Bryan Cogman, writer of “What Is Dead May Never Die”, is appearing live on the Ustream show Streamin’ Garage at 11PM ET/8 PM PT. Fans can watch live, join in on the chat and even submit questions… all right here on the site!
UPDATE: The interview is over now, but you can watch it in the Youtube embed below. It was a cool and fun interview. Oh, and nice shirt, Bryan!
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ZackQuote Reply
Zack, same here. I guess they are running late and aren’t live yet? I talked to Bryan today and he told me he was going to be on, so hopefully it will be up soon.
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
I hope it meant that i can ask a question to bryan cogman here :)
Hello Mr. Cogman, just wanted to tell you that you wrote “What is Dead May Never Die” brilliantly. I particularly liked the scenes with Sansa cause we don’t get to see her in these particular situations in the books, and yet you managed to capture her spirit and sense of having the walls pressing down on her really well! (hope that makes sense).. But as a huge Sansa/Sandor fan i just wanted to ask you about what you said regarding these 2 this season and how their relationship will play out a little diffrently from the books. If you could please hint at this i’m sure there are many San/San fans who would be grateful. will we still get the feeling that this is going to be a potential romantic relationship in the show or will it just be a sort of guardian protecting the weak sort of thing?
Thanks so much,
Cheers from Mexico
Carolina Herrera Padilla :)
Carolina HQuote Reply
You actually have to ask your question in the Ustream chat widget, embedded in the post above. But the show hasn’t actually started yet anyway, so stick around and hopefully you can ask again in the chat. :)
Winter Is ComingQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
Great interview with him btw. Just read it a few minutes ago. Seems like a cool cat from that interview and watching the episode in S01 where he commentated with Kit.
ZackQuote Reply
Sorry – do these people even know what they’re talking about?
TQuote Reply
is this the same stream?
http://www.youtube.com/user/StreaminGarage/featured
press play
aceQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
oh thanks!! knew i was missing something when i read “all right here on the site” really fast since i got all excited about asking a question :)
Carolina HQuote Reply
ace,
Indeed, this plays ok, sucky we can’t chat in it but only comment, assume they don’t check the youtube comments.
ZackQuote Reply
Hahah, I just noticed that Bryan is wearing the “I always wanted to be a wizard” Sam shirt.
Rukie44Quote Reply
That’s me skyping in, here’s a link to my site.
Steven AttewellQuote Reply
Appreciated BigRed’s questions about whether or not it was Damphair who was baptising Theon in this latest episode. They guy looked right for the part. Alas official word from Bryan that IT IS NOT DAMPHAIR.
ZackQuote Reply
Well, drat! I missed this because I was re-watching the episode on HBO at 11 PM Eastern. Pfft.
Or… maybe I didn’t miss it.
LangkardQuote Reply
Carolina H,
Hiya. Thanks for your question. I just meant that it plays out a bit differently since LF gave the info instead of Hound… but that the relationship is still explored.
B
B CogmanQuote Reply
B Cogman,
Fun interview, Bryan! I was happy to see you like the Dorne storyline, one of my favorites as well. Hopefully, it will make its way into the show. “What is Dead May Never Die” is already one of my favorite episodes of the entire series, so kudos!
I’ve got a question: are you guys planning to (Books 3/4 spoilers)use Balon and Yara next season as well? Or will they be gone until their subplot kicks off? Well, Yara’s, mostly
Hi-FiQuote Reply
B Cogman,
Thanks for the answers to my questions Bryan, forgive the name TarrisKalldron (0ld youtube name), rather use the legit. I have to say your writing of you episodes are extremely good given your constraints to budget, 10 episode limit, etc. I figured the audiobooks did not influence your writing but they really are spectacular. They allowed me to follow this book series at least 3 times with a very heavy lifestyle of work and school (driving, mindless data entry, laundry, etc) and Dotrice being in the Guiness World Book for his excellent narration for the most characters ever purely on this book is amazing. I really recommend, assuming you aren’t sick of the material yet, experiencing these this way, I can’t read them now after listening to them in this fashion.
Also hook us up with the link to your brother’s album recently released.
Zack DaughertyQuote Reply
Zack Daugherty,
Thanks, Zack. And thanks to all who submitted questions.
The link to my brother’s album is http://www.marcmcogman.bandcamp.com
Best,
B
B CogmanQuote Reply
Streamin’ Garage ought to name that mail crow “Corn.” Corn Corn Corn!
PuriQuote Reply
I was being a little sneaky with that Martell question, I admit, but the answer provided a cool insight into the thought process of what’s important to concentrate on now and what to hold back on. So thanks, Mr. Cogman. ‘Twas a fun chat overall.
