Part eight of our ten-part “scripting” series picks up just after a certain arrest at the end of episode seven.
EPISODE EIGHT
56 scenes; 65 pages
DAENERYS 7
ARYA 4
SANSA 4
½ of JON 7
BRAN 6
DAENERYS 8
TYRION 6
SANSA 5
½ of EDDARD 15
Our (very) rough Season One outline can be found HERE. Episodes 2 – 7 can be found here: Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode 7. PLEASE NOTE that none of these scripts are official. Episode 8 encompasses pages 530 – 637 of “A Game of Thrones” (U.S. softcover), as well as earlier pages 583 – 594. Pages 452 – 461 (Tyrion 6) are also included, but pages 596 – 606 (Catelyn 8 ) have been moved to episode 9. The first page-and-a-half of Daenerys 7 was seen in episode 7. Note that this episode was the one scripted by George R. R. Martin!
Spoilers are everywhere. Everywhere!
Introductions: Wineseller Assassin, Tysha, Shagga, Gunthor, Conn, Red Keep Stable Boy, Greatjon Umber, Lord Roose Bolton, Lord Robett Glover, Lady Maege Mormont, Lord Medger Cerwyn, Lord Halys Hornwood, Lord Rickard Karstark and his sons Harrion, Torrhen, and Eddard Karstark, Eroeh, Mirri Maz Duur, Chella, Ulf, Timmett son of Timmett, Lord Tywin Lannister, Ser Kevan Lannister, Lord Gyles Rosby, Ser Aron Santagar, Ser Dontos, and Ser Gerold Whitetower and Elia of Dorne (in flashback). NOTE: This episode gives us a buttload of introductions, though many are either non-speaking roles or very minor, with only one or two lines. Yes, I’m still holding out hope for Bolton and Jeyne Poole. If not… well, alas.
Deaths: an uncounted number of Stark guardsmen including Desmond; Jafer Flowers; Othor; Red Keep Stable Boy (stuck with the pointy end); and Masha Heddle. Also, the Greatjon loses a few fingers.
Sex: Tyrion and Tysha make love in a brief flashback. We also get some gratuitous Hodor nudity. Hodor!
EXT. VAES DOTHRAK – HOLLOW HILL – DAY [1 page]
Dany talks to Ser Jorah Mormont, despairing that she will return to Westeros. Jorah promises, someday, they will go home.
EXT. VAES DOTHRAK – WESTERN MARKET – DAY [3 pages]
Dany is carried through the market in a litter carried by the young men of her khas; she is accompanied by Irri and Jhiqui, with Ser Jorah riding along beside. Dany dismounts and shops amongst the colorful tents and stalls, chatting with Ser Jorah. After a moment he excuses himself and leaves. Dany encounters a WINESELLER, who attempts to sell her a special cask of wine; Ser Jorah returns and immediately demands the wineseller taste it first. The wineseller reveals his treachery by throwing the cask at Ser Jorah and attempting to flee, but Rakharo’s whip catches him around the throat and he is caught.
INT. VAES DOTHRAK – HOLLOW HILL – DUSK [3 pages]
Dany is still shaken from the assassination attempt, and she paces restlessly. She fetches her dragon eggs and tells Ser Jorah to light the brazier. In a fit of seeming madness, Dany lays the eggs in the brazier. Nothing happens. Khal Drogo enters and learns of the attempt on Daenerys; he rewards Ser Jorah and Rakharo with horses, and rewards the wineseller by decreeing he will forever run afoot behind the khalasar; so long as the wineseller can keep up, he will live. Lastly he bequeaths a gift to his unborn son: “To Rhaego son of Drogo, the stallion who will mount the world, to him I will give this iron chair his mother’s father sat in. I will give him Seven Kingdoms. I, Drogo, khal, will do this thing.”
OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE [1 page]
EXT. THE HIGH ROAD – NIGHT [1.5 pages]
Tyrion and Bronn make a comfortable camp within a copse of trees rather than try to hide from the mountain clans; Bronn is not completely sold on the idea, but he has now thrown his lot in with Tyrion, for better or worse. Tyrion sings a song, then recalls to Bronn the tale of how he learned it:
SILENT FLASHBACK / TYRION V.O.: [1 page]
EXT. LONELY ROAD – NIGHT
A younger Tyrion and a younger Jaime rescue TYSHA, a maiden, from attacking bandits. Tyrion rides off with her while Jaime pursues the fleeing men.
