What Is Dead May Never Die
| "What Is Dead May Never Die" | |
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| Game of Thrones episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 3 |
| Directed by | Alik Sakharov |
| Written by | Bryan Cogman |
| Featured music | Ramin Djawadi |
| Cinematography by | P.J. Dillon |
| Editing by | Katie Weiland |
| Original air date | April 15, 2012 (2012-04-15) |
| Running time | 53 minutes |
| Guest appearances | |
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"What Is Dead May Never Die" is the 3rd episode of the 2nd flavor of HBO'due south medieval fantasy idiot box serial Game of Thrones, outset airing on April 15, 2012. The episode is written by Bryan Cogman and directed by Alik Sakharov,[ane] who worked previously every bit the director of photography on 4 season 1 episodes.
The plot continues events built up in previous episodes: the aftermath of Jon Snowfall's investigation into Craster, Catelyn Stark's journey to the Stormlands in order to ask for Renly Baratheon'south assistance in fighting the Lannisters, Theon's internal conflict as to where his allegiance lies, Tyrion Lannister uses his cunning to detect his sis's spy within the Small Council, and Arya is consoled by Yoren before being confronted by soldiers looking for Gendry. The episode'due south title is taken from a prayer used on the Fe Islands, by worshippers of the Drowned God.
Plot [edit]
Across The Wall [edit]
Craster returns with Jon Snowfall and orders the Night's Watch off his lands. Lord Commander Jeor Mormont admits to Jon that he already knew of Craster's sacrifice of his sons, but argues that Craster is indispensable to the Night's Watch's entrada. Samwell Tarly promises to come back for Gilly when the Night'due south Watch returns to the Wall.
At Winterfell [edit]
Bran Stark dreams again that he is his direwolf, Summer. Maester Luwin assures him the fourth dimension of magic and dragons is over.
In Rex'due south Landing [edit]
Dining with her children and Sansa, Cersei discusses the war and Sansa's betrothal to Joffrey. Afterward, Sansa is greeted by Shae, posing as her new handmaiden.
Tyrion separately shares plans with M Maester Pycelle, Varys, and Petyr Baelish, to marry Myrcella off, but suggests a different husband to each of them. Cersei confronts Tyrion over the plan Tyrion gave to Pycelle, confirming Pycelle is her spy. Tyrion sends him to the dungeons, just non before Pycelle confesses that he told Cersei that Jon Arryn knew of her incest with Jaime. Tyrion convinces Baelish to meet Catelyn Stark in the Stormlands and persuade her to release Jaime.
On the Iron Islands [edit]
Balon Greyjoy plans war on the North with Yara, who tells Theon he must choose betwixt the Starks or the Greyjoys. Theon considers warning Robb Stark, simply decides to serve nether his begetter.
In The Stormlands [edit]
Catelyn arrives at cocky-crowned Male monarch Renly Baratheon's camp, where he and his new wife Margaery Tyrell watch imposing female warrior Brienne of Tarth win a tournament confronting Margaery'south blood brother Loras. Renly grants Brienne a place in his Kingsguard, and is confident his army tin can defeat the Lannisters, but Catelyn reminds him his men are inexperienced. When Renly is unable to complete their spousal relationship, Margaery reveals she knows of his relationship with Loras, but insists her pregnancy must secure their families' brotherhood.
On the Kingsroad [edit]
Yoren tells Arya Stark how he joined the Night'south Lookout. Lannister men led by Ser Amory Lorch arrive and demand Gendry, and the ensuing battle leaves the Night's Lookout men dead. Arya rescues the prisoners, including Jaqen H'ghar, and loses her sword Needle to a Lannister soldier, Polliver. Lorch orders the survivors taken to Harrenhal, and Polliver kills wounded Lommy Greenhands. Lorch demands the survivors point out Gendry, just before he can requite himself up, Arya tells Lorch that Lommy was Gendry.
