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00:00 Game of Thrones is one of the biggest shows of all time, which dominated television during
00:04 its eighth season run.
00:06 But did you know the original pilot was so bad, it was never publicly shown?
00:11 In an interview with Variety, showrunners David Benioff and DB Weiss confirmed the writing
00:16 of the original pilot didn't land, and many plot points were easily missed after a private
00:21 showing with their friends.
00:22 "Jamie is lying with his sister, Cersei, and none of our friends realised that Jamie
00:27 and Cersei were brother and sister."
00:29 In the oral history, Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon, the cast detail how unbalanced the original
00:34 pilot felt.
00:36 Nikolai Costa-Waldau noted, "Nobody knew what they were doing or what the hell this
00:40 was."
00:41 Mark Addy shared, "Nobody kneeled when the king arrived in the first pilot.
00:46 You can't play being the king."
00:48 Lena Headey recalls, "I look like a Vegas showgirl in the pilot.
00:52 Furs and massive hair, like a medieval Dolly Parton."
00:56 Now that I wanna see.

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