INT. INN – COMMON ROOM – NIGHT
Tyrion and Tysha share food and laughter.
INT. INN – BEDROOM – NIGHT
Tyrion and Tysha make love. After, she sings him a song.
EXT. COTTAGE – DAY
Tyrion and Tysha wed in secret, setting up home in a small cottage away from Casterly Rock.
BACK TO PRESENT:
EXT. THE HIGH ROAD – NIGHT [1 page]
Tyrion finishes his tale: his father, Lord Tywin, eventually found out about the secret marriage and had Tyrion and Tysha brought before him. Tywin had a septon dissolve the marriage; Jaime reluctantly revealed Tysha was in fact a whore, hired to make a man of Tyrion. Lord Tywin then drove the point home by giving Tysha to his men and then making Tyrion take her last. Lord Tywin paid Tysha in silver; he then gave Tyrion a gold coin to pay her with, “because Lannisters are worth more.” Bronn says, “I would kill the man who did that to me.” Tyrion responds, “You may get that chance one day. A Lannister always pays his debts.” He goes to sleep.
EXT. THE HIGH ROAD – LATER [1.5 pages]
Tyrion is awakened by Bronn; the mountain clans have come. Introduction of SHAGGA, GUNTHOR, CONN, and other clansmen. Tyrion talks them out murdering them, saying he will pay them Lannister gold, and adding, “I will give you the Vale of Arryn.”
INT. RED KEEP – SMALL HALL – DAY [1.5 pages]
Arya’s training with Syrio Forel is interrupted by the arrival of Ser Meryn Trant and five Lannister guardsmen. “Your father wants to see you,” Ser Meryn says. Arya, on Syrio’s advice, refuses, so Ser Meryn sends the men after her. Syrio steps up and, with a wooden sword, beats the living snot out of the guardsmen. But Syrio looks as though he will have a much harder time with Ser Meryn, so he tells Arya to flee. “Swift as a deer,” she whispers. “Just so,” he answers. She flees.
INT. RED KEEP – KITCHEN – CONTINUOUS [quarter page]
Arya sprints through, bowling a baker over and scattering the kitchen help.
INT. RED KEEP – TURRET STAIR – CONTINUOUS [quarter page]
Arya pauses at the stair before deciding to sprint down.
INT. RED KEEP – KITCHEN CELLAR – CONTINUOUS [quarter page]
Arya slips through the cellar but it’s a dead end. She climbs casks to get to a small window near the ceiling.
EXT. RED KEEP – BAILEY YARD – CONTINUOUS [quarter page]
Arya squirms through the window and into the yard, passing the body of one of her father’s guards.
EXT. RED KEEP – STABLES – CONTINUOUS [half page]
Arya reaches the stable doors as men in gold cloaks run toward the bailey in the other direction. She hides until they pass. Hullen, the Stark master of horse, lies dying nearby, but she can do nothing for him.
INT. RED KEEP – STABLES – CONTINUOUS [1.5 pages]
Arya slips into the shadowed stables, encountering more bodies. One is Desmond, who once told her “Every northerner is worth ten of these southron swords.” She kicks his corpse angrily. Arya goes to saddle a horse and notices a fallen chest: it has her belongings in it, so she digs through and finds Needle. Just then, a RED KEEP STABLE BOY discovers Arya, and he comes to grab her, intent on claiming a reward for her. Arya takes Needle and stabs him with the pointy end. “Take it out,” he moans, and when she does he dies. Giving up on saddling a horse, she puts on a heavy cloak and runs for the stable’s back door.
EXT. RED KEEP – STABLES – CONTINUOUS [quarter page]
Arya steps out carefully, walking as casually as she can across the yard toward a distant sept.
INT. RED KEEP – SEPT – CONTINUOUS [quarter page]
Arya enters the empty sept, taking a candle with her as she heads toward the back.
INT. RED KEEP – DRAGON-SKULL CELLAR – DAY [quarter page]
Arya returns to the cellar, creeping through the dark with only a candle for light. The dragon skulls do not scare her any more. She’s more frightened of what could be in a shadows. Her mind thinks back to…
FLASHBACK TO:
INT. WINTERFELL – CRYPTS – NIGHT [1.5 pages]
Robb leads Arya, Sansa, and Bran down through the crypts, with only one candle to light the way. A white ghost leaps out from behind one of the crypts! Sansa shrieks and runs for the stairs; Bran bursts into tears and grabs Robb’s leg. But Arya just punches the ghost’s shoulder; it’s Jon in a sheet with flour thrown over him. “You scared the baby,” she accuses Jon and Robb. Soon they are all laughing.
