Otherwise known as the “Exercise in Saying Nothing at All” panel. Or the “Working with Awkward Pauses” panel.
Honestly, I’m surprised they had this panel in the first place, knowing how little could be answered. But hey—any excuse for a panel. I personally just love to see the cast together and talking.
Or… not talking. As seemed to be the case. As with the last one, this panel was moderated by “Paddy wagon” Peadar Ó Guilín, and included “Colossal” Kristian Nairn (Hodor), “Wallopin’ Bob” William Simpson (conception and storyboard artist), “Magnificent” Miltos Yerolemou (Syrio Forel), “Seraphic” Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), “Amazin’” Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), “Kick ‘em inna teeth” Callum Wharry (Prince Tommen), and “Arsenal” Art Parkinson (Rickon Stark).
Full disclosure: I was not on hand for a large part of this panel, so I must give full thanks to DocFourFour, our very own beloved Rimshot, who provided the coverage and put it on You Tube.
The lead-in question to the first part of the panel was something akin to, “Who do you get along well with on the show that you don’t generally work with?” At least that’s my guess. (If anyone remembers differently, let us know!)
HmR: My memory tells me the question also contained a subclause on who of the cast the young’uns seek to get advice from.
Part 1:
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Part 3:
Part 4:
Fire And Blood: Once you get past the “umm, err” parts, there’s actually some pretty good stuff here. William Simpson especially; it makes me grin to see a concept and design artist this stoked about the show’s quality. You can see it in nearly all of them. This sort of “You just wait and see what we have in store for you!” confidence that’s infectious. I love it.
More posts soon to come, including Day Two pictures, more video, some (brief) one-on-one interviews, plus an even stranger tale; a little special “insight” interview that you may not have quite expected! Our TitanCon coverage ain’t over by a longshot!
Hear Me Roar: Right, there was another panel, with the same array of guests. Nominally, it focused on the adaptation of the books to screen, but the themes, same as with other panels, organically bled into each other. Unfortunately, our camera batteries ran out by then, and needed a nap, much like Pod (the original specimen from Dublin):
As Jackie said in the comments: It’s better to get yourself to Titancon. We don’t have a video of that particular subevent, and the numerous panels are all a blur. If anyone volunteers some footage or remembers the highlights, we will happily publish them.
Find some additional photos from the panels in the gallery.
Jackie: Come next time!
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37 Comments
Wait, what about the last of the three panels? Is this the last one? What about the second then? My mind is crumbling under the weight of so many awesome things that happened in Belfast :) I’ll cover the extras panel, but that’s easy compared to the rest of Saturday.
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
Season 2 is going to KILL! Can’t wait….
Does anyone remember when the first videos of Season 1 started coming from HBO? The behind the scenes stuff…..
Mads JensenQuote Reply
You would have thought the HBO PR team could have disembargoed a couple of tasty morsels for the cast to pass on to the fans, especially given how open a situation they’re having to put up with in Dubrovnik.
Nick LarterQuote Reply
Hear Me Roar,
Yep, shame the middle panel “Adapting from book to tv” wasn’t recorded but then that just proves it’s better to get yourself to TitanCon ;) Great to catch up on the panels, I agree, it’s all a blur!
Jackie MacPhersonQuote Reply
Okay, so this is the Season TWO panel – why is Miltos on this? Does this mean we will be seeing more Syrio? Does this give fuel to my “Syrio = Jaquen” theory???
(Answer – why yes, it does!!)
purplejillyQuote Reply
purplejilly,
Easier answer: He was available to attend TitanCon, and every guest having to do with GoT was asked to participate in the panel :)
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
So when can we expect them to finish filming season 2? Dec? Jan? Has any of the stuff filmed in Iceland yet?
HildaQuote Reply
Hilda,
Iceland in November/December. They should have about the same schedule as last year, so filming should wrap up before Christmas.
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
Hear Me Roar,
Well now I reaaaaaaaally wish I’d been on that extras panel, I’d have kept you busy.
QthulhuQuote Reply
I suppose the “relationship” that Sophie looks forward to is the one with Sandor? What she says seems to hint at them getting quite a lot of screentime together as a “couple”. Which is awesome.
sjweningsQuote Reply
Slight update to the post.
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
Hear Me Roar,
Cheers for that! ;p
Jackie MacPhersonQuote Reply
Darn!! Oh well.. A girl can dream :)
purplejillyQuote Reply
Sigh of relief!
I was not the only one napping during the con. :)
btw, my AStB T-shirt came in today!
The RabbitQuote Reply
it’s fun seeing Maisie wanting to answer all the questions! hahaha
Thiago SlashQuote Reply
The only thing that I really vividly remember from the 2nd panel (Adapting the books to the screen) was that Kristian Nairn’s favourite prop was Hodor’s … er “Hodor” and that that one was apparently pre-used by Richard Madden who ran around the set with it. I’ll try to remember more but all the panels just blur into one another. ;)
LisaQuote Reply
Hm… I just got a weird picture in my head.
sjweningsQuote Reply
maisie is so funny. she just jumps right in to be first for every questions. even if she wasnt asked haha
and I wonder if it’s San/San or San/littlefinger or Florian/Jonquil
TaylorQuote Reply
Am I missing something? Why is Syrio relevant to Season 2? Are there going to be Arya Flashbacks?
