00:00The last time I googled myself was season two of Game of Thrones, and I've never done it since.
00:05And apparently everyone loved it from then on, so I'm happy.
00:09To the best of my knowledge.
00:10That's what Dan told me.
00:11Hi, I'm David Benioff.
00:13I'm Dan Weiss.
00:14And I'm Alex Wu.
00:15We're here with The Hollywood Reporter, and we're going to play The Last Time I.
00:20The last time I wrote a script I was proud of would be this season of Three Body Problem.
00:27I would say the same.
00:29Yeah, I mean, for all of us, I think the last time I wrote a script that I was proud of was on this show.
00:38I hope others agree.
00:40I don't think there's anything quite like our show.
00:42There are so many different strands and different worlds at play, different characters, not just in one place, but across different times and different sort of realities almost.
00:53I'm proud most of all of, I think, the way that we just tied those things together into what I hope is a coherent kind of unified viewing experience.
01:05Yeah, I'm really excited to share with everyone things they have never seen before, things that we've never tried putting on screen before, things that no one has ever put on screen before.
01:17The last time I Googled myself was season two of Game of Thrones, and I've never done it since.
01:22It's a cold turkey experience.
01:25The last time I watched a TV show that inspired me was last night watching Adventure Time with my son, which I watch with him every night.
01:42Or, I watched it with him, I watched it with my two older daughters, so I've now probably watched every episode of that show five times, at least, and yet it constantly surprises me if I could take part in something that was half as good or half as memorable, I would be a happy man.
01:57Most recently, I finished What We Do in the Shadows as a show that I never thought had a reason to exist because it came out of a perfect little gem of a movie.
02:09And I really, really enjoyed everything about that.
02:13And the new show that I've only two episodes, three episodes into, thinking about science fiction, which is what we're doing here, is called Scavenger's Reign.
02:22And it's an animated show, and it's really kind of beautiful and wild and just very unusual.
02:31And I've been really enjoying that as well.
02:33The last time I saw a show that really inspired me is either the rehearsal, because of what you can do with the medium.
02:42And I don't know if it inspires me, but I do obsessively watch a British show called Taskmaster, which is kind of a comedy game show.
02:50But it is an oddly sort of serialized game show.
02:55And after, you know, three or four or five episodes, you really think you know these people.
03:01And in a completely different way, you know, that's what we're doing, you know, with the one-hour drama, is, you know, getting the audience to build a relationship with characters over time.
03:15The last time somebody quoted one of my shows to me, my kids paraphrased Lannisters always pay their debts to me, because they were pissed off at me about something or other, like, telling me that I was going to get mine sooner or later.
03:32So we'll see.
03:33We went to a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, who was Ramin Javadi, our composer, the composer from Game of Thrones, and also Three-Body Problem, was playing the Game of Thrones score.
03:44And we went and we went with another friend of ours, Michelle, and Michelle said, we kept seeing people walk by with T-shirts that said, I drink and I know things, which is a Tyrion Lannister line that Dan wrote.
03:59And I said to Shell, I'm jealous because all these people are wearing these shirts with Dan's line.
04:05I'd never watched it when it was on TV, because by the time it got onto the TV, I had already seen each one a hundred times and I was good.
04:14But my kids got to an age, my son turned 13, and I figured, well, that's okay, I can show them this.
04:21And I figured I would watch the show one time again in my life all the way through, and that would probably be it.
04:27So I watched the whole thing with my family, with my wife and my kids.
04:33It was really nice to sit back and know there was nothing you could do to change or affect anything, but it was all there and you could just sit and watch the whole thing.
04:45And seeing it through their eyes was really great.
04:48I enjoyed that a lot.
04:50Thanks for watching us on The Hollywood Reporter.
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