BACK TO PRESENT:
INT. RED KEEP – DRAGON-SKULL CELLAR – DAY [quarter page]
Arya steadies her nerves. There are no ghosts. She plunges deeper into the darkness.
INT. MAEGOR’S HOLDFAST – SANSA’S ROOM – DAY [quarter page]
Sansa is held in her new room by a locked door. Outside she can hears screams and shouts, running feet and clashing swords. She hears men begging for mercy and men dying. Frightened, she calls through the door, calling for her father, for anyone, but no one comes.
INT. MAEGOR’S HOLDFAST – SANSA’S ROOM – NIGHT [1 page]
Jeyne Poole is shoved into the room; the two friends embrace while Jeyne hysterically recounts the killings that had gone on. She says the Hound broke her door down with a warhammer and the steps were slick with the blood of dead men.
INT. MAEGOR’S HOLDFAST – SANSA’S ROOM – DAY [1 page]
Sansa and Jeyne are kept within with no information given. Jeyne whimpers and cries a lot. Food is brought to them but the servants answer no questions.
INT. MAEGOR’S HOLDFAST – SANSA’S ROOM – NIGHT [half page]
Sansa and Jeyne hear the ringing of the great bell, filling them with dread. It rings on and on … and neither of them knows what it means.
INT. MAEGOR’S HOLDFAST – SANSA’S ROOM – DAY [quarter page]
Sansa is met at her door by Ser Boros Blount, who says he will take her to see the queen. Sansa puts on her best dress and her best face.
EXT. MAEGOR’S HOLDFAST – BRIDGE – DAY [quarter page]
Sansa is escorted across the bridge by Ser Boros and Lannister guardsmen.
INT. RED KEEP – COUNCIL CHAMBERS – DAY [3.5 pages]
Sansa is brought in to meet with Queen Cersei, as well as Varys, Littlefinger, and Grand Maester Pycelle. Sansa asks if Jeyne Poole may be allowed to see her father; Littlefinger volunteers to watch over her instead, so Cersei instructs Ser Boros to escort Jeyne to Littlefinger’s apartments. Cersei then tells Sansa she cannot allow her to marry Joffrey, as her father Eddard is a traitor. Sansa cries and begs– and it is revealed that Sansa had secretly come to Cersei earlier, divulging her father’s plans to send her back to Winterfell. The council seems moved by Sansa’s tears, but they cannot promise her anything; “A child born of traitor’s seed will find that betrayal comes naturally to her,” she is told. Sansa accuses Arya of having traitor’s blood, not her. Cersei tells Sansa that she will take her plight under consideration if Sansa writes letters to her mother and brother, bidding them to make peace with Joffrey. Sansa agrees to write the letters.
INT. MAEGOR’S HOLDFAST – SANSA’S ROOM – NIGHT [quarter page]
Sansa returns to find Jeyne gone. She is alone again.
EXT. HAUNTED FOREST – CLEARING – DAY [1.5 pages]
Jon watches as the bodies of two of Benjen’s rangers– Othor and Jafer Flowers– are uncovered, supervised by a scowling Lord Commander Mormont. Most believe the men to have been slain by wildlings days ago, but Sam points out that the corpses don’t stink and they haven’t bled out as they should. Mormont orders the corpse of Other taken back to Castle Black for study, even though the horses seem frightened of it. The rangers keep the body of Jafer Flowers.
EXT. HAUNTED FOREST – PATH – DAY [quarter page]
Jon, Sam, Mormont, and rangers of the Night’s Watch ride back through the woods towards the Wall, dragging the body of Othor behind them in a litter.
EXT. CASTLE BLACK – COURTYARD – DAY [half page]
Bowen Marsh meets Mormont upon his return. “There’s been a bird,” he says ominously. Jon notices the gathered men around looking at him with uncertain eyes. Ser Alliser Thorne wears a rather satisfied smile. Pyp tells Jon that King Robert is dead.
INT. CASTLE BLACK – LORD COMMANDER’S TOWER – DAY [2 pages]
Mormont gives Jon wine and bids him to sit, then tells him the news of his father: Lord Eddard has been branded a traitor and has been accused of plotting to steal the throne from Robert’s son.
