Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen have a problem, although they don’t know it yet. They’re falling for each other. They slept together. They’re also related — he’s her nephew, and she’s his aunt. It’s a scandal waiting to explode.
And as Jon Snow’s avuncular advisor, it may fall to people like Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham) to do damage control. Metro asked Liam Cunningham how Davos will react when and if he learns that his boss, Jon Snow, is having sex with his own aunt. “The problem is between the two of them, not so much for him,” Cunningham said, downplaying any complications that may arise. “But I suppose he will have to deal with the fallout of that.”
Cunningham, like Davos, is keeping the big picture in mind:
"There is a bigger issue with the Night King coming through the wall, so there is a more immediate problem than that. Incest goes down the priority list when there is a huge army coming down to kill everyone. Perhaps they will deal with that later, I don’t know."
That’s a great way to put a deflect attention from a potential scandal. These actors are really starting to inhabit their characters.
In other news, a quote from Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont) first given at Comic Stockholm a couple months back is making the rounds again. It bears some repeating.
At this point, it’s looking more and more like the eighth and final season of the show won’t air until 2019, leaving 2018 entirely bereft of new Game of Thrones episodes. Various reasons have been given for the delay. At about the 6:50 mark in the video below, Glen explores one:
"We’re all starting to occupy the same territory. We’re all starting to be in the same storylines and so they can’t have two filming units anymore. I think this last season will take much longer to shoot because they can only use one unit, because we’re all in the same sort of scenes."
What Glen says makes sense. If you have different groups of actors all waiting to film scenes on the same set — say the Winterfell courtyard — the only thing to do is wait in line. Having multiple units would be of no use. Can’t have Arya and Brienne sparring through the middle of a romantic Jon and Daenerys interlude.
Not that it makes the pain any easier to take, but it’s good to know the reasons we’ll be suffering next year.
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