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 past | Katie Weiland |
| Original air date | Apr xv, 2012 (2012-04-xv) |
| Running time | 53 minutes |
| Guest appearances | |
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"What Is Dead May Never Die" is the third episode of the 2nd season of HBO's medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones, first airing on April 15, 2012. The episode is written by Bryan Cogman and directed by Alik Sakharov,[i] who worked previously every bit the director of photography on four flavour one episodes.
The plot continues events congenital up in previous episodes: the aftermath of Jon Snow's investigation into Craster, Catelyn Stark's journey to the Stormlands in order to inquire for Renly Baratheon's assistance in fighting the Lannisters, Theon's internal conflict as to where his allegiance lies, Tyrion Lannister uses his cunning to detect his sis'south spy within the Small Quango, and Arya is consoled past Yoren before being confronted by soldiers looking for Gendry. The episode's championship 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 Snow 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 campaign. Samwell Tarly promises to come up back for Gilly when the Nighttime's Scout returns to the Wall.
At Winterfell [edit]
Bran Stark dreams once again that he is his direwolf, Summer. Maester Luwin assures him the time of magic and dragons is over.
In Rex'southward 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 equally her new handmaiden.
Tyrion separately shares plans with G Maester Pycelle, Varys, and Petyr Baelish, to ally Myrcella off, but suggests a dissimilar husband to each of them. Cersei confronts Tyrion over the program Tyrion gave to Pycelle, confirming Pycelle is her spy. Tyrion sends him to the dungeons, but not earlier 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 Fe Islands [edit]
Balon Greyjoy plans state of war on the North with Yara, who tells Theon he must choose between the Starks or the Greyjoys. Theon considers alert Robb Stark, but decides to serve under his father.
In The Stormlands [edit]
Catelyn arrives at self-crowned King Renly Baratheon'southward camp, where he and his new wife Margaery Tyrell spotter imposing female warrior Brienne of Tarth win a tournament against Margaery's brother Loras. Renly grants Brienne a identify in his Kingsguard, and is confident his army can defeat the Lannisters, but Catelyn reminds him his men are inexperienced. When Renly is unable to consummate their marriage, Margaery reveals she knows of his human 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's Spotter. Lannister men led by Ser Amory Lorch arrive and demand Gendry, and the ensuing boxing leaves the Nighttime's Watch 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 upward, Arya tells Lorch that Lommy was Gendry.
Production [edit]
Writing [edit]
"What Is Dead May Never Die" was written by the story editor Bryan Cogman, based on George R. R. Martin'south original book A Clash of Kings. Cogman, who is responsible for keeping the show's bible and had already written the first season's fourth episode, was on set for the filming of all the scenes of his episode.[ii]
The capacity of the book included in the episode are Arya 4, Tyrion IV, Arya V, Catelyn II, Tyrion VI, Bran 4, (chapters 15, 18, 20, 23, 26 and 29) and likewise the parts of Tyrion I, Tyrion 2, Tyrion V, Jon III and Theon 2 that had not been included in the previous episode (4, 9, 21, 24 and 25).[3]
"The 'burning the letter' scene was interesting—it wasn't in our outline. (...) Merely there was something missing—and ultimately, it 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 right upwardly to the betoken of betraying his own blood—so that's where the warning to Robb scene came from. And at first, it was more than elaborate—he was going to write it, take it to a rookery, nearly requite it to a maester—(...). It was going to exist more of scene/scene. But it never worked, then we just went with the simple act...
Now it helped that Alfie is so encarmine fantastic in the scene and that Alik Sakharov directed it as if he was directed a huge setpiece—pregnant he gave it the same fourth dimension and attention as 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 gear up in the Iron Islands were created specifically for the show, as the books jump straight from Balon's revelation that he intends to attack the North to Theon overseeing the preparations of the assail. To mankind out the transition and mankind out Theon'south feelings on his modify of loyalties, Bryan Cogman included a scene of Theon writing a alphabetic character to Robb merely 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'south most proud of in his episode.
Some other scene created for the testify 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 equally a background grapheme), sent a note to Cogman thanking him for her "lines" in this scene.
The last scene too had to be redesigned in relation to the books, due to the constraints imposed by the location, the schedule, and the fourth dimension restrictions for the child actors. Cogman'south first draft was more than similar to the books, with Arya, Gendry, Lommy, and Hot Pie first fleeing and and then existence captured, but finally it was decided to combine both scenes. Cogman was also dismayed that he had to cut one of his favourite scenes in the books: Arya and Hot Pie charging while shouting the battle cries "Winterfell" and "Hot Pie."[ii]
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 iii hours long and had to be cut significantly (for case, Cogman mentioned that earlier the cuts he had included a long, fatigued out fight scene between Jon and Craster, which was changed at the suggestion of manager 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 among his favorites.