Calvin AlgerQuote Reply
purplejilly,
Miltos was asked (a couple of times) about Syrio and what he’d be doing for the nearest future :)
About Syrio he said that he viewed his “last scene” as a noble sacrifice for a young girl he wanted to protect, and since George chose to write the episode as he did he really doesn’t know more about Syrio’s fate than the rest of us.
And he’d be busy doing theatre (some Shakespeare I think) this fall. He really gave the impression that he wouldn’t be seen in season 2.
Johan SporreQuote Reply
Man I miss Syrio. I’ll miss Ned and Jason, but it would have been nice to know Syrio’s character more (I know, I know, follow the books!).
Jen@House StarkQuote Reply
Am I the only one who would have liked to hear from other people besides Maisie?
Sophie is obviously not a shy girl as she answered questions in earlier panels, she just couldn’t get a word in edgewise. Would have liked to hear more from her.
JasonQuote Reply
GRRM was the first member inducted to this HAll of Champions. warning, the humor is crude in other posts lol
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GregQuote Reply
Hi, I hope you like my videos. I missed the first 15 mins and just started recording as an after-thought as I figured there would be an official video. It’s a bit shaky as I was trying to crouch down in front of the front row so as not to be in the way.
RimshotQuote Reply
sjwenings,
I got that impression, too.
I hope so!
EmmaQuote Reply
Has anyone else noticed that Maisie nearly always says “yeh, no” at the start and end of her answers? LOL
For the record, I don’t think this panel was awkward. I thought it went smoothly enough.
Oh and another thing: I still reckon Art Parkinson and Callum Wharry are too young to be on a panel.
I would have paid good money just to have been a witness to that ;)
BroQuote Reply
I hope so. Will be good to watch. Though I guess Sophie could have been referring to any of the actors that she enjoys working with.
Thanks for all the vids from TitanCon! Really enjoyed listening to all the actors.
LiadanQuote Reply
Yeah. Could be this guy she’s talking about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHNqFIbsQtA (spoilers, kind of) Somewhat doubt it, but just found this and thought it was kinda cool.
sjweningsQuote Reply
sjwenings,
Could not load. — can I search by name in YouTube?
Janeh227Quote Reply
Janeh227,
here’s a HTML link, just click.
I could open the URL just fine, did you maybe not copy&paste it correctly? Its display here may have a line break, consider that.
Daniel MoitzQuote Reply
sjwenings,
Did they ever have scenes together in ACOK? I don’t think so, and neither I think the showrunners will add any scenes for the two of them. At this point of the story, Sansa is not only the bethored/plaything of the king, but a valuable hostage watched at all times. Littlefinger has no bussiness going anywhere close of her.
DennaiQuote Reply
Bro,
sjwenings,
I still have the hope that someone filmed it and it will be included in the extras for the DVD/Blu-Ray. But probably not. ;) I actually love hearing such anecdotes from filming, they are pretty interesting and funny.
LisaQuote Reply
Dennai,
I think it’s very important to keep both the Sandor / Sansa and Petyr / Sansa interactions going in S2 (NOTE I AM NOT IMPLYING ROMANCE IN EITHER CASE). There are obvious comparisons and contrasts between the two that the reader/viewer is meant to see. I do think they will do more scenes with Sandor in S2 because there’s more material, but I’m sure there will be at least some scenes with Petyr as well.
ETA: Ok they don’t have any scenes in the book together until the very end, when Petyr is raised to Lord of Harrenhal. This is because LF spends most of book 2 away from King’s Landing, doing various diplomatic things for Tyrion. I still think they’ll add one though, so the events of season 3 make sense.
userjQuote Reply
No Miltos is not appearing in season two. Maybe we could have given him a break there but I’m sure he wanted to give his opinion as a fan of the show anyway. With the benefit of hindsight perhaps we should have gone with one of our other ideas instead. We’ll do things bigger and better next year.
Miltos Yerolemou will be appearing in One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest at The Curve Theatre in Leicester, England until November this year. He tells me it’s a great production with an incredible set so get along and see it if you can.
theMountainGoatQuote Reply
What if Syrio was the kindly man? When they film Arya turning temporarily blind from ADWD, he could drop the “kindly man” mask for a second to smile at her.
We might never know unless Ser Meryn decides to talk about that time some Bravoosi with a wooden stick eluded him.
On a less fan-speculate-y note, Miltos might appear in flashbacks – we will see several flashbacks anyway once ASOS is filmed, so why not start early?
Daniel MoitzQuote Reply
Bro,
Who knows maybe Robb will accept good money to handle Hodors at parties, after the infamous RW.
Epic-ittyQuote Reply
Wow – just saw that Boardwalk Empire’s not releasing their S1 DVD until December 31st? How did they manage to miss the S2 premiere sales AND the Christmas sales? Seems like someone really dropped the ball in their DVD department.
Wonder what this means for GoT?
OhDanyBoyQuote Reply