Oh, we just happen to be on a little island of stone in the middle of a frozen lake that the night king’s wights fall into, creating a perfect standoff. Thus: an indeterminate number of indeterminate red-shirt wildlings were killed, along with one named character - the least engaging person in the party, whose name I can’t remember - but, otherwise, the show worked really, really hard to imagine a way for Our Heroes to not be easily slaughtered. No matter how stupid you behave, the plot will intervene to protect Characters Who Matter To The Plot. And then they were fucked, except what the internet calls “ plot armor” intervened. What happened was pretty much what was obviously going to happen: they found one wight by finding fifty of its friends, which was immediately followed by finding about a million of its friends.
Going north of the wall to steal an ice zombie was, it turns out, a really bad plan, as Jon’s “I am so, so sorry” moment indicates he now realizes. LARB’s Collected “Game of Thrones” Coverage Previous episode: season 7, episode 5, " Eastwatch."įollowing episode: season 7, episode 7, " The Dragon and the Wolf." There are spoilers, of course, so don't look directly at the sun during the eclipse. And it’s still Maisie and Sophie, so when you say ‘Cut,’ they start laughing and dancing and listening to music on their phones.Aaron Bady and Sarah Mesle get a raven from Eastwatch saying some bad stuff that was obviously going to happen is happening, so they put on their white tailored fur coats, saddle up their dragons, and talk about "Death is the Enemy," the penultimate episode of the seventh season of Game of Thrones. The tension between them, they handle it so beautifully. In some of the scenes between them, where it’s really a power play between two matched opponents, you feel the ground shift one way and then shift the other way. We’re pushing into deeper and darker things, and they’ve really grown to be able to do that. “They were great at doing what they were doing, but they’ve evolved so much as actresses as well as characters. “That was a revelation to me because I was there in Season 1 and 2 when they were kids,” he said.
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According to Taylor, he witnessed firsthand how much series stars Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner have changed with the characters over the years. This week’s episode also saw an escalation of hostility between Arya and Sansa, who were finally reunited this season after being split up at the end of Season 1. “If the show was struggling, I’d be worried about those concerns, but the show seems to be doing pretty well so it’s OK to have people with those concerns.” “It’s cool that the show is so important to so many people that it’s being scrutinized so thoroughly,” he continued. So I think we were straining plausibility a little bit, but I hope the story’s momentum carries over some of that stuff.” They seemed to be very concerned about how fast a raven can fly but there’s a thing called plausible impossibilities, which is what you try to achieve, rather than impossible plausibilities. I think that worked for some people, for other people it didn’t. I think there was some effort to fudge the timeline a little bit by not declaring exactly how long we were there. We tried to hedge it a little bit with the eternal twilight up there north of The Wall.
“We were aware that timing was getting a little hazy,” Taylor told Variety. “We’ve got Gendry running back, ravens flying a certain distance, dragons having to fly back a certain distance…In terms of the emotional experience, sort of spent one dark night on the island in terms of storytelling moments. Alan Taylor, who directed “Beyond the Wall,” explained how the production team approached the timeline during filming. While the “Game of Thrones” episode “Beyond the Wall” had many talking about the insane fight sequences between humans, zombies, and dragons, others were more concerned with gaps in the timeline of the storytelling.Īfter the episode aired, fans vented frustrations online that Gendry running back to Eastwatch, sending a raven to Daenerys, and Daenerys arriving to save the day with her dragons all happened far too quickly. SPOILER ALERT: Do not keep reading if you have not seen Season 7 Episode 6 of “ Game of Thrones,” titled “Beyond the Wall”
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