EXT. CASTLE BLACK – TURRET STAIR – DUSK [quarter page]
Jon walks out, stunned. A few men offer support but most just stare. Jon shouts, “My father is no traitor!”
INT. CASTLE BLACK – COMMON HALL – NIGHT [1 page]
Jon goes to dine; his friends offer their support, but Ser Alliser Thorne mocks him. Jon pulls a dagger and vaults the table, going for Ser Alliser’s face, and it takes Sam, Pyp, Grenn, and Toad to drag him back.
INT. CASTLE BLACK – JON’S SLEEPING CELL – NIGHT [half page]
Jon is relieved of his sword and dagger by Mormont, who is clearly disgusted with him. He is left alone in his cell with Ghost.
EXT. WINTERFELL – OUTER WALL PARAPET – MORNING [1 page]
Bran, perched on Hodor’s shoulders, watches with Maester Luwin as more than a thousand Karstark men file toward the gates. Bran regrets that there are not more knights amongst the northmen, but Luwin chides him; “A man’s worth is not marked by a ser before his name.”
EXT. WINTERFELL – COURTYARD – CONTINUOUS [quarter page]
Hodor carries Bran across the yard, through the milling crowds of other newly-arrived Stark bannermen. The men part more readily when Bran whistles for Summer.
EXT. WINTERFELL – GODSWOOD – MORNING [quarter page]
Bran has Hodor take him to the Heart Tree, then sends him off to bathe. Bran sits with Summer and prays for his brother Robb, thinking back to earlier in the day…
FLASHBACK TO:
INT. WINTERFELL – GREAT HALL – NIGHT [2 pages]
Bran watches in silence as Robb meets with many of his bannermen: LORD ROOSE BOLTON, LORD ROBETT GLOVER, LADY MAEGE MORMONT, LORD MEDGER CERWYN, LORD HALYS HORNWOOD, and GREATJON UMBER. The Greatjon attempts to bully Robb; he draws his greatsword and bellows a threat, but Grey Wind is on him in a flash, biting off two of the Greatjon’s fingers. “Doubtless you wanted to cut my meat, milord,” Robb says coldly. The Greatjon sucks on his fingers, then laughs and replies, “Your meat … is bloody tough!”
INT. WINTERFELL – BRAN’S ROOM – NIGHT [1 page]
Robb admits to Bran that he’d been frightened half to death, though more of quiet Roose Bolton than the Greatjon. They talk about Sansa’s shocking letter too; “She lost her wolf,” Bran reasons.
BACK TO PRESENT:
EXT. WINTERFELL – GODSWOOD – MORNING [2 pages]
Bran’s praying is interrupted by Osha; they talk about the gods of the north. Hodor reappears, naked and dripping from his swim. “Now there’s a big man,” Osha remarks. “He has giant’s blood in him, or I’m the queen.” Bran sends him back to get some clothes on. Osha reveals that she and the other wildlings were fleeing the Others, though Mance Rayder is stubborn and is staying to fight them. She tells Bran that Robb is marching the wrong direction; that he should be going north, not south.
INT. WINTERFELL – GREAT HALL – NIGHT [1 page]
Robb takes the newly arrived LORD RICKARD KARSTARK to the solar to speak in private, leaving Bran to entertain the Karstark host, including Karstark’s sons, HARRION, TORRHEN, and EDDARD KARSTARK; Bran can tell the northmen are pitying him, and he hates it.
EXT. WINTERFELL – COURTYARD – DAWN [half page]
Robb bids farewell to Bran and Rickon, though Rickon is having a tantrum, refusing to say goodbye. Robb leaves, riding south with the Stark army and all his bannermen, taking Hal Mollen and Theon Greyjoy as well. Bran remembers Osha’s words too late.
EXT. LHAZAREEN TOWN – OUTSKIRTS – DAY [half page]
Daenerys surveys the scene of Khal Drogo’s latest victory: parts of the LHAZAREEN TOWN are burning in the distance, and the bodies of Lhazareen men lie with the corpses of slaughtered sheep. The bodies of other Dothraki are also scattered about, but they are not from Khal Drogo’s khalasar. Dany watches as a boy tries to make a break for the nearby river, but he is chased down and cruelly toyed with by the Dothraki warriors before finally being killed.
