Carnival Row: Tamzin Merchant on Playing Daenerys in THAT GoT Pilot
Carnival Row: Tamzin Merchant on Playing Daenerys in THAT GoT Pilot
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Carnival Row star and
Tamzin Merchant (
Salem, Supergirl), she was teasing what viewers can expect from Imogen Spurnrose during the second season of Amazon Prime s
Orlando Bloom and
Cara Delevingne-starring alt-Victorian fantasy drama. For this go-around, Merchant is reflecting back on her time as Daenerys Targaryen on HBO s
Game of Thrones. What s that?
Emilia Clarke is Daenerys Targaryen? Oh yeah, but before she was? Merchant held the role- at least for one outing. that outing was the 2009 pilot that was reportedly so bad that it inspired
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Station log: Kira, Bashir, Dax, O’Brien, and some others are toasting recent arrival Lieutenant Hector Ilario, who has been doing some superb piloting of the
Defiant. Later, Dax escorts a spectacularly drunk Ilario back to his cabin, where he shows her a picture of him laughing with two of his Academy classmates and flirts with her a bit before she heads back to her own cabin. The next morning, she awakens to a commotion: Ilario has been shot and killed at close range with a tritanium bullet. Sisko recognizes the bullet as belonging to a TR-116, a Starfleet prototype that was basically a modern take on an old-fashioned rifle. Starfleet abandoned the TR-116s, but a Starfleet officer could have access to the replicator pattern. Chemically powered projectile weapons leave powder burns when fired at close range, but there are no signs of such residue on Ilario’s body.