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==Season 4==
 
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In Season 4's "[[Breaker of Chains]]", [[Cersei Lannister|Cersei]] and [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] have sex in front of their dead son Joffrey's corpse. In the novels, this is the first time Cersei sees Jaime after he returns to King's Landing, and they are both consumed by grief over the loss of their child and having sex to feel better/mourn. In the TV episode's version, which Graves directed, ''unanimously'' every major professional television review outlet and film critic thought that Jaime was outright raping Cersei. The writers and actors have in various interviews stated that this was not their intention - Jaime and Cersei have always had violent, rough sex (back in Season 1). Speaking at the FanX panel in Salt Lake City (January 2015), both [[Lena Headey]] (Cersei) and [[Nikolaj Coster-Waldau]] (Jaime) said that as they ''performed'' the scene, they both thought that Jaime and Cersei were having consensual sex.
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Graves made several disconcerting remarks in the Blu-ray commentary for the Season 4 finale, "[[The Children]]", particularly stemming from the removal of any mention of [[Tysha]], Tyrion's first wife. In the novels, Jaime is wracked by guilt when he frees Tyrion from the dungeon and confesses that Tysha ''was not'' a whore but really a girl who fell in love with him, and their father had her gang-raped to punish him for marrying a commoner - then forced Jaime to lie about it to Tyrion, tricking him into thinking Tysha was just a whore who never loved him and it was all a ploy. On learning this, Tyrion is furious, and when he meets [[Varys]] he demands that he show him the secret tunnel back into the [[Tower of the Hand]] to confront his father. Tyrion demands to know where Tysha is, and Tywin confirms that he never harmed her, but doesn't know where she went. When Tyrion firmly asks again where she is, Tywin flippantly responds "Wherever whores go" - and Tyrion shoots him dead in response.
 
Graves made several disconcerting remarks in the Blu-ray commentary for the Season 4 finale, "[[The Children]]", particularly stemming from the removal of any mention of [[Tysha]], Tyrion's first wife. In the novels, Jaime is wracked by guilt when he frees Tyrion from the dungeon and confesses that Tysha ''was not'' a whore but really a girl who fell in love with him, and their father had her gang-raped to punish him for marrying a commoner - then forced Jaime to lie about it to Tyrion, tricking him into thinking Tysha was just a whore who never loved him and it was all a ploy. On learning this, Tyrion is furious, and when he meets [[Varys]] he demands that he show him the secret tunnel back into the [[Tower of the Hand]] to confront his father. Tyrion demands to know where Tysha is, and Tywin confirms that he never harmed her, but doesn't know where she went. When Tyrion firmly asks again where she is, Tywin flippantly responds "Wherever whores go" - and Tyrion shoots him dead in response.

Revision as of 02:22, 28 February 2015

Alex Graves is an American producer and director for film and television. He is best known for his work on the The West Wing, which he worked on as a director, producer and eventually an executive producer. He won two Emmy Awards for his work on that series. He has also worked on Ally MacBeal, Fringe and Terra Nova.

Season 3

For Game of Thrones, Graves works as a director starting in the third season.[1] He directed four episodes in the fourth season but will be taking a break for the fifth and may return later on.[2] His daily routine for about 100 days during the Season 4 shooting season was to go to wake up at 5 a.m. to get to the set, return to his hotel at 7 p.m., then work there on planning until 2 a.m., catch three hours of sleep, then wake up again at 5 a.m.[3]

Season 4

In Season 4's "Breaker of Chains", Cersei and Jaime have sex in front of their dead son Joffrey's corpse. In the novels, this is the first time Cersei sees Jaime after he returns to King's Landing, and they are both consumed by grief over the loss of their child and having sex to feel better/mourn. In the TV episode's version, which Graves directed, unanimously every major professional television review outlet and film critic thought that Jaime was outright raping Cersei. The writers and actors have in various interviews stated that this was not their intention - Jaime and Cersei have always had violent, rough sex (back in Season 1). Speaking at the FanX panel in Salt Lake City (January 2015), both Lena Headey (Cersei) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime) said that as they performed the scene, they both thought that Jaime and Cersei were having consensual sex.

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Graves made several disconcerting remarks in the Blu-ray commentary for the Season 4 finale, "The Children", particularly stemming from the removal of any mention of Tysha, Tyrion's first wife. In the novels, Jaime is wracked by guilt when he frees Tyrion from the dungeon and confesses that Tysha was not a whore but really a girl who fell in love with him, and their father had her gang-raped to punish him for marrying a commoner - then forced Jaime to lie about it to Tyrion, tricking him into thinking Tysha was just a whore who never loved him and it was all a ploy. On learning this, Tyrion is furious, and when he meets Varys he demands that he show him the secret tunnel back into the Tower of the Hand to confront his father. Tyrion demands to know where Tysha is, and Tywin confirms that he never harmed her, but doesn't know where she went. When Tyrion firmly asks again where she is, Tywin flippantly responds "Wherever whores go" - and Tyrion shoots him dead in response.

Graves's handling of the Season 4 finale omitted any mention of Tysha. He also introduced several plot holes: Tyrion seemingly wanders back to the Tower of the Hand for no reason other than plot elements falling into place, and with no explanation of how he knew which tunnel to take (though arguably, Varys did show him a map of the tunnels back in Season 2).

Graves's Blu-ray commentary track for the Season 4 finale included remarks such as:

  • Graves addresses the accusations of a plot hole about how Tyrion would know which tunnel to take by claiming that Tyrion knew his way through the secret tunnels of the Red Keep because he "grew up there" -- when in fact, as a member of House Lannister, Tyrion grew up at Casterly Rock in the Westerlands. The TV series itself has also repeatedly mentioned that Tyrion grew up in Casterly Rock.
  • Graves refers to Tysha as "Tyrion's first wife that died" -- when Tysha is in fact alive and well in the novels, though neither Tyrion nor Tywin know where she is. Tywin explicitly said he made no attempt to harm the girl, and there was never any indication even in the TV series that she was dead.
  • It was actually Alex Graves himself who actively pushed to remove any mention of Tysha in the Season 4 finale, and he was the driving force behind removing any mention of Tysha as the main reason why Tyrion kills his father. He felt it would be too confusing and that viewers wouldn't remember Tyrion's explanation about Tysha from Season 1 (a pivotal scene that arguably helped earn Peter Dinklage's Emmy Award that season), and that they wouldn't remember subsequent points when Tysha was mentioned at least once in every subsequent season. He didn't want to have the final confrontation between Tyrion and Jaime from the books (after learning the truth Tyrion angrily stalks away and promises revenge, then goes to find Tywin). Graves just wanted the two to kiss goodbye[4]

Alex Graves was not asked to return as a director in Season 5, for reasons not overtly stated.

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