Besides the acting and the writing, both agreed that one of the reasons the Night's Watch scenes worked for them is that it was easy to connect with the story of a group of raw recruits bonding under a hard-nosed trainer who tries to prepare them to face great danger.
Ud over den skuespillet og skrivningen, var begge enige om, at en af grundene til at Nattens Vogtere-scenerne arbejdede for dem er, at det var let at forbinde med historien om en gruppe af rå rekrutter under en benhård træner, der forsøger at forberede dem til at stå over for stor fare.