HBO's Game of Thrones

[greygoose]

They blew their wad on the dragons.

We won't see them again until the same time next season.

 

[Spartan Rex]

In an interview with Business Insider, Sapochnik explained why Jon Snow's trusty direworlf didn't appear in Season 6's penultimate episode, saying, "[Ghost] was in there in spades originally, but it's also an incredibly time consuming and expensive character to bring to life. Ultimately we had to choose between Wun-Wun and the direwolf, so the dog bit the dust."
The episode director when on to discuss the challenge in bringing the giant Wun-Wun to life, highlighting the fact that "he's not there, and you have to shoot multiple layers for each shot, and get extras to react to something that doesn't exist, and then shoot the actual giant played by Ian Whyte months later on a green screen stage."
"Battle of the *******s"—read IGN's glowing review here—was an incredibly expensive episode to make. In fact, EW reported that the episode took a whopping 25 days to shoot, versus the typical one or two weeks of filming most Game of Thrones episodes require. As such, the absence of Ghost due to time and expense restraints isn't particularly surprising.

In IGN's interview with Sapochnik, the director explained that the sequence was originally twice as large as it appeared on TV, and it was his job "to work out what we could and could not do and then present ideas to them and ways to achieve the same idea but in the time we had." Sequences like Ramsay's army's wall of shields was originally a wall of men on horses, for instance, but it became clear that was impractical to pull off.

 

[Ce Ilhuicamina]

Just listened to some of the songs that will be featured on Sunday's season finale. One in particular called:

Spoiler

The Winds Of Winter

Sounds super epic. Can't wait.

 

[evenflow]

Just listened to some of the songs that will be featured on Sunday's season finale. One in particular called:

Spoiler

The Winds Of Winter

Sounds super epic. Can't wait.

Pretty sure that is the name of the episode was well.

 

[greygoose]

Just listened to some of the songs that will be featured on Sunday's season finale. One in particular called:

Spoiler

The Winds Of Winter

Sounds super epic. Can't wait.

Spoiler

Final scene of Danny and her ships heading West.

 

[Ce Ilhuicamina]

Awesome! There was very little snow last episode and that was in the North, let's see how winter will affect other places down south.

 

[Darth Waller]

Pretty sure that is the name of the episode was well.

That's also the name of the next book.

 

[evenflow]

That's also the name of the next book.

If it ever comes out, more myth at this point.

 

[Ce Ilhuicamina]

Yes! This situation almost makes me glad procrastinating on getting the books...

 

[GasparZizou]

You're not missing anything if you don't read the books, if anything, it'll be better for you to read them when the show's over, your experience will be enhanced.

Before the finale, I saw her review, pretty spot on.



inb4 she has pink hair and swears a lot waah waah

 

[Darth Waller]

If it ever comes out, more myth at this point.

I bet the show ends before the next book comes out.

 

[SwedishHeat]

I bet the show ends before the next book comes out.

Most definitely. The show has two years left? The sixth book might come out this year. It'll be at least another 5-10 years for the last book.

Though I'm sure HBO will do something else with the series. Whether it be a prequel series, or the Dunk and Egg things.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I bet the show ends before the next book comes out.

Most definitely

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Holy ****

 

[WWEJedi]

Spoiler

Queen vs Queen, Dany vs Cersei
King vs King, Jon vs The Night

Season 7 is going to be ******* EPIC

 

[BurningRage]

Arya part was my favorite.

 

[Devil_666]

So much death. Loved it.

 

[NAZGUL-KING]

The last two weeks have been the best so far IMO. Still processing everything and can't wait to watch again.
Totally agree with Ink..........holy ****!

 

[Commander Cody]

Just utterly brilliant. Everything was awesome. I even stood up and yelled with them someones new nickname!!

 

[Ce Ilhuicamina]

Me during the whole episode:

Now I'll rewatch a thousand times.