EXT. LHAZAREEN TOWN – SHATTERED GATE – DAY [2 pages]
Dany is met by Ser Jorah, who says Khal Drogo awaits her within the town. Jorah says Khal Drogo slew two khals: first Khal Ogo, then his son Khal Jogo who became khal when Ogo died. We learn Khal Ogo’s khalasar had invaded the Lhazareen town when Drogo attacked them; if the Lhazareen thought they were being saved, they were wrong, for Khal Drogo finished the job Khal Ogo started. The men of Drogo’s khalasar continue to rape and pillage the town as Dany looks on; Dany cannot stand witnessing the rape of one young girl, EROEH, and orders it stopped. Jorah says Dany is indeed Rhaegar’s sister. Quaro, Jhogo, Aggo, and Rakharo go with Ser Jorah to assist; a scuffle breaks out and Eroeh’s rapers are killed.
EXT. LHAZAREEN TOWN – STREET – CONTINUOUS [1 page]
Dany rides through the city, halting every rape she sees and claiming each victim as her property. Ser Jorah says she cannot claim them all, but she says she is khaleesi and it is not his place to tell her what she can and cannot do. One of the victims is MIRRI MAZ DUUR.
EXT. LHAZAREEN TOWN – TEMPLE – DAY [3.5 pages]
Dany arrives to find Khan Drogo wounded, though he says it is nothing. Beside him is a pile of heads taller than he is. Drogo is told of Dany’s mercy and does not like it. “This is the way of war,” he says. Dany urges him to order his men to treat the women gently and take them as wives. Cruel Qotho laughs and asks her if the horse breeds with the sheep; Dany replies angrily, “The dragon feeds on horse and sheep alike.” This amuses Drogo, who decides Dany can keep all she claimed. It is apparent Drogo is more hurt than he admitted. Dany calls for a healer and Mirri Maz Duur offers her services; Mirri claims to have studied healing in the land of Asshai by the Shadow, and that a Westerosi maester named Marwyn taught her “the secrets that hide beneath the skin.”
INT. LHAZAREEN TEMPLE – DAY [1 page]
Mirri Maz Duur binds Khal Drogo’s wounds in a temple antechamber. When she is done, Dany approaches her and asks to have her attend the birth of her son when her time is due. Khal Drogo laughs and says, “You do not ask a slave, you tell her.” Qotho threatens Mirri if any harm should come to the khal; Mirri replies, “The Great Shepherd guards the flock.”
EXT. THE CROSSROADS INN – YARD – DAY [half page]
Tyrion and Bronn follow the trail of havoc left in the wake of the Lannister armies; the inn has been ransacked and burned. Tyrion has with him nearly three-hundred clansmen with him: Stone Crows, Moon Brothers, Black Ears, and Burned Men, led by luminaries such as Shagga, and joined by CHELLA, ULF, and TIMMETT SON OF TIMMETT. Tyrion spies the corpse of Masha Heddle, hanging from a gibbet. “A room, a meal, a flagon of wine, that was all I asked,” he says to the corpse.
EXT. TYWIN’S CAMP – OVERLOOK – DAY [half page]
The sprawl of the Lannister camp is immense. Tyrion says he wants to meet with his father alone, but the clan leaders don’t trust him; Shagga says, “If boy-man lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood–” “–and feed it to the goats,” Tyrion finishes for him, accustomed to the threat by now. He sighs, resigned, and all of the clansmen follow him down toward the camp.
EXT. TYWIN’S CAMP – DAY [5 pages]
LORD TYWIN LANNISTER is having a meal with his brother SER KEVAN LANNISTER when Tyrion rides up. Lord Tywin is not exactly welcoming, but he relates the war is going well; Jaime won a victory at the Golden Tooth, and at Riverrun took Edmure Tully captive, putting Riverrun under siege. Lord Tywin himself took the town of Raventree and Lady Whent yielded Harrenhal for lack of men to defend it. Ser Gregor Clegane also won victories; the only resistance has been by Marq Piper and Karyl Vance raiding Lannister lands across the Red Fork, and Beric Dondarrion harassing foraging parties. Other than that, the Lannisters march unopposed, save for the distant Starks– and Lord Tywin does not think much of Robb Stark. Shagga speaks up, demanding the weapons and armor Tyrion promised, and threatening to roast a Lannister’s manhood in a fire if he does not get his way. “What, no goats?” asks Tyrion. Surprisingly, Lord Tywin treats the mountain clan leaders with courtesy. Amidst the introductions, a messenger approaches with news: the Stark host has left Winterfell and is heading south. Lord Tywin challenges the clansmen by saying, “You need not join us. The men of the winterlands are made of iron and ice, and even my boldest knights fear to face them.” So of course the mountain clans join. “But only if you halfman son goes with us,” adds Shagga. Tyrion is thrilled, of course.
