![]() ![]() The reconnection is short-lived, once Ned realizes that there’s some urgency here. It’s caused so much, and it’s all culminating in this moment. It was very important for us to show the love between these two people. And he’s her older brother as well, which of course means something also. When you’re brother and sister, you’ve been through so much together. ![]() There’s a great deal of respect and love from Ned toward Lyanna. One thing that was very important for us to speak about was how deep the love is between these siblings, and how much they love each other, and what they’re willing to sacrifice for each other. What were you and Aisling Franciosi, who plays Lyanna, drawing on for the relationship between Ned and his sister? Did you speak about their history, who they were before this scene? 'Game of Thrones' Season 6: The 10 Most Important Moments I think a lot of that exterior toughness drops away, and he’s just here with his sister now, and he loves her so much. Part of him is happy to just see her breathing. There’s that line: “I missed you, too.” He has missed his sister. But when he kneels beside Lyanna, he softens up. Ned is minutes, maybe even seconds removed from this tough battle against Arthur Dayne. It’s totally unknown, when he’s walking through the door. He doesn’t know what’s going on, but he knows that something bad is happening. He walks in and sees his sister on the bed with blood everywhere. And what he actually sees isn’t actually seeing anything different, really. He thinks perhaps that his sister is being tortured or something, that something very horrible is going on behind the door. Well, he doesn’t know what he’s going to find, does he? That’s the interesting thing. It was fun to put myself back in that place and think about what had just happened the moment before, and what you’re bringing in the door with you. Not only Robert’s Rebellion and the culmination of the fight with Arthur Dayne, but the physical exertion - everything he’s been through leading up to the moment that he walks in that door. It was good! I think the interesting and cool thing is that he’s walking through that door with so much behind him. Though it’s not revealed, it’s heavily implied (and backed up by fan theories) that Rhaegar Targaryen is the father, putting Jon right at the intersection of two of Westeros‘ most historic houses. There, he saw Ned’s sister Lyanna, lying in a bloody bed, having just given birth to a baby boy - a boy we know today as Jon Snow. In “The Winds of Winter,” Bran Stark traveled back to the Tower of Joy and followed the young version of his father inside. For years, the story presented Jon as Eddard Stark’s bastard son. Remember that extraordinary whirring noise that whipped across the world on Sunday night? That was the sound of millions of Game of Thrones viewers watching the season six finale, simultaneously jumping with Joy.Īt long last, the Emmy-winning fantasy series unearthed one of its greatest secrets, if not its best-kept one: Jon Snow’s parentage. ![]()
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