon dies,
05:43that it's kind of a one-two punch,
05:45because on the one hand, you're just seeing the horror
05:48of one of these 3 amazing beings like this in the world
05:51going under the water and not coming up again
05:54and processing that.
05:55Then you're processing something that's even worse,
05:57which is when it comes back out from under the water again,
06:00and we see in the last shot of the episode what it becomes.
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