H, aka VeeQuote Reply
Can I get an edited version with just Bryan’s lines? The interviewers…just ask the questions. Stop sucking up. Stop offering your point of view. This is why I hate podcasts an all this. It’s like the Internet gives people permission to suck at this stuff and not care.
AlanQuote Reply
SPOILER? Have Meera and Jojen been cut?
GeorgeQuote Reply
Alan,
Thought the interviewvers did fine. If you dont like people offering their views mabe you shouldnt offer yours?
It was quite interesting. Provided some nice insights into how they work on the show. Liked Cogmans enthusiasm and honesty.
MiddlefingerQuote Reply
Thank you for all your fan interaction, Bryan!
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
Nice to hear Bryan explain his thinking behind the Sansa/Shae scene, which was very much as I experienced it, though a lot of viewers and reviewers seem to have understood it quite differently. Personally, I was deeply moved by this scene. It was subtle and funny but properly painful, especially in the context of that hideous dinner. Those two scenes together were probably my highlight of the episode – and that was a bloody good episode.
JemQuote Reply
When I see how funny and entertaining Bryan is, I kind of understand why the writing in this show is so goddamn good.
MockingTheFlayedLionQuote Reply
Yay I got to see the final 3 mins! (kinda shucks)
But it’ll be on youtube soon right?
Edit: never mind I can see the whole interview again woot!!!
WinterdarkQuote Reply
Just watched it on youtube. Very cool! I sooooo want Bryan’s job…
Bryan also just went straight to the top of my “people i want to sit down and have a beer with” list. For one he seems like a really nice and cool dude, and also i would love to pick his brain for some of the info that he obviously cant comment on in public.
Jesper MolboQuote Reply
That was a really funny and great interview, liked it very much. Pretty good questions, too. Now I think everyone could better understand some of the changes and see that a lot of thoughts went into them, just like the Hot Pie cry. They don’t drop those things without reasons.
AbendsternQuote Reply
I liked that the hosts were so enthusiastic. It made me feel enthusiastic, and I started watching at 7:30am (a time of the day when I don’t feel enthusiastic about anything).
Varamyr FourskinsQuote Reply
Bryan was excellent — he’s always very talkative and can run with things even when not asked. And I will give credit to the show for having the outlet to ask good questions — the skype/youtube comments made for quality questions and commentary. It was not your typical mainstream interview in that sense and that’s a good thing. The Producer who couldn’t pronounce the names had some really excellent questions.
That said — and I apologize to the hosts for the manner in which I said it — the interviewing technique could use significant improvement. The fawning is ridiculous and unnecessary. Bryan is obviously a talented guy, but the constant agreement or restatement of what he just said is unnecessary. At several points the hosts interrupted the interviewee — while he was explaining his thought process — to basically tell him what they thought of his thought process.
I have no problems with lively or exuberant hosts. I have no problem with third part analysis. But in an interview, the focus should be on the interviewee. Save your commentary for later; don’t interrupt someone of whom you’ve just asked a question.
The result of interviewing with the focus on the person being interviewed is a better interview. You only get some much time with someone who either makes the key decisions or is there when they are made. There’s so many great things to ask and understand with someone like Bryan that the focus should be on good questions, follow up questions and letting him talk.
A perfect example: even Bryan was questioning if the helmet gambit worked at the end. Instead of asking him why he felt it might not work, or what his thought process was, why they did it, or even leading a bit with “do the Lannisters buy it?”…
They basically told him it totally worked in a fannish manner. The Chris Farley method of interviewing really doesn’t work well. Bryan just happens to be a great interviewee (because he’s honest and open and talks).
AlanQuote Reply
good interview, but annoying the interviewers all talked simultaneously so it comes out as white noise several times. I appreciate their enthusiasm though.
P.S. Hey Cogman, it’s Damp-hair, not Dam-phair! ;-)
spacechampionQuote Reply
In regards to the historical relations between characters that was discussed… I’ve come up with a theory relating ASOIAF to the events of Ragnarok from Norse Mythology. I’m not going to get into that here (it’s lengthy and spoilers abound), but I’ll give you a little sampling, if anyone cares to check it out for themselves:
Bloodraven = Loki
Bran = Fenrir
Hodor = Hodr
Jon Snow = Surtr
Dany = Jormungandr
Jaime = The Æsir (Tyr, Heimdahl, Thor, Freyr, Odin)
Of course, I’m probably very, very wrong about that, but the symbolism is all there if you read deep enough into it.
Varamyr FourskinsQuote Reply
spacechampion,
Yes, a few people have pointed that out. I might vote to change it to my way when/if the time comes… otherwise people will think it’s a nickname due to his… well… damp hair.