Product [edit]
Writing [edit]
"What Is Dead May Never Die" was written by the story editor Bryan Cogman, based on George R. R. Martin's original volume A Clash of Kings. Cogman, who is responsible for keeping the testify'due south bible and had already written the showtime season's quaternary episode, was on set for the filming of all the scenes of his episode.[ii]
The chapters of the book included in the episode are Arya Iv, Tyrion 4, Arya V, Catelyn II, Tyrion VI, Bran IV, (chapters 15, xviii, 20, 23, 26 and 29) and besides the parts of Tyrion I, Tyrion II, Tyrion V, Jon III and Theon 2 that had non been included in the previous episode (4, 9, 21, 24 and 25).[3]
"The 'called-for the letter' scene was interesting—information technology wasn't in our outline. (...) But there was something missing—and ultimately, information technology had to come back to Robb. In our version of the story, Theon is very close to him—he's the brother he never had. And I wanted to have him correct up to the point of betraying his own claret—and then that's where the warning to Robb scene came from. And at first, it was more elaborate—he was going to write it, have it to a rookery, nearly give it to a maester—(...). It was going to exist more than of scene/scene. But it never worked, so we just went with the uncomplicated act...
At present it helped that Alfie is and then bloody fantastic in the scene and that Alik Sakharov directed it every bit if he was directed a huge setpiece—meaning he gave information technology the same time and attention equally a 'big' scene. He did take after take after take with Alfie trying information technology all kinds of different ways—perfection."
— Bryan Cogman, interviewed by Westeros.org[2]
The scenes fix in the Iron Islands were created specifically for the show, as the books jump directly from Balon'due south revelation that he intends to attack the North to Theon overseeing the preparations of the assail. To flesh out the transition and flesh out Theon's feelings on his modify of loyalties, Bryan Cogman included a scene of Theon writing a letter of the alphabet to Robb only to burn it afterwards, and the ritual baptism on the shores of Pyke. Cogman noted that, while those scenes have nearly no dialogue, they are the ones he's nearly proud of in his episode.
Another scene created for the bear witness was the dinner betwixt Cersei and the children. The scene was included to remind the audience who Myrcella was, since her potential marriages were discussed in the episode. Aimee Richardson, the thespian playing Myrcella (who has appeared in many past episodes as a background character), sent a note to Cogman thanking him for her "lines" in this scene.
The terminal scene also had to be redesigned in relation to the books, due to the constraints imposed past the location, the schedule, and the time restrictions for the kid actors. Cogman's get-go draft was more similar to the books, with Arya, Gendry, Lommy, and Hot Pie starting time fleeing so being captured, just finally it was decided to combine both scenes. Cogman was also dismayed that he had to cut 1 of his favourite scenes in the books: Arya and Hot Pie charging while shouting the battle cries "Winterfell" and "Hot Pie."[2]
In the audio commentary for this episode, included on the DVD and Blu-ray editions of Season two, Cogman revealed that his initial script was over three hours long and had to exist cut significantly (for example, Cogman mentioned that before the cuts he had included a long, drawn out fight scene between Jon and Craster, which was changed at the suggestion of director Alik Sakharov to a shot of Craster dragging Jon back to his keep). Cogman revealed that the sequences between Tyrion and Pycelle, Varys, Littlefinger, and Cersei were amidst his favorites.
Casting [edit]
This episode marks the offset appearance of two new characters: Lady Margaery Tyrell, the new queen of King Renly Baratheon and sister of his lover, Loras Tyrell; and Brienne of Tarth, a fellow member of Renly's guard.
Natalie Dormer was cast as Margaery; her character was aged in relation to the book'south counterpart (Dormer was 29 during the filming of season 2, while the Margaery from the books was 15), and her role was significantly expanded from a background, though important, character in the novels to a primary character in the testify. Dormer was also added to the series' main cast.[iv] Margaery is the youngest member of the Tyrell family in the novels, but as Dormer is six years older than Finn Jones, who plays Loras, Margaery is older than Loras in the show.