INT. RED KEEP – THRONE ROOM – DAY [7 pages]
Sansa enters in the company of two guards, here to watch the first day of court in King Joffrey’s reign. In attendance is the coughing LORD GYLES ROSBY, gloomy SER ARON SANTAGAR, drunken SER DONTOS, and Jalabhar Xho, though they all avoid meeting her eyes. The Kingsguard stand guard. Also present is the Small Council: Littlefinger, Grand Maester Pycelle, and Lord Varys. Traitors to the realm are named (anyone who has opposed Joffrey thus far) and orders are given to have their lands and holds taken. Lord Tywin Lannister (not present) is made Hand of the King. Queen Cersei (immaculately present) is made Queen Regent and is placed on the Small Council. Janos Slynt is made a lord and given Harrenhal. Ser Barristan is removed as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard; Jaime Lannister is named Lord Commander in his stead. Barristan is shocked. “Only death may relieve us of our sacred trust,” he says. In the end, Barristan removes all of his armor and hurls his sword at Joffrey’s feet. He stalks out of the throne room, furious. Joffrey orders him seized; Lord Janos says his City Watch will see to it. Joffrey then makes The Hound a member of the Kingsguard. Ser Boros Blount protests, saying the Sworn Brothers have always been knights; The Hound retorts, “Until now.” Sansa is then given leave to beg for mercy for her father. Cersei says that if Eddard will confess his crime, the king will be merciful. Sansa says that he will.
INT. RED KEEP DUNGEON CELL – NIGHT [half page]
Ned lies in a filthy cell. He dreams…
FLASHBACK TO:
EXT. HARRENHAL TOURNEY GROUNDS – DAY [2 pages]
Ned dreams of a great tourney; Brandon Stark is there, and a younger Robert Baratheon. A younger Jaime Lannister kneels in the grass to take the Kingsguard oath, swearing to protect King Aerys Targaryen; old SER GEROLD WHITETOWER fastens the white cloak around Jaime’s neck. Jaime then defeats all comers in the tourney, including Ser Arthur Dayne. Prince Rhaegar Targaryen names Lyanna Stark the tournament’s Queen of Beauty instead of his own wife ELIA, laying a crown a blue roses in Lyanna’s lap. “Promise me, Ned,” Lyanna’s voice whispers in the wind.
BACK TO PRESENT:
INT. RED KEEP DUNGEON CELL – NIGHT [half page]
Ned wakes, his broken leg in agony. A gaoler comes to give him water but will not answer any of his questions. Ned is truly forsaken.
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This is the episode GRRM wrote the script for, yes?
LexQuote Reply
Lex,
So they say ;)
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
NOTE: It might sound premature, but my (very) skeletal outline of Game of Thrones: Season Two is almost finished. No scripted scenes–just a brief description of the 70 (yep, 70) chapters that will be covered, as well as a list of new locales and characters. Add the Riverrun people to that list (Blackfish, Edmure, etc.) and it’s pretty expansive.
Not that we’re not used to expansive. We sort of demand it.
Knock on wood.
I’ll probably post that up in a week or so, even though we’re not done with the Scripting series. Progress waits for no man!
Fire And BloodQuote Reply
Fire And Blood,
It will be interesting to compare final HBO product with your script, I am very curious to know what you have guessed.
I wrote also my character cuts plan for the S2, but alas my old computer broke and my notorious Excel files including complete cast and characters, breakdowns etc. are probably gone.
Have to re-write it, soon.
On topic: I would definitly prefer Tyrion s bitter monologue about Tysha, not the flashback.
The RabbitQuote Reply
Nice breakdown! This episode is going to be great. Can’t wait to see it! Some thoughts:
Looking forward to seeing your season two breakdown soon, FaB!
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
The Rabbit,
The way I have it scripted, we get Tyrion’s V.O. (voiceover) on top of silent images of the events in question. So we get to see the briefest flash of scenes while he speaks, rather than just staring at his face while he talks.