Casting [edit]
This episode marks the outset appearance of two new characters: Lady Margaery Tyrell, the new queen of Male monarch Renly Baratheon and sister of his lover, Loras Tyrell; and Brienne of Tarth, a member of Renly'southward guard.
Natalie Dormer was bandage equally Margaery; her character was aged in relation to the book's 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 of import, character in the novels to a main character in the show. Dormer was also added to the series' main cast.[4] Margaery is the youngest member of the Tyrell family in the novels, but equally Dormer is six years older than Finn Jones, who plays Loras, Margaery is older than Loras in the evidence.
For the function of Brienne the producers chose the English actress Gwendoline Christie. Co-ordinate to the character'southward creator George R. R. Martin, when he saw the kickoff batch of auditions he saw "a dozen actresses who were reading for Brienne and one actress who was Brienne," and information technology was one of the cases when there wasn't any debate.[5] Due to her outstanding height (6 ft 3 in, 1.91 1000) she was earmarked early by fans of the books as a good fit for the grapheme, and one of them fifty-fifty emailed her agent. Christie already knew about the function and felt that she could chronicle to the character later having been bullied for her height and androgynous looks. Later on deciding to "go all out for it," she read the books, started building up with cardio-vascular exercises and kickboxing practices, and even started to wear unisex clothing in order to increase her own masculinity. Afterwards she had been cast, she connected to train and received all-encompassing sword fighting and horse-riding lessons. Her last step in the procedure of transformation was cut off her long hair, which she institute securely upsetting because she felt information technology was her last bond to her quondam cocky. 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's army camp, the product congenital a set at Larrybane chalk quarry abreast Carrick-a-Rede.
On September 12, 2011, while filming was taking place in Renly's camp, the loftier winds caused past Hurricane Katia destroyed a steel-framed marquee and five extras received small injuries.[7] Furthermore, the farthermost weather conditions made some of the footage unusable, and they had to rebuild the set in October to reshoot some scenes. Among the scenes that had to be repeated there was the duel betwixt Brienne and Loras and Catelyn'south inflow.[viii]
In the audio commentary for the episode, Bryan Cogman revealed that only 200 extras were used in scenes in Renly'due south camp, though there appeared to be many more.
Reception [edit]
Ratings [edit]
The viewership of the episode consolidated the ratings obtained in the second season, matching the previous week'due south three.8 million viewers in the starting time run of the night and reaching a total of 4.5 one thousand thousand with the two airings.[9] In the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, the episode was seen by 0.815 million viewers on Heaven Atlantic, beingness the channel's highest-rated broadcast that week.[10]
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 x. The website's critical consensus reads, "Superbly written and directed, 'What is Dead May Never Dice' evokes a range of emotions equally uneasy alliances are forged, past traumas are explored, and the stakes grow e'er college."[11] Matt Fowler of IGN rated the episode viii.5 out of 10.[12] The A.V. Lodge gave it an A−.[thirteen]
References [edit]
- ^ "Episode Guide". Winter is Coming.net . Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ^ a b c Garcia, Elio (April xvi, 2012). "Season two Interview with Bryan Cogman". westeros.org . Retrieved Apr 17, 2012.
- ^ Garcia, Elio (April 16, 2012). "EP203: What is Dead May Never Die". westeros.org . Retrieved April 17, 2012.
- ^ Garcia, Elio (June 23, 2011). "Natalie Dormer now a Tyrell Rose". westeros.org . Retrieved April nineteen, 2012.
- ^ Martin, George R. R. (July 7, 2011). "The Maid of Tarth". Non a Weblog . Retrieved April xix, 2012.
- ^ Davies-Cole, Andrew (Apr eleven, 2012). "Game Of Thrones: Gwendoline Christie Interview". SFX . Retrieved April nineteen, 2012.
- ^ "Five hurt as Game of Thrones marquee is torn up by hurricane winds". The Belfast Telegraph. September 13, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
- ^ "Twenty-four hours 108: Filming in Northward. Ireland winding down". winter-is-coming.cyberspace. Nov vii, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
- ^ Hibberd, James (Apr xvi, 2012). "HBO'southward 'Girls' starts modest, 'Thrones' ratings steady". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved May 22, 2012.
- ^ "Top 10 Ratings (16 - 22 April 2012)". Affront . Retrieved January 19, 2017.
- ^ "What Is Dead May Never Dice". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ Fowler, Matt (April xv, 2012). "Game of Thrones: 'What is Dead May Never Die' Review". IGN.
- ^ Sims, David (Apr 15, 2012). "'What is Dead May Never Die' (for newbies)". The A.V. Order.
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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