For the role of Brienne the producers chose the English extra Gwendoline Christie. Co-ordinate to the character's creator George R. R. Martin, when he saw the get-go batch of auditions he saw "a dozen actresses who were reading for Brienne and i actress who was Brienne," and it was one of the cases when in that location wasn't any debate.[five] Due to her outstanding pinnacle (6 ft 3 in, 1.91 m) she was earmarked early on on past fans of the books equally a skilful fit for the grapheme, and one of them even emailed her agent. Christie already knew almost the office and felt that she could relate to the character after having been bullied for her superlative and androgynous looks. Later on deciding to "become all out for information technology," she read the books, started edifice up with cardio-vascular exercises and kickboxing practices, and even started to clothing unisex clothing in order to increment her own masculinity. Subsequently she had been cast, she connected to train and received all-encompassing sword fighting and horse-riding lessons. Her last step in the process of transformation was cutting off her long hair, which she plant deeply upsetting considering she felt it was her last bail to her old self. The day after her hair was cut off, she went to her hotel room and cried.[half-dozen]
Filming locations [edit]
Renly's camp was built at the Larrybane Bay.
To reproduce Renly'south camp, the production built a ready at Larrybane chalk quarry beside Carrick-a-Rede.
On September 12, 2011, while filming was taking place in Renly'southward military camp, the high winds caused by Hurricane Katia destroyed a steel-framed marquee and five extras received minor injuries.[vii] Furthermore, the extreme weather conditions made some of the footage unusable, and they had to rebuild the gear up in October to reshoot some scenes. Among the scenes that had to be repeated there was the duel between Brienne and Loras and Catelyn'south arrival.[8]
In the sound commentary for the episode, Bryan Cogman revealed that only 200 extras were used in scenes in Renly'due south camp, though in that location appeared to be many more.
Reception [edit]
Ratings [edit]
The viewership of the episode consolidated the ratings obtained in the 2d season, matching the previous week's three.8 1000000 viewers in the first run of the dark and reaching a full of 4.5 million with the 2 airings.[ix] In the Britain, the episode was seen by 0.815 one thousand thousand viewers on Sky Atlantic, being the channel's highest-rated circulate that week.[x]
Critical reception [edit]
The episode received critical acclaim; review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes surveyed 14 reviews of the episode and judged 100% of them to be positive with an average score of 8.5 out of 10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Superbly written and directed, 'What is Expressionless May Never Dice' evokes a range of emotions as uneasy alliances are forged, by traumas are explored, and the stakes grow e'er higher."[11] Matt Fowler of IGN rated the episode viii.5 out of 10.[12] The A.5. Club gave it an A−.[13]
References [edit]
- ^ "Episode Guide". Winter is Coming.net . Retrieved Apr 19, 2012.
- ^ a b c Garcia, Elio (Apr sixteen, 2012). "Flavor 2 Interview with Bryan Cogman". westeros.org . Retrieved Apr 17, 2012.
- ^ Garcia, Elio (Apr sixteen, 2012). "EP203: What is Dead May Never Die". westeros.org . Retrieved April 17, 2012.
- ^ Garcia, Elio (June 23, 2011). "Natalie Dormer at present a Tyrell Rose". westeros.org . Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ Martin, George R. R. (July 7, 2011). "The Maid of Tarth". Not a Blog . Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ Davies-Cole, Andrew (April eleven, 2012). "Game Of Thrones: Gwendoline Christie Interview". SFX . Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ "Five hurt equally Game of Thrones marquee is torn upwardly by hurricane winds". The Belfast Telegraph. September 13, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
- ^ "Twenty-four hours 108: Filming in N. Ireland winding down". winter-is-coming.net. November 7, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
- ^ Hibberd, James (April xvi, 2012). "HBO's 'Girls' starts modest, 'Thrones' ratings steady". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved May 22, 2012.
- ^ "Height 10 Ratings (16 - 22 April 2012)". Affront . Retrieved Jan 19, 2017.
- ^ "What Is Dead May Never Dice". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ Fowler, Matt (April 15, 2012). "Game of Thrones: 'What is Dead May Never Dice' Review". IGN.
- ^ Sims, David (Apr xv, 2012). "'What is Expressionless May Never Die' (for newbies)". The A.V. Lodge.
External links [edit]
- "What Is Expressionless May Never Dice" at HBO.com
- "What Is Dead May Never Die" at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Dead_May_Never_Die
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