Fire And BloodQuote Reply
Wow, well done. Every one gets better and better – I think I like the flashbacks, but Tyrion bitching about how bitter he feels would be good too. So you think they’ll leave Othor stumbling around for the next episode? Because I really wanna see that at the end of an episode. I think it’ll make an excellent cliffie – something you don’t expect to actually happen until it’s freakin’ happening… O_o
reedgirlQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
Episode eight is the one I’m looking forward to the most (besides episode one), simply because we know anything in that script that isn’t in the books is basically GRRM giving us a little something extra.
I’m more than pleased that he’s this involved, especially given all the other things he does.
Fire And BloodQuote Reply
Under “Deaths” you’ve got “Othor (twice)”, but Othor’s encore isn’t in the outline.
mummerQuote Reply
Of all these scripting exercises I’ve seen you do so far, this is the first one where I’m worried that the scenes described might not fit in 60 minutes of screen time. There are a lot of scenes. Or at least it felt that way. Maybe it is just because the “tempo” of events is picking up? I admit I didn’t do a scientific-type comparison.
Ser MosQuote Reply
FaB,
I’m wondering, what do you think about moving the Arya/Syrio sequence to the start of the episode? That way after the “previously on” sequence, the audience gets placed immediately back into the situation in KL. They may feel a bit jerked around if they have to wait 15 minutes into the episode for irrelevant (at least to Episode 7′s climax) Tyrion and Dany scenes. The timeline of these events are not effected by each other.
Just a thought. I thought the script was awesome.
Gregory KeltonQuote Reply
“for irrelevant” should be “because of irrelevant”
Gregory KeltonQuote Reply
I’m hoping for just a Tyrion telling of Tysha’s story where we see him get emotional for the first time. Other than that should be a great episode. (but they’ll all be great, right?)
dizzy_34Quote Reply
SPOILER
Could they be switching the roles of Neds brother and father, like they did with Will and Gared? This would fit better with the screengrab from the making-of video, where we see a Sean Bean lookalike, who could play his own father from fifteen years before. Maybe with some help of a little MakeUp or postprocessing.
JimmyQuote Reply
Fire And Blood,
I doubt we’ll get any Tyrion/Tysha flashbacks. They’d have to find a young dwarf actor who looks enough like Dinklage to be convincing, and I just don’t see it happening. Not impossible, just unlikely.
izakmoQuote Reply
Good catch. Fixed! I originally had the Jon Snow vs. Un-Othor scene in there, but had to take it out due to space. We’re still technically 5 pages over the 60-page standard, but that’s all relative here, and this is my dream script. And reedgirl is right, Othor stumbling around in the dark would make a great cliffhanger.
Thing about this portion of the story is: there are all sorts of really good cliffhangers.
Gregory Kelton,
That too! It’s actually hard to go wrong here. The Arya scene was my original starter, but because we never go back to her in the episode I didn’t do it. (One of the Prime Directives of screenwriting for dramatic television is that you never “prologue” a character you won’t see again in the same episode.)
Fire And BloodQuote Reply
Jordan Prentice!
They wouldn’t need to hire an actor though, a little make-up could get Dinklage looking younger. I also imagine that a flashback scene like this would have some sort of post-processing done to it to indicate it as a flashback (black-and-white, high contrast, whatever), which would make it easier to have a convincing-looking young Dinklage.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
This story is like a snowball, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger each episode. I think if people make it to episode 5-6 there’s no way they can stop watching. There’s just too much awesome stuff going on, too many cliffhangers, and the interweaving stories are paced perfectly. It’s like a steamroller o’ story coming at you by this episode.
ChrisQuote Reply
If we get any Tyrion/Tysha flashbacks, they really can’t/shouldn’t use Dinklage.
Yes, they can make him look younger, but not THAT much younger. And he really needs to be in his early teens, otherwise the whole Tywin commanding him to rape Tysha thing – with him obliging, will be much, much harder to understand. It’ll be hard enough as is.
sjweningsQuote Reply
I really like this site and appreciate the work that goes into it but these scripts are worthless. Am I the only one who feels this way? What is the point? I’m sorry to be so blunt but I just don’t get it. Again I love the site and check it out daily but this has gotta stop.