B
B CogmanQuote Reply
Wow … the skypeguy sure knows his stuff.
PepiQuote Reply
Offtopic, but SNL have a really funny sketch about nudity on GoT:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid111285850001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAFOjEdNk~,Ccf1BJmYkhML2OA3FEsF4-tPam_YW9WW&bctid=1563631087001
AwengerQuote Reply
I always assumed it was a name he took for exactly that reason when he became a disciple of the Drowned God, replacing Greyjoy. I mean where else would it come from?
Steven SwansonQuote Reply
Whatever fawning there is to be done should be done right here! Bryan, you are a brilliant wordsmith—so intuitive, so perspicacious. I’m sure you’re handsome and courtly, too. Oh, and sensitive. (And, btw, can we all have jobs?)
DH87Quote Reply
Kinda disappointing hearing how proud he was of the letter burning sequence. It’s not completely horrible, but apart from being not particularly creative as a movie gesture, it makes little sense in a pre-”federal”-mail world… I mean, how would he have sent the letter to Robb anyway? It’s not like Balon’s Maester would just have sent off a raven without reading the letter (and transcribing it in a smaller hand on a smaller paper) and I doubt Theon himself is capable enough at rookeryto be able to send the raven himself. It’s nitpicky, I know, and it didn’t particularly disturb me, as it really isn’t that big a deal, but it’s also a strange thing to be proud of, since it’s little more than a barely-okay-crutch.
I would have thought that there were plenty of other things in this episode to be more proud of.
CrispinQuote Reply
Everyone thought it was great except nitpicky you .
Claudiu GherganuQuote Reply
spacechampion,
So he really did say it like that? I went all wtf and then thought I must have misheard. I like Cogman a lot but the Dam-phair mistake takes him down a peg for me. No biggie of course… unless that mistake actually turns up in the show later on. Then it will be eternal facepalm Mr Cogman!
Ser LurkalotQuote Reply
Everyone makes mistakes, and the Dam-phair is one of the most common ones. I’ll admit, I made the same mistake on my first reading (11 years ago) and so did many of my friends! Even the “keeper of the mythos” is fallible. :D
Let’s just be glad we caught this mistake before it ended up in the show.
LexQuote Reply
Lex,
Exactly. Everyone reads things differently. I always read Cersei as “Kersay”, not “Sercy” and Jaime as “Jayme”, not “Jaymy”.
CrispinQuote Reply
No, Lurkalot’s right. It’s unforgivable. I’m stepping down effective immediately. Maybe they’re looking on THE BORGIAS…
B
B CogmanQuote Reply
From what I’m reading, “Girls” would be a better bet, Bryan (I thought GRRM was referencing Dhampirs when I first read the name).
DH87Quote Reply
B Cogman,
Good to know it is going to be explored! thanks a lot for the reply Bryan :D
Greetings,
Carolina
Carolina HQuote Reply
Thanks for doing that interview (and coming here), Bryan!
Your work on the show is very much appreciated.
LarsQuote Reply
Bryan! If you come back! What happened to the King’s Landing Butler? Is he in the show this year? Or did they decide to write him out?
purplejillyQuote Reply
lol. Now I’m worried you guys will not cast him at all to avoid the confusion. I’m keeping my eye on you Cogman! (Shall now admit i got it wrong when i first read the books too? That might imply I’m not worthy to be a book-purist, so I will deny it to my last breath!)
spacechampionQuote Reply
No! It MUST be DAMP HAIR! DAMP HAIR! DAMP HAIR!
PuriQuote Reply
Zack,
Youtube had a glitch. We have it back up now plus an HD version. Thx
Elaine Ewing
Producer Stupid For Game of Thrones
Elaine EwingQuote Reply
Winter Is Coming,
There were some problems on Youtube’s end, but we have posted a second version of last nights’s show with Bryan Cogman in full HD with an additional 1:30 of content.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK4Ve0PFOk0
Elaine
Producer- Stupid For Game of Thrones
Elaine EwingQuote Reply
B Cogman,
Oh no, please don’t listen to me. If you step down those two apprentices of yours (Dennis and Dickon?) will have to run things and we can’t have that! I will be blamed for ruining the show! *dismay face*
Ser LurkalotQuote Reply
Elaine Ewing,
Thanks, Elaine! Updated in the post.
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
B Cogman,
Nay, I’m afraid stepping down isn’t enough. Clearly, ritualistic crucifixion is our only recourse. This is a Song Of Ice And Pronounciation, without Damp Hair this show is OVER!
Enh, was a good run…
A Clash Of PeensQuote Reply
He could have given it to a ship captain heading back to the mainland, since in the show they made no mention of Balon preventing any ships from leaving the Iron Islands.
ErikQuote Reply