Game of Thrones: What Was Tyrion's Final Look All About?

Fans smell a betrayal in the works, but season finale director Jeremy Podeswa has the real answer.

By Matt Fowler

Warning: Spoilers for the Game of Thrones: Season 7 finale, "The Dragon and the Wolf."

One of the biggest moments to come from Game of Thrones' Season 7 finale was the long-awaited reveal of Jon Snow's true parentage (and true name).

It was a moment that came as part of a montage that also featured Bran traveling back and time to witness the secret marriage between Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark along with an intimate sex scene between Jon and (his aunt) Daenaerys while they rode on a ship to White Harbor.

Within all of this too, however, was a shot of Tyrion watching Jon enter Daenerys' ship cabin and looking fairly sullen. What was on his mind? Some fans immediately assumed the worst and wondered if Tyrion was having regrets of some sort. As if, possibly, he'd made a secret deal with Cersei that would undermine Jon and Dany's quest to win the Great War?

I recently spoke to the season finale's director, Jeremy Podeswa, and he confirmed that Tyrion was unsettled, but for a different reason.

"It is a moment that’s open to interpretation," Podeswa explained, "but I have my own feelings as to what it was about. And I certainly talked to Peter [Dinklage] about it too. For me, what it was is that Tyrion is always thinking a few steps ahead about everything and I think that Daenerys and Jon hooking up in this way - it creates a complication. The consequences of this complication, at this point, are unknown."

"I think so much depends on both of these characters," he continued, "and whenever you mix romantic feelings into things, when it comes to people who were previously just colleagues with a common enemy now having a different relationship, it's difficult. How will this affect the decisions they make? How will affect things moving forward? For Tyrion, who’s a strategist, this becomes a potential problem because it’s a big question mark. What are the consequences of this going to be?"

Podeswa also spoke about the "R+L=J" montage moment itself, and whether or not it was always conceived to be a montage from the beginning.

"It was very much in the script the way it ends up on screen," he said. "The whole interweaving of everything, with Bran’s voice-over going across the scene, that was exactly as written. My contribution to that was making a seamless montage so that you move through time and you move through space and it still feels organic. It feels like an organic piece. But it was very much intended in the script that this is what it would be, but the specifics of the visuals were my contribution."

Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at http://ift.tt/2aJ67FB.

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