MikeQuote Reply
Talk about worthless… What a worthless comment! As long as people like it and join in on the discussion, theres a point. Man…
sjweningsQuote Reply
Mike,
go away
tekQuote Reply
Don’t you think that 56 scenes in 60 minutes is a bit frantic?
ZachQuote Reply
I love it. We post news and people complain that there isn’t enough speculation or discussion topics. We post discussion topics and people complain that we aren’t posting news.
I guess what they say is true, you really can’t please everybody.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Mike,
Mike, perhaps when you read the first episode scripting, it was a waste of your time. And feel free to blame WIC for that. But when you read episodes 2 – 8, you were wasting your own time. You knew what it would entail, and still took the time to read it and get disappointed.
Take some responsibility for your actions. You have no one to blame but yourself for your own misery.
(reading message boards is kind of like reality TV, it makes you smile and go “dang, I’m glad I’m not them!”)
MavisQuote Reply
Speculation is just that, speculation, whether it’s scripting, casting or whatever. If you don’t find the point in it no one is forcing anyone to participate. I think it’s a fun exercise but to each his own.
dizzy_34Quote Reply
I wonder what it was like for GRRM to kind of go back in time with his characters, having progressed so much further with them in the novels. I’m especially curious how he found it to revisit Ned, off the page and pen for more than a decade by now.
InkasrainQuote Reply
I enjoy both the speculation and the news posts, and personally find value in both. I am extremely excited about Fire and Blood’s speculation posts concerning a possible second season.
While I think criticism of either of these types of posts is fine, it makes much more sense if it’s constructive and offers some kind of suggestion as to how it could be improved, rather than just complaining that you don’t like it.
This is a very easy site to navigate, and if you want to skip back to an earlier, news post in order to have a discussion (or argument, haha) with someone, it’s a simple thing to do so.
Obviously not everyone is going to enjoy speculation or script posts, and that’s perfectly fine, but to put yourself out even more by taking the time to read them when you don’t enjoy them, in order to comment on the fact that they don’t do it for you just seems silly and counterproductive. Some people like them and some don’t, but if even just a few of us do enjoy them then I believe it’s worthwhile. It isn’t as though having speculation posts actively hurts anyone/thing. :/
Steve Hugh WestenraQuote Reply
Inkasrain,
I was wondering the same thing myself. I imagine it must feel pretty nostalgic and probably quite exciting and wonderful, since even though those parts of the story are finished and completed, it’s representative of the fact that they’re still alive.
At the same time, I know that when I wrote, often my stories would be completed in my head before I’d even started them. It’s the same with my academic writing, haha.
Steve Hugh WestenraQuote Reply
Steve Hugh Westenra,
That’s probably about right, though part of me is absolutely positive that he’s just thrilled at being able to do horrible things to them all over again. ;-)
InkasrainQuote Reply
Inkasrain,
It looks like I will get some one-on-one time with GRRM while in LA and this is something I hope to discuss with him. Not just what it’s like to go back in time with his characters, but also whether he was able to use this opportunity to include some new scenes. Also wondering what was it like returning to scriptwriting after all these years away. Hope to get some good answers for you guys. :)
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Mike,
Take some advice: head on up to the top of this page, float your cursor over the POSTS heading, then click on ‘News.’ Bookmark that page. You will never again see a rumour or speculation post. And we will never again have to read a whiny comment from you when there is such an obvious solution.
OhDanyBoyQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
Oh, awesome. Thank you, WiC!
InkasrainQuote Reply
Mike,
Yeah! And screw this Joe guy too!
LexQuote Reply
Lex,
^ sarcasm…
LexQuote Reply
I would prefer to see the episode end with a bit more a cliff-hanger than Ned simply being in the dungeon. Something like Othor’s dead-eyes opening, and him shuffling to his feet…/scene.
shadallionQuote Reply
shadallion,
Could be a nice montage:
- Castle Black: a dark cell… Jon goes to bed.
- Red Keep: a dark cell… Ned wakes up.
- Castle Black again: pan down the hall to another shadowy room… Othor wakes up.
And all the viewers who haven’t read the book, and who’ve mostly forgotten about the prologue scene by now (assuming the show even reveals a wight there, which it might not), go WTF?! AIEE!! To be continued.
mummerQuote Reply
Under sex, don’t forget all the exciting rapes.
pualoQuote Reply
That ‘Gerold Whitetower’ is rather Gerold Hightower (known as the White Bull, maybe that confused you ;))
FelagundQuote Reply
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